> If their clunker still ran someone else is driving it. People don't drive cars to the junkyard. And if it didn't run, then it made no difference whether you bought an EV or not.

Since the frame rusted out and it would not pass the state safety inspection, it was absolutely scrapped.

> So you only charge your car when the wind is blowing so hard there is excess win power available to charge it? I think that is fantasy. You charge when you need to and your power comes from whatever source of additional power is available and least expensive. Solar and wind are often the least expensive, but, as a result, they are used first when available and rarely have excess available as an additional source of power when you need to charge your EV.

You are making perfect the enemy of good again, and battery storage systems exist to handle the situation you are describing. Additionally, by all accounts, power plants are more efficient than ICE when it comes to emissions.

> But the world won't. Certainly you can claim not buying an ICE vehicle reduced emissions compared to your buying one. But adding another vehicle, even an EV, to the planet adds emissions even if fewer than that worst alternative.

Precisely how old must a vehicle be before you deem it as worthy here? Again, you are making perfect the enemy of good.

I subscribed again to watch Silo. I was going to cancel after that, but then Foundation started again. Now I'm the next season of Invasion. Those fuckers have got me ;)

Then again, I just got Netflix Premium (should that be Plus?) for free with my new mobile phone contract (33 quid / month for unlimited speed and data and global roaming in over 80 countries with the almost 20 quid / month Netflix included!). While I've never been interested in Netflix, I'll probably find something to watch, and as I only watch a couple of hours a week anyway, there won't be time for anything else.

> What happened to your 2008 car? If someone is still driving it, then it wasn't replaced in terms of emissions. Someone who otherwise would have had to walk, bike, take the bus or skip the trip is driving it instead of you.

It replaced a far less efficient vehicle that someone else had. Their clunker was scrapped / parted / recycled.

> How many gallons of gas per 100 miles do you figure the alternative would be burning? Because the comparison isn't to some generic ICE car, its to the available ICE/Hybrid car with the fewest emissions. Or at least the best alternative available to you. That would include buying a used ICE car that is now being used by someone else.
> What was the source of the added energy needed to charge it and how many emissions does that create. And, no, that doesn't include solar unless you live somewhere available solar is going unused at the time you charge the EV.

Clearly I have no way to prove this, but I have choice in my energy supplier where I live and it comes from a wind farm. If I add solar panels to my house I can feed them directly into the EVSE and charge the car directly from them. During the day, obviously.

Over the course of 15 or 20 years I will come out ahead in terms of emissions, no matter how you slice it.

Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

Yes, surely my two flights over the span of almost a quarter century is definitely part of the problem.

Hey, I'll bite!

I keep cars for 15 to 20 years, and I recently replaced a 2008 ICE vehicle with a 2025 EV. From what I have read, I have already passed the hurdle of the manufacturing emissions and I will have less emissions from here on out than I would if I had purchased an ICE vehicle.

I visited Aruba in 1999 and spent a good amount of time snorkeling. The corals were beautiful and there was so much life. I went there again in 2023 and a good portion of the corals were dead. There was still a lot of life, but also a lot of lionfish, an invasive species. I'm glad that my kids got to see the small amount of living coral before it is gone.

They make steaks with horrible fake cheese there, don't they?

And probably used Google for her work, which sucked up all her data and now slants all its responses in the direction it thinks she's interested. Stop using Google products people. Use private browser windows/tabs and privacy respecting tools like DuckDuckGo.

I don't really see why it's interesting because people move around a lot these days. Do you have a low opinion of Poland or you want to be more impressed by his origins?

This information is trivial to find, BTW:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjoshua.hu%2Fabout.html

While your point is valid, I don't think it applies in this case because the reporter didn't complain of too many false-positives, and the curl maintainer, who has complained in the past about AI crap, seems to be happy in this instance.

What? Which AI did you ask? Mine didn't say that, and it sounded very authoritative :)

Remember when 1.21 gigawatts was a lot of power? Now we're talking about 6!

You can get such things off Amazon as either data blocking adapters or as whole data blocking cables. And yes, in red (either the plugs or the cable too).

What's the difference? We also posted web articles and had lengthy, sometimes heated discussions about it. People were a lot nastier back in the days, angry RTFM nerds were abindant. On IRC people would crash your computer for fun. We had cybersex and warez and all the good things that are technically inappropriate for a 15 year old.
Now we have censorship all over the place. Nobody stopped you from posting porn on USENET, we had specific newsgroups just for that. Try posting porn on social media nowadays. Nobody cared what you had on your F-Serve on IRC.