Even after all these years, Zuck still tops my lists of “most punchable faces” and “heads I’d hold underwater until the bubbles stopped”.

Concepts of a profit-like framework. A contrived, profit-esque experience, if you will.

Next on the task list is for him to self-cancel.

Except instead the USA will just invade us Canadians and confiscate it all because piracy disguised as national emergency.

Modern “gaming” bears more resemblance to those other-mentioned vices than it does to when it was a nascent thing and still fun. The parts of my brain that light up when playing an NES game is not the same as the ones that light up when it (very briefly) tries to engage in any of the unfinished ones in my increasingly-seldom-visited steam library.

I think sir misunderstands how malleable my hobbies and interests are and completely fails to see where my priorities are. You can’t eat RAM and it will never love you back. It’s almost irrelevant even when it’s not supply crunch’d.

Why not try to use a martyr with some charisma. I mean I know we do not get to pick, but…oh right. I forgot, the problem here is the cause they stand for is deplorable so that probably reduces the amount of attractive candidates for martyrdom.

Needs a picture of an open pit mine for Gentoo.

No, but I can see how clever you must be for doin’ all that noodle-bakin’ critical thinking you’re putting into your thesis here.

I’m actually-factually talking about the friends and neighbors and family I have. The guy working the grocery store checkout. The teacher at my kids school. The girls at at the art center where my kid be volunteers on weekends. The stage director and castmates at my wife’s theater group. Preeeety much anyone I casually interact with. You literally stand out as one of the few exceptions.

Is that not online  enough for ya? Have I touched enough grass to be considered a legitimate data point for your bullshit scorecard? Or are we still huffing selection bias fumes and dancing to the Dunning-Kruger Memorial waltz?

Gonna say you don’t have a finger in the pulse and can’t read the room.

But what does the scouter say about his power level, Vegeta?

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Huh Vegeta?! What’s it say!?

Idiocracy speedrun feedback loop.

Leisure spending in fascist regimes is certainly waning. Leisure spending overall continues unabated from where I’m sitting…

And use some soap; agesim is suggestive of a dirty mind full of divisiveness, in need of a good cleansing.

Cool cool.

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Now, can it also not persist in the environment for 1000 years after the thing it was packaging has been unpackaged?

And yet, they in fact last a lot longer than ICE.

And this is a commendable achievement, but we are (or at least, I am) talking about the article in this thread, and the title and subject of the article was about the misleading fuel consumption of PHEVs, not the fact that they would be on the road, burning more fuel than they were purported to be burning, for longer than we anticipated them to be burning more fuel than they said they’d be burning.

FWIW: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_vehicle_drivetrain

Parallel hybrid systems have both an internal combustion engine and an electric motor that can both individually drive the car or both coupled up jointly giving drive. This is the most common hybrid system as of 2016.

It’s definitely no longer 2016, but this is the type of hybrid I am referring to. 2 engines provide power, meaning 2 points of maintenance and potential failure. This was what dissuaded me from buying one and pushed me to full BEV (circa 2020)

IMO No matter which way you slice it, a BEV with its ONE gear has less moving parts, less whirling bits to time with belts, and less complexity. Less to go wrong, less to keep lubricated.

The only advantage I can think of on a hybrid is less weight (so stopping in an emergency or on wet pavement). Where I live the charging infrastructure is dense enough that range is no longer ever an issue.

Apparently though even the fuel savings are exaggerated per this article.

Not to throw shade, but why the fuck would you want to maintain 2 entirely separate power trains. It’s a recipe for extra maintenance costs in my view.

BEV4ME.

Does the UN in the UN stand for “UNderestimating the severity of just about every situation”?

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