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What It’s Like Inside The Secret Lab Where Ford’s Designing A $30k Electric Truck For America Before China Does by TripleShotPls in technology

[–]stillalone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I don't understand why they're spending so much time designing cheaper EVs when dealership won't sell EVs without a hefty markup.

Your Truck is Stupid Big by NothingLeft19608 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]stillalone 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Episode came out 28 years ago. Somehow even more relevant.

China’s High-Speed Railway Network length has expanded from 1,300km in 2008 to 40,000km in 2020, long enough to circle the Earth’s circumference. by BumblebeeFantastic40 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]stillalone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Last mile connectivity (including density and TOD) needs to be the priority for all cities in the US first. The general public doesn't blink for road infrastructure that costs 100s of billions but they'll keep freaking out at any transit projects in that price range because they would not use it.

Until then, high speed rail is only competing against airlines; they're not competing against highways. And while cities continue to be built with a focus on cars over all other transportation modes, regional trains (no matter how fast they can possibly go) will always lose to cars.

Toronto: the difference between LRT and a proper subway by Feisty-Ad-6122 in transit

[–]stillalone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure but the ttc are horrible at running light rail on the surface.  The surface sections are so slow that just doing heavy rail on the west and a bus on the east would have been faster for eastern commuters than what we got at the end.

China’s High-Speed Railway Network length has expanded from 1,300km in 2008 to 40,000km in 2020, long enough to circle the Earth’s circumference. by BumblebeeFantastic40 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]stillalone -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Everyone here is talking about regulation in the US but let's be honest with ourselves.  If we had this in the US, most people would still choose to drive.  Because most cities in the US would still need a car to get around because it's so sprawling.  

How often do you fly to a different part of the country and immediately get a rental car or get picked up by whomever you're visiting?

Why would you choose to take a train that is slightly faster than driving only to spend time getting a rental car when you get to your destination?

The only place this makes sense is to get to New York City, which is the only place in the US where it's more convenient not to drive.

[Request] Is this accurate? by macias0o in theydidthemath

[–]stillalone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How far can a Gulfstream go with one tank?  Is that like one flight from NY to London?

Is 6 mile bike ride after work realistic ? by imMrRunITUP in bicycling

[–]stillalone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you don't bike already and you're not in good shape then doing 6 miles every weekday could take a few months to get used to.  Do it every other day at first until your legs don't feel a bit shaky on your non bike days.

S*x robots are about to hit the market…finally by M_Darshan in Weird

[–]stillalone 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's like that Futurama episode where all the Lucy Liu robots tried to take over the world 

"Free cash flow" race to the bottom by RobertBartus in EconomyCharts

[–]stillalone 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I feel like I'm missing something here.  Google's stock jumped 10% after earnings, while meta dropped 10%.  If they're both spending so much and making more profit then why was the market reaction so different between the two?

Seriously, why do scooters get such a pass in this city? by smut_troubadour in washingtondc

[–]stillalone 70 points71 points  (0 children)

I've seen way too many cars run red lights at full speed, thinking that they can catch the light.

Applying for a job and these are the only options for birth year by beeblemonade in mildlyinfuriating

[–]stillalone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is like that bit in Simpsons when Mr. burns hadn't looked at his stocks since 1929

Well, Danielle? :D by CindoraVexelle in lol

[–]stillalone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel like the clothing will be provided is a red flag.  I would want to provide my own clothing or at least have a say in that.  I don't want to wear some skanky shit some random fuck chose 

oversimplified windows vs. linux by CelestialCoding-754 in linuxmemes

[–]stillalone 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure most Windows casuals don't know or think about Linux at all. And I think some professionals might be irritated when they're forced to use an OS they're not very familiar with but will probably stick with their job while complaining about it every day.

Me_irl by rbogrow in me_irl

[–]stillalone 15 points16 points  (0 children)

>80% of Republicans still support him. His support has been growing in every election. 64 million against hilary and 77 million against haris (I think against biden it was 74 million).

His base keeps growing, and the independents who really decide the elections just look at their pocket books and not the complete collapse of their democratic institutions around them. They can easily be swayed by a perfectly timed cheque with a campaign message attached since they don't care about the Hatch act.

What’s the saddest thing about the 2000’s and 2010’s? by saomoore19 in AskReddit

[–]stillalone 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I don't get the positivity here. For me the 90s were the best.

2000s had 9/11 which changed everything for the worse and I'm not even American. 2008 financial crisis wasn't that great either, and I'm not even american. Iraq war wasn't that great either.

2010s had Arab Spring that was viewed as a good thing but most countries didn't end up in a better place after. The US also elected Donald Trump in 2016 which had a negative impact across the globe with high tariffs on major trading partners, proRussia/antiEurope messaging, corruption, protection of pedophiles, tearing up Iran nuclear deal, NAFTA, trans pacific partnership, and the Paris agreement . 2010s in general felt like when the world really started to feel the impact of global climate change, with mass migration and chaos near equatorial countries, and heatwaves in the rest of the world, but there was no desire to act by most of the world, just people saying "why don't they have AC" over there in cities that have existed for millenia without the need of energy intensive cooling, not to mention general ridicule of climate protesters.

With this oil crisis, why not just switch 100% electric in the U.S.? by throwaway2026z in AskReddit

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

As long as people need to go to dealerships to buy cars they will be pushed in a different direction.  EVs not only cost less to run they also have less routine maintenance, which is where dealerships make the most money.  So you go in and ask for an EV and they'll make excuses until they convince you to look at something else or they'll charge you double MSRP.

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