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  • Why would it be more of a luxury? Fuel and maintenance should be cheaper, and with proper investments the cars should be cheaper as well. A lot of the battery research right now is showing batteries that could last say 1,000,000 miles. If you get decent standards for such, you could have parents getting a new car and moving their old battery into a cheap EV for their teenager. If it had 200,000 miles on it, they can keep moving it to their next vehicle, and next vehicle if they keep wanting to get new features. The average American drives 14,000 miles a year. In theory they can pass that battery down to their teenager as well, but at that point it’s probably better to just recycle it or use it as a backup generator for the home.

    Making repairable, recyclable, reusable batteries takes one of the largest costs down by a long shot.

    Notre; Obviously batteries don’t last miles, but for sake of this discussion it made sense to put it this way




  • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.worldOPtoTechnology@lemmy.worldBest Phone I've Ever Had
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    I had my LG Rumor2 at that time, but that was just me. It fell out of my pocket going 45mph on a highway, survived… I opened a cooler at Sam’s club and the moisture made the screen no longer flip and die. It was sad, but I enjoyed every phone I’ve had… Each has their pink sun glasses. But I must say… Never have I sat a flagship on the shelf and just used a phone with a cracked screen that is only 1/5 the price till now. I spent to much time focused on what features were, and the last year I have learned what use is like. I see 0 reason to use the pixel 9 pro, when it maybe runs laps supposedly around this. I had to change settings to make my spouse (Samsung 24 user) even able to think that phone was usable. (She doesn’t want gestures, there are no dock buttons by default).

    Force quitting an app is like figuring out thermodynamics… As someone who studied thermodynamics. Rediulous








  • It would be better if the U.S. just waits a minute sees shat happens, and then congress votes to declare war and the executive branch would have to act based upon their vote or would be directly disobeying the legislature again. Congress declares war. Not the executive branch. And in the end we are the only country to enact article 5 in history, when 9/11 happened and NATO countries answered the call even though many probably did not wish too.

    The thing here would be that unless Russis initiates the attack, it wouldn’t trigger article 5 and congress could just ignore it.

    And a lot of people would like to ignore it even with the long term pitfalls, because all they care about is themselves and right this very second








  • Yeah, I live more in the realm of having emptied my 401k twice after leaving different jobs because the only other option was homelessness. Have I made bad decisions in life, never intentionally… but owning a home is being taken off the possibilities for me. At 36 it’ll be years before I ever have 1000s in the bank, let alone the 20% of 400,000 or whatever a small house will cost in future. Shit they turned me down to get a car loan and buy a used Kia which left me with a broken down vehicle and losing my job because I couldn’t transit 104 miles a day to the decent paying job I landed. So now I’m getting paid 1/3 to half of it on a job I found I can work from home. I’ll make rent and food, but retirement is likely out of the picture.