Degrees versus radians. Not checking imperial versus metric units when you enter stuff. Button gets stuck. And so forth

Like with anything, you need to be able to glance at the output and say “that looks right”

That’s for you to decide. But the environmental impact of batteries is drastically reduced if you actually recycle them and so forth.

As for cost effectiveness?

Quick google of a poorly documented site that looks “about right” says the average price of a gallon of gasoline was 7.079 Australian dollars and 4.459 USD, respectively. Normalizing, that is 4.54 and 4.459 USD. And it gets a lot higher in other countries, but those seem the two pertinent to this discussion. https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/Australia/gasoline_prices/

So doing a bit of math:

X city miles / N city Miles Per Gallon * 4.5 USD per gallon = M dollars per retrofit

So get the price of the retrofit, your average city (stop and go) miles per gallon, and figure out if you are likely to travel that distance. Because the effectiveness of a hybrid drops drastically for extended highway (although 100 kilometers is a decent charge size), whereas they use trace amounts of gas during stop and go city driving.

But also, like with anything, it is a bit of a gamble. Do you think gas prices will go up or down? Do you expect to continue driving your current route? And so forth.

Also, that rough equation assumes inflation will increase (because it always will) and attributes cost of charging at night as well as lack of perfect efficiency in regenerative braking to that.

Short version: This is the same bullshit that is spewed every time something new comes out. If you ever heard that your calculator will prevent you from being able to do math or your IDE will prevent you from knowing how to write a function signature and so forth, it is that all over again.

And the reality is? Maybe it will. But that is progress. I doubt most people know how to make butter or can preserves. And they don’t need to be cause technology has reached the point that that is an unnecessary skill.

Your goal should not be to buy a hybrid or to “upgrade” to a hybrid. At this point, anyone buying a new vehicle should either be sticking to ICE or going full BEV. Anything else is. generally, a waste of money and tradeoffs.

But the point of this is more to extend the life of existing vehicles. That beater Camry that you have been driving for ten years? For a couple grand you can help the environment and probably make that back in gas over a few years if you mostly drive city.

You definitely lose out. Your trunk space is likely to shrink considerably (since even a 100 km battery is going to have some heft) and your overall gas mileage likely will go down when in ICE mode because of the weight of everything. But, again, if you are mostly commuting to work with a lot of stop and go traffic, it is a good upgrade to consider.

Already pointed this out in the other branch but always worth repeating

You know, I have my suspicions about that Hegar guy. He said a few things that makes me wonder if he is a pedophile. Like, I am not saying he diddles kids, but he says the kinds of things that make me think he might? You know?

Can you see why baseless speculation (because not properly acting on intelligence is pretty much the one constant of intelligence gathering) might have negative repercussions?

Stupid ideas like jumping from “intelligence was not acted on” to “this is a false flag action to kill israeli civilians to expedite the mass murder of Palestinians”?

I have a lot of suspicions about a lot of things. Many based on a “gut feeling”

But when there is no meaningful evidence to support it other than speculation and said “gut feeling”? It is not something I bring up.

No, there are plenty of appropriate times.

You want to know when an inappropriate time is?

When information is still incredibly sparse and misinformation is running rampant because social media is compromised.

Or when bodies aren’t even buried and people are starting “crisis actor” level narratives.

As for why “I am just asking questions” is not a valid excuse for propagating conspiracy theories and baseless misinformation: Hey, I hear that Ricosuave user might be a pedophile. I don’t have any concrete evidence, but don’t you think they might be the kind of person to diddle kids? I mean, I am not asserting anything, just asking.

Can you see why JAQing off is bad?

I would not at all be surprised if the israeli government allowed this to happen.

But there is no evidence beyond “they did not act on questionable intel”. And the sooner we enter full conspiracy theory mode, the less credence there is TO (more) nefarious actions coming to light later. US-centric, but I know plenty of people who consider “The Bush Administration lied about evidence of WMDs” to be on the same level as “jet fuel doesn’t melt steel beams” in terms of “conspiracy theories”

And all we do by entertaining conspiracy theories is erode the concept of truth.

The question is not “so was this a false flag action and all the festival goers were crisis actors?”. It is “why did israel not act on this intelligence. What made them think it was not valid”

“The bush administration, and the clinton before them, did not act on warning signs of 9-11” is not a conspiracy theory

“The US government allowed 9-11 to happen” is.

Deliberately fiddling with the dial on Palestinian tension for political reasons is like Netanyahu’s go to move.

and

This just further raises questions on whether Netanyahu was actually unaware or if this attack was allowed to happen to provide cover for his corruption charges.

Are very much the latter.

No, it is not “totally reasonable to discuss the question”. That is the basis for conspiracy theories and is why the world is so massively full of FUD and misinformation.

Because you have taken “Failing of intelligence” and turning it into the kind of conspiracy theory that makes people assume only idiots would question this because… yeah

Turn the tinfoil hatting down by about ten notches.

Drills and the like are happening all the time. Hell, back when I used to live near one of the juicier US bases, I could literally see them building up and tearing down kill houses/training structures on the regular. Asked a few on business meetings and it was very much a mix of training and preparation/drilling.

Arguments like this suggest israel should have bombed them even harder. And the news media would likely report that as blowing up people building sheds or new housing. And, knowing israel, that is what it would devolve into.

I am not aware of any “on the record” incidents of IDF soldiers raping Palestinians. However, a bit of research shows a pretty horrific series of articles about IDF commanders allowing Hamas prisoners to rape IDF soldiers but…

Similarly, there are documented accusations of rape by Israeli soldiers during past wars.

But, beyond that: it is pretty much “known” that soldiers will use sexual violence as a weapon during war. It is one of the horrors of war that shows up pretty much no matter what army is involved.

So… while I am not going to accuse Israeli soldiers of rape (and actively didn’t), that is not the line in the sand I would use to argue why one set of violent thugs are better than others.

And I already addressed the distinction without difference of executing Palestinian civilians in an open air prison being held hostage to try to encourage other Palestinians to “behave” in front of news cameras versus on twitter.

And in that I agree (even if young soldiers with guns and permission to do whatever they want tend to commit large amounts of sexual violence against civilian populations…)

But you specifically brought up

when the IDF took a bunch of civilian women and children as hostages and then announced that it was going to livestream their murder.

You can MAYBE argue against the livestreaming, but it isn’t like news agencies around the world aren’t regularly doing stories on the human rights violations and apartheid in Gaza (and, to a much lesser extent, the West Bank).

Historically, probably

But with the rise of crowdfunding and “direct to consumer” sales models like this, it has increasingly been used to refer to hardware.

And, for what it is worth, I remember similar discussions in probably the early/mid 00s (maybe even late 90s?) with regard to the kind of stuff you would see in magazines. Which we now understand to mostly be proof of concept PR stunts by tech companies. Use them to “plant a flag in the ground” so that you can search for investors and accuse the competition of copying you.

I mean… Gaza is an open air prison that is, in part, used to keep the “more moderate” Palestinians in the West Bank compliant/docile. Very much a “You act up and we will do this to you too” situation.

Rather than get angry that The Internet told you something you don’t like, do some research and better understand the whole mess. Because… it is a giant mess on all sides. Even a lot of the external support is built around using the Palestinians as a distraction/punishment for israel rather than actually caring what happens to them.

Actually, you will see that the only time I even mentioned Palestine was in the context of what would push them to support (and protect) a terrorist organization like Hamas (and historically the PLO, but they were downright nice in comparison). I repeatedly mention “Hamas”. So unless you feel that Hamas are representative of Palestine…

I will admit I have done a poor job of providing the same distinction for Israel and the IDF/Mossad/Government. But, as mentioned, I have long standing issues with Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians and my personal biases are shining through.

Not sure how that means I am spreading hatred of minorities but…

When the rich powerful wage war, its the poor that die.

Again:

When the response to “A commit atrocities against B” is “Well, B commit atrocities against A” with no additional context? That is justifying A’s actions.

And, by doing that, it is deciding who has more human rights than others.

If this were a call for deescalation or even part of ongoing discussions of human rights abuses, I would be more tolerant of it. But when it is presented without context in the hope of shaping public opinion to support rapists and/or child killers? Fuck that.

I think an understanding of the conflict as a whole is very important (on “both sides” as it were).

But yeah. Very much clear that the pro-IDF crowd are going to focus on this most recent set of atrocities and ignore all past ones. And the pro-Hamas side are going to justify rape and murder of dumbass kids (who were actually supporting peace…) because of Israeli war crimes.

And both sides are DEFINITELY going to ignore why Palestine would support an evil terrorist group to feel like they are “doing something” or why Israel would feel that it is “just” to target an apartment complex being used to store munitions.