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[–] player2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

That's what I thought when I tried it last fall but it turns out that 99% of people live very boring lives or put very little effort into these no notice pictures. Browsing my feed was so dull, I lost interest quickly.

[–] player2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The U-Haul automatically downshifts to engine break in tow mode when you tap the breaks. That was with engine breaking, the engine was screaming.

The gear selector also had the options for M, 2, 1 but I didn't use them for fear of blowing up the engine if it went at an even higher RPM.

[–] player2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

I agree with that, and I'm glad to see true clean renewables becoming a larger percentage of our energy use, but it has just been disappointingly slow.

[–] player2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Oh my god when we moved from Oklahoma to a town in the mountains of Vermont this issue made the last day of driving hell! It's my fault for not checking the route on such a big trip though.

We had visited this town several times and always drove in on a major interstate with no issues. Well when we were finally loaded up with the 26' U-haul and towing a car behind, I just selected the default route to our new address in VT.

It was fine up until the last day when we started to get to the mountains and to my horror it was taking us on these tiny one lane roads up extremely steep mountains and super narrow roads.

When going downhill I was braking as hard as I could and the U-Haul was barely even slowing down and the brakes would be smoking at the bottom. And on the way up I was flooring it and barely getting up to 20 mph sometimes.

It's a miracle the truck made it through the dirt roads at the end. We finally rolled into town on what I now know is a historic, scenic route that the leaf peepers like to take.

[–] player2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You skipped over my point. I think the activists let perfection get in the way of progress. I know that they're not advocating for coal, but by fighting nuclear they left no other scalable solution other than coal. Nuclear doesn't have to be a forever solution, but it's a perfect stop gap in the meantime.

Surely these activists contributed to progress on some other, smaller sources of renewable energy, but at the cost of decades of record breaking greenhouse gas emissions.

Nuclear could have put a halt to many if not most coal and natural gas plants until other sources of renewable energy improve and have time to get built out.

[–] player2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

And what would that lesson be? The people who fought nuclear for decades caused as much damage to the climate as the interim coal companies because that is who supplied the power instead.

[–] player2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

There are nuclear plants in operation today that do not use or create any fuel that is capable of being weaponized. In fact, coal plants emit more radiation than a modern nuclear power plant.

[–] player2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That and the comic frames are in the reverse order of what makes sense with the text.

[–] player2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago

Okay, but in the context of this conversation about copyright I don't think the learning part is as important as the reproduction part.

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