> an end product that isn't even reliable let alone having a long life
What's unreliable on a modern EV? And what do you mean by "long life", because you now have 10-15 year old EVs that are fine.
Obviously some cars aged poorly, like some Tesla which had poor build quality (not an EV problem, but a company problem) or cars like the Nissan Leaf that didn't have battery cooling for years, but what's exactly unreliable on a modern Polestar or a Hyundai?
If you're referring to what happen to companies like Hertz, then according to them the problem wasn't reliability.
The cars had more accidents, probably because some were not used to the speed or would get an EV just to test the speed. Why buy Tesla in that case then, when their repairs are known to be super expensive and slow? Then you had people who are not used to EVs and charging trying to use EVs and the companies themselves didn't build the charging infrastructure so customers left with a full battery, but that has nothing to do with reliability. Vehicle depreciation? Again, a Tesla problem because they sold them the cars at a high price before dropping prices (the covid years were very weird).
So again, what makes EVs unreliable? It's a simple question.
I think a problem with EVs is that we don't have a depreciation model for the batteries in the same way that we do for the car itself (based on mileage).
In an ideal world you could instantly get your battery replaced with a full one at a recharging station and settle the difference in depreciation.
The EV ownership model only works right now if you charge it yourself and use it to drive around your own town
Wrong, wrong, and wrong. I rented EVs multiple times. You don't worry about charging as often as 12 out of 48 hours. If there happens to be a convenient L2 charger you plug in. Otherwise you visit a fast charger.
Superchargers have excellent availability and uptime.
EVs depreciate quickly entirely because of technology advances. In the span of a few years we have seen 800V architectures, LFP batteries becoming commonplace. And semi-solid-state batteries are on the horizon.
Sure that's fine. It looked like we were getting a downturn of some sort this year no matter what the government did anyway just based off the debt term structure.
Are you kidding? This is the type of thing Tr*mp has always done. He occupied the office before, remember? I swear no one remembers the disaster that was 2016-2020. I don't know how anyone could forget. Historians ranked him the 3rd worst presidential term ever.
The mental gymnastic of a MAGA supporter. Shocked by the guy who wouldn't accept that he was wrong about the weather and drew a new path with a sharpie. These guys don't like the weather for Chrissake and blame the "other side"!
> downturn of some sort this year no matter what the government did anyway just based off the debt term structure
But I guess not far from the mental gymnastic of "this is not happening due to flip flopping on tariffs".
I am sure as things get worse many people will use this same excuse of "But I didn't know he was going to do this" excuse to distance themselves for the mess which is coming.
> It looked like we were getting a downturn of some sort this year no matter what the government did anyway just based off the debt term structure.
Who was predicting a downturn in 2025? What predictions of a downturn were being published in December 2024?
The fact of the matter is is that the numbers at the 2024 were looking great:
> Trump hammered the administration for creating an “economic catastrophe,” but some of his favorite gauges for assessing economic performance have been humming.
So you voted for tariffs by voting for Trump, and by voting for tariffs you voted for economic instability. There was nothing in the pre-Trump policies and economic thinking that would have caused an economic downturn.
Further, you voted for the gutting and privatization government functions:
> Trump said: "Christians, get out and vote, just this time. "You won't have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what, it will be fixed, it will be fine, you won't have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians."
He's talking to people who don't normally pay attention to politics, but are now because of the economic problems they're facing. He's saying once he fixes those problems, they can go back to not paying attention to politics.
> He's talking to people who don't normally pay attention to politics ... He's saying once he fixes those problems, they can go back to not paying attention to politics.
From 2015:
> Based on my research, Christians are much more likely to vote than non-Christians.
They worry about, and elect political representatives that try to act on, schoolchildren that identify as cats and have litter boxes in classrooms for them.
Rather lacking in any sense whatsoever, just repeating random lies like truth.
On the other side of the political spectrum, they might also get up in arms because federal officials in remote areas use horses to travel in rough terrain, off road.
It's not limited to one side,though I'd say quite tilted.
Since they've been told climate change is a hoax, republican voters in the US have needed an explanation for the dramatic increase in the frequency/severity of severe weather events. They have flocked to the conspiracy theory that Democrats are using geo engineering to manipulate the weather for political ends and to make climate change "real".
Lest you dismiss this as the folly of the very online, states are passing laws against weather manipulation in response.
If many around me warn me about the Nigerian prince scam and I fall for it, then I think I deserve some of the pain. Sure, I'm still a victim, but personally I'd be questioning my intelligence and would try to see where I had failed so it doesn't happen again.
It’s tough when everyone around you thinks you’re missing out. I found using MailsAI helped me focus on my own path without getting distracted by others. Made things a lot clearer for me.
It's funny that you ask that because around 10 years ago, there was this investment stuff going around in my community. No one warned me about the dangers and those who tried to convince me to join only said good things about it, but I looked at it and it looked weird. It was a pyramid scheme. So I didn't join, didn't lose any money or lose any friendships over it.
If I come here and tell you that I'm going to reduce expenses and debt while reducing taxes and also investing massive amounts of money to improve the military, healthcare, etc, something should go off in your head because it doesn't add up.
Voting for someone promising unrealistic things is no different from going into a dark alley in what you know is a rough neighborhood. A victim is still a victim, but grown ups must own up to their actions... and there's no other way of saying this: what you did was fucking dumb. It's even dumber if you do the same dumb thing twice.
Sure, kudos to you. Half the people are dumber than the other half, and thats accross the party lines. I still sympathize with all those people, even if they got outsmarted.
I can tell you that technically Hugo has to be somewhere you control to generate a website, but I don't see the point in that discussion.
The list I can see on the site seems to be of tools you can self host or can help you create something that you can self host. That's it. It doesn't make sense to blame a site because a comment on HN didn't correctly describe the content of the website... like, the problem is the comment, not the site.
Rules? well .. we don't even have a real government now. The country is in revolution. Who writes the Rule is whoever who have more firepower or whoever who is closer to Junta. None of the rules works, everything can be bribed to junta.
None of the thing that rational government does works here anymore.
Whoever come inspect the buildings can be bribed with a few hundreds dollars.
Human intellectual/cognitive capabilities are unprecedented, though.
I'm not sure if we'll live to see it, but I'd be pretty surprised if some fine day humanity won't evolve enough to abandon the primate bodies and decouple humanity from its biology. That is, I believe we'll eventually give birth to thinking machines, and hopefully they'll keep the humanity going even if other branches would possibly fail to the environmental changes.
Unless, of course, we won't make ourselves extinct first.
Thanks for letting me know. I always confuse the two and ended up with the "wrong one" I guess.... though they haven't given me any trouble or annoyances so far (they just open a page where I can volunteer to make a payment every now and then, but it's easy enough to close the tab and ignore it).
