I was today's years old when I learned what Scroll Lock was used for. And I've not had a keyboard with it for about 15 years.

You and me both. This was a surprisingly elucidating post about something that has essentially hasn’t been an option for me in a long time, hah.

To this day if you walk on the beach your soles or the soles of your shoes will get sticky tar spots. You need baby oil wipes to clean them up before entering your home.

And some of it, if not most of it is not natural seepage but early environmental catastrophes in the 50s and 60s, particularly around Summerland.

(Source ex-resident)

100% agree, but I relish the works of Willam Gibson and Burroughs who pose those questions AND getting the future somewhat right.

100%. Next is Tesla.

Battery degradation is largely overhyped and there is growing real world data to illustrate that in practice it's not a dealbreaker. Million mile batteries now exist.

Show me a million mile gas/diesel engine.

Also let's not forget that Toyota has a well funded corporate program rewarding employees to spread anti-EV propaganda.

You mean this, or something else; https://www.motorbiscuit.com/ev-battery-last-3-million-miles...

A theoretical battery that is not actively produced, let alone actually gone the distance…?

On the other side I can tell you at least SaaB has had a million mile ICE car, from 1989. There’s assuredly more than this.

> 1989 Saab 900 SPG - 1 Million Miles

https://www.saabplanet.com/1989-saab-900-spg-with-1-million-...

Modern EVs with thermal management simply haven't been around for long enough for a significant quantity to reach 1 million miles, especially those with LFP cells.

There are some taxis and limo service Teslas that famously did make it to 300-400k+ miles on their original pack.

The technology exists, CATL is offering a million-mile/15 year warranty for some of their packs: https://chargedevs.com/newswire/catl-warrants-its-new-ev-bat...

It's a solved problem. When you consider TCO, EVs win even if the battery needs replacement.

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This sucks for hotel dwellers.

In unrelated news: China graduates more engineers then ever before.

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