shottymcb

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[โ€“] shottymcb@lemm.ee 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

There's at least 10 states with no annual fee. Arizona is $50 to file, $0 annual fees, and no annual report to file.

If you'd prefer your company to have voting rights, you can file in Rhode Island, and your company can vote in local and state elections without ever stepping foot in the state. Hooray late stage capitalism ๐Ÿ˜ž

[โ€“] shottymcb@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

Chiquita is a cartel. The list of heinous shit they're responsible for is absurd.

[โ€“] shottymcb@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago (3 children)

commercial airlines crash less than once a month.

A lot less if you're only counting advanced democracies. The last multi-casualty commercial plane crash in the US was in 2009, 15 years ago. I only make that multi-casualty caveat because otherwise you get weird one offs like a guy running into a landing strip and getting run over.

Even the one in 2009 was a fairly small propeller plane.

[โ€“] shottymcb@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago

I'm posting this from a 7 year old phone with an OLED screen. The screen still looks as good as the day I bought it.

[โ€“] shottymcb@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

The price in the US for a rebuilt transmission plus swap on a BMW is about $5000. So I guess it depends on location.

[โ€“] shottymcb@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Because the overwhelming majority won't wear out at 100k miles. ICE cars have engine failures early as well, so why are we picking on EVs? I just had to put my car in the dumpster at 112k because the head gasket failed and replacing it would cost 6 fucking thousand dollars!

Meanwhile my wife's Prius has 300k on it and the battery is still at 70% capacity.

[โ€“] shottymcb@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

To be fair /r/malefashionadvice turned into a circlejerk of popular people posting fits (influencers?) and very little real advice outside of a preset notion of what was acceptable.

[โ€“] shottymcb@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Where are you going to buy your replacement gasoline engine and transmission? The previous owner decided that oil change intervals were more of a guideline anyway. One big win in buying a used EV is that maintenance is minimal, so there's less worry about how the previous owner treated the car.

I promise replacing your drivetrain at 200k is going to cost more than a battery pack.

I can get an aftermarket LiFePo battery replacement for my prius for 1/10th the cost of an OEM. It's just a bunch of laptop batteries in a box, it really doesn't have to be super expensive. As adoption grows aftermarket battery replacements will plummet in price.

[โ€“] shottymcb@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I would imagine most devices have BMS settings to deal with this now.

There's not much incentive to do that. Battery longevity reduces sales. Keeping the battery at 100% gives better review scores. It's a lose lose for phone makers to implement that.

[โ€“] shottymcb@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago (8 children)

If you want to get pedantic about it, 3rd world originally meant countries that didn't take sides in the cold war. 1st world was US and western European democracies and their client states and allies, 2nd world was USSR and their client states and allies.

3rd world was Africa, India, a lot of SE Asia and some Central/South American countries.

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