You pay over your lifetime what a US citizen might pay in a particularly bad year. Including all tax burden.

To be fair Americans don’t really know history, being the most propagandized people on the planet.

Sure thing, my undereducated comrade.

Fungi (or protofungi) were likely the first large multi-cellular life on land, predating plants by at least a half billion years and creating the soil conditions necessary for plants to make the jump from the ocean. In fact plant life without fungal symbiosis on land likely would have been impossible.

As to the second part, while it’s controversial in some circles that lean heavily toward divine creation or intervention, the Stoned Ape Theory is nonetheless pretty well supported. As for my exact wording; I’m also including dolphins, which do recreational drugs anyway, and suggesting outside popular theories there’s a sea fungus they’ve keyed in on in the past, as well as octopi who like to get high, even crows like a little chemical help now and again. While we don’t have direct evidence of non-ape species being particularly into eating fungus for its mind altering effects, the fact that pretty much every ‘intelligent’ species seems to enjoy recreational mind-altering drugs does point to a common origin for intelligence itself.

Fun fact, it’s very likely that without mushrooms land animals wouldn’t exist. More controversially it’s possible that without mushrooms no creatures with higher order thinking like human variants could exist.

By the time a battery pack will die (outside of warranty), you will have paid for on an ICE car (according to manufacturer recommendations and warranty):

35 oil changes

At least 2x drive belt

At least 2x transmission fluid replacement

At least 2x full vehicle brakepad/rotor sets

At least 7 fuel filters

At least 1 fuel pump

At least 1 alternator

At least 2x timing belt

At least 2x water pumps

Assuming you have the capability to do all that yourself, and the tools, that’s still more than the difference in cost for purchase price of the ev vs ice vehicle.

Add in the fact electricity will always be cheaper than the same amount of fuel, and you easily save more than enough for the next battery pack that’ll last another 8 years or 175k miles.

The difference is (as long as its not self-driving) EVs are stupidly simple devices. They have less technology than smart phones. It would be great to have regulation to force standardization and open-source firmware, but genuinely we already have plenty of software and controllers capable of fully handling any EV, VESC being the most popular example of this.

And yes that controller both handles electric aircraft and RC cars. Because EVs don’t really differ from the model scale to the extremely large scale.

Terry A. Davis built this in his garage. With a box of scraps!

Firefox is unlikely to ever sell your data or redirect websites or participate in a cryptoscam or show you advertisements with an adblocker on. Brave has done, at one point or another, all of that.

Plus firefox is not manifest v3, so you can actually have a safe browsing experience whereas all chromium based browsers are now inherently more vulnerable to malware thanks to google.

“So you’re telling me explosions were seen at the base of Tower 7 and it housed records related to the contemporary audit of the pentagon that it coincidentally failed quietly but no one cared about since we were suddenly at war and there were no reported casualties from Tower 7 at all despite it supposedly being fully operational and housing multiple government agency offices?”

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You can, sure. but then you have a new file that is entirely distinct from the original model (as far as computer hashing is concerned). So you have to do several steps to legally comply with this:

1. Receive gcode file

2. use costly ai to convert the gcode to a 3d model.

3. use costly ai to try to figure out what the 3d model is.

4. do all of this either via a remote connection, or on a processor weaker than the median game console from the 1990s.

5. repeat for every single attempted print, which can be several dozen per completed product depending on how annoying the calibration was that day

So if you’re a 3d printing business you now have to have your own data center basically dedicated to the tens of millions of potential prints you’re going to receive, because it’s near impossible to fingerprint g-code as it’s dynamically generated from each different CAD software differently based on thousands of settings.

Essentially any 3d printer manufacturer is going to just say “not for use in california” instead of paying hundreds of millions of dollars a year to try to comply with this.