It can be difficult for coops to play on the capitalist market.

A company with a top-down hierarchy can make decisions much faster than an organization where the decisions are made ground up through internal democratic policies. The democratic process also very likely limits the co-op from doing shady stuff.

It’s possible though, but it requires a really good community backing.

I’ve been skating since 1986. The first time someone asked me if I was too old for it was in 1987. That question is really only in the eye of the beholder.

News on car sales are always presented as monthly or by quarter.

That way, everyone gets a participation trophy by breaking the records in the period that they actually deliver a new model to the tarmac.

I don’t blame the news outlets. Reporting on record car sales is kind of boring when the 1966 Toyota Corolla is still the most sold car.

I have no doubt that Tesla actually managed to peak for a while in the category “American sales of electric pick-ups trucks”.

ok… 3 out of 7 is still pretty good.

(You also fucked up the first two letters)

The lines don’t matter as long as you don’t cut it.

Place it, then cut it. The cut will be correct if you cut it where you want it cut, not where you think in advance that you want it cut.

It’s like that chip tune webpage where the entire track is encoded in the url.

My grandfather made it a point to lift everyone until he couldn’t get then off the ground anymore.

It doesn’t seem so.

The actual interview referenced in the article is somewhat longer: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/magazine/bill-gates-foundation-closing-2045.html

From what I can gather there are at least 3 reasons to end it earlier:

It was always planned to have an end date. This was set before they even knew what they’re were going to do. They now have a clear plan, where they can say “a human life can be saved for this amount of dollars”, so they don’t need to wait for anything.

Bill Gates criticizes post-life foundations, stating that they’re in risk of getting eaten by administration costs. I don’t know about that, but it appears that he doesn’t trust others to as good a job as he wants to do himself.

Warren Buffett is doubling the contributions for the foundation, but only for as long as Bill and Melinda are alive. Gates is 69 years old, so blowing it all in 20 years seems to be a realistic timeframe if they want to take full advantage of Warren Buffett’s pledge.

On long trips you need a break. I don’t need a break on my daily commute. To me, never having to stop at gas stations is one of the key benefits of driving electric.

The larger downsides are mentioned in the article. Gas stations, charger sites and potential swapping sites all require massive investments in land, infrastructure and idle batteries. And they still experience shortcomings in peak periods. The idea of driving somewhere and stopping there for refueling is probably the least efficient method of distributing energy. I’m sure the gas station companies will gladly push for this method and it will be nice to have the option, but I will always prefer not having to go there at all.

For long drives, where you do need a break, the fast chargers are quick enough. Cutting the waiting from 15 minutes to 5 minutes is really not worth the investment.

Headline ends in a question mark. The answer is no.

Battery swapping is a nice option for certain types of vehicles and locations, and battery standards would be great too, but I doubt it will replace home charging anytime soon. It has all the downsides of gas stations, as stated in the article.

Perhaps it makes sense in a couple of car-generations if batteries eventually get really big, like 5000 km range or something.

According to the source, he didn’t saturate it.

I drive by something like that daily. Some days it does look like that, but it mostly looks like a regular manure field. Capturing it on camera is a matter of timing.

Perhaps it’s time to remind people that the date of celebration of labour day in most of the world on May 1st. was chosen to commemorate the American Haymarket affair in 1886.

Not a hoopy frood.

What do mean “how long”? It’s exactly what happened here?

It’s just another example of their incompetence.

They ought to be proud of labeling the tariffed products, so that customers could easier choose the domestic brands, which supposedly is the point of having the tariffs in the first place.

Attempting to hide it only shows that they realize how bad the tariffs really are.

This question is really wide. You’ll have to narrow down what the challenge really is.

Start by doing a mind map on a piece of paper.

You’ll need one for the product, but you’ll also need one for the business.

Once our have the entire idea spread out like that, you can start researching the things you don’t know or contact people who do know those specifics.

Legally? You can kill them as well.

You just have to claim that you thought it was self-defense against what appeared to be a black man jogging around your house.

I like his suit.

It’s a jacket.

I hate the mandatory “updates” which is only a prompt to install “suggested” apps. Even when deselecting everything, it still starts downloading TEMU. Fuck that.

Speaking of books, my only experience with Linux in the 90s was seeing the Red Hat books. I don’t know anyone who actually made it work.