Yeah, I kept my last car 15 years, I hope I can get at least 15 out of the Volt.

But, with the ranges on current EV models, I’ll be comfortable going without an ICE and everything that goes with it for my next vehicle.

Yeah, my Volt varies a bit, but after 7 years it has about 10% loss (51mi. -> 46mi.)

Range has always been less in winter, but not 40%. On a day that never gets above -4, I can still get 29mi. off the battery.

I do 120v / 12A charging at home and an overnight charge exceeds my daily commute. But, yes, a 240v / 25A charger is much faster and an overnight charge in them can cover a daily commute I would find punishingly long.

I would like it to be as fast as gas. But, yeah, if you can walk from the charger to a restroom and maybe grab some food, I really don’t care if it take 15-30 minutes to get back up to 80%.

I currently own a Volt and usually charge at home. My last road-trip OK->IA (and back a week later), I found it hard to find compatible charging stations so much so that I barely used them. On the way back, I did go out of my way to find one – the first one had no facilities at all (it was a dealer parking lot at the corner of two 5-lane stroads with no crosswalk signals), the second one was inaccessible behind a locked gate, the third one several blocks away from any facilities but close enough to walk to one restaurant.

I still plan to get an EV when I finally have to replace the Volt, but I gotta say the charging situation away from home is pretty bleak, IME. Maybe it’s better in different parts of the country. It is almost certainly better on DC charging; I found a few convenience store / gas station / fast food combination buildings that also had DC charging that I would have used if I could. (Volt only has AC charging.)

I wasn’t sure, so I checked the comments. My suspicions where raised because it seemed like a lot of image editing effort for the joke and also the glass looked wrong-ish.

Still, one crack or tear in the vinyl and who knows what starts growing inside one of those padded seats? Maybe I’m being unreasonable, but even as a child of the 80s those seats always gave me the ick. (Of course, that’s not how I would have said it then.)

The master bath in my childhood home is carpeted, and when I was a child we also had those carpet-like removable lid covers with the elastic underneath.

Thread gives fond memories of a pre-fediverse experience. I used to subcribe to a no-you’re-thinking-of community there; is there one on the fediverse? Related, is anyone collecting Lemmy/Piefed switcharoos in some community?

“embarrassed” is not “embarazo”

At the very least, they’ll be shitting bricks.

My executive dysfunction negatively affects others too often, but it always affects me.

It’s like the One Piece character’s name, “Luffy” but without the “L”.

“uffy”.

/s, I just spell it out.

Reminds me of the dinner party with Storm and the glances from the protag’s wife.

Friendly video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfYbgdo8e-8

I don’t have links to research or summaries, tho.

We seem to have at least two consciousness, but for most people one of them is almost entirely unable to communicate with the outside world, only the verbal consciousness.

At least, it can observe and respond; I don’t know it has a subjective experience.

My family’s usual response to this is: “a bag of 100 USD bills”.

I’m annoyed just repeating it.

IIRC, the alcohol makes you “feel warm” by dialating blood vessels near the skin. But, that improves heat transfer, so your core temp actually drops faster.

I like the Hobbes and Bacon approach to continuity, but there’s only a few of them. Bacon was a lot like child Calvin, but not exactly.

Usually it is made from a powder instead of a concentrate, it does doesn’t match https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cordial#Noun exactly.

But, yes, it is a non-carbonated soft drink, almost always fruit flavored.

Last time I read the Wikipedia article, both Kool-Aid and Flavor-Aid were found on-site during the post-event cleanup.

But also, a lot of people used (and still use) “coolaid” as a generic name for non-carbonate flavored and sweetened water, they aren’t meaning the Kool-Aid product line specifically.

Yeah, while the individual 8 tones are the same. Once you start chording, A minor still sounds different from C major. On the grasping hand, there are some chords that are effectively shared so a complex piece can “disguise” one as the other.