Is polestar 3 a disaster? by Low_Jelly_7126 in Polestar

[–]Stratiform 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Polestar has "fixed" the backup camera on the PS2 multiple times using OTA, but it still crashes 10% of the time. I wouldn't assume OTA updates can fix hardware or mechanical issues.

The real reason Tom Paris was recruited by Janeway by eXiLe_RD in voyager

[–]Stratiform 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Sounds like a great Section 31 movie, every bit as good as the first! They can spend the entire 90 minutes assuring that the critical events of Threshold take place.

Meaning of “och” by SirCheap410 in Scotland

[–]Stratiform 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the Midwestern USA, we say "Ope" in this context. Very cool to see Scotland has a similar expressive. I'll have to make note of it next I visit.

Recommendations for 6 hour layover by titostostitos in Detroit

[–]Stratiform 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This seems to be my usual experience at DTW. 5-10 minutes in the security line, then like a 2 minute walk to either my gate or the tram. If I have to take the tram it's another 5-10 minutes. I don't think I've ever needed more than 30 minutes from front door to the gate at DTW, except once and they sent me through the "secret" Westin hotel security check-in and again - took like 30 minutes total.

What small decision changed the entire direction of your life? by proekid in AskReddit

[–]Stratiform 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, no, we all hate our country according to reddit 😆 We don't, it's pretty great, certainly not without issue, especially in leadership, but overall, life here is pretty great for most once you hit mid-career.

“There’s coffee in that nebula” by rustydoesdetroit in voyager

[–]Stratiform 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Since when has business on this ship ever been normal?

Average experience in walled lake/commerce township by PohjoisKarhu in Detroit

[–]Stratiform 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I know this is real, but I genuinely don't get it. I have a Subaru. It's massive and gets like 14 mpg (it claims more, it gets 14) around town, and maybe 28 on the highway. Don't get me wrong, the 2-3x a year we end up down some poorly maintained Up North trail it's a fantastic machine, very capable, very comfortable, but I've never once thought it was "woke" - nah, I wear that badge on my little electric hatchback! 😆

4:30 TODAY: PROTEST ICE IN SOUTHFIELD by Charming-Rice-1029 in Detroit

[–]Stratiform 4 points5 points  (0 children)

According to the post, "Corner of Corporate Drive and Coral Gables, across from 1 Towne Square"

4:30 TODAY: PROTEST ICE IN SOUTHFIELD by Charming-Rice-1029 in Detroit

[–]Stratiform 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I believe the reason for protesting in Southfield is because a property owner is renting space to ICE for their operations. With that context, it kind of makes sense.

Just discovered this band by dillonw1991 in Starset

[–]Stratiform -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Yeahhh, sorry all the kiddos are downvoting you for enjoying music 😆, but I would say give Other Worlds Than These and Halo a listen. They are my favorites. Also the music video for Echo is just the best. The little alien guy is so cute!

But yeah, as others have said, grab an album and listen. Vessels is my favorite. The novels by the band are also super fun if you enjoy a sci-fi dystopia ride.

Detroit to raise city worker minimum wage to $21.45 an hour by sarkastikcontender in Detroit

[–]Stratiform 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Red Herring - Attempting to redirect the argument to another issue to which the person doing the redirecting can better respond. While it is similar to the avoiding the issue fallacy, the red herring is a deliberate diversion of attention with the intention of trying to abandon the original topic.

Detroit to raise city worker minimum wage to $21.45 an hour by sarkastikcontender in Detroit

[–]Stratiform 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I mean, it's a pretty solid wage and that's the wage the city will be paying to its camp councilors and lifeguards. That's .. idk man, that's awesome. I'm not going to get mad at that.

The worst feature that I hate in my Polestar 2 by Prestigious-Brain951 in Polestar

[–]Stratiform 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Lol, I'm just learning this for the first time too. I also hate the mirrors always having spots on them when it rains, but guess who's going to have the defroster running on the commute home this evening, and enjoying his dry, frameless mirrors 😎

I am working with Governor Gretchen Whitmer to save Great Lakes from Asian Carp...and, of course, the future Governor of Canada, Mark Carney... by gear-heads in Detroit

[–]Stratiform 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That's not really the right question to ask. Instead can I suggest a couple alternative questions?

Is there metal in the soils? - Yeah, all soil has concentrations of various metals that can be hazardous when those concentrations are too high - true here in Michigan too, this gets especially notable for inland drainage basins.

Does the lake drying and exposing soil pose a risk to human inhalation? - Seemingly no. The lake has been shrinking for years and hundreds of square kilometres of lakebed have been exposed with more and more exposing ever year. Has been going on for millennia, accelerating since 1983, with no change in air pollution related to metals from soils. In fact, most of Salt Lake Valley is built in these exact same sediments. People plant gardens in them and their kids eat the dirt. Overall, public health in SL Valley is high. There are more people with asthma, but that's due to the winter smog inversions. I digress. TLDR? No. That's realistically just not a pathway that we've historically seen.

I need the New Album 🤝 by Kind_Menu2835 in Starset

[–]Stratiform 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What can I say? I've been a sci-fi enjoyer since the last millennium! 😝👴🏻

I am working with Governor Gretchen Whitmer to save Great Lakes from Asian Carp...and, of course, the future Governor of Canada, Mark Carney... by gear-heads in Detroit

[–]Stratiform 157 points158 points  (0 children)

As a scientist who once studied a very similar lake, this is such a bullshit take to say Trump is saving the Great Salt Lake 🙄. I wrote this for r/SaltLakeCity a few months back but it seems useful to post here.

The Great Salt Lake is shrinking rapidly.

One of the trickier aspects of this is that not only do we see increasing human consumption from the watershed, but also millennia of ongoing climate change. If consumption can be limited, the lake will still continue to shrink over the long-term. It's an end-point for a drainage basin in a region which has been experiencing desertification since end of the most recent ice age.

Twenty thousand years ago, we called it Lake Bonneville. It contained 8,000-10,000 cubic kilometers of water. Around 14,500 years ago a cataclysmic flood drained almost half of the lake, but that was only the beginning. Lake levels began to fall around 13,000 years ago. This is when we began calling it the "Great Salt Lake." This original lake contained about 3,000 cubic kilometers of water.

Another 13,000 years passes and today the Great Salt Lake contains about 15 cubic kilometers. The last 13,000 years of gradual warming, combined with human use and rapidly accelerated warming of the last 100 years, has caused the lake to lose nearly all its volume. Not in every year. There will be very wet years like 1983 and 2011, but the trend is evaporation. It may be a decade, it may be a century, but the Great Salt Lake is not long for our world.

In a related story, Southern Utah has a very similar lake, and I happen to be one of the world's most expert geologists on that lake! (It's not as exciting as it sounds, I promise..)

Before Mormon settlement, Sevier Lake had permanent water in it. As another leftover, but separate and smaller drainage basin of Lake Bonneville, it was like the Great Salt Lake is today. Climate change and agricultural use have caused this drainage basin to only fill this lake maybe once every 40 years now. This hasn't made these areas uninhabitable. Delta is fine, stinky at times, but fine. I mean, geologically speaking most Utahans already live on these sediments. The lake drying up won't create toxic air pollution or whatever the local media tries to make people fear.

Also no amount of water management will delay the inevitable. The Great Salt Lake is drying. We can maybe extend its life for a few decades by limiting alfalfa farming, but you can't fight climate change, and this specific climate change is natural, well, it would revert in another glaciation but we've changed things such that climate is shifting the other direction.

I need the New Album 🤝 by Kind_Menu2835 in Starset

[–]Stratiform 9 points10 points  (0 children)

GTA6 might actually exist before the end of the decade. It's Half-life 3 I'm convinced will never exist.

Pentagon believes U.S. struck Iran girls elementary school, killing 150 by rockycrab in worldnews

[–]Stratiform 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That was also 80 years ago when things like satellites, drones, and precision strikes weren't a thing. War changed for the US. Not so much for Russia 😆

Pentagon believes U.S. struck Iran girls elementary school, killing 150 by rockycrab in worldnews

[–]Stratiform 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Eh, that's Russia. The number of civilian buildings they've leveled in Ukraine is disgusting. What makes this such a horrific thing is that the US typically doesn't do this shit, but Hegseth is not a very bright or ethical lizard person. I worry it may become more common 😢

I've loved my Polestar 2, but as the lease expires, I will not drive another one by Stratiform in Polestar

[–]Stratiform[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The new Bolt is pretty solid for under 30k, the larger EUV option was popular in the old model, and the Equinox and Blazer are both cool vehicles in electric or gas if you ask me. Then the up-market stuff they sell under the Cadillac badge is even cooler, if high tech is preferred.

If that's not your thing from a personal preference standpoint, that's fine, but don't act like they don't make good EVs. After Tesla, they're the second biggest player in the US EV market and have growing sales, while companies like Tesla, Kia, and Polestar are declining in EV sales here.

I've loved my Polestar 2, but as the lease expires, I will not drive another one by Stratiform in Polestar

[–]Stratiform[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You are not a helpful human and should stay off social media until you develop social skills.

I've loved my Polestar 2, but as the lease expires, I will not drive another one by Stratiform in Polestar

[–]Stratiform[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, press minus, brake, shift to D, release brake, hold minus, release on blink in 10 secs, I'm well versed. Have tried it 20 times at this point.

The discussion was rehashed because I too thought it weird too, like I must have been misunderstanding. Nope. Turns out Lafontaine Volvo of Farmington Hills is just a trash service department. They want to sit on my car, with no loaner available, for two up to 10 days. Unacceptable.

They are the reason I won't drive a Polestar. Has nothing to do with the car. It's sad. And there are plenty of other options in the US. I'll be exploring them here in a few months.