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  • (serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting.

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  • On the other hand, Yosemite is an example where I believe they banned cars

  • (serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting.

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  • Effing Pennsylvania is a state to avoid then. I don’t know whether they’ve changed anything but I did that a few years back and they said they weren’t allowed to sell me more than two sixpacks. While I don’t actually drink much, beer stores well for weeks to months and I had found a brewery I liked but haven’t been to since

  • (serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting.

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  • There is no plausible situation where over 50% of people willingly decide to: … 2) live in a suburb or rural area

    I’ve seen urbanism streamers claim that even in the US, we’re above 70% living in urban and suburban areas dense enough that transit makes sense. It is possible we could make transit useful for most of the population. We won’t. But we could

  • (serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting.

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  • NL’s national rail company became essentially non-operational

    Don’t forget the Internet and ability for some of us to work from home, which is a relatively recent change. If I depended on rail service and there was an outage, it would be no big deal since I can work from home

  • (serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting.

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  • Highly depend on where you live. In the US especially, we had a lot of post-wwii growth designed around cars so a lot of places make anything else a challenge.

    Cars may represent freedom and self determination, but can seem awfully limiting in a city with good walkability and transit, even in the US. When I lived in Boston, it was so much more freeing to walk out my front door and have the entire city accessible. More than that, since Acela and the airport were also accessible.

    I never gave up my car though, between things like shopping and visiting people outside the city. But now that we have options like delivery, ride share, e-bikes, and hourly car rentals, those would be much easier.

    But now I live in a suburb, and even here I walk a lot more than typical Americans. The key is older towns built out before cars. I live in the first ring of single family houses less than a mile from the town center. We have a “Main Street” shopping and restaurant area, a common, and train station. There’s also a trail Along the River and a rail trail through town that are easily accessible. Over pandemic my family started a tradition where every weekend we walked down to our favorite Pakistani restaurant, grabbed takeout, and ate dinner on benches on the town common.

  • xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles

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  • Too true

  • What do you not like talking about?

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  • I’ll look into that …

    A smoker is essentially cooking for a long time at lower temperatures while infusing flavor from selected wood. It works well with certain meats that match the wood flavors well, and especially tougher cuts where the long cooking time tenderizes.

    Other things that have worked well include

    • Mac and cheese (vegetarian)
    • Apple pie (could easily be vegan)
    • baked beans (could easily be vegan)
    • corn, both on cob and in casserole
    • some fruits like pineapple
    • avocados worked well because of the lower temperatures compared to a grill, but I don’t think it picked up the smoke

    Vegetables generally don’t, because they don’t pick up any flavor. For roasted peppers especially, it doesn’t get hot enough to blacken the skins well. Halloumi didn’t do well but maybe I don’t know how to cook that

    I really want to build on the baked beans - I bet similar stew type things work well, like lentils - and the pie

  • xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles

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  • The most hopeful part about those other chemistries is we already have nmc demonstrated to last beyond the average life expectancy of a vehicle…. And most of those newer chemistries should last significantly longer

  • ELI5 Can someone explain the nuke US and Israel problem with having Iran have them? Its their country so they got uranium who are we to tell how they can use it?

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  • “mutually Assured Destruction” may not yet have destroyed humanity but it’s insane to think it’s desirable.

  • ELI5 Can someone explain the nuke US and Israel problem with having Iran have them? Its their country so they got uranium who are we to tell how they can use it?

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  • That is really naive

  • ELI5 Can someone explain the nuke US and Israel problem with having Iran have them? Its their country so they got uranium who are we to tell how they can use it?

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  • The more countries with a nuclear deterrent,

    …. The more likely someone is to use them.

    While the current nuclear powers haven’t always behaved well, the last thing we need is higher likelihood of someone using nuclear weapons. I do t co do e the attack nor believe the stated justification but I agree that it would be bad for more countries to be able to use nuclear weapons

  • TIL owning a dog was associated with a 24% lower risk of dying from all causes over the course of 10 years

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  • From events over the last few weeks, I can definitively state that owning a dog large enough to drag you down icy steps is NOT conducive to longer life and can be quite painful

  • As Moon interest heats up, two companies unveil plans for a lunar "harvester"

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  • I don’t know whether that is currently a bottleneck or will be any time soon. I only know we’re “20 years away” from using it regularly, just like we have been my entire life

    I suppose it’s good science to figure out if we can do it, just like it’s good science to see if we can establish more access to space

  • As Moon interest heats up, two companies unveil plans for a lunar "harvester"

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  • NASA as a whole is a tiny fraction of the federal budget but has always generated outsized contributions to humanity. It’s an easy argument that money spent on nasa is money earned elsewhere. It’s a good investment

    SpaceX Falcon has revolutionized space launches and I don’t believe that is government supported at all. It does fill government launch contracts but more cheaply than they could have done so themselves, and reliably enough to capture most of the world’s market. This does not add to the deficit and the early investments have been handsomely rewarded

    Both SpaceX and blue origin, as well as other new generation space companies have been much much cheaper than old style projects. Just look at Artemis for example. Huge developments costs, continually More expensive, and $1B-$2B per launch. Yet I believe the total nasa funding for the entire starship program is around not like $2B. That is a very good use of our money. Heck, it’s probably cheaper than our little tantrum in Iran and certainly for a better purpose

  • As Moon interest heats up, two companies unveil plans for a lunar "harvester"

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  • For sure it was over-hyped and jumping the gun on what’s possible. But if we ever do live off earth, mars is more likely than the moon

    Mars is also an inspirational challenge - doing something that has never been possible. Going to the moon is something we already could to half a century ago. What’s the point of doing that again?

    Assuming we do go to the moon, it had better be noticeably more than what we did 50 years ago. Personally I’m looking for a permanent moon station, similar to what ISS did for human presence in orbit

  • Apple's budget MacBook Neo is confirmed: Here's what we have heard so far

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  • The problem with chromebooks is they are just a web browser. That new Mac may be low powered but I don’t see anything about limitations like that. A raspberry pi can be a fully functional, useful computer , so I don’t see why an iPhone couldn’t be

  • Voting as an American with money

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  • A little more in taxes is not worth worrying about

    • I have the empathy to want some of my tax money to help keep even the most downtrodden in living conditions.
    • I’m proud that every time someone talks about the much higher quality of life in Scandinavia, I’m able to claim that my state invests in its people enough to be right up there with them.
    • I’m happy some of my taxes go toward investing in upcoming generations, that we have among the best or the best education systems in the country
    • I really really want to invest in universal healthcare.

    My state is clearly high cost of living but I generally consider it a good investment. More importantly most of the costs are things like housing - taxes may be higher than other places but my income is much higher and taxes are a much smaller piece of that pie that say housing.

    If you’re worried about high cost of living, there are many worthwhile things to address before worrying about taxes

    As an example, my state enacted a millionaires tax, but the money is earmarked for free school lunches and transit. All very welcome investments. Granted I’m not a millionaire but it’s also really not that high

  • As Moon interest heats up, two companies unveil plans for a lunar "harvester"

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  • In one hand, the moon is smarter because you can have Interaction and any change takes only a week or two. While we can’t harvest local resources, the cost to location is relatively low. You could even completely run out of food and still have everyone survive

    We can’t afford to screw up anything to mars when there is no Interaction and it takes 18 months or more to make a change. Imagine if there’s a medical Emergency or the garden dies: 18 months is a really long time. Everything you send there is correspondingly more expensive and everything needs to much more stock in case anything goes wrong. There are many more possible issues to plan and prepare for. This will be especially expensive until we develop in-situ resource usage

    And we don’t even know if people could survive that long

    • mars has no magnetic field so both moon and mars are fully exposed to radiation, but an astronaut needs to survive like 3 years of it to goto mars
    • we know that microgravity causes long term health issues limiting long term presence in orbit. But we don’t know how much gravity is enough to prevent those issues. Going to the moon is short enough to not worry and gives us a second data point. Going to mars is long enough to be a serious problem if it’s gravity is not enough

    But in the other hand mars is smarter because more gravity and more resources. If you believe we should eventually have colonies in space, that will never happen on the moon but might on mars

  • As Moon interest heats up, two companies unveil plans for a lunar "harvester"

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  • The huge potential of helium-3 is for nuclear fusion. Yet we don’t have fusion reactors that use helium-3 and fusion is “20 years away”. We could get to mars before needing this is any quantity

  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    Looking for garage heater, US, 240v, 5000w

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Euro-Lemmings: do you see common charger rules beyond computer devices?

  • Apple @lemmy.world
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    Delayed

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
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    The 8 U.S States With the Highest Car Accident Fatality Rates in 2025

    nchstats.com /highest-car-accident-fatality-rates/
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Two Texas moms were forced to wait for urgent care after pregnancy loss. They died — The Dallas Morning News

    apple.news /Ar4R4ruBOT8KVK3Xi9bBeAw
  • Cooking @lemmy.world
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    RECIPE

    Crispy salmon in Avocado sauce

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Do dams pregame?

  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    How is it going with “Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition”?

  • aww @lemmy.world
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    Someone got some new sweatshirts

  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    Thread for Inovelli Blue?

  • AssholeDesign @lemmy.world
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    Unfortunate ad placement

  • Cooking @lemmy.world
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    QUESTION

    What to look for in an Olive Oil?

  • iPhone @lemmy.world
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    Is it worthwhile capturing personal photos as spatial?