TheRealKuni

We could also just have more wars so young men get killed off in swathes every decade or so.

And then there’s people who got hooked on methamphetamines because they were a cheap but effective way to stay up all night and study for an exam when they were a teenager

*amphetamines.

I don’t think Desoxyn, the prescription version of methamphetamine, is particularly popular.

But Adderall is just straight up amphetamine.

(Not to be the umm ackchyually guy.)

For what it’s worth, Adderall is unlikely to lead to addiction when used as prescribed by people who actually need it. So don’t worry if you’re an ADHD patient who takes it.

If you don’t allow people to have second chances, then recidivism rates skyrocket. Being tough on crime creates more crime (and more prisoners).

Look at the Scandinavian prison model. Reform is what ought to be the focus.

But in the US, recidivism is kind of the goal. After all, we need to keep the for profit prisons full.

Spotify. I can already sing, and do so semi-professionally. I can kinda play two instruments and would be down to become better at them through practice if I already know how to play every song.

Plugin Hybrids are a bit different, but are still not electric, and shouldn’t enjoy the tax benefits of being electric, and shouldn’t be included in stats for electric, because they are not.

I agree they shouldn’t be lumped in with EVs for statistical purposes, but they also shouldn’t be treated the same as ICEs or hybrids. There should still be some measure of the incentives (and penalties) associated with EVs.

We got a tax break when we bought our PHEV, but a lower one than a full EV would get. We also pay more each year for our vehicle registration for road maintenance (since we pay less in gas tax), but less than a full EV would. This all seems fair to me since we can get anywhere from 25-40 miles of pure EV usage on a full charge (depending on how hard we’re driving and how cold it is outside). We’re averaging around 120mpg over the life of the vehicle, far better than a non-plug-in hybrid could hope to achieve.

This is not my experience with the app. When the balance on my card runs out, they tell me, “it says you still owe x” and then I can pay that with a credit card.

Edit: I’m specifically talking about using the app to pay at the counter though, not to order ahead.

If we’re including all humans, the mean is likely below 1, the median is possibly 1 and possibly 0, and the mode is probably 0.

If we’re limiting to the male sex, then the mode and median are probably 2, and the mean somewhere between 1 and 2.

This is the absolute ONLY case where it’s acceptable to call a pizza a pie.

Never had deep dish, I take it?

Keep fighting the good fight. Syntax is important.

Nick Cordero was a Broadway performer and was in extremely good physical shape. Healthy, young, and fit. COVID still killed him. Being in good physical condition doesn’t inherently mean safety.

It’s remarkable to me how quickly we forgot the terror of the early days of COVID-19, before we had the vaccine and before we really knew what we were dealing with.

Waterloo (a flavored sparkling water like LaCroix) has a Cherry Limeade flavor that is vaguely reminiscent of Game Fuel, IMO. Obviously different since there’s no sweetener in Waterloo, but similar.

This is how I feel about the EV range…on my PHEV. We get 40 miles max (30 in the winter) in full EV mode, and so we stress about whether we can get through our daily trips on the battery. (Of course, when our relatively small battery runs out we just use gas.)

But if we had the range that modern full EVs have I cannot imagine having range anxiety on an average day.

Closer to four!

If I’m being honest I didn’t watch most of it. I listened while I did other stuff.

I dunno, I really like the smart features of my car.

That said I also don’t mind most of the smart features of my TV, so perhaps I’m just a normie.

I dunno, I liked seeing HBomberGuy absolutely ruin James Somerton over plagiarism.

What phone are you using? My first 5G phone didn’t support midband 5G, and yeah, my experience was similar. Lowband 5G was maybe slightly faster than LTE, but wasn’t worth the lower battery life, higher heat, and spottier performance that was associated with early 5G radios.

Now I’ve got a phone with midband 5G support and midband 5G kicks the shit out of LTE.

Not that it’s any better in terms of ethics or artist pay, but YouTube Music has relatively decent auto playlist generation with settings for discovery. Plus you get ad-free YouTube without having to use piped or vanced or whatever people are using these days.

If you have that little charging puck connected to a cable thing. Yes. Yes you are plugging in your phone to charge.

Unless wherever you put your phone on at night is charging it without thought, wireless charging is not a thing.

Except I’m literally not “plugging in” the phone. I’m placing the phone onto a vertical magnetic surface that uses induction to provide electricity to the phone without wires connecting the charger to the device. That’s wireless.

And, for what it’s worth, because of the joy of magnetic alignment it largely is “without thought.” Though not the way you mean.

Just because your definition of “wireless” somehow seems to mean “charge anywhere on any surface” doesn’t mean wireless charging isn’t a thing. It just means you define it differently.

wireless charging is not a thing until they make every table auto charging my phone

Shit, I must be plugging my phone in at night and not realizing it then.

Like hair dye running down an old man’s temple.