And the reason United is jerking off with this literal pie-in-the-sky bullshit instead of ensuring their current planes fly on time with enough pilots to make it happen is WHAT exactly?

But so far these multi-passanger VTOL vehicles are. 3 years from delivery and there’s not even a prototype? Another company has a non-functional model for trade shows but no recorded flights of a real vehicle. Until we see a real one take off and land, they are vtolware. There was recently a functional one featured in…

That’s a helicopter service…

$1,000 isn’t even close to enough to pay for the extra time one would spend on public transit vs. a privately owned vehicle. Even gridlocked rush hour traffic is going to move faster than most public transportation arteries, plus there’s the bonus of going door-to-door in your own car, instead of having to cover that…

without a proper public transportation system it’ll just go directly to Uber and maybe causing more emissions and heavy traffic

I’m a data scientist and pretty solidly in the “pie charts should never be used” camp. The reasoning: it’s really hard to visually compare the size of different slices of a circle. Is that slice 3 times the size of that other slice? 1.5 times? 2 times? If they’re about the same size, which one is actually bigger? Is…

I just called PG&E to change to an “EV plan,” and they told me to wait until after midnight now to charge, if possible, and it’d be cheapest between midnight and 3AM. Which makes sense. Sounds inconvenient, but with my EV I can set the charge times, and I think many home charging stations allow you to do this now too.

I also work in the power industry here in San Diego. The grid is fine, we will need more transmission to be built for more renewables and batteries, but California’s electric sector planning, particularly the resource adequacy program has lagged behind the renewable build out since 2015 that many gas resources were…

Maybe if grids fucking installed peak load batteries and also encouraged people to install batteries in their home, they wouldn’t have to... deal with peak loading and having so much excess power generation in the rest of the day.

This 100%.

I don’t think it’s too much of an exaggeration to say that this ruined America.

https://www.iwr.usace.army.mil/Missions/Navigation/Inland-Waterways-Users-Board/Annual-Report-to-Congress/

What are the 4-5 locks that are still a problem?

It’s the downfall of SO many industries and society as a whole. It’s crazy how much damage this specific thing has done (Thanks Jack Welch, you fuck).

a focus on quarterly profits rather than long term investment

So back in college, I worked for a summer job at the Corps of Engineers, which I called the Corpse of Engineers, because that group was actually all accountants and the like.

Apple canceled the touchbar in 2021, just in time for VW to pick it up!

...and hates when the caps lock button is lit.

i don’t want lights to be the solution. because i hate dashboard lights at night. i hate when some are brighter than others. i hate when some are different colors than others. i love tech in cars. but in this one way i wish cars were old timey. controlled by switches that i can feel and identify and manipulate in the…