Last I checked people were into both their tablets and tv sticks. “Jailbreak” an alexa and you end up with a shitty wireless speaker, not a lot of incentive there

None of em, dummy! Which shambling, ghoulish, inhuman predatory entity constructed entirely of our stolen wealth and labor is your favourite?

It’s not slur punk?

Municipal water supply

No matter how slick tech gets, peek behind the curtain and this is what you’ll see :)

Thank you for your service 🫡

I’ve done all the drugs and am here to say don’t. There’s no free lunch, every high comes with a low

My man 😎

Today’s empires are tomorrow’s ashes. This too shall pass. A better world is possible.

I’m sure you already know, but for those playing at home a balloon or condom with a hole poked in it as a lid negates the need to burp and the colder it is the more slowly it ferments :)

I’m your new dad, the world has changed, and some idiot with a socket set and can-do attitude (hi) is 100% saving most of those junked cars. I’ve pulled motors with hand tools in gravel lots before and will likely get stuck doing it again. This is hell and the choices a lot of people face aren’t about which new thing would be better to buy. There is absolutely no sub–$5k EV market and if you’re clever and patient you can get a “junked” ICE car going for free

Lot of words, no sub–$5k EV listings. Again, my car was $700, 1 to own it 6 to fix the engine. Not at all hypothetical. I have a pretty solid idea what a used one costs and can find ICE beaters ~$500 all day. Post em if you’ve got em

Lot of downvotes, not one link to a sub-5k EV. “Anyone with their own home” and “batteries stay useful through 15 years” demonstrate an unimaginably privileged lifestyle from here. I rarely see vehicles that new and often end up sleeping in my car, which again cost less than a grand, a rounding error in your household budget. There are no EV options anywhere near this price point. The best deal I’ve ever seen was $950 for a Leaf self-estimating 30 miles of range. Refurbished small battery $4k, big one 6. The politicization is dumb as hell, both in terms of people they’d be a perfect fit for refusing to even consider them and the tribal immune response I got pointing out the high price floor has left me behind

They make a lot of sense for a lot of people, but less the lower end you go or more remote you live with a pretty solid floor ~$5k. Again, my car was less than 1

An internal combustion engine doesn’t just fall apart though. It’s a collection of smaller, less expensive parts that wear and fail and can be replaced. A monolithic, proprietary battery that must be replaced as a unit is much closer to what you’re describing. What you’re saying about sales and service is absolutely true for the first owner and there are even bonus maintenance pros like pretty much never having to do brakes, but that’s not what I’m talking about. Same as I told the other guy, link me the cheapest EV you consider usable. It’s going to cost at least as much a battery. If it doesn’t, it needs one. There are potential answers to this like battery standards, modular designs, recycling programs but no one seems to push for them, electric=green, problem solved, back to consuming

But it is meta, and the tech requires a corruptible centralization of power like that, so they’re great for ICE watching in the exact opposite of the way you’re hoping for

Statistically you’re using statistics wrong, that’s my directly observed experience of vehicle salvage and the extreme low end of the used market. Show me a $1k EV that’s still usable. Much less than 5 or so is because it needs a battery that costs around that. I’ve stripped packs for cells and know what even a dead core goes for/how common they are too. “Expected lifespan” is unsustainable nonrepairable anticonsumer bullshit whatever tech it’s applied to, some of us are still trying to use this stuff after the lease is up and warranty’s expired.

Driving my car into a crowd and being celebrated when one of the casualties turns out to be a pedo. The “other option” in your false dichotomy could very well be the kids commiserating and getting over it, this manufactured victory justifies absolutely nothing.

Playing catch-up, we’ll get one

Seconded, genuinely better than official tools after a brief learning curve