It’s funny because even the salesmen have said “Oh you have to print occasionally just to make sure it doesn’t dry and clog up” and yet our cheap-ass inkjets from well-hated companies have never given any such issues, even when they’ve been unused for years at a time. Over the span of 2 decades there’s been 2 of them. Canon and then later HP.

Would I buy another one? Probably not. Would rather get a Brother laser with wi-fi support these days if there’s ever need for a printer again. But I’m hoping that there won’t be.

Outside of the US or at least outside of English, a Swiss Army Knife is known as a pocket knife, and they’re not always Swiss-made either. As you can see from Victorinox’s own website (and they are the official manufacturer of what Americans call the Swiss Army Knife - which, indeed, got famous because it was used by the Swiss army), they call it a Taschenmesser, where Tasche translates to pocket and… I think you can guess what Messer translates to.

If you let perfect be the enemy of good, nothing ever gets done, because nothing is ever perfect right away.

This change is already happening, an EV now in most western countries is significantly cleaner than an ICE and like I said, an ICE is doomed to spew gases for the remainder of its lifetime whereas EVs keep getting because the grid keeps getting cleaner.

And even better, these statistics assume a 200k km lifetime for all cars. It tends to be much more than that, making the initial battery manufacturing even less impactful to the total CO2 production.

Back in the day, I went through a Libertarian phase. I supported Ron Paul.

You and the entirety of reddit in the 2012 election I think. To be fair, there’s plenty liberals and libertarians agree on. Unfortunately, you can share some common beliefs with someone and they can still be a piece of shit.

Yup, Biden must’ve realized that high oil prices are political suicide. Thing is, he should’ve realized it before making any promises. He might not have known beforehand that war would drive prices high, but he should’ve accounted for potential changes in the market, he’s leading a country, not a student company.

We are transitioning towards it, but in the meantime, switching to EVs still reduces CO2 output and because the grid is getting cleaner, that means EVs get cleaner even after being manufactured and sold, whereas ICEs can only get cleaner through R&D and only get worse over time as they age (once they start burning oil, etc)

Ideas more broadly = information

Just about any information that self-replicates it using humans, could be considered a meme.

I tried doing it the way the article talks about. Copy this to your favourite LLM:

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ChatGPT at least ignored the invisble part, but it’s definitely there if you check out ASCII smuggler

EVs are currently running partially on fossil fuel just fine and generating less pollution than ICEs because power plant efficiency is still better than combustion engine efficiency.

I prefer the other Matt Gray tbh, he’s funnier and doesn’t tell me to wake up at 5:30 when I’ve just gotten to sleep…

Anyone who’s into cars would likely agree with a lot of what Fuckcars says.

I love driving! I want there to be fewer drivers on the road so I can enjoy it more. I don’t want to sit in a traffic jam because everyone’s forced to drive. And when I’m drinking alcohol, guess what, I’m not driving, I want to be able to walk home safely. That’s of course just one reason to walk. Sometimes I just want to walk to the grocery store with my family for, y’know, the health benefits of walking.

And you know what? I live in Europe, I can do all this and that’s why I like driving here. I don’t wanna sit in an Interstate traffic jam lol

In my country it’s 3 seconds out of town and 2 seconds in town, by law. And I think that’s beautiful.

When I was like 20 or so and needed to drive every morning and it was -25C or colder outside, I’d go outside in my t-shirt, start the engine, remove the key (because the ignition lock was so worn, I could remove it), lock the car, go back inside

Woke me right up and afterwards when I went outside with proper winter clothing, I didn’t feel the least bit cold. Plus the car had a nice big gasoline V6 as opposed to the diesels I mostly drive nowadays, so it actually did manage to defrost the windshield in <10 minutes no problem.

Never been to a Native American restaurant, as I’ve only been to the US once and I just didn’t happen to stop at one.

If I visit the US again at some point, where might I find good ones? How do I go about looking for them? Presumably I’m not just going to accidentally stumble upon one while walking around in NYC.

And to be clear, cooking, cleaning and raising the children is a full time job itself.

That means modern families where both parents have jobs are all working overtime.

In truly cold weather, starting and idling your car doesn’t properly warm it up in any sane amount of time and can even be bad for the engine. What you want is an auxiliary heater like Webasto or Ebersprächer (sp?)

Remote start would be nice with with mild weather or on a hot summer day when you need AC though.

Luckily it seems to be regional. I don’t have it

The freezer itself produces heat too though.

Never been to Denmark, what’s the food like?

Was it created by Ian and Deb?