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Most people don't worry so much about thermal efficiency and care more about cost per mile..

If I could buy a type of vehicle that was only 10% thermally efficient but the fuel was practically free, that would be pretty cost effective even if not thermally efficient.

My 13 Chevy Volt has 225k miles and is still on its original brake pads and rotors. The rotors are basically good as new, and the pads are at about 40-50%.

My point is I'd prefer to deal with one issue, which would be labor being automated.. instead of dealing with both issues (automation and crazy inflation) at the same time.

It seems totally not obvious to me. It seems so confusing. If you gave everyone a million... Eventually someone needs to buy a house... What does it cost to buy one? Would you sell your house for 2 million if everyone around you had a million? No, some Indian family would pool everyone's government pool of 1 million and bid 8 million for it. So how does a single person buy one? Same as today. Except you screwed up inflation too.

If you redistribute money evenly, how would you get anyone to do anything?

If you gave everyone $10k a month UBI, who is going to change your tire? How much you have to pay them to go to work if they get $10k while sitting at home?

If a town has a lack of apartments, how much will an apartment cost if a young couple has $20k a month to spend?

I bought a $5500 Chevy Volt with 105k miles in peak COVID 2020.

It now has 225k miles and I haven't done a single thing to it but change the oil.

It's still on the original factory brake pads and rotors, which look to be about 50% on the pads.

My note wasn't really on style, but more so how much human energy goes into custom cabinets in a lunch break room, when in reality an almost custom off the shelf solution that just has a bit of evenly spaced empty space on both sides is cheaper and 90% less hassle.

I'm currently working on metal hallways portals that are 10' tall, except the material is only 8', and the seams are ugly, so several people are designing solutions on how to split the span up And what kind of reveal to do so the edge/seam is nice. Why? Why does this hallway need a metal cap at the end of it?

I work in construction now. Commercial Millwork/cabinets as a project manager.

It is so much harder and more stressful than my php/jquery mini saas coding days.

Often at work I start thinking "why are we doing all this? Why does anyone want this fancy reception desk?? This desk is not worth the human aggravation that it's causing."

I genuinely start thinking we should go back to concrete eastern European communist type buildings just for the simplicity and efficiency. Why all this fancy stuff that causes every project engineer, superintendent, and subcontractor Engineering department to get grey hair.

But I guess it makes the economy grow. I don't know.

They may even have the ability. But unless you're running a very small company, they don't have the time to do actual things.

I now have a 2011 or 2012+ 27" iMac everywhere I need a computer, running Linux Mint Mate, and it works better and with less frustration that any new $2500+ Lenovo workstation laptop my employers give me.

With how inexpensive older phones are, or even $50 motog phones, I've wondered what would happen if someone managed to connect 20 of them. Power wise they seem pretty efficient, so maybe it could even be useful?

I alway wondered why so many people (not saying you're one of them) get mad at being charged for misclicks and bots.

It all averages out.

You bid $3 a click because your conversion ratio is x, and paying $3 is worth it. Even if 90% of the traffic is bots, it works out. If Google filtered out all the bots, the conversion ratio for you and your competitors would go up, and your competitors would be willing to pay $27 per click and you'd outbid at $30, being at the exact same result at the end of the month spent for the exact same results.

Just an FYI, these drugs don't actually cause erections or sexual excitement. They simply make erections easier.

Now, if someon is mildly excited by other bodybuilders but usually not enough to make it known, yes Cialis could cause 'movement' as George Costanza put it.

But if you're not into what's in front of you, Cialis isn't going to change anything.

If you buy the common reliable gas engines, and stick to timing chains, you really don't have to do much. Our 4runner has 260k miles and hasn't ever had anything done but engine oil, trans oil, and differential oil. Trans and diff oil will still be done on electric cars.

I have a 300k Ford F250 gas that also hasnt had anything done basically.

And while for trucks the electric vs gas is huge, my Chevy Volt costs per mile about the same to operate on gas vs electric, because electricity is $0.46 a kwh in my California region.

It was made with zero artistic intent, so it has zero value. If you sat down a talented art student that cared, they could prompt AI to make something artistically interesting to watch.

I sold cars for a living so I pay attention to randoms in cars more than most probably. The amount of people (mostly women) sitting WAYYY too low in their car is shocking. I don't know how they can even see most of what's near in front of them.

The way too close to the steering wheel also shocks me, but I guess with that one theyre going to just hurt themselves.

When id sell a car, or even on test drives, I'd try to help them adjust the seat to a sane position but most people that do it wrong seem to be pretty set in their ways and don't want to change it even with some friendly advice and showing them the seat goes way up. It's almost like they don't like looking bigger in their car or something.

The police sure would. And when people these days talk about drinking and driving, most of it IS the 4 beers after work they're talking about.

The crazy drunkard having stiff drinks at a bar and then driving home after almost falling over walking to his car is pretty rare.

But you're right, in the context of the OP I was responding to, he probably did mean real drunkards being more popular back then.

For sure drunk driving increases your odds of an accident. But people make it sound 3-4 beers and you're bound to have an accident. We should be more honest about it.

I worked in car sales. Most of my coworkers drove drunk once a week or more. So basically I've seen 10+ people drive drunk 100+ times, and no doubt they do it more outside my view. No one ever had an accident.

Those are real tech IMO. Consumer media type software isn't 'tech', at least not regular useful software sense. That would be like calling addictive drugs and slot machines an innovation or technology.

I'm not assuming you are ignorant. More like wrong, or misinformed, or corrupt, or an enemy of good people, or stupid.

Do you also inform Jewish people about the lower bound estimates of their people killed, or only Polish people?

They literally celebrate the group that did it, tofl this day. Zalensky recently had a medal/award rescinded by Poland because of it.

The Ukrainian executed 100k Polish civilians not too long ago, but I'm sure now they are angels.

You're conflating better for apple (and shareholders) with better for the country overall.

So you happen to be a rare example of someone that buys a new car recently, and you live on a narrow road, and you like to do a semi rare act when wide cars approach. And that has shown you a bit of the EU insanity. Now imagine just how many rules/regulations like this there actually are that you just aren't the aware of. It's insane.

I gotta be honest, I personally don't think someone playing wordle is a gamer by the common usage of the word.

Facebook marketplace for one.

I sold cars for a decade and wouldn't even take the insanely cheap priced company demo car, just driving my 10 year old car instead.

On that note though, most car salesman are somewhat stupid, although the best ones are atleast normal. (I was a cal mechE grad and top 0.2% nationwide car salesman). They also slowly brainwash themselves into believing most of what they say.

What's crazy is these people want to invest decent money to use AI/LLMs, but somehow don't think to just ask an AI chat bot which would easily answer it for them and any follow-up questions.