It's not algorithmically-based ragebait. And while it clearly lost the "social media war" to Reddit, there's something nostalgic and nice about /.

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150k+ for a car is ... uh ,different than what most people spend.

My most recent car purchase was $5k. In fact, most of my car purchases have been around that. And $5k got me a Nissan Leaf with a new battery that needed ~$2k of repairs.

So for $7k I got myself a nice, solid electric car with a brand new warranty replaced battery. It drives great, it has 150 miles range, and it's just a fantastic around-town car. My family has a second gas car when we want to go far.

So there are affordable EV's out there for people who want them. There are also extremely expensive EV's out there for people who want a premium car. It's good to see them FINALLY start to trickle down to people who have a minimal budget for a car.

I know a couple veternarians. And veternary medicine is 10x cheaper than human care. There's a lot of reasons (humans need a room, animals need a cage), animals are less prone to infection than humans, etc. etc.

But a big one is the liability. If the doctor screws up and kills your animal--or if the doctor doesn't screw up but a lawyer can convince a jury that (s)he did, the patient wins. They can get their cost of care & cost of replacing the animal as an award. In other words--they can get a refund for what they paid the doctor for that visit + the cost of the animal. But most animals aren't worth more than $x,xxx. No reasonable lawyer is going to take that on--they'll tell you go to small claims court.

Unless it's a winning racehorse, it's not worth a case. And that means that lawsuits against veternarians are *very* rare. So they're not doing all this stuff to avoid malpractice suits AND their malpractice insurance costs a fraction of a human doctor.

It's not the only reason, but it's a big component. My son got severely dehydrated and needed IV saline (salt water) for 3 days in the hospital. The bill was $40k (and this was 10 years ago--it's more now). A comparable vet bill for similar care would be ~$700.

While I actually agree with a lot of points you made, arguing that people who advocate for abortion bans are because people have "no problem with children dying" is somewhere between extremely misleading and outright lying.

This is very interesting, especially the info on agreeableness. Do you have any reference articles that talk about this?

And if I were interviewing you, you'd pass that section of my programming test. It's a great answer. But then I would want to make sure to can compose that with another data structure to solve a problem, so I'd ask that.

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Air crash deaths... Since I don't have a Twitter account on my phone, I wasn't able to read beyond his first post. Maybe he explains it in a later post, but I don't understand how he can draw any conclusions based on airplane deaths, unless he's talking about private pilots. Major commercial airlines in the United States have had one? passenger death in the last 20 years. A few additional maintenance workers or bystanders have died, and if you include charter airlines, the number rises to about 100. That's a really low number to come up with a statistically significant sample, especially given a majority of the deaths come from just 3-4 fatal events. Furthermore, many of the accidents have nothing to do with the pilots at all-- theyre maintenance issues. If we're talking about foreign airlines, that introduces many additional issues. Foreign airlines, especially in third world countries, often do not maintain their aircraft or train their pilots to the same standards, and foreign airlines often higher, many less white pilots as a percentage. But in this case, it has nothing to do with the socioeconomic backgrounds of the pilots and has everything to do with the circumstances of the airlines. In any case, I suspect analyzing airline fatalities as a function of race to be roughly as useful as a dice roll. Certainly, it has very little mapping to hiring Americans from diverse backgrounds into organizations. If he's talking about private pilots, maybe there's something there, but again, it would be really hard to draw conclusions. A much simpler thing to look at is this. If you agree that there are still a significant number of racist people in the United States, or you agree that people of darker skin tones are more likely to be impoverished as a percentage of their income, then you must admit that for jobs that require significant education, people of those backgrounds are less likely to have that education. If you also assume that there are some talents, skills, or discipline that allow people to exceed in those jobs ( such as self-control, intelligence, etc), then that means that there are likely a large number of "diamonds in the rough" who simply haven't gotten a chance to shine. Recruiting into that talent pool, which has much lower competition from your competitors, is a competitive advantage compared to recruiting from a highly competed for, educated talent pool-- provided you are willing to pay the up front training costs associated with a less educated pool of recruits. It's not political. It's not rocket science. It's smart business.

Pretty well for 462, I'd say...

I had an identical experience.

Glad you haven't gotten sick. Maybe you have natural immunity, or maybe you've just somehow not gotten it. My friend didn't get covid for 3 years despite being exposed many many times. Then got it later. Was mild.

I got it and it was pretty mild. Sick for a week, back hurt pretty bad for 3 days

My other friend died at 35 from it.

Everyone's experience is different.

There are certainly many like this, but there is a second category in the middle. These are people like my Dad who usually drive a truck solo with an empty bed, but at least once or twice a month are hauling, carrying large items, and using it like a work truck. If you saw his truck in a parking lot on any given day, you'd see an empty truck, but it's not like he's going to go rent a u-haul twice a month.

Yes, in America, leather seats are considered the premium product. I think it's mostly culture and not practical benefits, but it is easier to clean leather (less likely to absorb sweat and stain). Other than that, I agree with your downsides... But if you buy a high end car or SUV in America, cloth is often not even an option.

Glad you're happy with the bolt. It's an awesome low price ev! If you have a place to charge at home and a second ICE, an EV is an excellent commuter car. We have a 2011 Leaf (roughly 60 mile range--30 each way), and while the range is annoying, it still does 90% of our driving. We almost never use the ICE except when we both need a car or we're going on a long road trip. I agree with you, though. I don't recommend EVs for people with only one car and they still have major limitations. The EPA ranges also seem to be quite inflated, especially if you're like everyone around here that drives 70-80 mph on the highways.