That’s a good point

They’re not synonyms, but they are close enough that when said quickly they can be homonyms

Huh. When I first got to Lemmy, I looked around for the no dumb questions community, look like it has grown a lot since then!

Repeating what many have said, those rules are written in blood.

Yeah, that word choice can unfortunately work perfectly in 2 ways. I meant white underwear in the briefs style

It is. Some of them are getting snapped up to help with powering factories.

I think this is car companies using the incoming battery packs from replacing worn out packs. Time to look it up…

https://www.autoblog.com/news/toyota-just-found-a-clever-new-use-for-old-ev-batteries

This is the article I was thinking of. It’s more of an idea than a common use case to use old packs to help power factories.

Yes, more specialized robots for now. When it’s harder to build for a human to do the job, build for a robot to do the job.

At some point in the future, it makes sense to combine the features of different types of robots into one form that can step in to human jobs

I thought it should be easy to do a mechanical flush handle. At the very least, a mechanical backup way to open the door in one step should be mandatory

As much as I like the look of flush door handles, I don’t like the idea of reaching my fingers inside of a thing that opens and closes electronically.

How many miles of range would we lose by having regular old fashioned door handles, anyway?

Just publicly saying they’re in the know, and closer to the poster than anyone who doesn’t know. “Look at me! I’m such a close friend that I know who they’re talking about!”

Oh my, yes. That one needed to die before it started. Obviously fishing for responses, refusing to elaborate, sometimes getting defensive in the comments, sometimes moving conversations to private chat.

And the tired old “someone knows who they are!”

Does this study assume a 9-5 schedule?

Yes! Such a great idea to make a normally boring part of the car special and pretty and customizable

To me, the ultimate dream car is this thing. Luxury to the max, budget out the window, customized to the last millimeter.

There are so many others that go in my dream collection, much simpler cars like the original Mini, 60’s Camaro, an EV swapped Super Beetle, and a late 60’s Corvette with a better engine, Caterham 7, Miata… Yeah, there are a lot.

But the pinnacle is always the Rolls.

Seems like artists would have some way of setting up shows outside of Ticketmaster’s control.

So it’s more of a milestone to catch early battery degradation rather than a cutoff point below which the battery is labeled useless?

What’s so bad about 80% of the original capacity? Wouldn’t there be a lot of use cases for a car with 80% of the range?

I’m glad to see any second use for these batteries before recycling. Gotta combat the narrative that “an EV battery is trash after 5 years!”

There are ways to melt those without burning fossil fuels. Whether the alternatives are easy, affordable, or can run at a useful rate is debatable

I’d like to point out that OP stated they did Not want investment advice.

I’ll second another comment saying to get out of possible. Take what you can, sell what you can’t take, go somewhere that is having a better time.

In the zombie variation, might want to cheat the system and ask for loaded guns. Because guns wear out and get jammed sometimes.