Back in the day I lived in the outskirts of the city where buses would run rarely. Many times when I arrived home late a woman would also drop off. They mostly reacted in the same way as OP describes.

I tried to imagine having to be afraid like that all the time and it’s horrifying. The planet is populated by animals larger and stronger than you who might, or might not behave violently without provocation.

That explains a lot. I do lot see Trump exercising or Biden loghing his workouts on Strava.

Alternative wording: Europeans have better work-life balance than Americans.

Yote has class.

He did say the jack is working, likely culprit is dc-dc converter, which is harder to replace.

I appreciate you taking the time to explain, thank you!

EV driver working in automotive industry here. Based in N Europe, so take my words with a pinch of salt for other geos.

If you can charge at home, don’t regularly drive very long distances and are OK with a smaller boot space EVs are a complete no-brainer.

If not all of these are true, the convenience depends a lot on where you live. In Northern Europe, UK and northern parts of Central Europe public charging networks are pretty good although Norway is starting to see queuing to be a thing.

In the US the only good charging network is Tesla’s, which means only NACS cars can charge there - EU regulator has done a good job here standardising to CCS2.

Living with an EV does require some changes in behavior. You need to think about tomorrow’s needs today to have the right SOC for the next long trip or choose your shopping and dining options to facilitate charging. For me, this is perfectly OK and the pleasure of driving an EV more than compensates for the mild inconvenience. That said, the amount of inconvenience is dependent on the first three factors and the country you live in.

When choosing your car, remember that you can’t normally use the top and bottom 20% of your battery (depending a bit on the chemistry), which is reflected in day-to-day range.

Feel free to ask anything related to EVs, batteries, chargers or charging networks.

Historically we have had good education and OK healthcare. The trend is downward.

The military has been really good with purchasing used but good equipment for cheap.

The foreign policy has been consistent, and even opponents to military alliance pushed for NATO when Pootin screwed the pooch.

You explain what mean?

My desk fan has three settings

• Stormy wind
• Sand blaster
• Jet engine

I actualy set up a trailing edge dimmer to calm her down, sometimes you just need a gentle breeze.

No, it’s still lacking a few features like CMYK color spaces. The UX issues are those of polish: the feature works if you know exactly how to use it, but a lot of times the workflows are neither intuitive for novices or efficient for proficient users. The team clearly has accepted this too.

As a 10+ year GIMP user, yes it’s that bad.

I still use it because it’s the only relatively full featured photo editor that works on all my platforms, but… Yea.

I have this in a big way. My spouse is a master chef and I refuse to eat at restaurants which serve foods from her home country because they can’t compete.

Coin op skate sharpening sounds perfect for Canada.

I wonder if I could bring that to Finland…?

Or we pretend to be opening a Koskenkorva bottle in whatever orientation the bolt is in.

My grandfather’s cat used to play goalie. She would guard some area, like a doorway and expect us to tty to toss a ball or something through. She’d then catch it and return the ball to us for more.

For those of you who came to find out what the hell is a semi submersible wind turbine, it appears there are ballast tanks which allow it to balance and move up/down slightly.

Oh, I like these!

I can’t bring myself to rewatch the damn thing, how can I expose my children to it?!

I wonder how this was made, Finnish work week is 37.5h/w (or more in some cases) do they account for vacation time or coffee breaks?