In twisted silence, a graveyard of desires - abandoned dreams and smoldering embers of a passion that once burned, now confined to a forgotten lot, a cautionary tale of a love that turned cold.

I get really sweaty when cycling 😂 but I'm a big advocate of my Vespa lifestyle 🛵

Nice! I recently sold my Model 3 because I wasn’t really using it. I ride a Honda Grom, which is basically just the masculine version of a Vespa! 😅 But, I’m thinking about selling it and buying the Also TM-B when it releases.

Limited data suggests most EV fires are due to thermal runaway, not batteries exploding spontaneously.

The town is 8 miles away, my friends and family are between 30 and 150 miles away, in the hills of apalacha. People driving aren't really living frivolous imo, they're escaping the city, and it turns out they will pay or sacrifice a lot for that. Someone has to own the trucks, the busses and equipment. Turns out people will still pay a lot of money, to save a lot of money, doing work themselves with equipment they can afford. Not everyone needs a pickup truck, but when you do, it's still more reasonable to own the means of production than rent it from someone else. I have trucks because I have trailers, I have trailers because I need to transport things, I don't need to ask permission from someone else to do that. Uhual, Enterprise, home depot and your neighbor with a pickup already participate in this economy. Turns out people who don't own trucks, still outnumber those who do, and will end up paying (or borrowing) to use them when needed.

Und morgen wird uns erklärt, dass der böse durch Verbrennerautos verursachte Klimawandel daran schuld ist. View quoted note →

I just like to make sure people are arguing in fairness. I would like to argue that living areas were built around cars because cars were fundamental in the foundations of the building. I think it's fair to argue supply/demand. If you want to argue for cities by all means, that's not my life and don't want it to be. I _would_ argue though, there is a supply/demand issue. There are many things, even way easier things people could do to improve their health, they already don't do that though. People demanded a mode of transportation that allows for comfort (arguably luxury), ease of operation, ownership or at the least autonomy. People want cars, people want the luxuries of driving, and will pay lots of money to do that. Cars are a necessity for those of us in more rural areas, but often for similar reasons. Time, ease, speed, energy expenditure. You'd have to _take_ cars away from people imo, I don't think there is more demand for less cars than there is for more, or better car facilities.

This is not about ecology nor economics. Once you understand the agenda you know that everything is meant to advance the agenda else it is not promoted or actively fought against.

To be fair this is a property of lithium-ion batteries specifically, not of EVs in general. Also applies to consumer devices which is why they're tightening up on laptops and mobile phones on air travel - one of those mofos going off will make a nasty expensive wreck of a passenger plane and it's happening more frequently than anyone would like

I agree, fuck cars. if you have a truck, you should be building an empire with it