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Yes, I got an unexpected amount of emotional replies. The whole thread is very interesting that way.

It seems like lots of people are extremely complacent.

That's what refugees do. And they're allowed to. Persecution as it is happening in America right now is an international crime. If you're the victim of persecution you can get eefug status.

Of course that's the reason. I never claimed otherwise.

So we do agree that people with no money are capable of walking 4000 kilometers. Yet, it is somehow impossible for people in America to walk 500 kilometers, because "America is just too big" and "being financially trapped".

Sure, but what about them?

In most cases they're just lines on a map that don't actually exist physically in the real world.

I know of people in Denmark who walked by foot from Syria during the last refugee exodus. They came to Denmark from Norway, because they crossed the border in the arctic between Russia to Norway.

Try to plot that route into your map and then go on complaining about strolling through a few states in USA.

My guess would be yes, somewhat, probably. but maybe not much. As he says in the last part of the video: If it gets hot, you have a problem.

Better ask an electrician.

The devices sold as "EV wall chargers" are not really chargers. They're simple power suppliy units, whether or not it has bells and whistles to time the charging and what not.

The actual battery charger is in the car. It will attempt to suck as much energy from the PSU as it can and it will itself balance the load and all that. Having a separate unit also trying to regulate the load seems like something that will inevitably create more heat than necessary somewhere in that chain.

Generally speaking you do not need to protect the car from unstable supply. It will protect itself.

I will still recommend getting a proper "EV charger" to ensure that it can utilize all the phases unlike a regular garage plug. Also to ensure that it is properly grounded, which can be an issue for some cars.

At least here in Europe, where we have 3 phases. It's much better to have all 3 phases wide open and let the car suck a little on each, instead of having it overloading a single phase through a granny plug.

I know the American 2 phase circuit is different, but I still believe it's better not to put any more heat inducing obstructions in the chain.

How did you get financially trapped?

People in the rest of the western world and also mostly elsewhere in the entire world can actually travel.

What do you have to lose if you can't walk away from where you are? You already lost your freedom and can no longer go anywhere else, because finances? In the richest country in the world?

If I ever find myself in that kind of serfdom without a dime in my pocket, I will put on my shoes and start walking.

It's not fucking overkill. There's no such thing.

I'm really disappointed with the video. That dude usually knows his shit, but he's way off the mark here. It's just plain wrong.

Getting a smaller charger might save a few hundred, but it will also increase your chances of burning the house down. Good fucking advise, huh.

Fuck that. You'll always want to charge as fast as your main circuit breaker will allow.

Layers of bullshit. It's only made to distract us.

The problem with discarding plastic is not racism. The problem with discarding plastic is not food prices. The problem with discarding plastic is not poverty.

The only minor problem with discarding plastic is that it would briefly make a curve in the stock prices for companies involved in producing wrapping materials until they figure out how to make money off other better products.

Most modern cars have hill assist, but it might still be a help to use the handbrake when starting on a hill, or at least know how to do it.

Defundly not.

It's common knowledge that soldiers don't walk in unison on bridges. It dates back to 1831.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broughton_Suspension_Bridge

Same thing happened in France twenty years later:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angers_Bridge

It also postponed the opening of a bridge in London by two years in 2000:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Bridge,_London

Shit excuse. It takes more effort not to march in unison.

It's also something that is taught in UK army, since the collapsing bridge incident.

The birds are watching you.

Try leaving bird seeds. They'll know instantly, because they're always watching you.

If you don't leave bird seeds they will find your car and shit on it.

Ultima IX: Ascension (1999)

I genuinely enjoyed the game. Fans of the series claim that it destroyed the franchise. Perhaps they're right, but the franchise was pretty fucked up to begin with.

it took an entire fucking war to end slavery in the United States.

Well... how's that going?

Newton's book is from before the industrial revolution and widely used in physics today.

Apps or NFC tags are used where I live.

I charge at home myself, but in the odd case where I've used public chargers I've had to install an app from whatever charging company it is, because I can never find one that takes cards directly, though they all ought to do that by now.

For people who use public chargers a lot, it makes most sense to get some subscription and get a tag for that. Some of them works across different networks. It's a bit of jungle.

The apps probably do require a card to setup, unless you get it through some company where you already have direct debit (f.i. your electricity provider or gas station monthly billing etc.)

It's not that different from gas stations. It's not possible to pay those in cash anymore anyway.

My parents used one of these to plan the vacations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opisometer

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