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Comment Re:Must not be in the USA (Score 1) 143

Very much not in the USA confirmed.

Okay, 50% of the battery is sort of true - though 60-70% can be standard. Charging doesn't typically slow because you've charged the battery 50% of it's capacity, it is because charging slows at around 80% total charge, depending on exact chemistry. IE it slows not after charging 50% in a single session, but upon reaching ~80% full.

10% to 80% is going to take longer than from 10% to 50%, but it will still be fast. It's just that that extra 30% isn't going to allow skipping the next charging station, so why bother?

As such, only needing 50% more charging sessions, is still possible. By math it'd actually be closer to 30%.

Now, if you look at an unladed truck with 500 miles range vs a 300 mile EV, that's where you start needing to stop a lot more often, but again, remember I'm advocating trucks be hybrids and cars going EV first.

Comment Re: Is Windows 11 the cause of this? (Score 2) 42

Linux works fine with 4GB but apps don't. I know because my laptop came with 4GB and it was borderline unusable of I actually did anything with it. 8GB made it acceptable.

Meanwhile my desktop has 64GB of DDR4 and I'm real glad I bought it when I did. Most people don't need that much, but I do VMs sometimes and it's important. OTOH gaming showed significant improvements going from 16 to 32.

Comment Re:Measurable levels vs. toxic levels (Score 1) 57

Toxicity is always a function of concentration. Always. Even water is toxic if ingested at high enough levels.

This (the water part) is one of those things that sounds clever at first and then obviously isn't when you think about it some more.

Sealed plastic containers are highly effective at controlling bacterial growth, for example.

We could and do use other kinds of containers with a plastic seal which is not in contact with the contents during storage.

Flossing your teeth with plastic (nylon) is universally recommended by dentists for dental health. [...] Many of these health-*positive* uses would be very difficult to reproduce with other materials.

Nylon is notable in large part because of its stability. This means it leaches less than do some other plastics. Not all plastics are created equal, and we shouldn't pretend they aren't. Nylon is one kind of thing, and Vinyls are another kind, for example.

Comment Re:At this point I’m fine with all this (Score 2) 99

If society wants to return to the âoestrong executiveâ model, fine, whatever. Thatâ(TM)s what we had before Nixon. Returning to it wonâ(TM)t demolish our democracy.

You can't demolish what doesn't exist, but you can play games to fool rubes into thinking it does so that you can make good use of their idiocy.

If the supreme court allows Trump a bunch of extra powers and immediately yanks them back when the next liberal president shows up, I have a big problem with that.

You should have big problems with it in the first place. Allowing Dear Leader to do whatever he wants is bad no matter what party he belongs to.

Comment Re:Seems reasonable (Score 1) 63

I've had consoles since I used a Coleco Telstar to burn bars into the phosphor on a TV in the late 70s.

That was my first console as well, except I got it in the 80s. I had the really big white contoured one.

Gaming consoles just don't offer what they used to. It used to be they did things your PC couldn't. Now they're just a slightly discounted PC you're not allowed to run whatever you want on.

Comment Re:This is wrong (Score 1) 199

If you want the government to mandate everything, you need to move to the USSR, or maybe North Korea.

That's desperately ignorant. The US government already does regulate essentially everything, and whatever it doesn't, the states or municipalities or your local fucking HOA does. The USA is massively authoritarian and has been for over a century.

The employees' pay is more or less in equilibrium with the market for their services.

It's less. Pay attention. Also, that is not a win. It means the poor are kept poor.

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