Credit to Lucas, as inelegant and terrible as the prequels are in execution, but that’s at least a feature and not a bug. The Old Republic being ineffectual and naive about rising fascism is the point; Palpatine is Hitler and everyone else is Neville Chamberlain. But in the post-ROTJ stories, I don’t know that this is…

I’ve always thought war fatigue must have been a huge factor. The Clone Wars, followed by the subjugation of Empire and the Galactic Civil War, represented almost thirty years of continuous conflict, including multiple planetary genocides. I could easily see the populations of the Core Worlds saying, “You know what?…

This is what I find truly annoying about modern criticism. There’s only ONE reason why the New Republic is as messed up as it is. JJ Abrams. He and his creative team made the incredibly lazy decision to just undo all the progress made from defeating the Empire and descended right back into the good guys being a…

He and Miss Lindsay should date. They can commute together.

Must be tough to do the “my girlfriend goes to a different school, you wouldn’t know her” schtick when you’re a US senator.

WTF

They should have just programmed the ECU of the manual cars to know when they are on a dyno and have them keep under the 160g emmission requirement while being tested.

EV’s decrease our dependency on foreign oil,

This take is pretty dumb and mostly inaccurate. We absolutely should demand automakers find a way to make the production of EVs less wasteful. However. what matters for determining the total carbon footprint is the expected useful lifespan of the vehicle, not necessarily how long the first owner holds onto it. Even if…

It’s funny, because it seems obvious that the report is actually suggesting EVs are good.  You’ve only got to drive one for 28k-68k miles before it’s a net positive.  That seems like such a low hurdle if you ask me.

Especially the “However, many households sell their vehicle before they get there” line is dumb, because the vehicle doesn’t stop being environmentally friendly when it moves to its second or third owner. Who cares if it takes until the 2nd owner until it becomes a net positive for the environment if the first owner…

Ah yes, it’s a new week so it must be time to post the latest contrarian report on the topic of “Actually, EVs Are Bad.”

The typical American drives roughly 13,500 miles a year. So within between 24 months to 60 months of ownership is enough that the EV becomes a net positive. When the average new car is owned for 8.4 years, that means this all leans in the EV’s favor.

Unless people are sending their cars to the junkyard at 69k miles, I don’t see what the issue is. Today most cars can make it past 150k before ending up in the junkyard. 

Using a two-ton+ metallic land missile to move a human around at 80 miles per hour is bad for the environment is so many ways. Whether we burn oil to do so, or leverage the power of wind, it’s still stupid and inefficient.

Whether they pollute less or not on the whole, EV’s decrease our dependency on foreign oil, which is absolutely a good thing.

Nintendo won’t announce a new Switch until I finally buy my Switch this Christmas. 

“There he goes. One of God’s own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.” — Hunter S. Thompson

I feel like all the electric options are too big, lol. I don’t think anything’s as small as the hatchback I have now. But I’m an American that lives in a city *scary hands*, so I know don’t matter to the industry.

The Bolt’s the closest I think, but even that’s nearly a foot longer. 

I think that the benefits from large-scale adoption of EVs, even if their power comes from fossil-fuel generation, is supposed to be that the industrial-scale use of fossil fuels can be made more efficient than tens of thousands of individual power plants. This does, however, ignore the multiple losses inherent in…