never understood that. I absolutely hate when I see a hatch or something with massive tumblehome(?). Just wasted storage space.

regardless, the CEO pay isn’t the main issue. 20 mil x 50,000 hourly workers is a paltry $400/yr.

And when the slight shift in weight brings down a section that’s holding the rest of it up, you can pay the claim?

Yep. 3 legged stool that will need balancing.

When your consumption is 100% electric, you can make everything green at the source. Can’t do that with natural gas.

Yeah the article def dances around the absolutes of temps. But it also matters annually, so many cheap efficient months can easily offset a few high cost ones.

Sure, but in terms of CO2 cleanup, they are much much cheaper.  And that’s the expense we need to start including when making these comparisons.

As did Standard Oil once upon a time. We need to elect people with balls of yesteryear to start breaking these oligarchs off at the knees.

As someone who’s within sight of my retirement age...it really depends. Your expenses don’t really change, and given medical costs and age, may even go up in retirement.

I think one of the reasons, that I don’t entirely dispute nor really agree with, is that it’s supposedly its not as useful if you’ve already been infected. With the high rates of infection...that makes it less bang for the buck to give it to older people etc. I think the lack of male access was just due to populations…

EVs aren’t competitive on up front price, but they generally are very close or better on TCO over time than comparable ICEs. They’re wildly less expensive when you consider the CO2 costs (which aren’t dealt with in the prices). The other significant problem with driving lower economic classes to used is there simply…

It’s the poverty of cheap boots just starting at $50K+. EVs are less expensive to buy, own and operate over time. Another factor is buying used. EVs, for the same reasons of people’s inexperience with them, depreciate much faster than ICEs. So you can get comparatively more car for less money...and without most of the…

My point was that at some point, the market willing to pay that upper tier price is big enough to sustain more than just the current upper crust ones. At that point...why would *any* of them make low end cars. That’s the problem with such high barrier to entry (even before COVID pricing) - upstarts can’t really…

There will be reasonably safe and habitable places on Earth for millenia.

Salt Lake City? No thanks https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/10/us/utah-great-salt-lake-dust-pollution-weir-wxc/index.html

From reading basically all cases of genital warts are HPV related so there’s a pretty high confidence in the rates of occurrence.

Another factor in cost/benefit is that to truly convert our civilization to renewable/green sources...we don't have enough copper to do it.  We'll need 2-3x as much as has been mined in all of history, in just the next few decades.   Mitigating ever worse climate disaster by getting to green is a significant cost…

Yep. 70k ppl is a *lot* of spilled liquids, oils, other toxic stuff. Thankfully their “Leave no trace” cleanup doesn’t deal the hard stuff like that at all /sarcasm .

Holy Chit! I did not know it was fatal and incurable.  Prompt treatment can prevent it’s taking hold, but wow yeah that’ll add some fun news stories.

As a former cop friend told me, the single most cost effective security solution is having a friend get their ADT signs mysteriously stolen.