schroedingershat @ schroedingershat @lemmy.world

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Whatever you want to call them, they share at least one wall, are two story, have a deep aspect ratio and side access on the other wall is minimal (if there at all). The only awful features are the set back and the giant garage (which can just be used for indoor space|.

Libertarians (or rather ancaps that stole the word) are far right

If the garage is used as internal space, then row houses are plenty high enough density. The occupant could have a much nicer back yard without the setback (front yards are car infrastructure), but the road is not too wide, just awful to be on.

If we assume 1.8-2.1 people per house, then these blocks are about and 300m^{2 with about 100m}2 out the front in tye public spacs e per house (property boundary to middle of road]. 5000 people per km^{2 for the residential area, assume 50% as much commercial/parks elsewhere (~100m}2 per resident) and you're at over 3000 people per km^2

This is in the ideal missing middle range if a little bit low, it's just awful missing middle (that will probably also have its density ruined hy a sea of carparks in the commercial areas and a highway, but that's a separate issue).

Running against traffic on the road improves pretty much all of these and puts the new threat (oncoming cars) under their control.

It does leave the runner vulnerable to cars turning right (in drive-on-the-right countries) though if they aren't hyper aware of it.

"Buy a new big car because it will be later year than a new small car and thus have newer safety features" is an incredibly wild way of drawing the exact opposite conclusion to the one you should have from that data.

Which is offset by the lack of safety regulation, high center of mass, heavier weight to crush the cabin in a rollover, and much higher likelihood of running over your own kids.

Stop spreading propaganda by cherry picking,

Now you're dodging the point. You're spreading the harmful propaganda, and using the fact that it's effective to justify spreading it.

Which does not override the lack of safety of a tall heavy vehicle. Small cars are not less safe than emotional support trucks and full sized SUVs, because the latter get specific exemptions from safety regulations.

"I'm going to increase the probability of killing my kid, innocent hystanders because of this one specific critereon i've cherry picked" is an emotional argument.

I can object to it being used to justify killing kids for a feeling though. Which is what you were doing by suggesting it's a prisoner's dilemma.

Having these people be homeless in awful conditions is entirely a choice made by the wealthy californians. One that can be remedied in months if the harm to their health becomes larger than the utility of being able to use them as a political pawn. They can also be supplied antibiotics and flea/rodent control tools for a few dollars per capita.

Even without antibiotics, mouse traps and insecticide will stop bubonic plague from spreading.

A phrase that refers to someone being openly fascist/nazi rather than trying to hide their true intentions.

Mask-on: Bush era GOP or current European far right.

Mask-off: DeSantis

I like to pretend it's a 5D chess long con (it's not, but pretending is fun). It's much easier to scoop off the scum when it floats to the top, and trump got a whole bunch of them to take the mask off so they can be arrested for treason.

Similarly it's fun to pretend Apartheid Clyde went full fascist so that neonazis would replace their coal rollers with low-poly 90s video game pedestrian crushers to own the libs.

Batteries will hit break-even with the split on peak vs off-peak electricity starting in a year or two.

Current retail consumer batteries (installation consisting of screw it to a wall and plug in three wires if you have a compatible inverter) are at around $280/kWh or 75c per kWh if you use it daily to load shift for one year. About 15c over 5 years. Halve that and anyone buying on peak electricity in a high-price area is going to be very interested in a battery rather than paying the next two quarters' electricity bills. Quarter it (which is conceivable once sodium ion scales enough to meet utility demand) and average-price areas are looking at it real hard

EVs are hitting $1000/kWh pre-subsidy in the west or $300/kWh in china for the entire car. V2L or V2G becomes very appealing for anyone not using their car during the day.

You don't need a lake, just a hill or a hole. And the only places without a vast excess of pumped hydro resources have amazing solar and wind resource so don't need it.

A renewable system with PHES for storage is both viable pretty much everywhere, and significantly cheaper than thermal generation. They likely won't get built because it's not really competitive vs batteries for short duration storage, takes a lot of time/coordination, and storage requirements are about an order of magnitude less than the fossil fuel shills are claiming.

Low power cycling (and powering a house is miniscule draw for a car) below 80% SOC cannot induce enough wear on a car battery to show up at all before calendar aging makes the battery unusable (which is about 10 years after the rest of the car has worn out on average). And the range it reduces is about 10% for an evening of powering a house, leaving more range than the typical ICE has when it is parked with the tank less than half full.

As to the investment. A tesla 3 is $40k and has an 86kWh battery in it (82kWh usable). Modern LFP batteries are rated for 8000 cycles at 0.1C (8kW or about what you can squeeze through a reasonable-sized wire at 240V ). If you somehow manage to wear it out and got 8c/kWh, you've made a profit. At 30c/kWh spread that some people pay, that's tripling your investment.

You can only 50% drain your battery during peak 5-9pm consumption though so this will take 22 years of going full-tilt every day. The other 1.5 cars in each average household won't get a turn, nor will several of your neighbors because peak electricity consumption is under 8kW per capita pretty much everywhere.

If you are lucky enough to wear out your battery this way, it will pay somewhere between 50% and 300% of the TCO of your car depending on where you live. 5% isn't a great investment, but it also comes with a free car (and currently up to $8k ofnsubsidies not counted above).

That's a feeling, not a lack of safety. Intimidating people into buying big cars on purpose is still vile, but the people who cave are giving in to irrationality and putting their feelings above the safety of their kids and of others. Tragedy of the commons is when defecting improves your utility. The SUV/emotional support truck arms race is only decreases the utility of others in exchange for feelings of power.

Please do not liken incontinence or the wearing of makeup to pedophilia, rape, cowardice or being trump.

The only way to feel safe. The really big ego-support vehicles are no safer than a subcompact to be inside of, but they are far more likely to kill your own family.

Sidewalks in car-brained areas are super dangerous to jog on. People backing out of their driveway or turning across the road at 10-20km/h without looking. Trip hazards. Ankle destroying driveway cutouts or curved surfsces. Uneven grading.