Zorg

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[–] Zorg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Silent is actually the easy one, for many EVs you can just pull the fuse for the noise maker. It was pretty cool rolling down our driveway in a near completely silent car, but it felt very wrong, immediately replaced the fuse.

[–] Zorg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not really, they produce heat from the electricity they consume. Everything else is just them moving heat from inside to outside, but that's net zero, since even an airtight house will have heat radiate in.

[–] Zorg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

That's just what they want you to believe. Cars have to be 25 years old before they can be imported, because Mercedes dealerships where butthurt about ⅕ beamers being imports four decades ago.
Technology connections on YouTube touched on it in a video, if I recall right domestic sales went up a couple percent for Mercedes dealerships, no where remotely close to +20%.

[–] Zorg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Which EVs are "flimsy" and unreliable?
Yeah Tesla's might be put together poorly, but there are so many good options nowadays. Combustion engines are vastly more complicated than electric motors, batteries do complicate things a bit, but industry has gotten phenomenally good at packaging li-ion batteries, or newer chemistries.

[–] Zorg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I thought all but the cheapest sunglasses were polarized nowadays, but I could be wrong.

[–] Zorg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Getting solar & a big battery in a couple weeks, the panels come with a 30 year warrenty and guarantee they will still produce at least 87% by then.

[–] Zorg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

But ~~leaking~~leaning a bit forward is beneficial for a happy poopy time. The problem is stupid round toilet bowls, toilets should be elongated! And I'm certainly not hung like a moose or monster.

[–] Zorg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 month ago (15 children)

Apparently quite a few people are developing ways to defect facial recognition https://www.stratecta.exchange/fashion-that-can-beat-facial-recognition-systems/
I was pleasantly surprised to find out Zenni now offers a near infrared blocking coating for their glasses.

[–] Zorg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Since we're dealing with hyperbole, and I know this will sound preposterous, but what if had companies and the filthy rich pay their fair share of taxes 🤣

[–] Zorg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They already largely go against their voters in every election. FPTP means all electors from a state go to one candidate, I could be wrong but I don't believe one candidate has ever gotten remotely close getting 100% of a states vote.

[–] Zorg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 3 months ago

Well, it closes with:

At press time, the companies said the deal was expected to close shortly after the industry finished checking the calendar.

[–] Zorg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 months ago

Umberto Eco' Ur fascism #8:

The followers must feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies. When I was a boy I was taught to think of Englishmen as the five-meal people. They ate more frequently than the poor but sober Italians. Jews are rich and help each other through a secret web of mutual assistance. However, the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak. Fascist governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy.

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