whilst this is what being transgender ‘is’, that doesn’t stop idiots from socially or medically transitioning for poor reasons.

Can’t wait for dumb investors to get bailed out again can’t have the engines of finance halt woo woo lets go.

the gap doesn’t seem massive, couldn’t this just be importance of owning a car by “stage of life?” obviously people with kids, jobs, no knees etc… need cars more than uni students.

what if my boss is a mere hectomillionaire?

So MAGA is not the side I would take in a civil war, even if I were an American, however: “Experience has shown that attacks against tanks with close combat weapons by a sufficiently determined man will basically always succeed.”

Look at the early stages of the Ukraine war Russia had in many heavy equipment categories a 5:1 superiority, Ukraine had comparitively few Tanks/AFVs/Aircrafts/Artillery/etc… yet still held it’s own in no small part due to trenchlines of conventional boot-on-floor infantry men, mines, cheap drones, shoulder launched atgms and good motivation/organisation.

You can get space anyway, Lonnie’s death literally could’ve been prevented with a $20 ratchet strap. Workplace safety is not an obstacle to competitive industry, it’s just an inexplicable pet peeve of Elons

tritium is probably slightly harder to sell to cousin yuri than motor oil

and not even on a womans bicycle! (very empowered)

You actually can’t ‘just all retool the factories’. The mining of certain materials, notably copper, becomes a limiting factor. To produce the worlds 100,000,000 motor vehicles per annum (given a generous assumption of 50kg of copper per electric vehicle) would require 5 million additional tons per year, a 20-25% increase over current figures. Meanwhile the cost of refining increases exponentially with decreasing ore grade.

Sure not every manufacturer would go out of buisness, but the industry would absolutely collapse.

I kind of disagree on ‘just as terrible’ noise/space sure, but not being able to smell the petrol is such a biggie for me.

The news of KSP 2’s death has got me playing KSP [1] for the first time in years. It’s still abyssmally optimised, but nonetheless fun as ever!

wholeheartedly support everyone in the LGBTQ+ community.

what about the lone gay? the pan-sexiled? the lesbianned from all nearby coffee-shops? Why do you only support the gays with social capital sufficient to be part of the communitiy?

Earth: former european colony

And everyone else should be free from subsidising it 1

But some operational costs (I.e. Ground Rent, Marketing, Legal Fees, IP Costs etc…) do not scale with increased output.

even Ayn Rand didn’t particularly like Ayn Rand,

not to say she was rational of course.

I mean you might be, depending upon what % of the total market you operate and what the exact inputs of the new method are.

You will have to explain this, as it is not an inherent pro of a vehicle to have electrical propulsion.

It is when the vehicle is small & light like this.

Heat engines get more efficient with increasing size. Piston count can be increased (improving balance), or piston displacement can be increased (reducing friction, heat loss & gas leakage per unit volume)

Batteries on the other hand get better with decreasing scale, the net distance from source to sink is decreased so it needs less wire. The total number of elements is reduced so risk of fire is as well. The battery is more replaceable, so aging is less of a concern.

Range compounds the effect. Typically smaller vehicles have smaller ranges, and that’s good for electric where the engine is much lighter than the fuel, but bad for ICE, where the engine is a massive brick of iron and the fuel can just be a couple jerry cans slung on the back

In cars, the trade-off is a hotly contested race, but you don’t see many diesel skateboards or battery-powered containerships.

Also jokes on you, the levitation technology used is described as cracking apart the ground as it moves, and would likely do far worse to a human body than regular ass wheels would.

At least the the repulsor has an eco-friendly power plant lit with the sacred flames of mars. Honestly better than a diesel.