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I went from an EV to my first manual car earlier this year for similar reasons I think

Robots

This seems like standard well off bay area family to me TBH... Houses in Cupertino cost $3,000,000 (7 figures), and the owners drive around a pair of $75,000 Teslas.

The everyone-should-try-harder mentality doesn't work either unfortunately. It would be great if everyone rode bikes and went vegan but that's never going to happen so we have to stop making people feel bad for buying gas cars and eating cheeseburgers because it just causes division which ultimately hurts progress.

It's about 60 mpg per passenger to fly domestically and 90 mpg per passenger to fly internationally.

If you have a family of 4, you can think of it as the equivalent of a 15 mpg vehicle for domestic flight and 22 mpg vehicle for international flight. So somewhere in the range of a full-size pickup truck.

But -- when you fly, you go very far. If you go on vacation to Hawaii from San Francisco once a year with your family, that's the equivalent of driving a Ford F-150 for 5000 miles. If you visit India or China that's 15,000 Ford F-150 miles! In a single trip, more than what most people drive in an entire year!

So you can make a big difference just preferring local vacations instead of remote ones.

> Occupations Nazi hunter

Amazing

Oh man that space emergency example had me rolling

Sharks are older than trees

finasteride + minoxidil

Honestly it's this line that did it for me:

> AlphaEvolve enhanced the efficiency of Google's data centers, chip design and AI training processes — *including training the large language models underlying AlphaEvolve itself*.

Singularity people have been talking for decades about AI improving itself better than humans could, and how that results in runaway compounding growth of superintelligence, and now it's here.

I tried to find the biggest UUID and if I got it right, it's

99999999-9999-4999-9999-999999999999

(note the 4 in the 3rd block)

I'm curious why it's not 99999999-9999-9999-9999-999999999999 (all 9s)?

You're probably well aware and quickly fixed the issue after the photo was taken, but I just need to say it's a really bad idea to have ANYTHING in an infants crib that they can use to block their airways like that.

Glad to see she's doing well and hope you have good times with her once she's home!

> So basically we would like to cut down on using oil by… burning more oil.

For now. Until we build more renewable energy plants. Miles per ton of CO2 is better with EVs no matter how you power the EV.

> And how are EVs more efficient then standard cars if they have less range and don’t work as well in certain climates and can’t go where the electricity is not readily available?

EVs are less convenient, no argument there. But they're still more efficient. Even in cold climates. 90% of new vehicles sold in Norway are EVs or plug-in hybrids.

> We are already polluting the environment by burning stuff for electricity, how does any of this help?

Switch to renewables and then you stop burning stuff. Until then, burning oil for power is better than burning oil to propel cars.

> And where to we get all the chemicals for the batteries and what do we do with them when they are useless?

Tesla recycles 90% of the important metals in their batteries.

Burn the oil that would have gone into cars in a power plant... You can propel an EV 2-3x as far as an ICE vehicle with the same amount of oil because power plants are much more efficient than car engines.