This is something philosophers struggle with too, when deciding how far to lean in to the idea we are incapable of knowing the nature of things. And Kant deficiency or excess can make you go round the bend!
"This thing has become death." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer, trying to get seed money for his atom bomb startup
And I should've clarified the dataset up front.
Yeah, that's part of why I qualified by saying that PHEVs make more sense in markets where there's an active effort to sabotage electrification. Without infrastructure investment and competition and volume to push prices down, BEV ownership is out of reach for a lot of people here.
Dealership trade-in data back in early '24. Flawed in that it doesn't represent people trading in to Tesla or Rivian or another direct-to-consumer brand, so it's interesting to see other data.
All that to say I think there's a place for PHEVs in transitional markets where, say, there's active sabotage of the effort to electrify fleets. Like the US. It's dumb and imperfect, but a middle ground may be better than no ground over the next 10-20 years.
So I was looking at some trade in data a few years ago, and people trading in EVs were often going back to gas/hybrid, but were also going to PHEV at more than twice the average market rate. My guess is they had the home charging set up, but a need EVs couldn't meet (or a bad experience)
Imagining some comparative religions grad student in 2532 writing an essay about the influence of frog memes on the Catholic schism of 2026
We know there's a lot of cognitive dissonance on the side of working class people who simp for the ultra rich, but it's becoming clearer how much the ultra rich really actually truly no-joke believe what's best for them is best for everyone. These people's opinions are simply untrustworthy.
That Twilight Zone episode except instead of breaking his glasses he realizes there's no one to monetize all his slop to. "It's not fair, it's just not fair!"
"Ackerman" refers to the difference in angle between a vehicle's front wheels when steering. I worked in automotive for a decade but only learned that term when I started doing RC cars, because it's really easy to tune it on an RC car. (See also: caster, camber, and toe)
Waiting for the think piece on how the megayacht industry is an indicator for global economic well-being.
This is hilarious. Genre defying work. youtu.be/gQx_S_iu-g8
Cold brew and Amaro Meletti is a solid way to end the day.
A screencap of a skeet saying "we all need to put one of these in front of our doorsteps" with an image attached that's pretty clearly an AI cartoon of a barefoot, blonde 50's housewife with generous cleavage standing on her front stoop at night in front of a wooden sign with the "in this house we believe: BLM, no human is illegal, etc." text painted on it.
Okay, but this sign actually exists in the real world. My aunt gave us one. What's the point of making an AI image with a big titty tradwife to display it? What the fuck are we even doing here?
Finally got to Tactical Brach Wizards, and it's so delightful. One of the only tactics games I've ever finished. I was invested in the characters from the first mission. I've enjoyed @pentadact.com since Gunpoint, his writing is always incredibly fun.
The Luddites were a pro-labor movement, who wanted the value of their labor recognized. The owner class demonized them as uneducated anti-tech to prevent their actual message and intent from spreading.
So tired. So weird. So done.
EVs? Inherently heavier than comparable gas cars. Why not tie road tax to a combination of efficiency and footprint.
Ohh, thanks for explaining that. I kept trying to wipe my hands on my snoozing cousin.
A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric
I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.
Night Watch is my least favorite of the Discworld Watch novels. Just absolutely last place with a bullet.
one day you walked out of Blockbuster for the very last time and you never even knew it
With r/all gone, I'm at a loss. I relied on that to give me the biggest news stories as they broke. Bsky is weirdly kinda garbage for that, and I don't trust Google News to keep up or prioritize the same stuff. Do you have a spot you go where big, breaking news always winds up right at the top?
Occurs to me the best way to know when he dies is gonna be watching Kalshi and seeing when a handful of people take out unusually large bets on it.
In short, I can imagine plenty of left Rogans. What I can't imagine is a left Rogan that *spends most of their time telling their listeners how bad fascists suck & how to defeat them*, which would be, IMO, the highest & best use of a left Rogan.
"It's a drug that adjusts to your tolerance automatically." Putting a finger on exactly what AI actually is, and what it's actually trying to do.
youtu.be/Q6nem-F8AG8
True! But I have no clue how they catch the Chinese at this point.
Every c-suite drank the Kool-Aid: Equivalent or better productivity with less headcount. Immense top-down pressure to integrate LLMs across everything, every workflow, anywhere they could possibly handle any task, even if there's no actual timesaving or productivity gain. You're just told to do it.
It looks like Daewoo tried to copy a Panamera