Electric vs Gas
xkcd.com

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An idling gas engine may be annoyingly loud, but that’s the price you pay for having WAY less torque available at a standstill.

  • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
    613·
    1 年前

    Fuck you, I drive so other people don’t have to.

    By being eager to gauge people’s location in “the shitty pie”, you’re just admitting your (sic) a much large slice of the shitty pie

    • Madison420@lemmy.worldEnglish
      62·
      1 年前

      That just isn’t true, you just said you could ride a train. You choose not to, that’s a big difference.

      But saying rail is significantly slower you narrow your nationality to maybe 5 major nations one happens to be significantly more represented on Lemmy. The “need” to drive safe over reaction to the guess means I’m almost certainly correct. Am I not?

        • Madison420@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          1 年前

          An optional “profession” that steals money from qualified taxis and is also super abusive towards its employees. That’s not an excuse, that’s an explanation an kinda of a bad one at that.

          • aidan@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 年前

            An optional “profession” that steals money from qualified taxis

            It’s not stealing if it doesn’t take it out of their wallet. Maybe the issue is instead the expensive restrictions on becoming a taxi driver? Or the virtual monopoly many taxi companies have. Or just that almost always a taxi is a worse experience.

            • Madison420@lemmy.worldEnglish
              11·
              1 年前

              That’s literally what it does. Taxis didn’t have monopoly, they have a licensed job specifically because unlicensed taxis were dangerous and people at the time were getting shanghaied.

              • aidan@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                1 年前

                Did Spotify steal from radio?

                they have a licensed job specifically because unlicensed taxis were dangerous and people at the time were getting shanghaied.

                Do you have any source for that happening significantly more frequently with Ubers?

                • Madison420@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  11·
                  1 年前

                  Radio is licensed to transmit at certain levels on certain frequencies, Spotify does not transmit in open air.

                  Point to where I said it was happening. I said taxis were licensed because of crazy shit like rapists driving people to word places and having at. You don’t get that with Uber.

                  • aidan@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    1·
                    1 年前

                    You suggested it as if from my interpretation it was a problem with Uber. If not, what is? And again, how’s it any more theft than CDs stealing from record manufacturers

      • mister_flibble@lemm.eeEnglish
        21·
        1 年前

        Tbf to the guy you’re responding to, getting the extra 2-3 days of PTO necessary to take the train may also be a contributing factor. There’s a hidden work reform issue baked into this that also needs addressing.

        • Madison420@lemmy.worldEnglish
          52·
          1 年前

          There absolutely is, the fact that most other major countries get 6 weeks mandatory minimum and we have zero mandatory minimum is crazy.