Electric vs Gas
xkcd.com

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An idling gas engine may be annoyingly loud, but that’s the price you pay for having WAY less torque available at a standstill.

  • Madison420@lemmy.worldEnglish
    117·
    5 months ago

    If you’re driving more than 300miles a day you’re just admitting your a much larger slice of the shitty pie.

    • little_tuptup@lemmy.mlEnglish
      23·
      5 months ago

      This is a bit inaccurate. What about truck drivers? They are extra shitty then. But they wouldn’t be extra shitty if they didn’t deliver your Charmin to Costco for you to purchase.

      Don’t blame the end-user, blame the system.

      • Madison420@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        Short range point to point trucking (day trucking) is necessary, pretty much any other truckload is better taken by rail both faster and cheaper in countries other than the US because oil companies didn’t intentionally kneecap American rail.

    • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
      613·
      5 months ago

      Fuck you, I drive so other people don’t have to.

      By being eager to gauge people’s location in “the shitty pie”, you’re just admitting your (sic) a much large slice of the shitty pie

      • Madison420@lemmy.worldEnglish
        62·
        5 months ago

        That just isn’t true, you just said you could ride a train. You choose not to, that’s a big difference.

        But saying rail is significantly slower you narrow your nationality to maybe 5 major nations one happens to be significantly more represented on Lemmy. The “need” to drive safe over reaction to the guess means I’m almost certainly correct. Am I not?

          • Madison420@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            5 months ago

            An optional “profession” that steals money from qualified taxis and is also super abusive towards its employees. That’s not an excuse, that’s an explanation an kinda of a bad one at that.

            • aidan@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              5 months ago

              An optional “profession” that steals money from qualified taxis

              It’s not stealing if it doesn’t take it out of their wallet. Maybe the issue is instead the expensive restrictions on becoming a taxi driver? Or the virtual monopoly many taxi companies have. Or just that almost always a taxi is a worse experience.

              • Madison420@lemmy.worldEnglish
                11·
                5 months ago

                That’s literally what it does. Taxis didn’t have monopoly, they have a licensed job specifically because unlicensed taxis were dangerous and people at the time were getting shanghaied.

                • aidan@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  5 months ago

                  Did Spotify steal from radio?

                  they have a licensed job specifically because unlicensed taxis were dangerous and people at the time were getting shanghaied.

                  Do you have any source for that happening significantly more frequently with Ubers?

                  • Madison420@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    11·
                    5 months ago

                    Radio is licensed to transmit at certain levels on certain frequencies, Spotify does not transmit in open air.

                    Point to where I said it was happening. I said taxis were licensed because of crazy shit like rapists driving people to word places and having at. You don’t get that with Uber.

        • mister_flibble@lemm.eeEnglish
          21·
          5 months ago

          Tbf to the guy you’re responding to, getting the extra 2-3 days of PTO necessary to take the train may also be a contributing factor. There’s a hidden work reform issue baked into this that also needs addressing.

          • Madison420@lemmy.worldEnglish
            52·
            5 months ago

            There absolutely is, the fact that most other major countries get 6 weeks mandatory minimum and we have zero mandatory minimum is crazy.