← Feed

Posts

• Post #658086

  @Rycaut@mastodon.social @jzb@hachyderm.io Yes recent used is definitely the sweet spot for EVs now. When I ordered mine 3 years ago, gas price was high and the Inflation Reduction Act EV credit had just passed, so there was an EV supply shortage. Recent used were selling for almost as much as new. With tax credit differential, it made sense to buy new. Which meant ordering from the factory cuz EVs at the dealers were all spoken for (at least anywhere w/in 500 miles of me). So I ordered new, ne...

• Post #635460

  @jzb@hachyderm.io Yeah, that was the target audience. I’m sympathetic to lack of affordability on many fronts: housing, cars, groceries, etc. But I’m not sympathetic about gas prices at the pump (though certainly, increasing diesel drives up costs of goods that are trucked to market). Consumers should have learned from past prices & insulated themselves against price spikes by getting the most fuel-efficient vehicle (&/or maximizing bike/walk/transit mobility instead of car ownersh...

• Post #614961

  @GreenFire@mstdn.social Yeah, who could have predicted that gas prices would rise again? In addition to short-sightedness, the CEOs suffered from another common illness among CEOs: Greed. Marketing & manufacturing big gas trucks & SUVs cuz that’s where the big profits are (soon to be “were”), rather than move their industry forward.

• Post #614512

  Are conservatives & libertarians really ok with the surveillance state they voted for? I suppose as long as “those people” are being targeted. #surveillance #SurveillanceState #privacy #GovernmentDataPractices #uspol #ice #dhs #ThomsonReuters #WriteYourRep https://www.startribune.com/ice-crackdown-thomson-reuters-eagan-license-plate-data-westlaw-clear/601583754

• Post #605256

  @mybirdcards@mastodon.world Kind of a punk-rock Ring-necked Duck.

• Post #601078

  @GreenFire@mstdn.social Yup! I bought mine in the spring of ‘23. A combination of high gas prices & newly passed tax credits put a pinch on the supply of EVs, newer used ones were selling for almost as much as new. And all new EVs at dealerships were spoken for. So I ordered a new one from the factory & waited 3 months. I love the car, especially the value proposition compared to other EVs. The deals on recent model year Bolts right now are crazy.

• Post #580032

  @vidar@m.galaxybound.com Beautiful pic! You really have those blossoms on 7 March in London? That’s about 8 weeks before we blossom in Minneapolis, even though we’re six degrees farther south in latitude

• Post #579947

  @indigo8s@mastodon.social Good. Even a broken clock is correct twice a day.

• Post #574584

  @ascentale@sfba.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social a8 #BikeNite I saw my longest ride of the year so far on Tuesday, 33 miles from South Minneapolis to my home in Anoka County. Had to stop on the Hennepin Ave Bridge for the photo opp.

• Post #574453

  @bikenite@fedigroups.social @ascentale@sfba.social @uxmark@mstdn.ca a1 #BikeNite Pine City, Minnesota, an hour’s drive from home. Gray squirrels & wild turkeys are my most familiar run-ins. Pics from May 2023 bicycle tour along the Mississippi on which I carried along a birding camera & lens. The birdwatching during spring migration & nesting was fabulous. The bison were a surprise. Dakota County had restored some prairie & returned some bison to a portion of it, next to bik...

• Post #558785

  @mjd@mathstodon.xyz Ok, but my reply was to a beautiful photo of lichen, so the hashtag was entirely appropriate, I.e. no need for quiet public.

• Post #526155

  @gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green I have a general question for you about data centers. I’ve read that in Finland, they’re capturing the “waste” heat and using it to heat buildings and such. With so many gigawatts of heat being generated by these silly data centers, why isn’t heat capture & reuse a requirement? Why aren’t all data centers sited in areas where “waste” heat can (must) be used as a resource? Any policy movement on this?

• Post #497214

  @miki_lou@mastodon.social It is where we’re at. It shouldn’t be, but it is. That was my lament. As far as climate conversations, yes they definitely should still be happening.

• Post #496892

  @danzbichorski@hachyderm.io Indeed. But they have only so much bandwidth, and they have to pursue the cases with the strongest evidence.

• Post #496003

  @woodenmachines@mastodon.social Yeah, I wish Rivian would just put all their efforts into making great EVs without all the technobullshit. For the time being, I’m loving my Chevy Bolt!

• Post #494869

  @miki_lou@mastodon.social This sounds great but part of me says: Everybody should have understood the issue in the 1980s, and all the policy levers in the last 4 decades should have been moving us away from fossil fuel dependence. It’s a bit depressing that we still have to convince people that this sh¡t is real.

• Post #494749

  I was intrigued by Rivian; thought I might look seriously at their smaller, more affordable SUV for those situations when i want more ruggedness than my Bolt delivers (for snow; logging roads in the Superior National Forest—use cases for 1 percent of my miles). But the more they embrace garbage tech, the more I’m turned off. https://www.forbes.com/sites/brookecrothers/2026/02/28/what-rivians-new-vehicle-ai-is-all-about-and-how-its-taking-on-tesla/ #EV #EVs #Rivian #ChevyBolt #noAI #ai

• Post #492325

  ActionNetwork.org has a handy webform to write your Members of Congress to: Demand AG Bondi release ALL of the Epstein files now! https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-demand-ag-bondi-release-all-of-the-epstein-files-now #WriteYourRep #TrumpEpsteinFiles #uspol #boost #epstein #trump

• Post #489005

  @GreenFire@mstdn.social I’ll add: In USA gas was dirt cheap yesterday, & has been since the supply pinch of the post-Covid recovery. That will change very soon. But with recent cheap gas, there are killer deals out there now on lightly used EVs. It’s a great time to make the switch & stop funding the #OilyBoys. Especially if one can charge at home. My EV fuel costs <2 cents per mile when I home charge off-peak (which is 95 percent of the time). #EV #EVs #OilWar #GasPrices #NoMor...

• Post #486859

  Have you written your Members of Congress yet? ACLU has a quick web form: TELL CONGRESS: NO UNCONSTITUTIONAL WAR WITH IRAN https://action.aclu.org/send-message/war-on-iran #ACLU #IranWar #war #WriteYourRep #uspol #TrumpsWar #iran #WarOfChoice #unconstitutional #NoWar

• Post #476143

  @amelia371@mastodon.social @adhdeanasl@beige.party thank you

• Post #472827

  @adhdeanasl@beige.party Here we go! #MarshMadness

• Post #455564

  @bikenite@fedigroups.social @RayKuntz@mastodon.social @ascentale@sfba.social @gcvsa@mstdn.plus Smart. I did convert a medium-sized steel hardtail MTB to a touring bike, which basically meant smooth tires and a rear rack to carry panniers. For daughter to ride on our first bike tour. First modestly steep, loaded descent, that bike got the speed shimmies (death wobbles). Scary, but daughter did a good job bringing it under control. Gonna heed geometry & weight distribution next time.

• Post #453071

  @greenpeace@mastodon.social that’s ridiculous. I hope you win on appeal.

• Post #445658

  @bikenite@fedigroups.social @ascentale@sfba.social @cainmark@mstdn.social @uxmark@mstdn.ca i use this exact strategy 👆 Daughter #1 used to be embarrassed when i rang bell. Then she lived in Salzburg for 3 years. Everyone there uses bells. So she decided I wasn’t evil. Nonetheless, I have mixed luck here with the bell. One woman seemed offended, retorting: “On your left works too.” To which I thought: A bell works too, and unlike “on your left,” it speaks a universal language. #BikeNite A7

• Post #439083

  @donhawkins@mastodon.social @Binder@petrous.vislae.town Good arguments for more investment in transit!

• Post #438783

  On a really nice transit bus from the ‘burbs to downtown Minneapolis. There was one other person on when I boarded, but he got off a stop later. So I rode a 57-passenger coach bus alone for 20 miles. Even my bride bristles every time I suggest I or our daughters take a bus to solve a commuting dilemma. Why don’t more people use transit? It’s way better than driving urban freeways. #tranit #TransitPhobia

• Post #425727

  @87Barner@mastodon.social Good one. And you shot the Deputy.

• Post #420149

  Heather Cox Richardson on the importance of pushing back to your members of Congress…especially the Republican ones. “If your grandfather were driving a car & repeatedly ran over toddlers, at some point it would be your responsibility to take those keys away.” “GOP owns this now…The way for gop to recognize that [we] don’t want this is for us to speak up more & more.” https://youtube.com/shorts/hjqJ6Lf2jrE?si=VWkDexUxlaWUccLR #WriteYourRep #CallYourRep #resist #uspol #gop #MAGA

• Post #397406

  @Nonilex@masto.ai I just can’t