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invertedspear

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  • California will require EV charging for all new residential units in 2026

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  • The cost of the outlets isn’t bad, but the whole system has to be wired and able to support those outlets all being in use. The average apartment is probably only wired for about 50-100 amps per unit, so this would mean a 50-100% increase in the capacity for the building or a load sharing system that can split the load in a way that’s compatible with everyone’s EVSE. I don’t know what that kind of system would cost. But it’s going to be more than just $200-500 per space. This is not to disparage the requirement. I think this is absolutely the right move if you are going to ban new gas cars in your state in a few years. I hope we see these kind of requirements everywhere in the next 5 years. Lack of charging prevents most non home owners from being able to consider EVs.

  • [image] Sometimes it feels like folks in US would build anything but efficient transit 🤦

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  • Overall low population density likely means even with high usage, you’d still be serving fewer people per mile of track than pretty much anywhere in Europe. A mile of HSR has to be more exact and defect free than a mile of road, and costs a hell of a lot more in labor and materials. Then there’s the cost of the land to build it on, because for some reason the existing right of way around interstate highways isn’t available.

    I don’t think the U.S. is as perfect of a place for it as you think it is, but god damn I wish we’d at least try.

  • Car brain energy.

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  • Uber does a pretty good job of catching a driver off guard by not making the destination clear in all cases. But the pickup and drop off is the same location. So a driver can easily just mark the trip complete and kick the passengers out of their car and collect their minimum fare.

  • Car brain energy.

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  • Dammit, stupid autocorrect.

  • Car brain energy.

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  • That would piss under uber drivers off pretty good.

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  • If you’re storing the password in the form the user entered it, you’re doing it wrong already.

  • Women and LGBTQ+ people take up guns after Trump’s win: ‘We need to protect ourselves’

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  • Yes. That is misandry which is not a word we use often. No innocent people should be shot. But all people have a right to protect themselves.

  • Supervolcano shows signs of waking up, which is not a good thing - Earth.com

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  • Interesting read, but fuck that site for making the article unreadable for periodic moments to push ads. Probably a mobile specific thing, but cropping the edges off your article as an ad presentation is next level annoyance.

  • How are Americans supposed to survive the next 30 years?

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  • Your questions are stating false comparisons. The only alternative to buying a house you listed is renting an equivalent house. But there are several other alternatives. To buy a house you must qualify on you and your spouse's/ Co buyers proven income. So even if you intend to have a roommate, you cannot included the rent they’ll pay in your income. But it’s almost trivial for two couples (4 incomes) to rent a house together. There are also apartments, or trailer parks, or living with parents.

    But let’s get back to equivalent homes.

    A young couple makes 80k/yr and wants to buy a 250k house. They can’t afford much of a down payment and finance 225k. They’re paying roughly 2500/mo in a mortgage tax and insurance. That’s roughly half their take home income.

    Older couple makes 160k/yr and just sold their previous home walking away with about 100k in equity. They also add 25k more for the down payment and finance 125k. Now their mortgage is 1200/ mo and they make more money so that represents a far lower percentage of their take home income as well. Even if they still only made 80k the fact they were already in a home with equity still leaves them with far more spending money each month.

    The young couple is going to be in an apartment, or a trailer, they’re never getting into that home, even as a rental, unless the owners bought it during a low market and have a low mortgage and are not trying to get “today’s market rates” for it.

  • Here we are

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  • This is correct, and this part of the system works fine. What should have happened though is a population break point where a state has to break up if they exceed a certain population. CA should be at least 3 states. New York needs a split as well, probably a few others. There is no way a state can serve its population well when the population is measured in the tens of millions.

  • IPhones' default photo format is HEIC, something that Windows doesn't open by default.

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  • It’s a 32 year old format that makes pictures worse in order to save space. A lot changes in the tech works in 30 years. While there may be nothing inherently wrong with it, there’s far better image encoding algorithms these days that can store images in less space without reducing the quality as much.

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  • Prime video survives because it’s bundled in with free shipping and several other included services. I couldn’t imagine paying for prime video in its current form if I had to pay extra for it.

  • Well, Democrats succeeded in expanding the swing state map alright...Mission Accomplished?

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  • 1996 and 2020 are the only times AZ swung blue in presidential elections, and even those were pretty slim. There were a couple that were just barely red: 1992 and 2016 were within 3%. But yeah, everything else within most of our lifetimes AZ was decisively GOP

  • I spent hours trying to persuade US voters to choose Harris not Trump. I know why she lost | Oliver Hall

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  • The economy concern is straight up the issue, but the twist is that it has to be the economy as seen by people who don’t understand or don’t care about macro economics. GDP, inflation suppression, and all the other measures Biden did to help the economy wasn’t helping families buy groceries. And you can forget that trip to Disneyland. Buying power was still fucked. Now the carryover of those measures combined with the long-term bad but short term positive jolts of the next trump administration is going to increase buying power for just long enough for Donnie boy to take credit.

    If you find yourself with extra money in the next 4 years, remember it’s borrowed against your future. Better to save it, or heavily reduce your debts than to get that new car it take that family trip.

  • Devastated Harris voters conclude America just hates women as Trump wins again

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  • Misogyny likely played a small factor. AZ for example has trump up by a couple percent, but also Kari Lake down a couple percent. And her whole platform was “whatever helps trump”. The numbers aren’t huge, but it’s likely at least part of that gap.

  • Aptera completes low-speed drive in its first production-intent solar electric vehicle

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  • I’ve watched plenty of their videos. Despite how you took my message, I’m actually very excited and hope they make it to full production. But if you think that thing is going to be safe enough when some a-hole in a Tahoe t-bones you, you’re going to be very disappointed. The problem isn’t the Aptera, it’s the ridiculous sized SUVs already on the road.

  • Aptera completes low-speed drive in its first production-intent solar electric vehicle

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  • They are skirting the “street legal” and safety stuff by making an electric motorcycle instead of a car. Months (years?) ago I read something about how they are planning to tackle helmet laws in court because of this. Accident safety features are heavy, this thing is going to be a death trap on US roads in order to be as light as possible.

    Overall I think that’s the right move, but I wouldn’t get in rush hour traffic in this thing.

  • The 2025 Ford Mustang Mach-E Gets Cheaper And Better Than Ever

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  • Yes. Stretched a little longer and taller, and obviously combined with an Edge, but it does hit some of the styling points.

  • The 2025 Ford Mustang Mach-E Gets Cheaper And Better Than Ever

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  • Interesting thing about brands, the owner of the brand gets to decide what they do with it.

    The Mustang-ness of the MachE is forced, it definitely pulls some styling from the sports car brand, but it’s not obvious. But the Mustang is the closest ICE vehicle to the MachE performance wise. Ford is trying to show that EVs are sportier than people think. Drive a MachE, a Mustang, and an Edge (the other car the MachE takes styling from) and you’ll know why it’s got ponies on the badges instead of ovals.