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  • It can be all that, and subsidize. Some of it is a form of subsidizing. I'd say big picture subsidizing for the environment is ok. The raw market is prone to anti-competitive practices, catch 22, tragedy of the commons, etc. You want the unseen hand and some planning. A mixed economy. Which is what we all have in some form, outside of lawlessness of failed states, where drug/war lords rise and set their own laws/regulations anyway.

  • Basically the only joints we got that are good are the hips and shoulders. The rest of the joint are what evolution could do (so far) with the bag of bones from fish flippers.

  • Argh, sorry. Some how missed the not.

    I think we are saying same. Maybe EV ads should talk home charging. Frankly, right now, it's a bit questionable if you go EV without it. Though I met one guy charging at a public charger, who lives in flats and has very high milage. What he does is use a local Tesla charger bank over night at a low rate. But that doesn't scale of course.

  • How am I wrong? The maths should speak for itself. It sounds like you are more agreeing to be honest.

    If you driving an ICE, being able to cheaply refuel a home is so game charging you can't really get it until you have being driving an EV for a month or two. Get a EV with range enough for x1.5-x2 your commute, and your good.

    Rapid chargers should be cheaper and there should be more of them. But we also need more cheap slow chargers in carparks you going to park for hours anyway.

    Though really, I'd rather better public transport than drive, but where I am, that's a way off.

  • Yer I do think there maybe some, but they could so just be a bit crazy. I gave up trying to reason with them. Though the ones I was debating thought they could not vote Biden and be blameless if they got Trump.

  • So you can have Android Auto while beinging degoogled. I do. As others have pointed out there is: https://github.com/sn-00-x/aa4mg

    It's a bit of a faff to install, but works.

    The problem I found is no SatNav that can take into account traffic. The best I've found is "Organic Maps", but it is open and works without the Google infrastructure. No getting round that traffic knowledge makes Google Maps better.

    I have non AA things forcing me towards having to at least partly re-google.

    I've been eying GrapheneOS as a way to compromise without being compromised.

  • I think it will take either proper competition or regulation to stop public chargers being a rip off. Domestic can be cheaper now. There is dynamic pricing, where you can get negitive cost power. Solar and big house battery of course.

  • Typical EV, 3.5 miles per kWh Rapid cost = 79p/kWh 79p/3.5 = 23p per mile

    Typical petrol, 36 miles per gallon liters 4.5461 per gallon 36 / 4.5461 = 7.92 miles per liter 149.8p per litre 149.8p / 7.92 = 19p per mile

    So yes, more expensive. BUT charging at a public charger is rare for me. About once a month.

    I get 7p/kWh over night when I charge at home. I get about 3miles per kWh, so about 2.33p per mile. I commute about a thousand miles a month, charging at home. For about £23.33p

    Public chargers are a rip off, but it's in the noise compared to the commute cost saving.

  • Well good luck with that. I hope you guys don't vote in Trump again, for all our sake.

  • Yer, was thinking of calling it to. I tried. Hope you guys don't end to with Trump, for all our sake.

    • avian lungs and eyes
    • salamander healing
    • shark immune system
    • proper joints for knees and elbows.
    • feline hearing
    • endless new teeth.
    • turtle like aging
    • low fertility
  • Well I guess we will see what happens and hope it's not world war again. If it is, we all lose.

  • Yer, if lots of you think like that, philosophically not tactically, we all get Trump. Men like him you only normally get to vote on once, then it's a life term they take. You managed to escape that the first time, the insurrection failed. Second time, he'll try harder.

  • In the broken systems we both have, all you can do is tactically vote based on the outcomes you want the least. While arguing for better voting systems.

  • That's really not cool. It's basically says to Europe "your on your own with Russia". And to Russia "Go ahead, we won't fight you." Which means Putin will go further than invading Ukrainian. Which mean the EU has to go to war to call his Bluff. You could be looking at WWIII. The US will get sucked in regardless of how isolationist it wants to be. Just like WWI and WWII. So not cool to go pushing over dominoes of the post WWII world order. Especially dumb as the US has benefited a lot from said order.

  • You honestly think the choice isn't Biden or Trump? (If nothing unexpected happens)

  • See if you still feel like if he gets in and does things like taking measures to stay in longer than another single term, withdraw from NATO and the UN.

  • I'm not supporting it, I'm saying this is the reality. That you have to work with what you have.

    I don't believe in the killing anyone. Including not agreeing with death penalty for anyone.