My hybrid car gets 50mpg and gas cost me $4.99 per gallon last fill up. Electricity costs (which I can't charge at home anyway...) around about $0.40 a Kwh. I have prior post that do all the math, but suffice to say, that so long as electricity cost that much (southern California, it will actually go up again soon), it's cheaper to drive my hybrid until about $7 a gallon.

In some states, electricity is a 1/3rd the cost is compared to Southern California. In that scenario, yes, absolutely would love an EV.

And there are those of us that cannot charge at home because the option simply is not available. Therefore, I don't have the opportunity to take advantage of cheaper overnight rates for charging, otherwise I'd already have an EV.

As a Southern California driver, this is why my hybrid is still more affordable to drive then a full EV would be. Electricity cost are just to high and that's even true with today's gas prices.

I always thought it had to do with a string of code from a private wow server code such as trinitycore or azerothcore. I never bothered to verify it and it seemed really random but eh, that's okay. I, too, am glad your question was answered!

I think you may be giving us to much credit here.

“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
-George Carlin

The state you were looking for is Maryland, though the city of DC wants to become a state also. Personally, I think it would be easiest to just let DC residents vote for Maryland Congress (senate and house reps) and then add the DC population into Maryland's so they can redraw their maps and viola, you now have city, state and national representation for DC residents. Not sure why this wasn't done from the start but then a lot of people couldn't vote back when this all started. If you didn't have land, you couldn't vote, so DC residents weren't missing out on anything back then.

I don't think anyone claimed the world would be fair under any circumstance, but especially with no government. Republicans aren't anti-government. They just want it to serve their wishes and not the majorities.

Life's not fair. It's something we should all be taught (I was!) at a very young age and reinforced every time the child whines life's not fair. So build your bridge and get over the fact that life is not fair. It never will be. (I'm not specifically say "you" here. More a general "your")

Might as well just mandate all retail be closed on Sundays. People can plan around it and it would be super nice for the retail staff to have one guaranteed day off each week that didn't rotate around.

As someone that would really appreciate all retail being closed Sundays, I think we should lean to the side of freedom and stop having such crazy restrictive laws on these things. No more sin laws. Of course, if someone abuses alcohol or drugs or whatever other thing they can buy, the individual should be held accountable for all their actions.

And while I'm typing out dreams here, why can't Medicare start at whenever you decide to take social security? While I'm still to young to be really concerned about that, the more I look ahead, the more annoying that little tidbit is getting at me. So I'm just suppose to keep working for insurance...really? sigh. Maybe the blue Tsunami coming this November will usher in some expanded healthcare along with it. See, more dreaming. I got to stop doing that.

This is not a Democrat or Republican thing. A lot of these laws for liquor are very old laws; more then a 150 years old in fact. It's just downright bizarre what laws exist in what states as far as alcohol goes. I've only ever lived in California as an adult, so their alcohol laws are what I, very wrongly, assumed was how it was pretty much everywhere. I was shocked that in Colorado the grocery store could sell beer but not wire or liquor.

I just figure AHB owns the state. ie rocky mountains, and had it setup this way, but the idea that I could get beer at the grocery store and then have to exit out that door and enter into another door attached to the same building that was a liquor store to buy a bottle of wine was a really head scratcher. Like, wtf? I think Oregon still has some older laws for alcohol and PA apparently does from what I've read on this thread. So can't call this a partisan thing but rather a hang-over from very old laws.

Now that I barely drink these days so these laws don't really affect me all that much, but it really feels like we should have to go back, as a legislature, and review all prior laws past a specific age and make sure they are still applicable with modern life. Otherwise, we should be scrubbing these archaic laws off the books for being completely out of touch with reality.

Last time I bought a car, I just checked a few different dealers for the specific car I wanted and then went and test drove the one that I wanted. If I liked how it "felt", then I was happy to buy the car for the advertised Internet price (which you print out and bring with).

You can't just show up to a dealer and wander around aimlessly and expect an enjoyable experience.

The city and county don't tax me on gasoline consumption. The state and the feds do tax me on gasoline consumption. The feds are suppose to use the money for keeping up on federal interstates and other DOT infrastructure. The state should be using this money to keep our roads well functioning. Alas, we have let mission creep set in deep and now have all sorts of little pet CDOT projects going on that don't do anything to support the vehicle driver, ie the folks driving to work...

The biggest issue with public transportation are the last mile(s) before and after the actual transit. The cost isn't bad but my hybrid still only cost $45 to fill up for nearly two weeks of gas. The other major factor not having the trolley system run 24/7. I get that ridership for those early hows is pretty low and if the other problems I listed were made to be less, I could see adjusting for the trolley times instead.

I would still need to keep my car and keep it insured as well as registered. So public transportation just can't replace my car unless I wanted to live downtown *vomit*

I read it as X has grown in users and bots over the past 7 years. There's a lot more activity on the platform today as opposed to 7 years ago. With more users and more overall posts, it makes it harder to stand out. That's what I got out of the summary.

I'm sorry to hear that you and your cat had to go through all that. I highly recommend spay and neutering for all cats and probably dogs as well. While I know it's not cheap, it's a one time cost and if you truly cannot afford it, a lot of large cities have various resources available specific to spay and neuter them for lower cost and sometimes even free. There are also sometimes specific "spay and neuter day" where you can get this done for free or much cheaper. Just do some searching for resources in your city or county.

And by "you" I mean everyone that has a pet that needs to be spay and neutered.

Ahh okay, that makes sense. Before I bought my most recent laptop, I only had access to Windows 11 via VM.

I rarely use it or the laptop booted to Windows. I did a lot of research to ensure I could install Linux on it and everything would be peachy. It is. My Xbuntu setup idles at something like 1.2gb ram used, where as the Windows/dell stuff combined was sucking down 8gb!!! of ram. The poor laptop only has 16gb, which was bought in the eyes of a non-Windows user and light gaming every blue moon. I was flabbergasted at the Windows idling footprint.

I've also used VMs for some game servers and it's definitely nice to have a "base setup" where the entire environment is exactly how you want it and you just need to install whatever software you need and nothing extra. It's easy to see how you can quickly use up a lot of ram.

If AI works out the way the techbros are preaching it, we are all doomed anyway. The rich and powerful will have their AI drones just handle it, what it may be. They won't be needing the rest of us or at least not many.