[-] bagelberger@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

Point of sale companies like Clover charge a fee and the credit card company gets a cut of that. The rest is for the point of sale's services.

[-] bagelberger@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

Gotta be awkward at the office when Dave starts losing his baby teeth and has his midlife crisis at the same time

[-] bagelberger@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

This is Bluesky

[-] bagelberger@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago
[-] bagelberger@lemmy.world 39 points 2 months ago

Quantum entanglement... but with skin

[-] bagelberger@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Yes, it works for me

[-] bagelberger@lemmy.world 33 points 5 months ago

How is this possible? One word — efficiency. Our electric appliances have gotten so much more efficient.

The magic of efficiency could and hopefully will continue this 20-year miracle of keeping electricity consumption flat even while we add lots of new loads, as there is so much more low hanging fruit to be picked. LEDs still need to finish their market domination, and heat pumps are only just getting started and will save oodles of energy for space and water heating and even clothes drying. Building codes are continuously improving, as are appliance standards, meaning our homes and buildings and everything that uses energy in them, are constantly becoming more efficient (with no compromise in performance).

This all adds up. With the 1% that electricity production declined in 2023, we could have added something like another 10 million EVs to the grid last year and our overall electricity use would still have remained the same.

[-] bagelberger@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

I own a '94 Miata and a KIA EV6, and I drive my electric vehicle far more than my stick shift. It's a different kind of fun, having so much power instantly and it's an incredibly smooth & quiet ride. The maintenance and fuel costs are far cheaper too.

It's gotten to the point where I'm not driving my Miata enough to keep the battery charged and the fuel fresh. I still love driving it though, nothing quite like a weekend drive with the top down...but it's not my #1 choice to drive anymore.

[-] bagelberger@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

If you don't happen to have generational trauma, store-bought is fine

[-] bagelberger@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

A big part of reducing motion sickness for me was to ensure that the lenses were set to the appropriate pupillary distance. If they're too wide or to narrow, that can affect your body's ability to handle VR

[-] bagelberger@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

I've wondered about how feasible it is to bypass all of these artificial locks these car companies put on their "services"

[-] bagelberger@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

Crawling in my skin These wounds, they will not heal

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