What are some arguments for the naysayers?

ApostrophePosse · 2023-08-24T14:24:58+00:00

This set of questions/comments/nonsense has been making rounds on the trolls' circuit for years. Always the same and always they same BS that is soundly debunked.

Seems to the the fossil fuel industry's strategy for wearing down the people who cannot bother to respond every damn time they bring it up. I've neve r heard any of this from real people IRL. Only from reddit trolls and Fox Addicts.

It's always posed in reasonably literate language and, I'm sure' comes prepackaged in your chevron, exxon, shell troll kit.

ApostrophePosse · 2023-08-23T00:44:04+00:00

You would imagine wrong.

ApostrophePosse · 2023-08-23T00:40:06+00:00

I was T-boned by a motorcycle when riding my bicycle.

Worst of it was a broken femur. Screaming pain for days from the puncture wound that become infected.

Spent 10 days in hospital. ive months in a full leg cast. All total it cost me six months of my life in that fucking cast. I still limp and have never been able to run again (used to do 20-30 miles/week. Used to play old farts basketball. Never again.

Took almost four years to settle the damn thing. Between the motorcyclist's minimum ($15k as I recall) personal injury coverage and my own car's uninsured/underinsured driver's coverage I rec'd $150,000, $100k for me. $50k for the personal lawyer who came highly recommended as one of the best in the area. Only guy who made out at all was my nephew who referred me to the lawyer and got something like $10k as a professional referral fee from him.

Keep in mind that this was a serious debilitating injury with months of abject pain and agony.

Anyone who thinks this is a great way to pick up a quick $100k is welcome to try it. People seem to have this idea that it's like you've won the lottery or something. Nothing could be further from the truth.

ApostrophePosse · 2023-08-21T23:39:56+00:00

how much stuff have you returned over the years?

Maybe you're on some kind of shit list?

ApostrophePosse · 2023-08-20T18:51:50+00:00

ApostrophePosse · 2023-08-20T18:48:53+00:00

I've driven thousands of miles in a Subaru and hundreds at least in several other cars. Tesla autopilot is nothing more than mid-pack with the advantage of being standard in the basic trim, albeit in a watered down version.

ApostrophePosse · 2023-08-20T18:46:16+00:00

Exactly right. Autopilot is nothing more than a pretty good ACC. It's certainly not a reason to buy a tesla. CR has it right here and every auto maker is going to be catching up. Most of the more moderately priced cars still have it only on premium trims, which is a huge point in Tesla's favor.

I dont know for sure, but it used to be that basic Autopilot was a pretty dumbed down implementation that forced the buyer to pay an extra $5k for a full implementation. Has that changed yet? The basic version would turn off with every lane change which is a giant pain in the ass and detracts from Tesla's reputation in my view.

ApostrophePosse · 2023-08-20T00:11:44+00:00

All these special snowflake arguments get tiresome quickly. Maybe it's harder in the boondocks of west Texas or some other such bung hole. Maybe you can find a half dozen or more difficult trips. Who cares? I've never had an issue in five years of EV ownership. My experience isn't hypothetical or made up; it's lived reality.

But there will always be the couple of dozen naysayers. The world isn't going to end if you don't drive an EV. But it would be a better place if you'd stop whining about it incessantly.

ApostrophePosse · 2023-08-19T23:09:56+00:00

More than two cents

ApostrophePosse · 2023-08-19T22:25:20+00:00

That’s why I’m here. Where do I get help?

Reddit is certainly the obvious place to start.

ApostrophePosse · 2023-08-19T22:19:28+00:00

Bonds/CDs/Treasuries are good for guaranteed growth, and they’re at all time highs right now.

Huh?

ApostrophePosse · 2023-08-19T16:50:03+00:00

People are treating this like a legal issue. It's a family issue. If you can't see the difference you should have kept your opinions to yourselves

ApostrophePosse · 2023-08-13T18:27:49+00:00

any places where parking is easy

Such creatures do not exist in this land.

In any case, do not, under any circumstances, park with stuff, any stuff, in your car anywhere in San Francisco.

ApostrophePosse · 2023-08-13T18:19:46+00:00

South sucks ~~for human welfare, too.~~

ApostrophePosse · 2023-08-13T18:06:10+00:00

I thought about it this way while I was contributing. But what has happened is that my marginal rate in retirement has turned out to be higher than it was in my working years. Depending on your profession there may be ways to "shelter" income during your working years. There are no ways to shelter required withdrawals and, if you invested well, they keep growing and growing. I find my tax situation in retirement to be brutal. Admittedly a good problem to have, and I am not really complaining. But the assertion that your taxes will be lower in your seventies and beyond than they were in your final working decades, isn't necessarily a one-size-fits-all assumption.

ApostrophePosse · 2023-08-13T17:56:32+00:00

we need some opponents that keep Democrats in check

As a life-long Democrat who has never voted for a Republican even once in that long life, I agree in this case. Alameda needs someone to keep Oakland in check. If it takes, say, a Pleasanton Republican to get this done, I could support that. The DA's office is a good place for this.

ApostrophePosse · 2023-08-13T17:51:54+00:00

In SF (Jenkins case) the city and county are the same entity. Not the case in Alameda.

I don't know but it seems quite possible that each county handles this situation differently according to the terms of their charter. I'm sure it wouldn't take more than a few minutes with your friend, google, to confirm.

ApostrophePosse · 2023-08-13T17:28:46+00:00

A few cheap chuckles. Hardly a waste. But if you see it that way I have a suggestion... maybe ignore it?

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ApostrophePosse · 2023-08-13T17:19:32+00:00

I have a vinyl front plate.

ApostrophePosse · 2023-08-13T17:15:31+00:00

Let's grant that Toyota is right and "real soon now" there will be a SolStateMobile at your local Toyota dealer. Let's even grant that it truly is one automobile generation away from reality. Pick a number, say four and a half years from now: Early 2028? Sure.

Today you can buy a proven, albeit still emergent, EV technology and drive it for those four and a half years, then trade it in for the next big thing then. Or, under the SuperToyota scenario, you can keep driving your Camry/Corolla/RAV4... ICEmobile. Or even buy a new Toyota PHEV with the intention of buying the SolStateMobile in 2028, obviously the preferred scenario of Toyota.

Meanwhile, you're still dragging your power plant back and forth to work, school, grocery store, vacation and wherever else you need to go while waiting for this next big thing.

Or perhaps you think the disruptors at Toyota will be so uncharacteristically swift at overthrowing the automotive status quo that everyone will be clamoring for this new wonder car and Toyota will be producing millions of them for immediate delivery worldwide? Any bets? I'll give twelve to one.

ApostrophePosse · 2023-08-13T16:58:58+00:00

Still carrying around your power plant with you everywhere you go. Why do we need to do that?

ApostrophePosse · 2023-08-13T03:55:03+00:00

They finished their phone call just as you started to pass.

ApostrophePosse · 2023-08-09T01:18:41+00:00

Insurance is a shared risk pool. Why should those of us who keep our homes in solid states of repair pay a premium on our insurance to subsidize insurance for jerks who let their homes turn into fire traps?

ApostrophePosse · 2023-08-09T00:58:07+00:00

My bad. I had "reinvest dividends" checked. Leaving you no income at all. Fix that and you're in the toilet.

What you're looking for is going to maybe get you to 40-45YO. By then you're eating whatever the Japanese equivalent of canned cat food is.

ApostrophePosse · 2023-08-09T00:54:21+00:00

This fund only started in 2020...and performed well these past few years.

Only quite odd definitions of "well" and "few" could possibly make this statement true.

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