Yep, I used my HVAC stack space, have a portal door in the front hall closet and master bdrm closet for mid floor access as needed.

Another major feature of wired, while definitely advanced lvl, is power over ethernet.   If you want security cameras, you can run ‘only’ the ethernet cable and not need a power source for the cameras.

Certainly reasonable, and cheap!, initial step. But the wifi reliability issue remains. It’s just variable by design, especially if you have just one central wifi point. As long as hiccups in signal are acceptable wifi is a fabulous solution.

For the love of god, can we get normal wheel sizes again?   When *range* is a concern, sacrificing 10-15% because wheels seems really f’n stupid.

nah it’s missing that extra special feature.   We’ll make it *raised*

liability is a cruel mistress if you’re into that sort of thing.

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?

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.

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

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 .

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

as recently as 2016 China was installing more solar *per year* than the US had installed in the entire country. 2022? we have 140 MW installed in total, they installed 87 MW new in 2022 *alone*.

Sure. $30K for a used car isn’t a great deal me thinks. If a Soul can be $24k out the door, a *new* flex size shouldn’t be $40k.