Hilarious or pathetic? So hard to decide.

Why? Combustion engines are only 25% efficient - they waste 75% of the energy in gasoline as noise, heat and pollution. There’s a reason that EVs cost 1/4 as much per mile to run.

ICE engines are still only ~30% efficient. Electric motors are vastly superior in efficiency/power with a fraction of the number of moving parts. EV powertrain will be considerably more reliable with little to no maintenance.

But FCEV’s using hydrogen arent a dead end. They still are an avenue that should be more explored and developed.

What screwed up the Russian military is the long-standing tradition of thievery. Russia is (and basically has always been) a kleptocracy, where people with access to power and resources steal as much as they can get away with. So most of the money that Russia spent on its military in the past couple decades? It went…

This. I was wondering if this article was sponsored by Land Rover. Looking at the old Defender and new Defender side by side make it abundantly clear which one is more capable off road. I don’t understand how Land Rover marketing is hoping to pull wool over people’s eyes to such an extent that they’ll believe that a…

Good. I sincerely hope that EVs will fail and go away. We need carbon-neutral synthetic fuels that can directly replace gasoline, not massive batteries that require strip-mining the Earth for rare elements.

Good. The sooner we get away from the EV stupidity, the better. EVs are a dead end. We should instead be focusing on making carbon-neutral synthetic fuels that are a drop-in replacement for gasoline. That’s how you make transportation carbon-neutral immediately, by just switching what’s coming out of the pump, instead…

I got my license in the early 90s and I drove a crappy old station wagon (with a manual). I would without any hesitation take a station wagon or a minivan over an SUV. Driving an SUV is pretty embarrassing - those are soccer mom vehicles.

I would much rather have a big power four cylinder than an expensive and fragile V10 any day of the week.

People are just completely irrational about gas prices. You save $2 per gallon, so that’s what, like $20? Or $30 if you have a big car and your tank is almost completely empty? And according to Google Maps, Tijuana is 20 miles and 40 min away from San Diego, or 40 miles and 80 min round-trip. So you use 1.5 gallons on…

The reason why supermarket apples taste awful is because they are old. Apples are actually don’t last long - they taste best right after they are picked, and then decline in quality, flavor, and texture very quickly. They take a long time to rot, but quality declines quickly. Supermarket apples are weeks old, so…

So leave work earlier.

Is there a reason we need the sun to stay out till 9 PM in the summer, but have the sun come up so late in the winter?

Hmmm... I’m not sure that’s the best criterion by which to make such a decision.

I don’t get what the hard-on for DST is everywhere: let’s just go to standard time all the time (which is totally legal to do on a state level, BTW) and if people want to get up earlier they can.

Yes, they do. Circadian rhythms exist. It’s part of biology.

5:15am is any better? Get some light blocking room curtains.

I struggle enough with mornings as it is, being a night person, and now they want to make mornings *even earlier*, and also never give me back that one hour that gets stolen.

Exactly. All these pearl-clutching articles that appear during the switch from Standard Time to Daylight Saving Tim (and vice versa) focus on the disadvantages of the week when we switch, and totally ignore the disadvantages of not switching. With DST now in place, more people will be driving home after work in…