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Most people don't worry so much about thermal efficiency and care more about cost per mile..

If I could buy a type of vehicle that was only 10% thermally efficient but the fuel was practically free, that would be pretty cost effective even if not thermally efficient.

My 13 Chevy Volt has 225k miles and is still on its original brake pads and rotors. The rotors are basically good as new, and the pads are at about 40-50%.

My point is I'd prefer to deal with one issue, which would be labor being automated.. instead of dealing with both issues (automation and crazy inflation) at the same time.

It seems totally not obvious to me. It seems so confusing. If you gave everyone a million... Eventually someone needs to buy a house... What does it cost to buy one? Would you sell your house for 2 million if everyone around you had a million? No, some Indian family would pool everyone's government pool of 1 million and bid 8 million for it. So how does a single person buy one? Same as today. Except you screwed up inflation too.

If you redistribute money evenly, how would you get anyone to do anything?

If you gave everyone $10k a month UBI, who is going to change your tire? How much you have to pay them to go to work if they get $10k while sitting at home?

If a town has a lack of apartments, how much will an apartment cost if a young couple has $20k a month to spend?

I bought a $5500 Chevy Volt with 105k miles in peak COVID 2020.

It now has 225k miles and I haven't done a single thing to it but change the oil.

It's still on the original factory brake pads and rotors, which look to be about 50% on the pads.

My note wasn't really on style, but more so how much human energy goes into custom cabinets in a lunch break room, when in reality an almost custom off the shelf solution that just has a bit of evenly spaced empty space on both sides is cheaper and 90% less hassle.

I'm currently working on metal hallways portals that are 10' tall, except the material is only 8', and the seams are ugly, so several people are designing solutions on how to split the span up And what kind of reveal to do so the edge/seam is nice. Why? Why does this hallway need a metal cap at the end of it?

I work in construction now. Commercial Millwork/cabinets as a project manager.

It is so much harder and more stressful than my php/jquery mini saas coding days.

Often at work I start thinking "why are we doing all this? Why does anyone want this fancy reception desk?? This desk is not worth the human aggravation that it's causing."

I genuinely start thinking we should go back to concrete eastern European communist type buildings just for the simplicity and efficiency. Why all this fancy stuff that causes every project engineer, superintendent, and subcontractor Engineering department to get grey hair.

But I guess it makes the economy grow. I don't know.

They may even have the ability. But unless you're running a very small company, they don't have the time to do actual things.

I now have a 2011 or 2012+ 27" iMac everywhere I need a computer, running Linux Mint Mate, and it works better and with less frustration that any new $2500+ Lenovo workstation laptop my employers give me.

With how inexpensive older phones are, or even $50 motog phones, I've wondered what would happen if someone managed to connect 20 of them. Power wise they seem pretty efficient, so maybe it could even be useful?

I alway wondered why so many people (not saying you're one of them) get mad at being charged for misclicks and bots.

It all averages out.

You bid $3 a click because your conversion ratio is x, and paying $3 is worth it. Even if 90% of the traffic is bots, it works out. If Google filtered out all the bots, the conversion ratio for you and your competitors would go up, and your competitors would be willing to pay $27 per click and you'd outbid at $30, being at the exact same result at the end of the month spent for the exact same results.

Just an FYI, these drugs don't actually cause erections or sexual excitement. They simply make erections easier.

Now, if someon is mildly excited by other bodybuilders but usually not enough to make it known, yes Cialis could cause 'movement' as George Costanza put it.

But if you're not into what's in front of you, Cialis isn't going to change anything.

If you buy the common reliable gas engines, and stick to timing chains, you really don't have to do much. Our 4runner has 260k miles and hasn't ever had anything done but engine oil, trans oil, and differential oil. Trans and diff oil will still be done on electric cars.

I have a 300k Ford F250 gas that also hasnt had anything done basically.

And while for trucks the electric vs gas is huge, my Chevy Volt costs per mile about the same to operate on gas vs electric, because electricity is $0.46 a kwh in my California region.

It was made with zero artistic intent, so it has zero value. If you sat down a talented art student that cared, they could prompt AI to make something artistically interesting to watch.