This is for freight trucks, not the “trucks” that people drive to their suburban supermarkets.

And in the case of freight, the lack of charging infrastructure is a significant problem, but hopefully the war will drive government and private operators into action.

These men come to me with tears in their eyes telling me they are more straight than anyone else, maybe ever.

Women have a significant issue with losing muscle mass in older age, increasing the chance they will be frail and have limited mobility. Lifting weights throughout life is protective of that (and for men too, but to a lesser extent since they tend to have greater muscle mass).

The main issue is that while a subset of the West are giving up meat, the consumption of meat is increasing in developing countries which is a typical trend as countries get richer. Also, there is a subset of Westerners increasing their meat consumption massively because of idiotic social media trends, but hopefully that is temporary.

I’m hoping that plant-based meat and/or cell-based meat eventually match or exceed meat in quality and price, but we are not quite there yet. Not that I’d eat anything that smells or tastes like meat personally, but people seem to be addicted to it.

their pedestrian warning system is also louder than fossil fuel cars.

Hasn’t been my experience, not that I disagree with your overall argument. Might differ by country and regulations etc.

People online are actually “real” people as well (assuming they are not bots) so yeah, at least some subset care. Do I care personally? Not in the slightest.

Better get going on those taxes Neddy!

the averge person spends most of their time during daytime away from home, so its far less practical to have solar at home.

Only because of hostility to work-from-home policies; plenty of people spent their days at home during the pandemic, and there’s also carers and the elderly that are home most of the time.

But this is definitely a “why not both” scenario as both will have benefits and aid in greater decentralisation of the grid, reducing the risk of down time (whether intentional or otherwise).

I suspect much of it is a fear of change. People are looking for a remotely plausible reason to dismiss it, even if it doesn’t apply to them, because it means they won’t have to modify their behaviour. You can see this with plant based diets, public and active transport, and cooking and heating technologies such as induction cooktops and heatpumps.

The plus side is that the moment people actually make the change, they rarely go back. See also congestion pricing across the world, where the view of it is negative right up until it’s implemented and it almost immediately becomes popular.

It’s just the nature of the issue. Transmission lines are primarily going through rural areas, so consequently that is where the opposition is centred.

And there’s a strong streak of anti-renewable and anti-transmission sentiment in the regions, much of it inflamed by disinformation locally and online.

NIMBYs are a slightly different problem in that it’s primarily about protecting property values rather than mostly ideological opposition in the regions. Which attitude is worse is up for debate, but yeah, I’d prefer both groups had less power to oppose needed infrastructure.

“Without rail, Australia will fail”?

Anyway I suspect long haul trucks will win out for the medium term at least. Not because it’s the best solution, but because it can be rolled out more quickly. I do hope we pursue rail for the long term good though, and not just for freight but for people moving, particularly as jet fuel takes up a greater proportion of our emissions.

It’s also better to build what we can near the cities since it reduces the need for more transmission lines which are costly and prone to opposition from rural types (unless it happens to go through their farm and they make a killing on it).

idle their cars beneath my window and exhaust fills my apartment

I don’t fucking get this, like why do people do this? Even during the oil crisis people still do this shit for no reason I can tell. I’d understand if it was super hot or cold where I am right now but it just isn’t.

Not the OP but:

• FreshRSS interface is kind of ugly (probably can be tweaked). You can use third party RSS readers, but that ends up being almost as much work as installing readeck and the like.

• FreshRSS doesn’t support OPDS or have any koreader integration, unlike readeck. These are essential features for reading on an e-ink reader, which is my preferred way to read longer articles in particular.

It’d also complex, expensive, and takes many years to build.

It also would be including the pre Iran war period. The next quarter will be more telling I suspect, particularly if the war persists or escalates.

These people (not the homeless but the vanlifers) should switch to EVs to tow their caravans. Unless they are trying to go to the most remote areas, they should be able to get by easily, particularly since taking slightly more stops is even less of an issue where you are just casually traveling.

That’s likely the reason yeah, even if it makes the problem worse given it’s mostly a demand side problem (for now). Functionally illiterate conservatives don’t know or care about that, however.

Yep. Stupid people are everywhere unfortunately and Australians have somewhat of a tendency to hoard.

And the younger MAGA men would also support it, as long as it was guaranteed to be other young men and not them specifically.