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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Krankenwagen

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

93.9% of new cars sold in Norway are EVs, a further 5% are hybrids.

I don't know what that translates to in terms of cars currently on the road though. But that's also stats for the whole country. You can imagine in a relatively affluent area where there are mostly new cars the vast majority of them are probably EVs.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

Adding on to what GreyEyedGhost said, since the year 2000 the price of solar power (per watt) has fallen by more than 50x. Because of this huge drop in price the installed solar capacity has been doubling every 3 years. That means that in the time since 2020 we've built more solar capacity than we did in the previous 20 years combined.

If that's not good enough then idk. Imagine holding any other technology to that standard. The model T came out almost 100 years ago for an inflation adjusted price of $27,000 and with an MPG of 7.5. ICE cars today are better in a lot of other ways but they are not 50x cheaper and they are not 50x more fuel efficient than that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It works for me on mobile Firefox (version 128.0.3).

I was going to attach a screenshot, but that doesn't seem to be working.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

He must listen to arcane tomes in audiobook form while doing crunches.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I mean it's basically anything that massively affects your living situation or how you outwardly present / function as a person.

Want to live in a hole in the desert, or a cabin in the woods, or in a semi-legal squat? It would be pretty hard to maintain a relationship with a partner whose not also into living that way.

Want to convert the interior of your house to look like a Star Trek set? Better find someone that wants to live on the USS Enterprise.

Are you into extreme body modification? Better find someone whose alright with their partner surgically altering themselves to look like a Klingon.

There are also plenty of interests that are just risky or disruptive, like doing urban exploration, running a home chemistry lab, building tesla coils, etc. Tesla coils are just loud, urban exploration can get you arrested (though it's unlikely anything of consequence will actually happen to you), and two of the amateur chemistry YouTube channels I watch have been raised by the police because the amount of glassware they bought set off an alarm (neither of them were charged with anything though). If you do any of those and your partner isn't interested in them at all I can't imagine that not being a pain point, considering that risk/disruption is also on top of you spending significant time / energy / cash on a hobby they have nothing to do with.

Finally, there are more benign hobbies like through hiking or immersive historical reenactment where, if your partner's not coming with you, they'd have to be okay with you disappearing for weeks at a time and not being able to talk to them.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

I think you might be underestimating the intensity of some people's interests and how much of their being is defined by them, especially non-neurotypical people.

EDIT: Like, if you live in a van with solar panels on the roof you should probably find a partner that's also cool living inside a van.

If you spend a significant stints at home wearing a fursuit, you should probably find a partner that enjoys or at least doesn't mind living with what looks like an anthropomorphic furry creature.

If you regularly consume large doses of halcinogens to explore the limits of human consciousness you should probably find a partner that's doesn't mind hearing about how you saw an infinite blade made of time that slices the present moment into two parts: the past and the future.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

People are going to look back at single use alkaline cells like we were insane. "You mean they had batteries that would destroy themselves after a single use? And they just threw them in the trash afterwards and kept buying new ones over and over? And they did this despite the fact that the technology for reusable batteries existed????"

Even now there are single use vapes and phone chargers out there. They're going to think we're even more insane for that, and rightfully so.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

That's the entire rest of the world my dude.

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