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Really good point.

There’s always recalls going on, so it’s not indicative of anything when they happen.

I’ve had 3 newer cars from 3 brands in 3 countries, and all 3 had a recall of some kind. In each case they just bring it in and fix it…

Interesting thing about gasoline engines, they become more and less efficient when the temperature drops.

They become more efficient because the air being brought into the engine is denser and cooler which is better, but they become less efficient because rubber parts become stiffer, lubricant becomes harder to move, and overall everything is tougher to deal with.

One result is that if you drive long ranges in -40C, your fuel economy is relatively similar to what it would be in warmer weather. You can blast the heat and your vehicle is toasty warm since it’s just moving waste heat around. I’ve done such drives many times since resources are not where people tend to be.

As you approach -40 you’ll probably want to have your block heater plugged in overnight on a gasoline engine, but generally speaking you can get pretty cold and have the motor turn over just fine. I drove a diesel for a while in the far north and going back to a (really crappy) gas engine was surprising for how easy it was to just get up and go in really cold weather.

EV performance in -40C is something nobody talks about but I’m extremely interested in.

There have been lots of videos of Teslas leaving a heated garage then flying around a snowy track in Norway, but that’s much different than getting in a car that’s soaked in the cold all night, driving it to work, then driving home after it sits all day. Or even better, taking that same cold soaked car and driving to the next city 13 hours away with only one or two places to stop along the way.

Most people don’t know anything about Canada, even people who live there. Most Canadians live in one of two megacities. They’ve never been to lynn lake, meadow lake, fort McMurray, fort st. John, or pickle lake. The wealth is extracted from these places, but with 0 understanding of what the country is like, particularly in February.

It’s because the Liberals are about to lose badly because their policies are not sustainable.

People need home heating, transportation, food, and housing to not die. Those aren’t luxuries.

I feel like this whole article is based on a false premise.

Go to a dealership right now, and try to find any new truck for $36,000. On paper you might be able to get the lowest base model, but in reality good luck with that.

I just checked the dealership near me, and the lowest price for a new vehicle of any kind is 39,400CAD or about 28,000USD. The lowest priced new truck is 66,500CDN, or about 49,300USD.

That’s just what the world looks like now thanks to inflation. And that’s not a vehicle using expensive battery technology, and that’s not a vehicle made out of expensive, difficult to manufacture with stainless steel, it’s just the cheapest standard truck at the dealership.

Really, it looks like the cybertruck is about bang on with prices for other EV trucks that aren’t made out of entirely stainless steel. Considering that Tesla isn’t a budget brand, that doesn’t seem unreasonable. Nobody at Tesla is psychic, they couldn’t have predicted super high inflation sparked in part due to policies enacted due to a global pandemic, so of course prices rose.

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Don’t worry about it budday!

The chocolate industry hasn’t found a viable alternative to African slavery 160 years after the emancipation proclamation, but they’ve got this fossil fuels thing licked!

It was early when I read the article, I got the impression that the 9W was for the furnace version of the thermopile electric generator.

Oh, it’s just a thermopile put out in the sun.

I can see why it never caught on then. You’d be relying on the difference in temperature between the hot side of a thing painted black put in the sun and the cool side in the shade. The amount of energy you’d get from such a setup would be infinitecimal. I’d expect you’d need to do an absurd amount of work and use an absurd amount of material just to power a single house.

The amount of energy it would take to build a “solar cell” thermopile that’d generate 1.5v with a quite high internal resistance would probably be in the megawatt-hours, likely from coal and oil.

I deleted all my big tech accounts, and lots of people are posting on the fediverse.

I loved watching him type out “yes I understand the thing that I’m about to do is going to break my computer” and then complain that the thing that he did broke his computer!

I love LTT, but Linus has always been a marketing guy first. The whole purpose of the Tech tip videos was to move product, and with the seventeen ads per video it sorta still is.

Honestly, I love me some internet archive but they should probably lose virtually any given case against them.

I’m really shocked that anyone would be surprised.

So many people that used to be really amazing creators ended up down the Twitter rabbit hole. At first their content suffered, and then dried up completely. And now all you ever hear from them is about whatever Twitter tells them to hate this week.

Hating Twitter is just the latest thing to hate on Twitter. And all these people are going to keep on going to get their hit during the 2 minutes of hate, and then a bunch of them will run off and write articles about how much they hate Twitter based on all the stuff that they read on Twitter.

What if I told you that this is just how the media treats everything, including whatever moral panic whoever is reading this believes in?

Yes, even that one. No, that one’s not real either. Yes, I know you saw it on TV.

I think one of the key things we need to be teaching our kids about everything from technology to nature is to think for themselves and apply rigor to make sure that they’re not being let down the garden path. In the book I wrote to my son, the first chapter is not about the basics, it’s that he should question everything including and especially me.

Anyone who has actually needed a correct answer to a question realized this a long time ago.

The problem is that most people don’t bother checking the answers.

Cable TV companies don’t pay writers…

And neither cable TV nor streaming services are free, but OTA television is, and they pay their writers…

Taking charge of your own life and choosing to be on a platform like lemmy instead of going to a platform like reddit or Facebook by default is a big deal.