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Affordable cars are quickly becoming a thing of the past.

I'm afraid that's not true. As in, literally, I'm scared that that's not true. BEVs are only getting cheaper over time, as they've only recently been mass-produced at anything approaching the absurd scale of ICE car production, and because li-ion/sodium-ion batteries basically didn't exist before the 90s and were 100x more expensive 20 years ago.

Once everyone switches to electric, that will only further encourage car-centric development.

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  • Non-vegans should support vegans

    What really drives me mad is that there's a dead simple solution - lab-grown meat - that can obviously be the best of both worlds with a bit more development (and in fact is being commercialized already), but is being lobbied against by the meat industry precisely because it'll be cheaper and better. And nobody seems to be talking about it.

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    Let's face it: lights are a minor annoyance that are juuuust inconvenient enough that we want lights, but not inconvenient enough that we actually bother placing them.

    So, now lack of lights reduce total average production by ~40% (or however long night is).

    As a bonus, it now makes it far easier to selectively ease off on battery/coal plants - if you want to run daytime-only assemblers and just buffer the output for night-time, you don't have to run an entirely separate grid or futz around with circuits, you just neglect to place the light on that assembly line!

    And before you research optics, you can only operate your assemblers during the day! Better hurry!

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