robolemmy

I love electric cars. I drive one. Still, this idea that gas/diesel fires are more common needs to be put into perspective.

Yes, per mile driven, ICE cars catch fire more frequently. That much is true. BUT putting out a fire in an ICE car is almost trivial. I’ve extinguished two of them with just a handheld fire extinguisher.

The same absolutely can’t be said of EV fires. They burn much hotter and a many, many times more difficult to extinguish. Even when you think the fire is out, the energy in the battery cells can restart the thermal runaway and reignite the battery. That means you will almost always need a multi-truck response from the fire department and at least one truck will have to sit with the vehicle for hours after the fire is controlled. You can’t even tow or flatbed the thing until you’re reasonably sure it’s out. Even with all that, there have been a few cases of EV fires restarting in junkyards/impound lots.

TL;DR: EV fires are not comparable to ICE fires. They are much worse.

You can’t fool me… that’s clearly not a 16th century CE cat.

You can debloat an NVIDIA shield android tv box, replace the default launcher, then install whatever else you want. It’s probably not perfect but it’s pretty darn good. That’s what I use and it can be updated without losing any of my customization.

I must admit I’m a little sad that you forgot to label the mysterious human figure. Who could it be? We’ll never know.

These are really idiotic but I keep laughing and thus keep upvoting

Anarchists are just libertarians who don’t go to church.

Kingdom

I asked people to take handover for a full month before I left and nobody cared. On my last day they kept asking if they could call me with questions. I said only if they had their credit cards ready because I wasn’t going to work for free.

I watched the first moon landing on a black & white TV while wearing footie pajamas.

Wolf, not dog. Robot wolf, if you want to be more specific.

Out of all the things I might willingly identify as, a dog is absolutely not on the list.