Not enough time passed yet, obviously.

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Who does this! :'(

Who does… what? What am I missing here? Somebody took some butter… weren’t they allowed to? Was it yours and they used some without asking? I’m really lost.

Why would you offer a nuanced point of view if people just want to shit on the system?

Okay, so that maybe was a bit imprecise… I had heard that argument before, but essentially only from people who weren’t into the topic really. I was just curious if there was a serious source for that. Like, more serious than uncle Günther who flies a national flag in his garden.

But the guardian article mentions the points but comes to exactly the expected conclusion:

The data we have leaves little doubt that resource extraction will be significantly lower for electric cars compared with their petrol or diesel equivalents as recycling increases.

Just like replacing all cars.

I keep hearing this and the opposite

I never heard the opposite. Sources?

EV adoption can’t happen in a second. If more EVs are sold, countries can just expand grids and charging networks with it.

China tomorrow: “Mongolia is part of China”

Who doesn’t like overly specific statements?

It’s a distributed database, of course.

That’s… a weird sentence? That “until” at the beginning doesn’t really work, does it?

My son (9) recently started reading “worst week ever” which is said to be similar. It relies a lot on poop jokes, so there’s that, but hey, he’s literally rolling on the floor laughing. What I’ve read so far also seemed like the story was kind of fine. Main character runs from one embarrassing situation into the next, but so far nobody in the story, especially not the main character, seems to be a genuinely bad person, which I like a lot.

Considering that the French wanted a plane that could deliver nukes from an aircraft carrier and the Germans wanted a fast fighter jet, just making them two separate planes that merely rely on the same interfaces where appropriate might not be such a bad idea.

The trouble is at least in my country the infrastructure is just not there

When I read that I just assumed you’d live in some developing country or an extremely sparsely populated one like Canada.

But… You live in the UK?

Sorry, but can’t relate. Had that feeling for the first few trips until the first one where we drove so much more efficiently that we deliberately did not take the first planned stop. I rode shotgun, so I then looked for alternative spots to charge, just to see that there are so many in my country that having planned those routes in the first place literally doesn’t make sense.

Since then we just drive. Once we get below 50 km remaining range, we check some map app for the next charger. Like we did with gas stations.

Also, coming from practicality… it’s just so nice not to have to use gas stations. Like, you usually just always start whatever you do with a full battery because you just charge it overnight. No gas stops on my commute is quite practical.

Literally every single person that I talked to that seriously tried an EV (like, as a daily driver for some time, not just the rental you had for a day) said they were never going back to combustion engines.

Aw man… I consider Origins one of the best platformers ever. Legends didn’t tick quite as much with me, but still well enough for me to just read the headline and get excited.

And then I watched it and… what? They ditched the lovely 2d style? The unique look is now completely gone?

Hard pass.

You still explaining your analogy implies that you still think it’s applicable though. My point is that it isn’t.

So, I had an snes, which I loved, but my taste in games wasn’t great and my parents objected to violence, which means my collection is a bit weird.

One game I loved which wasn’t universally acknowledged to be great, was Clayfighter. It was essentially a Street Fighter clone, but the assets were all modelled in clay and animated using stop motion technique.

I think it got a lot of flak for being not well balanced and a little slow, so it kind of just didn’t stand out beyond the obvious classics of that genre, but man, I loved it. I couldn’t get Street Fighter because of my parents, but they were fine with clayfighter’s look and more humorous approach. At the same time, it still was a good beat em up, so I spent hours with it. Also, it kind of gave me an edge as SF2 was just the game everybody had, so at least I had a fun game to spend an hour with that people hadn’t played to death already.

The samples will remain burned into my memories forever. “The Blob Wins!!” Good times.