Susurrus

They are the best EV out there

First of all, there are a ton of EVs right now, with a new one coming out every day. While Teslas are generally solid EVs, it's not so obvious thay they are the best. Have you seen the new Chinese ones? Have you tried them?

Second, this means little even if accurate. For the time being, EVs have little purpose due to the technology (mostly batteries) being incredibly underdeveloped for use in vehicles. So "the best EV" is still, overall, terrible.

Their main advantage is supposedly that they are environment-friendly. Well, that is mostly (still not fully) true only if you never swap out the battery. Which in a few years makes the car barely usable. Due to the way lithium-ion batteries work, their condition degrades rapidly when you charge them quickly, or only half-way, or leave them charging overnight. It's the same as in a smartphone. Just look at people's iPhone's battery conditions after one year of use. Except in an EV, battery life directly translates to range.

A Tesla Model S has a marketed range of 373 miles. At 100%, brand new battery condition. Regular use can bring the condition down to as little as 80% over a period of one year. That depletes the car's range to approximately 300 miles. And the condition will continue to drop. To keep the condition high, you'd need to charge the battery relatively slowly (24-48 hours of charging) and from a very low charge to a mostly full charge. Precisely the same way you keep your phone's battery condition high. This is simply unrealistic in the context of EVs.

This leaves us with the inevitable replacement of batteries, which alone generate more CO2 emissions to produce than entire combustion engine cars, including driving them for a year on average. Does this still sound environmentally friendly to anyone?

As it stands, the technology just isn't there for us to be able to make good, environment-friendly EVs. And I'm ignoring all of their other issues here. To include everything, you'd have to write a novel. I don't mean to hate on EVs too much, but to me personally it looks like currently they just make very little, if any, sense. Maybe in a few years? Chinese companies are successfully developing new types of batteries, but they're not sharing them with western companies.

We'll see what the future brings. In any event, don't stop boycotting Tesla even if the CEO changes. Musk still has a shitload of Tesla stock, so the company's financial state is closely linked to his.

If you got 10 bucks for every million towards billionaires you'd actually be a millionaire. The ratio was more like a cent for every million.

Personally I would like to see the whole remaster/remake trend end as soon as possible. Let's stop selling the same games multiple times, with considerably increased price tag every time.

While some remakes are decent and make sense (e.g. Resident Evil remakes, though even they aren't perfect), most are just plain money grabs. Remade into a third-person action adventure with RPG elements, if they weren't already. With generic Unreal graphics, poor optimization, worse or no modding support.

Old games are great, easy to run, and can be bough for pennies. What exactly makes a remake so appealing? Better graphics? No offence to anyone, but I feel like people who care so much about graphics don't even play games.

I think I'll continue to ignore the new rereleases, with very rare exceptions, and keep having a blast with the originals. If game companies can't be bothered to put in the effort and make some new, interesting titles, then I guess they'll be making zero money from me.

That's a very good question, actually. Why is everyone so stupid? Because the education system has been intentionally sabotaged and crippled for decades? No, that's too recent. When did it start?

If we're talking about the root of all problems, then it probably started way back in ancient times. Prehistoric maybe. Whenever the first hyperintelligent psychopath decided to live as a god by taking advantage of everyone around him. And since then we've just been repeating the same cycle?

This is neither new nor surprising. They casually break EU-US personal data transfer agreements like they're nothing. They know perfectly well they will be fined, but they profit infinitely more from breaking EU law than they have to pay up in fines. It's a simple business decision. The EU Comission is being very lenient here, like they've been for years.

The fundamental roadblock here is: people are generally done with 'learning' when they become adult. Not learning computers or software, or anything else in particular. Just learning. There seems to be a somewhat common idea that 'education' and 'learning' is for children, and as an adult, you should have better things to do. Sadly, we can see all around where such an idea leads us.

From my experience, it's almost always "Chrome doesn't have feature x". It's the most feature poor browser currently in wide use. The only advantage that comes to mind is web dev tools, which: a) 99% of people don't care about, because they aren't web devs. b) Chromium also has, and it's like the considerably less infuriating twin.

Some people really will desparately do whatever it takes to cling onto Microsoft's slop, just so they don't have to spend an hour or two learning something new.

And if you do actually need Windows for a very specific piece of software or one of those 5 online games - okay, fair enough. But we all know the vast majority are just lazy and ignorant.

That doesn't make much sense to me. The games part okay, kinda, since Nintendo games aren't easily available on the Deck.

But tinkering? I've had a Steam Deck since it first launched, and the only tinkering I've done is because I could, and wanted to. Never because I needed to. All games I've played work perfectly out of the box. Even games marked as 'unsupported'. All of my tinkering was completely unnecessary and done for additional fun, e.g. modding, which is one of the best things about PC gaming, and will most certainly never be a thing on Nintendo's platforms.

As far as I can tell, "Nintendo people" don't really 'reason'. More like, they follow their uninformed preconceptions, and reject anything that doesn't fit with them. My gf has been a Nintendo fan for a long time, and she was convinced other platforms aren't that simple and offer a worse experience. I introduced her to PC gaming, and showed her how the Deck works. Now she's forgotten about her Switch and isn't going to buy Switch 2. It seems to me that all these people need is somebody to show them what gaming really is. Because whatever Nintendo is, it certainly isn't gaming. Just a small glimpse into gaming, maybe.

As for Zelda, Mario or whatever fans - guess they'll have to stick with Nintendo. Personally their games never appealed to me enough to buy a console specifically to play them. I'd like to play the new Zelda games, but I have a lot of other games to finish first. And then again, Switch emulation is incredibly easy. Took me like 10 or 15 minutes to get BotW working last time.

Deep thinking is never needed. Animals manage their entire lives just fine without it!

1. Added paragraph breaks and will try to use them actively.

2. As mentioned in another reply, I was referring to the base idea, and not to what people think or feel. Perhaps I failed to convey that effectively.

3. Probably true. Hard to say for certain, but as far as I can tell, 'aliens' are practically guaranteed to exist, while gods are the opposite.

Completely agree. I had the same experiences as a kid. Organized religious institutions always go against the religions they pretend to preach. Religious belief should be a personal choice, not a mass brain washing.

The Catholic Church requires that Christians indoctrine their children into Christianity since they are born. But this is the Church speaking, not Christianity or Jesus. In fact, the New Testament clearly says that it is perfectly acceptable for the family of a Christian to reject Christianity. The sole fact that they love the part of their family that is Christian, is enough.

But of course, barely any self-proclaimed Christians have ever opened the Bible, let alone read it. And the Church coveniently doesn't recommend reading it.