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What?? Is this an automated post to make an account look real? This doesn't make any sense in context.
FYI the parent was down voted when I wrote this. That's the context you're missing.
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You oppose moving away for inflammatory seed oil that is known to cause cancer? You oppose removing incentives that have drug companies writing health policy? People with gilbert's syndrome are happy to remove fluoride from the drinking water. Educate yourself before someone else does and sells you short. Fluoride can damage the liver in a number of ways, including: Liver function enzymes: Fluoride can increase the a…
I do agree about his view on water fluoridation. So what? That doesn't make him any less of an unhinged lunatic. Again, I'm not even talking about his specific views or qualifications at all only his personal behaviour and character.
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How is California special in that regard? Many states lack the infrastructure or density to allow for proper enjoyment of alcohol.
There also clear lack of alcohol enjoyment education. Gather at friends place and stay overnight, carpools and draw a sober Sam, don’t get overdrunk and drink water for the last 90 min of the party, etc… I do agree infras and density is a better option. But lack of infra doesn’t justify to drive drunk.
I’m not justifying drunk driving. I asked how California is different from other states in this regard.
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It's a shallower style refrigerator, that doesn't "stick out" past the depth of the counters next to it.
maybe that's why my 12 year old samsung fridge seems fine. no repairs yet, but I've been expecting it to die anyday according to the internets. of course it could also be that samsung is the most popular brand for fridges in the USA
My Samsung fridge (in Europe) died after 12 years, and the tech guy said it actually lasted more than average as they used to have some experimental compressor back then.
But he also said they have since improved that, and indeed, now samsung fridges come with a 20 year warranty on their compressor.
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Why is tiring to hear a minority especially in this forum?
It wouldn't be of it was not just different variations of "Hitler Hitler Hitler, Russia Russia Russia!" We've been hearing how doomed democracy is for the better part of 10 years now. It's really old...
You just have to hear it and I can't visit the city I was born in, so you will keep hearing it.
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This is a colossal failure for humanity, primarily due to home ownership as an investment vehicle, plus regulatory capture pushed by the car companies and oil and gas companies. There is no technical reason we can't have livable, quiet and spacious apartments, where multiple apartment buildings share a huge, enclosed backyard (almost park-like, even), a setup with tons of small shops, pharmacies, easy access to every…
Even nice apartments are pretty miserable places to live if you have multiple small children, or engage in hobbies or activities that require much equipment. Imagine coming home to your apartment with a muddy mountain bike. Do you haul it up to the 4th floor in the elevator and wash it in your shower? It's possible to make it work but living in a single-family home (or townhouse with attached garage) sure makes regul…
> Imagine coming home to your apartment with a muddy mountain bike. Do you haul it up to the 4th floor in the elevator and wash it in your shower?
We have the tech for this, we could have literal multi-bike sheds/parking garages and all that's needed is 1 (ONE) water source with a hose inside. As I said, failure on the part of our species :-)
In my city there are actually a few public bike washing stations, so the game plan in this case would be just to bike that way before coming home.
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I've never understood the argument about small towns being worse for urbanism. Back in the day, before cars were widespread, everything had to be close by. You don't even have to sacrifice the backyard for that, you can have a city layout that puts the houses themselves fairly close to each other, and the yards can radiate outwards. Then you connect each cluster's main street with the other ones, but unlike suburbs,…
>> Back in the day, before cars were widespread, everything had to be close by. My grandparents, and their parents and grandparents before them, all grew up on farms (as did the majority of Americans during that time). No, everything did not have to be close by. They certainly did appreciate cars when they became affordable though.
You're most likely talking about homesteads, which are a minority of rural housing around the world in my experience.
In most of the world villages have at least a cluster of homes nearby, since having other humans close is super handy when shit hits the fan.
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Diesel gate involved also many others manufacturers > Opel (General Motors) publicly demonstrated (while representatives from the TÜV Hessen were present) a Zafira that met the NOx emission limits. At the same time, Opel started clandestinely pushing an engine software update that limited NOx emissions in Zafiras that were already on the road. > German newspaper Bild am Sonntag reported that US authorities investigat…
UK, French and German government agencies lobbied for weaker testing. Probably because of car industry lobbyists, and all the blah blah about "we sell cars, people stay employed, economy keeps going, you get reelected.". Ah, isn't democracy beautiful... https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/24/uk-franc...
> Ah, isn't democracy beautiful...
With a dictator they'd just bribe him. Not like that's a solution, either.
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#440> The study's authors make clear that the results do not indicate Tesla vehicles are inherently unsafe or have design flaws. In fact, Tesla vehicles are loaded with safety technology; the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) named the 2024 Model Y as a Top Safety Pick+ award winner, for example. Many of the other cars that ranked highly on the list have also been given high ratings for safety by the likes of…
My first thought was if mass got factored into it, but it looks like mass has already crept up pretty high for other cars. A Toyota Prius is about 3200 lbs and a Model 3 is about 4000 lbs or 3800 lbs for their lightest variant. My mental models were outdated and still imagined sedans as about one ton and change. While bigger not as significant a factor as I initially thought.
EVs are really heavy.
The average VW Golf weighs about 1.3 tons while the average VW ID.3 weighs about 1.8 tons. That's 40% heavier.