Fair…

PS: Wait… that’s a hobby and they don’t get paid for lying? That’s even worse than I thought.

That all those products are produced by the same company is the biggest joke.

And there is even more: the company also produced a European “3 Musketiers” bar (yes, written like this) that again was something different and called Marathon on the US (both discontinued).

It’s not just the packaging but the bar itself that is completely different.

The US Milky Way would be the equivalent to your Mars bar and the 3 Musketeers is very close to what you know as Milky Way.

If you need to order Amazon three times to hold a proper vote on unionizing the actual word is not “ordering” but “asking nicely”…

Not that I […] want to minimize the experience.

But isn’t that something that happens at pretty much all companies

Pick one…

Sure… let’s keep hallucinating how a Trump win is some isolated result and how other countries will cope with it.

They won’t. They will follow the same route.

The exact same propaganda that fried US citizen’s brains is working everywhere and it’s completely irrelevant if the current German government is united for another year or disbands in 5 minutes. The next election will see the same kind of right-wing lying populist morons, just in a slightly different flavor, win in Germany (it’s no coincidence they spend the last years in communication with MAGA idiots for pointers how to campaign).

Yeah… encouraging people to vote side by side with the morons pretending the moon landing didn’t happen.

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It’s been years since I took a look at this but I vaguely remember a handy kioskrc config file under xfce4…

found it…

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/597

That sounds like the non-techies would be able to fix it themselves on Windows without you being around, which in my experince isn’t the case.

It might be different for you with a lot of tech-affine people in your family. But for those of us being forced to be the tech support anyway, it can really make a difference if you have to fix a Linux issue once in a while or have to reinstall Windows for the 5th time this year…

I do know it’s not completely literal

Are you trying to kink shame?

This is propaganda: […]

FTFY

They don’t hate them. They just want to cut all support for citizens to have more money available to finance more tax cuts for rich people.

But to do this you need to somehow convince the masses that money spend on them is a bad thing. For decades trickle-down fairy tales of how spending money on the already rich ones will help the economy and then be beneficial for all worked. But not anymore. So the next phase in desinforming gullible voters is much more dystopian and involves straight out brain-washing to decouple them from reality and make them believe that people actually helping them are evil and need to be fought.

Batteries losing more than 20-25% of their capacity in 150.000km had a defect in production already. You can find similiar numbers in any OEM’s warranty. So a non-defective battery will provide at least 80% of its capacity at 150.000km. The average car manages about 250.000km over their life-time of about 15 years (reference numbers from the US, so the most pessimistic view as barely anyone else in the world is matching those distances).

You are not completely wrong. Used batteries will be a problem… somewhere far down the road because electric vehicles are expected to easily manage 800.000km or more (less moving/wear parts).

But we are not there yet. The whole EV market isn’t old enough to have produced these long-lived vehicles and we are back at my original point. Today it’s not about battery degradation but about EVs not getting old fast enough to already have established a robust used market. In fact the first big batch of EVs on the used market is often not expected for another 2 years (see here for example, and that’s again rather new vehicles because of a loophole for leased cars in the EU).

In short: There isn’t a huge used EV market yet and (more importantly) the demand is stifled by battery degradation fairy tales not relevant (EVs old enough for this basically don’t exist yet) and political mismanagement subsidising new EVs.

With nuclear, you’ve got a raging anti-nuclear crowd.

No. With nuclear you have very real unmitigatable risks and very real insanely high costs. Which also don’t solve anything as nuclear production isn’t fitting demand fluctuations either, so you still need mass storage (or waste overproduction 90% of the time, combined with already insane costs).

The raging crowd is the pro-nuclear cult on social media that ignores reality and sputters sci-fi fairy tales all day long in the name of their savior.

It’s obvious for everyone with basic logic skills.

But that doesn’t mean we can’t try and twist the fact for anti-EV propaganda. Because it’s really, really, really important we keep burning oil… if you are someone selling oil and have the money to spread bullshit for personal gains that is.

What do you think the average 10 year old car has done to that point? Battery degradation is hugely overrated and stories are based on tech already left behind.

The actual problem for the used car market is the opposite: EVs live much longer than traditional cars and thus don’t lose their worth that rapidly, while on the other hand new cars still see a fast development cycle while also getting cheaper.

So no, it’s not a problem of used EVs per se and that their expensive batteries are allegedly dying. It’s the fact that a new EV just a couple of years later is ahead 1-2 generations and also cheaper.