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It’s not as dire in NYC unless you’re exclusively considering Manhattan. And even in Manhattan it’s relatively “affordable” if you’re willing to live in the 160s+. Significantly less than people think, at least.

The number of people chiming in on this article proclaiming food preferences as "wrong" or "correct" is truly astounding. No, my preferences aren't wrong. No, yours aren't wrong either. Food preferences are personal.

The only thing "wrong" here is all the people chiming in to tell others that their differing preferences are incorrect.

> Vegetarian here, you're wrong.

Legitimately laughing out loud at this response. You're sitting there at your keyboard telling other people that their food preferences are wrong? Seriously? No one is going to take you seriously if you can't acknowledge the basic premise that food preferences are personal opinions.

"Food is all about personal preference"

>why would anyone go through the motions to have fake chicken when you have multitudes of vegetarian options

Because meat tastes better, and I want it. If I can have that taste without an animal involved then it’s all the better. If not then I’ll continue eating meat.

Vegetarians and vegans just don’t seem to understand this. Food is all about personal preference but the extreme majority of people eat and enjoy meat. They enjoy it because they find it delicious. If people felt vegetarian options were as delicious as meat we wouldn’t be having these discussions.

People who don’t have a taste preference for meat are obviously not the target for plant based meat.

>If the West European allies are not that important then the US should plow ahead, but the consequence will be those countries will look elsewhere for partners.

This comment brought to you by the year 2008. Europe did look elsewhere for partners, and cozied up with Russia.

I can’t wait to see how Europeans shoot themselves in the foot this time.

Let’s see one for wind power, then. OP implies wind is an order of magnitude cheaper.

It crops up because people give these absurdly misleading cost estimates for adding incremental wind power to the grid. You can’t have wind power without spending money on an equivalent amount of reliable power, and no one wants to include those required costs in their estimates. This tends to dramatically understate the actual economics of wind.

There will always be firearms. You can make them illegal but you can't make them stop existing. This is the fundamental problem with these types of suggestions. Switch to bow, it's safer! ...but the criminals (and anyone else) will keep using firearms. Comically absurd idealism about society and the world.

> What needs to be done is not to eliminate those actors, but rather to make our bodies resilient to potentiel pathogens.

If we expose ourselves to these pathogens and wait a few thousand years we might naturally evolve to be resilient.

…otherwise I have no idea what you’re proposing here. You can’t just decide to be resilient. Pathogens kill people. They don’t die because they lacked willpower.

This seemed so absurdly impossible that I had to look it up. I went to Edmunds and sure enough the 5-year TCO for a 2022 LR Model 3 is $115k. The 5-year TCO for a 2022 LE AWD Prius is $69k.

The Model 3 is ridiculously expensive. Base price RWD $47k. You can get into a Prius for $25k. At 58mpg there will never be a breakeven for the Model 3. Economics will be different with this upcoming $7,500 tax credit, but that obviously doesn't apply to any current owners.

There are better competitors entering the market, but none can really compare to a Model S. The upcoming Hyundia Ionic 6 will likely be the industry leader, but it hasn't released in the US and last I checked didn't have US pricing, either.

What a hilarious and asinine way to torpedo your own brand. It seems that Mercedes and BMW want to be known as the "Spirit Airlines of electric cars."

...except at least Spirit Airlines is cheap. The Mercedes EQS sedan starts at $102k for relatively middling performance of 5.9s 0-60 and range of 350 milse. I have no doubt that the EQS is a more luxurious car, but the Tesla Model S is $105k for significantly better performance of 3.1s 0-60 and better range at 405 miles.

I doubt anyone is cross-shopping a Model 3 against a Mercedes, but the economics are almost comical in favor of the 3. Model 3 $63k for 3.1s 0-60 and 315 miles of range.

I can only wonder who would buy this. Pay a significant premium for a Mercedes and then stuck with a $100/month subscription? I'd love to hear from someone who is into this, and why.

Sure, but that’s just handwaving away the question. He made an effort to reach out to a journalist and reinforced the hack narrative.

SBF publicly lied about this and called it a hack. If it was all aboveboard why would he have done that?