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Comment Re:I don't want an EV, though. What I want... (Score 1) 128

..Yes? It's dead simple to install a breaker in your panel, drill a hole beside your panel, run some armor cable outside, along the outside of the house to whichever exterior wall you want your charger, then up the all and hardwire said charger.

This is called 'residential electrical cabling.'

As to it being an upfront cost of two thousand dollars, great. Figure out your average monthly gas spend, divide 2000 by that, and you'll see how many months it takes to break even.

Comment Re:What about the ordinary user? (Score 1) 269

So, somebody that has already bought a computer is going to have trouble buying a computer. Gotcha.

And most people that don't know shit about computers will just buy a new computer, sign in to their microsoft account, and all their stuff will simply transfer over through onedrive. Over wifi.

It's not 2005 any more.

Comment Re:15.5 million cars (Score 3, Informative) 103

We're already there. The average city commuter can easily just do a single fast charge once a week, and unlike a gas car, you can just find a charger that's near something else you'd be doing anyway, like at a grocery store, mall, or down town, and your total 'charging time,' defined as 'the amount of time you, personally, have to devote to the process once you roll up to the dispenser' is 'thirty seconds to plug the car in and tap your payment card' and 'thirty seconds to unplug the car and close the charging port.'

The twenty minutes the *car* spends charging is not time *you* are spending charging. You're doing something else while the car charges. Pumping gas might 'only' take five minutes instead of twenty, but that's five minutes that *you* personally are spending.

Comment So people reject reality and substitute their own (Score 1) 160

The entire reason we have a philosophy of science and peer-review and the null hypothesis, is this. Reality doesn't conform to your beliefs. If it did, people could wish shit into existence. Wish in one hand and shit in the other. Which fills up first?

Senses are fallible, too. Setup 3 buckets of water with cold, lukewarm, and hot water. Stick your hands in the cold and the hot water. Wait 5-10 minutes. Put both hands in the lukewarm water. Your hands will *NOT* report the same temperature. These people need to learn, not be lied to.

Additionally, the title is misleading. You don't lie to people when you want to express the truth. You tell them the truth. That they reject the truth indicates they lack critical thinking skills. Teach them.

I don't think lying to the gullible is a solution. Indeed, the article supports this: "Philosopher Byron Hyde and author of the study suggests that public trust could be improved not by sugarcoating reality, but by educating people to expect imperfection and understand how science actually works."

How is that proposing lying to the people who lack mental tools? The title is straight up misleading.

Teach them. Engage with them. Some might be incapable, but that does NOT support that they should be lied to. This is terrible reporting.

Comment Re:Dig Dug with Premium Offers (Score 1) 220

The problem is that Linux isn't 'superior.' Does it do some things better? Sure. Maybe a lot of things.

The vast majority of computer users simply *don't care.* Nor do they need to.

Windows works well enough, it does anything almost anybody wants 'a computer' to do, and you don't need to put too much thought into it.

Comment Re:The climate changes have been obvious (Score 1) 186

When I was a kid in the 80s, our halloween costumes were sized to fit snow suits under them.

A few decades later, we had a green Christmas, and it was so odd that we made a Caribbean theme to go with it.

Nowadays, it's even money if we'll have snow on the ground at Christmas any given year, and it was 30c on Halloween.

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