niucllos

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[–] niucllos@lemm.ee 6 points 7 hours ago

Additionally, the raised and blunt hood height makes a full-body impact with no force dissipation much more likely, particularly for shorter people, where a more traditional hood shape allows a struck pedestrian to roll over the top and avert some of the force of the strike

[–] niucllos@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

It works great for notes, it's not great for recording data because if it mishears me/I mumble once an entire set of 500+ observations can be frame shifted away from their identifiers and I have to redo it

[–] niucllos@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Gesture typing is definitely faster, but I find it much less accurate and requires vision. My old sliding phone I could write whole essays in my hoodie pocket while walking home with few to no typos, which was a niche use-case for sure but an existing one. I work outside a fair amount and would love having that back for notetaking in the field

[–] niucllos@lemm.ee 7 points 2 days ago

It sounds like British Irish

[–] niucllos@lemm.ee 15 points 3 weeks ago

Look, I'm with you most of the way in theory, but a lot of rural areas don't have plumbing and drinking water from public utilities, they have their own septic and water wells. I know it's pedantic but a lot of parts of the world are so rural that it probably doesn't make sense to have fully public transport, like it doesn't make sense to have centralized water. The scope needs to be great systems within towns and cities and lots of park and ride hubs around the perimeter

[–] niucllos@lemm.ee 11 points 1 month ago

As long as it can't be mistaken for the actual person it moves the stigma from them doing weird things to the artist doing weird things

[–] niucllos@lemm.ee 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Beats me... Cycling pull-off so faster vehicles can pass?

[–] niucllos@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's more like the 30% who always vote R will vote for whoever, the 30% who always vote D will vote for whoever. Kamala's task is to get the 1-2% independents who always vote, yes, but also convince as many of the 40% who never bother showing up as possible to actually show up like some have started to in the last elections where reproductive healthcare/etc have been on the line. If she can motivate people for herself and simultaneously underscore that trump is an octogenarian with dreams of fascism and Project 2025 is what he would do, I think we'll have a landslide. That's a big if though.

[–] niucllos@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

I don't buy it, tbh. I've been hearing some variant of "Tesla isn't growing more and the stock is overvalued" or in the last five years "Musk is an idiot and is going to tank the stock" since I started paying attention to the markets circa 2012. Musk is a fascist piece of shit, but he does have some quality--and it may just be having more money than God and thus having a sort of wealth inertia--that keeps the stock merrily tripping its way upwards. I bought three shares several years ago on a whim, and between the upward growth and the stock splits I've sold my initial investment amount 3x already and could sell it three more times today and still have Tesla stock leftover

[–] niucllos@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago

I've been on the pixel A train the past few years, and wait until they offer me >$300 for a trade in. I got a 3A for I think ~$300 or so in 2020, and a 6A for $150 in 2022. Almost jumped to an 8a which would have been like $200 I think but there's no reason to really besides shiny new toy so I'm holding out for another year or two in hopes a 4a-style size reduction comes again

[–] niucllos@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

The other factor not yet mentioned is charging time/range. There are EVs with more range, and EVs with faster charging times, and EVs that are cheaper, but there are no EVs with a comparable long-range driving ability as Teslas for less money. The Hyundai ioniq 6 is comparable now but it's new, untested, and doesn't really have a used market

[–] niucllos@lemm.ee 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Depending on what you're trying to avoid, even 18 year old cars had OnStar gps that could in theory always track you unfortunately

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