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They're rad but also extremely expensive for what they are. Just before Covid hit and cancelled everything we were going to buy a second vehicle so I'd be able to tote myself when I wanted to leave the city to go do stuff and now we consider that a bullet dodged, with inflation a second vehicle would be a nightmare. EvilJoven fucked around with this message at 04:40 on Mar 4, 2022 |
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I just planned a road trip to the US so gently caress me for actually trying to be safe and not take a plane  Bonus: this is supposed to make up for the honeymoon I was going to take… in April 2020.
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Randalor posted:When my parents passed away, we debated switching the house from electric to gas heat and decided to stick with electric, and my wife traded in her car for a pure EV car last year because gently caress half-measures and we don't really do "long range" driving anyways. Is it wrong to be laughing this hard at how much of a bullet we seemed to have dodged? Depending on where you live you might have hosed yourself in the long term. We already know that MB hydro can't produce enough electricity to keep up with the potential demand increase from a mass switch away from fossil fuels for heating and transportation. It's probably the same elsewhere. We're on
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EvilJoven posted:Depending on where you live you might have hosed yourself in the long term. We already know that MB hydro can't produce enough electricity to keep up with the potential demand increase from a mass switch away from fossil fuels for heating and transportation. It's probably the same elsewhere. Maybe, but like I said, the house was already electric heat, so the only real change we made was switching to an electric car. Considering the lead times on getting an electric vehicle if you aren't absurdly lucky, I don't think there'll be mass-migrations to EVa for a few years yet.
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Mar 4, 2022 13:49
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They better drop the peak/off peak rates in Ontario unless they think the power infrastructure can handle hundreds of thousands of EVs all drawing 30amps at the same moment at 7pm every day
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Mar 4, 2022 13:54
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It's going to take a really long time for EV adoption to reach critical levels here but the electric heat might start to become unaffordable sooner than that, especially if MB hydro faces the same fate as Ontario, which it probably will if the conservatives are given enough time to privatize.
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Mar 4, 2022 13:58
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If the Ford Maverick is as good as advertised I might pick up a used one of those. 25k hybrid that's better at being a civic than my current honda.
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Mar 4, 2022 14:19
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Wow Hillier says he's not running for re-election. Good riddance lol.
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Noblesse Obliged posted:They better drop the peak/off peak rates in Ontario unless they think the power infrastructure can handle hundreds of thousands of EVs all drawing 30amps at the same moment at 7pm every day Wasn't there something like the Ontario rates are very high (and thus subsidized) because the government promised the producers a minimum payout and there isn't enough electricity usage to reach that minimum payout level at a lower rate? So kwh rate would actually get lower if more people started using power? I dunno, sounds weird now that I'm writing it down, but I heard something like this.
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Mar 4, 2022 14:23
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Less Fat Luke posted:Wow Hillier says he's not running for re-election. Good riddance lol.
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Mar 4, 2022 14:50
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Ontario and Quebec are both pursuing energy storage. Ontario is doing bids for private projects and Quebec hydro started their own company. But it will probably be awhile before that has an impact on peak/off peak prices. Most projects now are more about emergency backup and system stability
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Mr. Apollo posted:He said he's not running "to show people what freedom looks like". I feel freer already.
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Mar 4, 2022 15:07
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Christine Elliott isn’t running either. https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6372223
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Mar 4, 2022 15:21
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Less Fat Luke posted:Wow Hillier says he's not running for re-election. Good riddance lol. is he giving the ol' self cancel and make a substack a try?
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Mar 4, 2022 15:25
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Mr. Apollo posted:Christine Elliott isn’t running either. What are 'things high profile politicians do when their party is 100% being re-elected in 3 months' for $400, Alex?
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Mar 4, 2022 15:44
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Another Bill posted:What are 'things high profile politicians do when their party is 100% being re-elected in 3 months' for $400, Alex? Do you think they have some internal polling that shows them getting slaughtered or something? AFAIK right now nothing that's come out publicly shows any competition for the PCPO. Del Duca is basically a non-entity and if people are voting OLP, it's the people who vote on brand alone. Andrea Horwath remains Andrea Horwath, and that seems unlikely to change in the next three months.
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Mr. Apollo posted:Christine Elliott isn’t running either. She and Rod Philips both, though I guess he has the added stink of that whole tropical vacation thing.
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Another Bill posted:What are 'things high profile politicians do when their party is 100% being re-elected in 3 months' for $400, Alex? Not "her" party, though. It's Doug's, thanks to arcane PCPO rules. And despite blundering on every point, Doug is not facing any internal pressure to go. The last part makes sense, in that they're going to win the next election. In Ontario the opposition parties seem to be terrible at elections, so even unpopular governments can stay multiple terms.
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Thinking out loud, but getting rid of both Hillier and Elliott makes sense if the PCPO sees them as electoral vulnerabilities to one or another group they think they need to win. You get rid of the health minister if you don't want to be burdened with the "mandates" minister and so lose voters to the PPC, and you get rid of the screaming crazy guy if you don't want to lose the suburban OLP-PCPO swing voters. Though Hillier was already kicked out of the party, wasn't he?
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A while ago, he's been sitting as an independent since. If anything, he's not running because he can't afford to on his own dime.
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Juul-Whip posted:Automobiles will continue to get larger and more lethal to those not inside them, there just will be fewer of them made and they’ll be more expensive and reserved for an ever shrinking class of people Yeah this is absolutely what reality will end up being in another gas crisis. Nothing will change fundamentally and the plebs will just have to further immiserate themselves in the service of car culture. Hell, it's basically what's already happening.
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mmm combat flavoured vapingquote:Canadians have not taken the threat of nuclear war seriously for 30 years.
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infernal machines posted:A while ago, he's been sitting as an independent since. I guess, with the way politics works, someone could've still dropped Hillier a line saying it would be worth his time to simmer down.
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Postess with the Mostest posted:mmm combat flavoured vaping It tastes like...victory.
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I assume he'll start a new grift or end up on a federal PPC ticket somewhere down the line.
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Postess with the Mostest posted:mmm combat flavoured vaping shes not wrong
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The convoy documented their premeditated lawbreaking, as Stringer Bell warned against. https://pressprogress.ca/convoy-leaders-emails-reveal-planning-document-that-outlines-early-plans-to-illegally-occupy-ottawa/
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So you can just e-mail your mycrimes.txt to the Ottawa Police and they'll tell you where you can commit them unimpeded? Pretty convenient.
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Protests do often work with police to plan routes and get road closures but they're typically only meant to last a few hours at most, not three whole weeks. I still think there were plenty of guys within the police force who were sympathetic to the convoyers and I also suspect there was an element of making Sloly look bad involved in the local response as well. I don't expect the "review" will find any of that, though. It'll probably just say, "We took them at their word that they'd only stay for a few days and we got bamboozled! Oops! shrugging emoji"
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I hole every cop who supported or helped the protest is making GBS threads themselves about the investigation that will come. If you genuinely believed the protests would over throw the government you should not be a cop
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Just a reminder that the sum total outcome of the G20 inquiries over the unlawful detention of more than a thousand people was some lost paid vacation time, which was restored on appeal
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infernal machines posted:Just a reminder that the sum total outcome of the G20 inquiries over the unlawful detention of more than a thousand people was some lost paid vacation time, which was restored on appeal Suuure but in that case they actually accomplished what they were put in place to do by the powers that be Here they specifically did not do that
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Ron Paul Atreides posted:I hole every cop who supported or helped the protest is making GBS threads themselves about the investigation that will come. If you genuinely believed the protests would over throw the government you should not be a cop The cops will, as always, take a good hard look at themselves and decide that their conduct was flawless, no further questions
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infernal machines posted:Just a reminder that the sum total outcome of the G20 inquiries over the unlawful detention of more than a thousand people was some lost paid vacation time, which was restored on appeal There was actual compensation paid to mistreated g20 protesters via a class-action lawsuit, it only took about 10 years to happen and came from the general city budget so the payout had no actual effect on the police department.
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Entropic posted:There was actual compensation paid to mistreated g20 protesters via a class-action lawsuit, it only took about 10 years to happen and came from the general city budget so the payout had no actual effect on the police department. How much did they get? I totally missed that.
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sleep with the vicious posted:How much did they get? I totally missed that. $5000-$16000 depending on the class. https://www.g-20classactionsettlement.ca/
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It's good that civil suit was won and at least some compensation was made, but as noted, it was a civil suit and the compensation wasn't paid by any of the involved police services.
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Yeah, maybe if police brutality settlements came out of police pension funds or something, there'd be actual monetary incentive to not beat the poo poo out of people for no reason. Or at the very least out of the operating budget. Sorry, no new tanks and less OT this year because officer friendly couldn't keep his baton in his holster.
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MNIMWA posted:HELL YEAH The new Ford Maverick is exactly what you are looking for. Unfortunately, so is everyone else.
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