The range was fine for a mall crawler. If it sold enough for Tesla to build that extended battery, it would have had by far the most towing range for those who need it.

I don’t think initial quality and range were a real problem. T was the delay, the looks, the price over what was announced. But definitely its fate was sealed by musks disastrous foray into politics

Recently dug one up. My older kid is interested in retro tech, so he has the boom box, a record player and a cassette player. He’s started buying vinyl and cassettes, and discovered my old crate of CDs in the basement

I’ve certainly given based on entertainment value of a tall tale

There are some highly publicized cases who do actually get rich from panhandling. However the trick is to understand they are the exceptions and that you can usually distinguish them from actual needy

I no longer carry cash so the question is moot. Also a cheap way out ….

I used to occasionally, but

• I no longer work downtown so rarely encounter homeless
• I am more likely to recognize scammers and am more likely to run into them. An oversimplification is the more aggressive ones are more likely scammers
• I used to think it was a good thing to empty my pockets for whoever was in need, but too often they were offended I would offer change
• if someone was hungry I used to buy them a meal, but too often it was an excuse to beg for a larger amount and they’d be offended at a meal

Now I theoretically donate larger amounts to services for homeless …… although it’s been far too long since I have

Have you looked at your banks budgeting software? One of the key features mine has is it learns how transactions are categorized, so future ones will be categorized the same way even if the amount changes. While it’s far from perfect, it is a huge factor in making useful.

I used to try various money management tools but this made a huge convenience difference

No, the above title is better, since it more accurately describes the article.

Transit may be more efficient, but that’s not in the article

Technically true here as well. There are both federal and state incentives, so I might have fallen for their reasoning too: it makes sense to protect those job opportunities

However:

• those government subsidies are tax incentives, so don’t help the charities that probably account for most jobs
• state incentives are of course up to the state, meaning some are non-existent
• it ever actually says how much

However some key points of the story are evidence that removing the subminimum wage does not reduce employment opportunities: reality trumps feelings. I know the highlighted stories were picked for outrage but it surely outrages me just how poorly some of these people are paid.

It’s all in the details and apparently our details are inhumane

Here’s why you don’t put all your eggs in one basket

• https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/14/supreme-court-trump-education-department

The cost is on the plaintiffs, whereas the federal govt has effectively unlimited money to spend even before ignoring g court orders. While my state is not on this list, the AGs office was funded with tens of millions of dollars extra this year. While we do have a good education system to protect, there are so many other illegal actions taken by this administration that no one has time for them all. We all do what we can and hope most illegal actions get some court time

Different rules per state. For example Massachusetts taxes prepared meals and a few other things but not “food”. There was a graphic a couple days ago posted to Lemmy, showing like 5 or 10 who tax food, a minority, including several who were trying to fix that. I guess Tennessee is one of those

I have a lot of hope for solar and EVs, if politics, lobbying, corruption can be kept out. While my country is having a moment of insanity. …… for developing countries this is their chance to leapfrog older technologies. To never produce all that pollution. To never have to pay all those middlemen. To never have to build that distribution infrastructure. To never be beholden to foreign powers for energy supply.

I hope we can make huge strides in electrifying the developing world without them being stuck at the mercy of current fossil fuel suppliers

Yeah, jira is too customizable. I mean I wouldn’t give any of it up, but the one time someone let me have the reins, I mostly simplified. Removed workflows, removed customizations.

There needs to be better ways of defining standard projects and sticking to them. Currently everyone wants their little tweak and you can’t even pick out what’s consistent and what’s not until you run into problems

More automation. More manufacturing with many fewer workers. There will continue to be fewer manufacturing jobs. Even if manufacturing skyrockets. Even if someone succeeds in turning a wealthy developed country into a fascist dystopian hellhole

…in the cloud. People were still glued to their TVs back then. I don’t know whether that was before or after commercials balooned

30 years ago most people weren’t yet on the internet, there was very little entertainment media, you couldn’t use online accounts for most stuff, and most people didn’t have online bill paying. 30 years ago I helped bring my company online as the first full investment company, and my bank was still rare for doing online bill paying.

30 years ago, most of the US were in denial over climate change, renewable energy was expensive and there were no practical EVs.

OP is talking 6 AH batteries. If that’s all SiC can do, why would Apple use it in place of current 18AH batteries?

Apple was never leading edge - their goal is to incorporate when it works well

But you’re both cherry picking and wrong. There’s huge lists of features on every new phone, you’re picking two and deciding that means no innovation. Take a look at the dozens of other features on models from each manufacturer.

SiC batteries that offer 6-8k mAh

You’re complaining about battery chemistry that you believe is innovation, yet current batteries are much larger. Why switch if the technology is not as good yet?

Bicycles can go about 10mph

I’ve bicycled over 50 mph. Granted down a steep hill with a death wish. (Imagine bombing down a hill at insane speeds on a 45 mph road zooming past the cars).

Realistically people can and do maintain double that speed, and even faster for short distances or on an e-bike. That’s close to typical in town speed limits of 25-30 mph

Pedestrians include kids, who may not be predictable enough for cyclists to avoid and the huge difference in inertia between a kid and an adult travelling 20 mph is more than enough to cause serious injuries

Cyclists on the road are supposed to use hand signals to indicate turns, just like cars whose blinkers are not functioning