strawberryfie

Interesting, especially the Conclusion section.

I’m curious how we can know the average global temperature +/- 0.8 degC in AD1000 (linked graph).

For comparable driving ranges, EVs are necessarily larger than ICE cars.

And bigger. For any particular fuel range of interest, an ICE drivetrain is smaller than a battery one.

But yes, I agree that weight as a proxy for size is ridiculous.

It’s interesting that new legislation is baking in the idea that more “sustainable” cars can weigh a lot more. Disappointing that this means we won’t tackle the other externalities of personal motorised transport including size, safety and visibility issues, wear on public infrastructure, and sheer amount of extra material people use to get themselves around.

Ah you’re not OP. Sorry, I was only interested in why OP called techs “idiots” after they (eventually) correctly diagnosed an unfixable fridge.

I guess random bureaucracy is ok when the treatment in question isn’t urgent.

You didn’t mention the evap heater. What could LG have done differently to fix your fridge to factory spec?

That’s a hard argument to make, at least here in the UK, because it looks like the strain of restarting normal healthcare with a 2+ year backlog of untreated health issues will doom the NHS.

Also - you can argue that fewer covid precautions may have resulted in a collapsed healthcare system. However, in reality, the NHS occupancy rates for 2020-2021 were double-digit less than previous years.

Move your phone/tablet charger to a different room. Short of getting rid of my smartphone, it was the single best move I took to taking control of my bad internet habit.

So it was unfixable, without disabling an essential feature?

Turns out uninformed is better than misinformed. That way, at least you are free to make your own opinions and decisions based on your observations and lived experience.

I don’t agree that spending money always results in valuable, transferable assets. It isn’t hard to think up counter-examples: under-utilised infrastructure projects, projects that become a maintenance liability, many social and health programs, etc.

If this is the case, it’s interesting that people are apparently now not bothered by an excess death rate near that of COVID peaks.

That assumes Grandad didn’t blow the money on dumb and/or short lived stuff.

Interesting definition of government debt, but those “paying back” the debt in future taxes are very unlikely to have any connection to those who incurred the costs to start with.

It’s a great story, and a fun book to read. However, while I can see the thrill of the chase, I can’t help but think Stoll’s superiors had the correct, pragmatic response more suited to the future of the internet - “close the loophole and move on”.