The Very-Many-Questions-Not-Worth-Their-Own-Thread Thread ΛΕ

[Timsup2nothin]

You can say "birthplace" for the one.

Man, I am just a terrible example. My home is Palmdale. My hometown, where I grew up, is another town. But I was actually born in yet another town, where the nearest military hospital was located. So which would I call my birthplace? I have not spent a night in the town I was born in since I was brought home from the hospital so it hardly seems relevant enough to mention, but it is in fact my official place of birth on my birth certificate.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Well, then, you just don't have a shorthand. Spell out the circumstances as needed to be clear.

I myself was whisked away from my "birthplace" at the age of just a few weeks.

 

[Takhisis]

Carbon taxes can change people's choices.

You mean take them away?

If you put a gun to your head I'll say that if you want to pull the trigger then to hell with your freedom of choice.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

Are you a celebrity who runs a car talk show?

No.

Are any of your friends celebrities who run car talk shows?

No.

What you need to do with these people, is that whenever they say something to you, look them in the eye and say to them: "You are the stupidest person I have ever met in my life." And then you need to take to heart the fact that they are sincerely stupider than they claim that you are. And how do I know that? Because you are smart enough to question what you are being told. And they are so stupid that they are incapable of questioning what they are told to believe. And everything that they have been told to believe is wrong.

They can prove that they're far smarter than I am.

Nope, don't believe that either, and neither should you. And if that is the kind of thing these people are telling you, then yes, they are seriously toxic, and emphatically notfriends, because real friends don't say that kind of **** to each other.

It is the truth.

 

[sophie]

No.

No.

So how does Jeremy Clarkson constitute a representative sample of British people for whom the range of an electric vehicle would not be sufficient?

 

[Chukchi Husky]

So how does Jeremy Clarkson constitute a representative sample of British people for whom the range of an electric vehicle would not be sufficient?

He's one of the people they use as a source of knowledge for the electric car.

 

[Cutlass]

They can prove that they're far smarter than I am.

And yet they are so incredibly stupid that the believe the things they tell you.

 

[Cutlass]

You can say "birthplace" for the one.

Where people grew up is not necessarily where they were born.

 

[Lexicus]

Where people grew up is not necessarily where they were born.

Which seems to the point since he's introducing the term as a way to distinguish the place you were born from the place in which you grew up.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Someone IRL suggested the term "first hometown" with "hometown" then being available for my current home in Palmdale.

 

[cardgame]

Let me clarify my position on carbon tax: making companies pay for their negative externalities is a Good Thing™. Making consumers pay for them in the current economy where cost of living keeps rising while wages are at a 45 year low is a Bad Thing™.

Carbon taxes would have to be accompanied by, or my likely wait on, progressive economic change.

 

[Lexicus]

We're way past carbon taxes. Expropriating the controlling officers and shareholders of fossil-fuel extraction companies, and training the technically-competent employees up so they can go to work in the Renewable Energy Public Works Project is a good discussion starting-point.

 

[Takhisis]

Let me clarify my position on carbon tax...

*nods*

 

[Valka D'Ur]

You've been in the same place for 50+ years? You must have seen a lot of changes!

It's bemusing to hear neighborhoods in my city described as "old" or "established" that I can remember as not existing before a particular year. For example, most of the neighborhood where I'm living now didn't exist 40 years ago. I remember enumerating here in the early '80s when there was a whopping TWO HOUSES built. The owner of one of them was a bit dumbfounded when I turned up on his doorstep, and he asked, "How did you find me?" (I'd recognized his name immediately as he was a columnist for the local newspaper). I pointed to the empty subdivision where his house, one other house, and a slew of empty lots were all we could see. I told him, "It really wasn't that hard."

There are "established" neighborhoods that were farmers' fields when I was a child. We were living on the acreage then, and would go past these areas on the way into town.

Now that acreage is part of town. The city annexed that land (from somebody who owned it long after my grandfather sold it), and literally paved over my childhood home. We had forest, wetlands, and really good soil in the gardens. Now it's a light industrial area full of warehouses and offices. I can't even stand to look at it when passing it on the highway.

 

[Cutlass]

Let me clarify my position on carbon tax: making companies pay for their negative externalities is a Good Thing™. Making consumers pay for them in the current economy where cost of living keeps rising while wages are at a 45 year low is a Bad Thing™.

Carbon taxes would have to be accompanied by, or my likely wait on, progressive economic change.

There's this theory in economics called 'tax incidence'. What it boils down to is a study of who actually pays a tax, as opposed to who nominally pays a tax.

Under most circumstances companies do not pay taxes. They pass the costs onto customers, with higher prices, or workers, with lower wages. There isn't a workaround for this.

But a carbon tax does not mean that the total tax burden of the nation goes up. It gets offset with lower taxes somewhere else.

 

[Birdjaguar]

I don't know. It was what I was told. I think it's that the batteries will never be good enough in both capacity and charging time to make electric cars workable in the real world. It's one of the things they complain about.

It is likely that electric cars as they are now configured is temporary. Fuel cell vehicles are next in line. They run on hydrogen and will reduce the need for batteries. Your friends may not know that though.

 

[Ajidica]

He's one of the people they use as a source of knowledge for the electric car.

PROTIP: Don't rely on anything the Orangutan says because, in the immortal words of James May, Clarkson could be a Massive Idiot.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

How hard is it to break a car lease?

 

[hobbsyoyo]

It is likely that electric cars as they are now configured is temporary. Fuel cell vehicles are next in line. They run on hydrogen and will reduce the need for batteries. Your friends may not know that though.

The first part is not necessarily true.

I'd like to give details but I feel it's better if we had a separate thread.

 

[Cutlass]

How hard is it to break a car lease?

Not so much hard as potentially expensive. Just go to a dealer with money in hand.