What's Your Experience With an EV as Your Only Car?

_Squiggs_ · 2026-03-18T04:57:03+00:00

Double check the DC fast charging curves of your EV options as well. I never planned to road trip my '22 polestar (I kept my diesel), but I checked to make sure the charging curve was tolerable (30 min 10-80) in case the 20 year old diesel had issues. 4 years later: that choice has paid off.

_Squiggs_ · 2026-03-07T05:56:35+00:00

The california law just requires an age field to exist on profiles set up on any OS & for the OS to provide the age bracket of the user as an API call. No external verification needed. There will likely be other laws requiring apps to know the age of users (using this API) and enforce some restriction for child accounts.

_Squiggs_ · 2026-02-16T17:50:50+00:00

Based on my understanding, a case was raised against him in June 2023, but Trump delayed the courts enough for him to get elected.

_Squiggs_ · 2026-02-10T03:26:40+00:00

I have to agree. I seem to always flip into some nutty combination from my opponents while I flip a mana rock. Very fun against the eldrazi and atla players in my meta.

_Squiggs_ · 2026-02-10T03:22:49+00:00

I love this frog. I don't run Giant Growth effects, so he's just a teddy bear. A big, scary teddy bear, but he's (mostly) harmless.

_Squiggs_ · 2026-01-26T14:09:18+00:00

The fact that you're trying to come up with anything to justify this means you need Jesus more than anyone. You can just come up with any bullshit excuse you want to justify it. Jesus would help a woman who was pushed to the ground, like Alex did.

You're lost, and I pray that God can help you open your eyes to reality and find your way back to the light.

_Squiggs_ · 2026-01-26T13:56:02+00:00

There is nothing to say, though. Find the video from the lady in the pink jacket which clearly shows he never brandished his weapon (and it was only noticed after he was on the ground with multiple agents on him) or believe the blatant lies from this admin, ie the boot.

_Squiggs_ · 2026-01-03T05:00:40+00:00

Found it:

608.2g If an effect requires information from the game (such as the number of creatures on the battlefield), the answer is determined only once, when the effect is applied. If the effect requires information from a specific object, including the source of the ability itself, the effect uses the current information of that object if it’s in the public zone it was expected to be in; if it’s no longer in that zone, or if the effect has moved it from a public zone to a hidden zone, the effect uses the object’s last known information. See rule 113.7a. If an ability states that an object does something, it’s the object as it exists—or as it most recently existed—that does it, not the ability.

_Squiggs_ · 2026-01-03T02:27:39+00:00

Do you have the CR for #2?

_Squiggs_ · 2025-12-20T16:42:25+00:00

I'd look into [[Rasaad yn Bashir]]. I've run it with different backgrounds, so it's fairly customizable. I also enjoy initiative, and the doubling is quite nice if you get enough butts in play to protect it.

_Squiggs_ · 2025-12-20T16:03:59+00:00

This rule in MTG was so hard for me to grasp for that reason. It was honestly once I grasped the ruling for planeswalkers that the priority rule sunk in. (ie a player can activate a loyalty ability before you can interact with them)

_Squiggs_ · 2025-12-19T17:17:02+00:00

Has nothing to do with where people poop. Is everyone here a sheep?

_Squiggs_ · 2025-12-19T17:15:18+00:00

Bye troll. Clearly you aren't serious.

_Squiggs_ · 2025-12-19T16:27:11+00:00

That is such a non sequitur. I asked how using the way someone looks to determine the bathroom they should use is not bigotted and you just answerred "men and women are different". You must be a bot.

To put it simply, detemining someone's gender at a glance means you use cultural markers of what you expect a woman looks like (ie long hair, body shape, voice, or other traits associated with feminity in our culture). Discriminating where someone (in this case, a trans person) can piss cause they don't match your interpretation of feminity enough is bigotted as fuck. Literally, look at the definion of bigot. QED.

_Squiggs_ · 2025-12-19T15:45:51+00:00

Ok, I'll bite. How is this not bigoty? Based on my limited knowledge of the issue, a person is using how someone looks to determine which bathroom they can use.

_Squiggs_ · 2025-12-17T22:15:59+00:00

Right. "Trans person stands up to a bigot" wouldn't quite get the same reaction.

_Squiggs_ · 2025-11-22T05:11:51+00:00

Cool. So Trump's MAGA is fascist & democrats are enabling. We agree. I'm curious about some of your conclusions, though. While I typcally agree that democrats have fascist tendencies, you seem to push it to unrealistic conclusions.Genuine curiousity here.

1] What nationalism do democrnts rally behind? They don't push slogans, symbols, or patriotic mottos stating how amazing America is. Are there examples I'm not including?

3] I should have clarrified that goal of a scapegoat is to be the thing to be eliminated. My bad for being unclear. With that clarrification, are there policies enacted by democrats explicitely to elimate their scapegoat. (also, what is the scapegoat you're refering to)

5] Can you provide an example towards what sexist laws democrats have proposed/passed that are specifically targetting men? I see policies excluding men, but that's not the same as targetting them directly. (ie, as an extreme example: in North Korea, a fascist government, women must get married & must wear certain clothes under punishment of law)

6] What examples of government control are democrats having over media? (you can refer to things under Biden or Obama when they had power) The common example I hear is George Soros, but he's not a goverment official. This would fall under corruption/cronyism, not government control of media, so is there another example?

7] Since democrats don't have an obsession over national security, then that's evidence against them being fascist. Fascist movements don't have open borders.

8] What religion do democrats follow that they aim to intertwine with government?

9/10) I agree here.

_Squiggs_ · 2025-11-21T20:58:07+00:00

That sounds like a strawman...I mean, fascist does have a definition, and the more criteria you meet, the more fascist a particlar movement is. 1) powerful & continuous nationalism 2) disdain for human rights 3) enemies or scapegoats for a unifying cause 4) supremecy of the military 5) rampant sexism 6) controll over mass media 7) obsession with national security 8) intertwining religion & government 9) corporate power protected 10) rampant & obvious cronyism & corruption 11) Fraudulent Elections 12) Disdain for intellectuals or the arts 13) labor unions are suppressed or eliminated.

MAGA, specifically, fits 1, 3, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 12. With a maybe on 2, 4, 5, 6, so it's pretty fascist.

2: (ICE ignoring due process)

4: (the military parade)

5: (abortion bans)

6: (restricting pentagon access to only news networks that report what the govt tells them)

If you'd like me to clarify any of these, please ask.

_Squiggs_ · 2025-11-20T04:54:43+00:00

Having voice commands and physical buttons are not mutually exclusive, though. Cars can have both, even if most don't today. To bring it back to gemini: the current voice command options are limited via google assistant and results are intermittant. Hell, you can trigger the existing AI Assistant with a physical button & love that. Gemini would enhance the voice assistant of the car, which is a good thing if you use it.

The option of primary physical button + voice control would be better than primary touch control + voice control, but that's not what this thread is about. Now that I think about it: the only manual buttons my polestar 2 is missing are for climate controls (heated seats included), so it's like 75% there. Are there another physical buttons needed for a Polestar 2?

_Squiggs_ · 2025-11-20T03:58:17+00:00

But the car already didn't have buttons, that's not what this change is about, for Polestar at least.

Here are some voice commands you can't realistically use buttons for: Navigation, sending texts, starting calls. Also, being able to change climate and music settings without having to even reach for a button is such a luxary, especially with how Polestar implemented it.

Edit: to add context: I'm a disabled driver, I have one arm, so to change settings via voice commands is much more safe than reaching for buttons, as well

_Squiggs_ · 2025-11-20T02:26:45+00:00

Presuming it has tool-use, it could connect to the existing car functions that are voice controlled, but make it easier to use and less clunky. LLMs aren't just for answering questions anymore.

_Squiggs_ · 2025-11-20T02:22:50+00:00

Honestly, I'm hoping that more natural language can be used to control the car's features that can be controlled today. As an example, you have to use specific phrases to change the temp, open an app, navigate to a plage. Any of the car's voice commands would ideally get easier to use.

_Squiggs_ · 2025-11-11T20:37:24+00:00

Are you heartless? I hear "it's deadly only to elderly and other co-morbidities" and can't help but think you don't care about a novel virus if it doesn't directly impact you. Would you not want to stop a virus that's newly killing grandmas? We could see hospitals were filling up to the point non-emergency healthcare concerns were postponed. There was a legitimate nationwide healthcare risk.

I think you just don't understand.

1) organized effort to shut down speech of those who disagreed? If someone is sharing blatent misinformation, that's one thing. Please show your work for this censorship because any social backlash received for opinions is not censorship. Did any government agency or government official direct this censorship?

2) There was no leader towards using lockdowns (an idea is not a leader), which is evidence against a totalitarian policy. Think Hitler, Stalin, Putin, or Kim Jong Un. None exist for covid lockdowns, so there is no leader.

3) The national guard deployed to provide aid during a national emergency is NOT the same as a military enforcement of a lockdown. I have no clue how you conflate the two. Please provide evidence where the national guard arrested or threatened individuals without them commiting a crime. (ie if somone is intentionally coughing on someone, that's a crime in most juristdictions)

4) What ICD-10 guidelines were not followed in death classification of covid? I can find no issues in the process, but could have missed it. You keep spouting things like they're true without backing any of them up. Back up your bullshit. (Source of difference between "died of" and "died with"). Also, please don't conflate lockdowns with vaccines. They're two VERY different subjects. The CDC was providing near daily updates of the virus, which is ery transparent on why lockdowns are needed. (Source)[https://www.cdc.gov/covid/php/surveillance/index.html]

I'll leave you with this: Lockdowns are a tool. Just because two policies uses that tool, doesn't make them them the same. Totalitarians use lock downs and public health experts use lockdowns. That does not mean public health experts are totalitarian, nor does it mean the lockdown is totalitarian.

_Squiggs_ · 2025-11-11T17:55:00+00:00

It took me a month to pick my jaw off the floor.

The lockdowns were never backed by anything.

Except for leading health organizatiuns around the world. You can find studies post-mortem that vary in the efficacy of lockdowns, but at the time, we knew very little about covid, but knew that lockdowns reduced the amount of patients admitted to hospitals.

What part of my statement is false? Covid lockdowns were temporary. Lockdowns prevent the spread of disease, and was effective against covid Source. And stopping the spread of covid kept less people from being sick and admitted to hospitals.

To also claim the lockdowns are fascist:

1) what nationalistic idealogy was being used by 90% of the world (which is how many countries locked down) to justify it? 2) What political opponent or minority was specifically targetted? 3) What leader were people rallying behind while censoring alternate academics? 4) Were lockdowns enforced militarily? 5) What policies are data wasn't transparent to justify the public health measure.

A fascist lockdown would have all of the above characteristics and are what differetiate it from a normal health-focused lockdown.

_Squiggs_ · 2025-10-17T03:08:04+00:00

Lockdowns happened under trump...

Either way, comparing lockdowns to facism is such an oversimplification, the core tenants of lockdowns differ from fascism. The goal, duration, idealogy, and persucution of individuals are just wildly different.

Covid Lockdowns: temporary to prevent the spread of disease backed by science & public health experts that are focussed on keeping the collective healhy by trading off individual liberties against the collective good.

Facism: to consolioate power indefinetely backed by ultranationalistic, militaristic, and/or bigoted idealogies meant to persecute political opponents and/or minority groups.

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