I mean, the fact that growth is slowing is relevant. What would be really interesting is: has the pace of opening new stores changed? Because if they’re opening lots of new stores without investing in more self checkout machines, that would be indicative that they’re going to be less of a thing going forward

“The car ran a person over after EvilHankVenture let it roll down hill.” Agency restored!

If only there was some way to share free stuff with your neighbors without using fb… sigh

I get dogpiled for saying it, but craigslist was and is fine, and there’s no reason to move off of it

Too bad they weren’t more elite, or they could have prevented the modern internet from becoming what it is

Or you could like. Write your diary in a notebook with a pencil. Want an audio diary? They make little standalone voice recorders. There’s no reason to use AI as a diary.

Meanwhile, my luddite ass is still writing short stories on my typewriter

Local AI solves the power/water problem but it doesn’t solve the main “fucking stupid waste of time” problem.

5+hr of driving in a day

5 hours of driving is nothing. This is what I’m saying, the daily time savings between gas and EV only makes a serious difference once you get to the 10-12 hours/day range, which most people are unwilling to do anyway, thus rendering it kind of a moot point.

Also, the longer distance you go, the less expensive the trip will be by EV. You don’t have to remember to change your oil before you leave on a trip, and you don’t have to worry about oil changes partway through very long trips.

You willing to sit a fucking Walmart for 1hr to get to 100%?

With the EV I was road trippin in it took like 30 minutes. I would use the Walmart bathroom, buy some candy, and read a book. I survived to tell the harrowing tale. I will say, big box store bathrooms are typically much cleaner than gas station bathrooms

Oh yeah, I regularly drive 14+ hour days myself. This is why I know that most people won’t, because most people act like I’m fucking crazy. Which is why I think most of them would do fine with an EV

Speaking from embarassed experience, I live in the USA thought it would be OK for me to get a pickup truck because I literally do work in the trades. Even I underutilize it tbh, and I’m thinking about selling it. I mostly just drive it to and from work like any other car, and then move things around in the company vans, lol.

This is fascinating to read because it’s completely the opposite of how I think.

If I was regularly 30 min late coming home from work I would scream. Nobody has time for that!

30 min late on vacation? Who cares? You can’t even plan any trip with that tight of tolerances, anyway. Too many factors beyond your control could delay you by more than 30 minutes, easily. As you say, this type of thing can happen even with gas cars, or trains, planes, boats, bicycles, etc.

I guess different people work differently. I’m speaking from my direct experience; I was cynical as hell until I actually tried it, and it really wasn’t as bad as I expected.

Would I prefer an ICE car for a long distance road trip? Yes. Can I take an EV on a road trip and have a good time? Also yes. Was the EV cheaper than taking an ICE car an equivalent distance? Also yes.

I’ve experienced something similar. I’ve been telling everyone who will listen how great Linux is for years. It wasn’t until windows 11 that they started listening in big numbers.

EVs still use brake pads. lol

Also electric cars, gas, and steam has a bit of a format war in the 1890’s-1920’s or so, and people really did make a lot of these points back then. Unreliable and sometimes unsafe chargers (basically due to people not understanding electrical engineering as well as we do now) were a big part of why gasoline won out

I think the reason they don’t have spare parts is because the motors are less complicated and, in theory, will need fewer replacement parts. An ICE motor is like 10,000+ moving parts, an electric motor is like 300 moving parts. They’re an order of magnitude less complicated.

Yeah that sentence was bonkers. Like that’s exactly what most people do haha

I used to think this way until I actually drove an EV long distance. This tech is mature and useful for road trips. Most people aren’t willing to drive 12+ hour days anyway and that’s the only real way to get a time advantage out of a gas car.

I don’t use Firefox, but go off

Very secure ransomware with high utility-value is still ransomware.

If it spies on you until you pay the creator, it’s ransomware.