Lithium is in fact far far far better for the planet than continuing to burn oil and gas. Are there issues? sure.

Wheat country is actually a pretty good supplier of all that needed green energy. Smart farmers would be building in free charging in exchange for windmill placement. Put in a few batteries and poof, your fuel bills just disappeared.

There’s a pretty significant shortage of drivers and has been for years. The argument that it’s really just a wage/conditions issue is like saying it’s not a drought, just a lack of rain.

Yeah truly amazing. 5+ feet and 100 kph winds. That’s the Trans Canada ‘Highway’ in the picture.

2003 blizzard up in eastern Canada.

Only thing with batteries is when work gets tough they’ll get used up faster. (I’m fully battery electric in my yard tooling). Only thing I still do corded is the edging and the power washing.

Again, we decided as a country to *not* do what was necessary to have safe in person schooling months/year ago.

1. The decision to be in person at any particular time was made weeks or months before with people’s behavior.

It’s reasonable to test yourself for future self behavior, but mostly it’s everywhere and just take precautions accordingly. More so with Omicron evading rapid test detection far more frequently.

“she’s getting zero support in Canada.”

where drinking and snowmobiling are a big thing

Me: What could go right is a shorter list

I hate subscription concepts as a rule.

whelp I won’t be buying a Ford.

Don’t look up

You are correct.  Fuck Kinja with a thousand prickly cacti

How to kill them:

Bills aren’t even actual English a lot of the time.

I had a 2003 Civic hybrid that had the battery die at about 140k. Milked it to 160 before it wouldn’t pass emissions. Ended up buying another hybrid but I wish I’d just replaced the battery.