Majorllama

I have never made a new years resolutions because I think waiting for a specific date to start making a change is stupid unless there is a logical reason to wait.

One of my exes was an alcoholic and she said she was going to go full sober on a specific date like a month in the future because it would be exactly 5 years since she started drinking or whatever. I told her that is possibly the dumbest fucking thing I have ever heard and that if she was serious about going sober she should just be starting right away.

As far as I know she’s still an alcoholic to this day lol.

I think this has to do more with the popular vote going to Trump than anything Trump did specifically. They all collectively shat on him or didn’t interact with him from 2016 and all through Bidens presidency.

They saw that public opinions has shifted so badly that Trump swept everything and won the popular vote. Suddenly they are all his best friend.

They never cared. They just want to be in the “side” more people like. you’re forgetting that money/power is what drives these people. They saw more money in power in bashing Trump or siding with the Democrats until the 2024 election happened. Now they feel they can get more money and power by siding with Trump.

I mean I can’t speak for everyone but hydroscopic sounds more related to water retention than hygroscopic does.

Not in my lovely state… Can’t even have an OTF because it’s too spooky for the California cops I guess. I have literally seen cops with OTFs in their work vests.

My Benchmade pocket knife. Because even if I do damage it they will fix it lol.

I’m not huge on brand loyalty but they have always taken care of me and my buddies whenever anything goes wrong with one of their knives. I will always recommend them for anyone willing to spend a bit more on a very solid knife with a great warranty.

Edit. Spelling

I learned recently that I was using the word “hydroscopic” incorrectly to describe something that repels water. A hydroscope is a device to observe things under water.

Hydrophobic is what I was looking for.

I only realized I had been using the term incorrectly when I got into 3D printing and learned all about the hygroscopic filaments involved lol. I had and epiphany and realized the mistake I had been making for my entire life. And nobody corrected me!

Yes and no. It depends on what material you are specifically looking for.

For the grand majority of materials needed in an ICE vehicle we have had “ethical” sources for everything for awhile now. Which makes sense the industry has had 100 years to clean up its image as much as they cared to.

The materials needed specifically for large lithium batteries are still currently gathered primally in places where human rights aren’t even considered. People are working on getting that changed, but last time I checked it was still really bad.

While there is no hard rules involved with the word “slightly” when used to describe a change in percentage it is generally used for changes of 5% or less.

Yes this is getting pedantic about the English language but a 20% change would be more accurately referred to as a “moderate” change.

And you are absolutely correct ICE engines are always less thermally efficient than EVs. Your average standard gasoline engine these days is somewhere in the ballpark of ~25% efficient. Some of the more efficient diesel ICEs are up to 50% efficient these days. EVs tend to be around ~90% thermally efficient.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667141723001088#:~:text=Typically%2C most Li-ion battery,]%2C [21]].

Also it’s not a 20% loss at 0°C. It’s closer to 50%. Which would be most accurately described as a “significant” loss of efficiency.

https://ev.aaa.com/articles/are-electric-cars-good-in-winter/#:~:text=How much of a,car’s heating system is on.

Even AAA did research that shows it’s anywhere from 10% loss in range to 40% loss as you get colder and colder.

Hey super genius if your have a car that only has batteries inside it as an energy source what do you use to heat up the batteries so the batteries are working inside their correct temperature range? The batteries. Which are cold because you parked it outside in a place that averages close to zero degrees depending on the region and time of year. Sure if you park it in your heated garage and then park it at work at a heated garage and you only ever drive it between those locations the cold will basically hit matter but if you ever leave the car anywhere that it will drop down to ambient outside temps then it will be causing damage to the batteries when they use their own cold juices to get warmed up enough to do their job right.

I know that when charging they will sip power to heat the batteries to the proper temperature for charging (and they heat up a tad naturally when charged), but anyone who isn’t always charging it while parked or leaving inside a heated garage that will not be the case.

Brother what are you talking about. I said they function in the cold. They don’t work well in the cold. They have recommended temperature ranges for a reason. I am simply pointing out the significant hit to battery performance and lifespan that the deep cold adds.

I havent posted any “misinformation”. You can literally verify every statement I’ve made with a number of scientific papers and studies on the effects of temperature and batteries. We have known they don’t work well in the cold for years. I have had to stick an untold number of cellphones into my inner layer pants pockets to prevent them from completely shutting off or refusing to charge because they got way too cold to safely operate.

By owning and driving fully electric cars in the significant cold they are absolutely lowering of the lifespan of those batteries meaning they need to be replaced more often. The batteries are far and away the biggest source of pollution in an EV.

You can call me names and whatever else you want but at least be scientifically accurate.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/02/01/1152893248/red-cobalt-congo-drc-mining-siddharth-kara

Feel free to do your own research at any point. The materials required for the massive batteries in all those EVs have to come from somewhere and they generally are obtained through slave and child labor in third world countries.

Also your “source” is a privately run show from a former actor and comedian who really likes EVs and he gathered an audience that donate money to him through patron to keep the show going. That’s a biased source if I’ve ever seen one. Of course the guy who makes a living in the EV space is going to do nothing but sing the praises of the Almighty EV.

I feel it bears repeating I am not even again against EVs. I simply do not care for how the EV super fans talk about their stuff. They always seem to pick and choose whatever information is convenient for them and their favorite tech while conveniently leaving out anything negative.

I do believe electric will be the future. We just have some problems to sort out on the energy density side of things. Battery technology still just isn’t quite ready and even if we sick with lithium we need to find a better way to get the materials required.

Edit: spelling

My apologies I should have been more specific. It’s a special diesel fuel they call AN8. Generally still referred to simpy as Diesel. The vehicles they put it into are diesel vehicles.

If that’s the case why are all of the vehicles in the Arctic diesel? The south Pole is all diesel.

Anywhere that spends time regularly in the negatives does not use electric vehicles.

I’m gonna need a source on that one chief. If you account for the extremely unclean energy used to mine, process and ship the raw materials for EVs they are absolutely not cleaner for the environment than current efficient ICE vehicle production. To be clear they both create a ton of pollution during production but this claim that EVs are magically cleaner is a crock of shit.

The main difference is we have been producing ICE vehicles for a long time. We have (mostly) ethical mining for the resources required and the whole process has been streamlined over the last 100+ years.

Just because you’ve shifted the pollution from on your street to some poor kids in the congo doesn’t mean you’re suddenly “clean”.

I’m not saying that we need to stay using ICE forever or that EVs are inherently evil. Simply that as the EV market currently sits they are not the clean green machines people often want to pretend they are.

See my response to the guy above. I don’t think you can say it’s only “slightly” worse.

https://www.redarcelectronics.com/us/resources/chargers-isolators-faqs/do-not-charge-lithium-battery-below-32-degrees/

Charging lithium batteries below a certain temperature is very bad for them.

It also reduces capacity and charge cycles significantly.

Yes they still technically function, but they wear out much faster and output much less as you go colder.

That means you need to replace the batteries much more often.

The batteries are the least environmentally friendly part of the whole EV.

Norway… Who’s primary exports are crude oil and petroleum gas.

Also Norway is cold and EVs do not do well in the cold. Especially with current battery technology.

Ehhhh that one is more forgivable in my opinion. Folk tales and the like tend to last longer just because people keep repeating it. Some of them as a joke.

The chocolate milk brown cow thing is a fundamental lack of logic and critical thinking.

Thank you for that lol. Now I have a term for those types of answers.

I am choosing to believe that 7% of American adults think it’s funny to answer questions like that. Even though I know it’s wrong. God dammit.

Our education system is just cooked huh.