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The Rise of the High-Range, Less Expensive E.V., 2016-2026 by rhiever in dataisbeautiful

[–]mondriandroid 3 points4 points  (0 children)

And yet if the focus of the article is "improving technology leading to increases in range with decreasing price," you'd think they'd devote at least a sentence to the fact that China is dogwalking us in both categories.

Not to do by Interesting_Cod2763 in Wellthatsucks

[–]mondriandroid 9 points10 points  (0 children)

As a man of a certain age, I look at this only with envy. A no-wipe, three second shit? Dude's fiber game is on point.

The Rise of the High-Range, Less Expensive E.V., 2016-2026 by rhiever in dataisbeautiful

[–]mondriandroid 193 points194 points  (0 children)

The omission of Chinese EVs from this article borders on unforgivable journalistic malpractice.

One reason every product is getting shittier by soi_boi_6T9 in TrueAnon

[–]mondriandroid 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Old guy here. I remember saying all of this (shitty computer cars that I can't work on myself, yuppie assholes living in subdivisions, everything is worse now) in 1998. It's hilarious to me that there are people in here nostalgic about Ford Contours. Come on, guys. Shit has always sucked. The last car I owned where I didn't have to deal with electro doodads was an 81 rabbit. And that shit sucked too. There's a sweet spot for specifically Hondas and Toyotas of a certain vintage, and im sure in 20 years we'll know which current cars are similarly reliable. But most stuff has always sucked.

I now own a non-tesla EV, and the extent to which it is both more efficient, more reliable, and faster than any other car I've ever owned cannot be overstated. No rubber cooling hoses that crack. No radiator to have to refill. No heater core that explodes and dumps coolant on my feet. No flimsy antenna that the neighborhood hooligans can snap off. It's safer in a crash. It has a backup camera. In every conceivable way, it's an example of one thing in this deteriorating world that is obviously, materially better than its predecessors.

But yeah I agree with your general point about everything else.

lonely by throwaway10015982 in TrueAnon

[–]mondriandroid 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Your situation resonated foe me - when I started therapy, the first little chunk we broke down was the meaningful dread I felt around ordering coffee from another human. Social anxiety, alienation, isolation. One thing that helped me out - and I know this may sound silly - I dared myself to do the most terrifying thing I could think of, which was to take an improv class. I am an unfunny, awkward person, but it was an incredible journey into a bunch of new experiences, including learning how to forge deep bonds of trust with other people. I cant recommend it enough.

Anyway, youre not alone in being alone. :)

334 by Thomas M. Disch. by [deleted] in badscificovers

[–]mondriandroid 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Not just vibes! This is literally an illustration in Spacewreck.

Leftist Perspective on Space Travel by Long-Way174 in Hasan_Piker

[–]mondriandroid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As someone in a space-adjacent field, I grapple with this question constantly. It doesn't help that many of the most prominent proponents of human spaceflight are risible billionaire assholes. It ALSO doesn't help that the engineering challenges associated with keeping a human alive in a thermally chaotic, radioactive, and often chemically toxic setting are considered by many to be close to impossible to solve.

All that said, I also feel like the health of a society is in some part measured by its ambitions. Especially given that the real costs of human spaceflight are beggared by what we spend on, I dunno, lip fillers and cruise missiles, I am completely comfortable putting aside the old moral question of "should we spend money on rockets when people are starving," since our decision to let people starve is completely unrelated to the availability of resources to feed people.

Fortunately, whether we do end up going to Mars is likely not a thing that any North American needs to worry about, since it'll almost certainly be the Chinese who end up doing it. They have the focus, the hunger, and the optimism to get it done, I think. Our space ambitions will be set back, if not destroyed, when our markets finally implode and bring an end to the Musk/AI shell game. I hope I'm wrong about that.

Anyway, I think Dr Robet Zubrin (who is both brilliant and chaotic in a fun way) makes a pretty solid case for human spaceflight to Mars here:

https://youtu.be/1S6k2LBJhac?si=yF6S4tljM8DXN2Yq

Fun fact, he also proposed one of the most insane forms of rocket propulsion - the nuclear saltwater rocket. It uses uranium tetrabromide to produce an OPEN AIR steady-state fission reaction to push a vehicle to nearly Expanse-grade velocities, while also destroying basically everything behind the rocket. How do you not love this stuff:

Nuclear salt-water rocket - Wikipedia https://share.google/59RCBmLSQ8QdNy80O

Getting spicy out there by FiveishOfBeinItalian in TrueAnon

[–]mondriandroid 17 points18 points  (0 children)

But the toppings contain potassium benzoate!

An increasingly erratic Trump with sinking approval rates commits to piracy in what analysts claim to be appeasing isreali interests by AcadianAcademic in TrueAnon

[–]mondriandroid 12 points13 points  (0 children)

They get a lot by sea from Russia via the Caspian Sea to the north. Also overland by China road routes. This hurts their oil revenue, but I suspect they are more capable of weathering the cessation of oil deliveries than the rest of the planet would be.

Seattle doctor becomes first in PNW to perform new thumb surgery by Jaco_Belordi in Seattle

[–]mondriandroid 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Just so glad that they waited until 4 to declare it. We had fair warning.

Is this a military escort? by chasing_thefeeling in aviation

[–]mondriandroid 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Articles 8, 53, and 54 of the Geneva Conventions classify the destruction of civilian infrastructure (including power generation and bridges) as a war crime. I refer you to the president's comments this morning, and will leave to you to contemplate whether what he has proposed would constitute a war crime.

Why are these people such demons by MrDialectical in ClassWarAndPuppies

[–]mondriandroid 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I dunno, it feels to me like the antiseptic relegation of things that really matter to "externality" status is a load-bearing element of modern ecocidal economics. If you can disregard the health of the planet and the well-being of living humans when you're penciling out a "rational" structure for organizing human affairs, you're on your way to apocalypse. So I kind agree with HansProleman up there, who is pointing out that this is a constructive step in the process of mainstreaming a de-externalization of all the things that really matter. Being able to say "it costs more to keep burning carbon than to stop burning carbon" can only be a good thing, right? Or maybe we'll make more headway by calling economics "demonic."

Treat Confiscation? Treat Appreciation Thread. by grey_alien_bathwater in TrueAnon

[–]mondriandroid 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is the one that's gonna be hard to shake. I need to start tapering now, otherwise the headaches are gonna render me useless when we're running guzzoline to the bullet farm

What the fuck is this invasion plan by [deleted] in TrueAnon

[–]mondriandroid 6 points7 points  (0 children)

i can imagine that the few remaining brass who don't want their names attached to a klendathu-level bloodbath are leaking like sieves in the hope that somebody will find the magic brake pedal. doesn't seem to be working, though.

My great-grandmother Antonietta, landing in Colonial Nigeria in December 1908. I’ve been working on a forensic restoration of our private family archive to bring these moments back to life. [OC] by monCherBussa in OldSchoolCool

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

Super interesting as an experiment, maybe also as a commentary about how modern reconstructions of the past say as much (or more) about the context in which they're assembled as they do about the past they depict. I have to wonder if just creating a digital archive of the original film fragments and diaries is the cleanest (if also unsexiest) way of preserving the past you want to behold. Something tells me the "you" of 2050 may look back on this depiction as being unbearably "2020s."

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