RememberTheApollo

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago (3 children)

We’ve contributed to that. We got a PHEV (not a pure electric) that we probably put gas in once a month whereas before it was probably every 2 weeks to 10 days in a normal car.

EVs are awesome.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

That’s gotta be depressing for sure sometimes. Hope we’ll get a clue and start acting on what people like you recommend.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

38 is still really a decent spot for that. Men and women both have unrealistic expectations set when it comes to body image thanks to fashion and entertainment industries. Get yourself a good routine and you can still look great. None of us are going to have a Chris Evans’ Captain America body without steroids and personal training.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago

I didn’t mean to imply financial success was the only success.

 

We hear about all the young people making a big deal of their successes in their early years. Twenty-something tech gurus or entrepreneurs that make their fortune early.

Who here is past 45-50 and maybe made a switch or restarted and found success and a modicum of happiness in their new position?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

TBF that’s a cheat. They didn’t have to be the ones investigating, researching, and developing everything to make it all work for the first time.

The science today is very well established. While it doesn’t lessen the difficulty, nobody is reinventing the wheel at full price. They’re standing on the shoulders of very well established giants.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I’ve lived in left leaning areas for decades. Solar is everywhere, from rooftops to open fields. We don’t have a ton of wind, but there’s a lot of offshore farms and quite a few in the hills. Nobody is “taking” land, it’s sold by the landowner.

If right wing areas are blocking renewables it’s far more likely to be done so it props up the fossil fuel/power generation companies and has little or nothing to do with any actual drawbacks of renewables or their installation.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

Their society is the shareholders.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 8 months ago (10 children)

It keeps trying. I keep denying it.

I would far rather pay a fee for an OS, like I did for every computer I built up to Win 7, and not have to deal with M$oft’s BS and ad-pushing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I should have been more clear: spinny removable storage like CDs.

Yeah, all my computers have spin HDD for storage and SSD for OS and most-used programs.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Back to spinny drives we go?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Determined, aren’t you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Title pretty much sums up why we’re screwed.

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