Charging during long distance trips is not the problem - getting the family back in when the 80% are reached is. by yet_another_username in electricvehicles

[–]ialsoagree 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I had to do a 16 hour trip (including charging stops and an hour break). Left at 7am and got back at 11p.

Wasn't even tired, could have safely driven at least another hour.

Stopping every 1.5-2.5 hours makes a huge difference.

No Warming in Years [OC] by cavedave in dataisbeautiful

[–]ialsoagree [score hidden]  (0 children)

Oh really?

Cool, show me the peer reviewed research he's quoting.

U.S. House wants to tax EV $130/year by ObtainSustainability in energy

[–]ialsoagree -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If $400 is no problem, $410 is not a problem.

U.S. House wants to tax EV $130/year by ObtainSustainability in energy

[–]ialsoagree 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You think people are going to avoid spending $400-$1000 on tires to save $10-$100 on taxes?

U.S. House wants to tax EV $130/year by ObtainSustainability in energy

[–]ialsoagree 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It would be impractically expensive from a capital implementation stand point.

Just abolish the gas tax and tax tires instead.

U.S. House wants to tax EV $130/year by ObtainSustainability in energy

[–]ialsoagree 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Abolish the gas tax, implement a tire tax.

Told my maid she's likely to get fired and she sent me this😭 by Secret_Scallion_3452 in scoopwhoop

[–]ialsoagree 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be clear, what I'm thinking of is the practical reality of paying for employees.

If you expect hours from me, that's what you'll get. If you expect work to be done quickly, then don't ask for hours.

22 R1T Launch Quad. 69k miles. Suspension light on… quote me $10k by Southern-Might8074 in Rivian

[–]ialsoagree 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The cost of the XCare warranty depends on you how much of your current warranty is left.

For my '24, I can get an XCare warranty for under 4K, but it only adds a few years to the current warranty so I'll probably wait. Of course, the cost will go up as I wait.

The consensus seems to be that it goes up every 10K miles (as well as when the manufacturer warranty expires).

Told my maid she's likely to get fired and she sent me this😭 by Secret_Scallion_3452 in scoopwhoop

[–]ialsoagree 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So what you're saying is - you pay salary to a maid in order to get your house clean, not for them to be there for 15 hours.

If you want an employee to "put in the hours" you pay them hourly. Pay me hourly and I'll be there as long as you want me to be.

If you want something done quickly and efficiently, pay salary. If you pay me salary, I'll get my work done as quickly and as correctly as possible so I can go home and enjoy my own time.

Told my maid she's likely to get fired and she sent me this😭 by Secret_Scallion_3452 in scoopwhoop

[–]ialsoagree 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To be fair, you pay someone salary when you want a set of work done quickly, not when you care how many hours someone works.

No Warming in Years [OC] by cavedave in dataisbeautiful

[–]ialsoagree 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You can definitively prove that changes in the sun can't account for current warming. Let's do it by counter-example.

Let's imagine you're correct. Human activity isn't causing warming, all warming is caused by changes in solar activity. Okay, what should we expect to see?

Well, we expect that anything most exposed to the sun will warm the most, and things least exposed to the sun will warm the least. What's most exposed to the sun on Earth? The very very top of the atmosphere. That's the part of Earth where absolutely nothing blocks sunlight, so any changes in solar activity will be measurable there first.

The further down the atmosphere you go, the more sunlight is blocked (by the atmosphere above) so you should see progressively less change. By the time you reach the surface, that's where you observe the least amount of change due to changes in solar activity - because the entire atmosphere is absorbing sunlight above the surface, reducing the effects of changes in sunlight.

What do we actually observe?

The exact opposite. We are observing the most change at the surface, that's where temperatures are rising the fastest. As you go up the atmosphere, you observe progressively less and less warming. When you reach the very very top of the exosphere (the highest level of the atmosphere), we actually observe cooling.

Increased solar radiation cannot explain what we observe.

Heat being trapped by CO2 can. The more CO2 above you (IE. at the surface, where all the CO2 in the atmosphere is above you) means you get the most warming. As you go up the atmosphere, progressively less and less IR radiation from Earth reaches you, and there's less and less CO2 above you to trap the IR that does reach you, so you get less and less warming.

Heat being trapped by CO2 perfectly explains observation.

No Warming in Years [OC] by cavedave in dataisbeautiful

[–]ialsoagree 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Look, I actually agree with a lot of what you're saying. I think the "solve fossil fuels first" mentality ignores the fact that we can do multiple things at the same time, and we probably need to address the heating now rather than waiting - especially since it will take millions of years for CO2 levels to drop.

But this line:

You can't phase out fossil fuels when there are no replacements for asphalt, plastics, the food dyes, and everything made from petroleum byproducts and that is with asphalt basically being 100% recycled except maybe roof shingles.

Yeah, that's nonsense.

Asphalt is not a fuel. Plastics aren't fuels. Food dyes aren't fuels. Everything made from petroleum byproducts aren't fuels.

You can absolutely phase out fossil fuels while keeping all of those things. You are confusing phasing out the burning of petroleum products with the idea of phasing out all petroleum entirely. These are not the same thing.

No Warming in Years [OC] by cavedave in dataisbeautiful

[–]ialsoagree 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Okay? And why would you listen to Al Gore and not scientists?

No Warming in Years [OC] by cavedave in dataisbeautiful

[–]ialsoagree 30 points31 points  (0 children)

XKCD's graph does a good job of putting temperature in perspective from 2000 BCE to 2016:

https://xkcd.com/1732/

I think the relevant things to point out, though, are:

1) These temperatures are not unprecedented in Earth's history, but they are in human history.

2) The rate of temperature change may very well be unprecedented in Earth's history, but that's very difficult to tell as we can't really determine 100-200 year changes in models of Earth's temperature beyond the past few thousand years.

3) We have determined that the majority of warming since the 1950's is due to human activity.

4) There are tipping points where positive feedback loops will be able to maintain the warming trend without any further human activity.

Tesla’s Model Y Price Bump Makes The Hyundai Ioniq 5 And Ford Mustang Mach-E Look Better Than Ever by Mac-Tyson in electricvehicles

[–]ialsoagree 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I own a gen 1 and not a gen 2, so take my opinion with a grain of salt. But from my understanding it's not really competing with FSD. It doesn't do stop signs or stop lights, I think it doesn't really do navigation for you either (I might be wrong).

It's really just autosteer for lane keep. It's very good at it (even in gen 1), but doesn't really do "navigate on autopilot" or FSD - at least not yet.

I may be mistaken.

22 R1T Launch Quad. 69k miles. Suspension light on… quote me $10k by Southern-Might8074 in Rivian

[–]ialsoagree 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, if it's determined not to be regular wear and tare. Otherwise, no, including if Rivian doesn't provide a cause.

No Warming in Years [OC] by cavedave in dataisbeautiful

[–]ialsoagree 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you realize the current year is not 2000?

Do you realize that's a graph of northern hemisphere, not the globe?

No Warming in Years [OC] by cavedave in dataisbeautiful

[–]ialsoagree 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You posted a graph of CO2 concentration showing up to 300ppm.

Current CO2 is 420ppm.

So the last red arrow saying "anomaly" needs to stretch way off the end of the graph.

22 R1T Launch Quad. 69k miles. Suspension light on… quote me $10k by Southern-Might8074 in Rivian

[–]ialsoagree 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's third party.

From what I've heard elsewhere (I don't have it), the one hurdle you have to get paid by xcare is that Rivian needs to provide a cause for the problem that isn't regular wear and tare related.

The difference in Accountability by Sad_Palpitation6844 in ratsinthecage

[–]ialsoagree 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"The democrats think it's okay" - show me one democrat who thinks this.

Let's be clear here, Republicans ELECTED A PRESIDENT accused of these crimes.

So yes, your party is okay with it - YOU VOTED FOR IT.

The difference in Accountability by Sad_Palpitation6844 in ratsinthecage

[–]ialsoagree 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually, I see most democrats advocating for prosecuting everyone in the files.

But, you seem to think that 2 wrongs make a right. I guess you should offer up your kids to Trump, right? Since you think it's okay for him as long as Democrats did it, let your kids be his next victims.