I switched to EVs in 2014, and went fully electric in 2018. My problem is that there still isn't a good alternative I can use for long distance trips for my family of 7. I'd love to switch to something like the Kia EV9, but I almost have my current car paid off, and can't afford another $80k car. I'm conflicted, because I don't want to switch back to a gas car, and I believe my current power company is on track to be 50% sustainable/renewable in 5-10 years. I feel like it could take me years as opposed to months to find a replacement EV that works for me.
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Yes, it was definitely a product of indoctrination from my dad, who was a chiropractor (my grandpa was also a chiropractor); he was very knowledgeable in other medical areas like anatomy, so it was difficult for me to realize he was wrong about this.
Though, I did write an argumentative paper for high school English about why vaccines were less effective than we thought, and should not be worth the risk. I even used statistics from the same measles outbreak I was part of as proof, because 50% of those who got the measles were vaccinated. Of course, I was too dumb at the time to realize that 50 people from a vaccinated pool of 200,000 doesn't equate to 50 people from an unvaccinated pool of 10,000 (I don't remember exact numbers anymore, this was almost 30 years ago).
She said she was planning to get our first child vaccinated, and if I had a problem with that, I could raise my concerns to the pediatrician. I'm non-confrontational enough that I didn't push the issue any further, but I was still terrified that our first child was going to suffer from a vaccine injury.
I think me being scared about my son was enough to get me to look more closely at how research like Andrew Wakefield's had to be faked to get the results he wanted and that no one else could duplicate his findings, and one of those replication studies was even performed by an undergrad student that I realized had no "big pharma" incentive to lie about it. By the time our second child was born, I was already anti-antivax.
I was raised antivax, got the measles at age 17, and was still antivax for roughly 10 more years. It was my wife that convinced me to actually think about it, because she was adamant about vaccinating any children we had. I have her to thank for making me less ignorant. My sisters, on the other hand, are all still antivax despite my attempts to convince them otherwise.
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Yep, guess I'll be upgrading in a few months. I suppose it could be weeks if we're really lucky.
What are you talking about? He literally listed a bunch of things we're first at!
If Apple gets their way, you'll be renewing every month:
I couldn't find any news stories to confirm this, but given the current administration's picks, I still can't tell if you're serious.
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The only 7-seater available in 2018 was the Model X. Yes, it was clear he was an asshole as far back as 2018, but he was still a huge proponent of mitigating climate change (in hindsight it was clearly a grift for him), so at the time I thought it was a net positive. I used up a lot of my savings to afford it, so it would be difficult for me to switch to anything that isn't a gas car.