morgan423

Well, the cool thing in the modern age is that there are far mare charging places now than there ever have been, so FAR less concern about being stranded.

I never have an issue finding chargers, even on cross country road trips. There are still a handful of extremely low population, isolated places in the US that don’t have enough chargers, but it’s not an issue today in the overwhelming majority of the country. A little bit of research (including the free EV route planning site A Better Route Planner) will tell you what’s going on with Level 3 (fastest) chargers on the routes you drive.

And also, road trips are the only place I’m ever waiting on my car to charge anyway. And it’s 20 minutes every 250 miles or so. Not a big deal, I had to use the restroom by then and grab a drink or a snack regardless.

99% of the time I’m charging my car, I’m not waiting on it. I have a cheap slow charger at work that can fill my entire battery (again, approx 250 miles of driving range) for about 6 bucks, while I’m busy in the office anyway. The once a week I need to charge, I plug it in when I get there, work my day, unplug it, and drive home. Other people with houses tend to just charge their cars on cheap night-rate power there overnight.

So I definitely encourage you to look into it! If fuel costs get to be too much, a cheaper used EV can definitely be an escape hatch for probably 90%+ of people.

Come on over to the EV side, my friend. We don’t bite. And you won’t have to sell plasma or a kidney or anything to be able to fuel your car.

There are plenty of bullet trains in the US, shootings happen on them… like, all the time.

Oh, wait. You meant… nevermind.

The move isn’t to reject the fandom.

The move is to build the instance with explicit values — pro-trans, pro-queer, progressive moderation, zero tolerance for bigotry.

This feels like building a forum to discuss Mein Kamph, and then saying it’s going to moderated with a focus on inclusion, human rights, and diversity.

With the whole HP thing, there are IMO far too many people fully separating the art and the artist. I just can’t morally do that.

Increasingly, portion sizes are starting to come down a bit. The one-two punch of shrinkflation causing the restaurants to serve less, and the spread of GLP-1 drugs starting to help people eat less, are slowly whittling away the issue over time.

The only life hack that I use on a regular basis is covering toilet flush sensors with TP. It works pretty reliably to keep them from flushing until you’re actually ready to leave.

Figured that out earlier in life when a certain office toilet would wait until I was exactly 50% done peeing, so that I couldn’t stop or dodge, and then it would power flush and send up a nice germ-ridden uriney mist. Blocking the sensor until I was done totally fixed it.

Pretty much any other life hack that looked interesting to me has been effectively pointless and did not see continued use. I don’t think I’ve ever tried one that was detrimental though… just useless.

I’m thinking about finishing out my career with that kind of transition.

I’ve always done various office work and have been good at it, but I know I’m on borrowed time.

At some point in the next 1-3 years, they’ll automate 90%+ of what I’m doing, and I’ll be out the door. And being late 40s, with the job market being what it is, and admittedly me not skilling up much most of the last decade or so… I have I just don’t have what’s needed to get back to work in favorable conditions once that inevitable canning happens.

Fortunately, I have a friend of the family who’s a long time HVAC guy, and the company he works for has been short handed for quite a while. I figure if I start training up in the very near future, I’ll be able to transition over without too many issues, and If I’m careful, I won’t have to beat myself up too much in the decade or so before I retire.

I think the powers that be have an ultimate goal of combining AI and robotics to automate the trades too, but they are much further away on that… it should be a safe space for long enough.

Seriously, this is the definition of a “work there for 15 minutes until you find literally anything else” bridge job.