Add Psych to that rotation, IMO - it should be right up your alley based on those other two shows!

Maybe not to the rest of us, but it is news to the MAGA crowd!

I am assuming that’s a GTX 480 and not an RX 480; if so - kudos for not having that thing melt the solder off the heatsink by now! 😅

Honestly, if you don’t mind gaming at 1080p, and keeping graphical settings reasonable in order to maintain a playable frame rate - you could be OK for a couple more years.

Otherwise if the upgrade itch just becomes too much, the Steam Machine could very well be a suitable entry point - provided that RAM model prices don’t continue to skyrocket.

I truly cannot wait for the day that the current AI bubble bursts.

Pre-COVID, when the Ethereum mining went crazy… so around the time of the RTX 2000 series? Which honestly was pretty lacklustre compared to the GTX 1000 series…

So yeah, it’s been a while!

I meant relatively simple in the sense that it shouldn’t require a full re-write of existing laws - just an addition to, knowing full well that enforcement would be the biggest challenge.

Hefty fines (over and above the value of the assets used as collateral) on the lenders if caught not reporting could help ensure compliance.

Another way to tackle it might also be to treat the end of every financial year as a Capital Gains Event for assets over a certain threshold? That way, it just becomes part of people’s annual tax returns and taking out loans wouldn’t necessarily help avoid it.

eg. If FY26 saw Elon Musk’s wealth increase by $10bn, he would owe ~$2bn in Capital Gains to the IRS.

Also, to head off possible arguments: Given that the US taxes its citizens even if they live/work abroad - there would also be negligible risk of capital flight.

There is a (relatively) simple solution to this; Make the act of taking out a loan against the value of your assets (which the wealthy tend to do, for liquid cashflow) a Capital Gains taxable event.

Russia might have him by the balls, but word on the street is that Bill Clinton has a fair bit in on him too.

It was rough, back of the napkin math - primarily intended for those in places where EV disinformation is highest (the US).

Those of us that primarily use metric are more than capable of roughly converting in our heads as required! 😅

Not intentionally being misleading, as I do have a footnote calling out not including carbon emissions from electricity generation as they vary so wildly based on the energy source.

But unlike ICE cars, EV emissions from energy sources are improving over time as nations build more and more renewable energy sources. Your linked report is correct, but potentially out of date already - the UK for instance was already at 58% in 2024, with a goal of full of 95%+ by the end of this decade.

Here in Australia, our uptake of residential solar has been so high that our energy providers are offering free electricity during peak daylight hours to all customers to help use up all of that excess production. It’s quite feasible for a significant portion of us here to be able to not only recharge an EV for free, but with next-to-no CO2 emissions.

Additionally, we now have a big Government subsidy in place to install batteries in our homes as well: ~£4,000 for a ~30kWh system, fully installed!

I share your love for older cars, but with a toddler and another one planned - we need to have a modern, safe car for peace of mind. But believe me, I will be ensuring that I disable as much telemetry as possible due to privacy concerns.

But for a secondary/weekend car - there is always the option of electrifying an older car, allowing for the best of both worlds - in a sense!

Metric tonnes, as that seems to be the generally used format when discussing CO2 emissions.

Which I know may be confusing, given that I quote imperial values in the rest of the stats - but it was just quick/dirty math and I figured that EV disinformation is highest in the US, so I tried to tailor the values for them.

Rough math involved: production of a new EV results in between 8-15 tonnes of CO2 emissions, depending on the size of the batteries and vehicle trim.

But let’s aim for somewhere in the middle and take ~12 tonnes as a yardstick.

~12 tonnes of CO2 emissions equates to roughly 1,350 gallons of fuel.

Depending of fuel efficiency, this would equate to between 20k~45k miles.

Feel free to double-check my math in case I did anything wrong, but it does validate that most of these „facts” around EVs are likely FUD spread by fossil fuel aligned sources.

ETA: initially forgot to include CO2 emissions from electricity generation - but this varies wildly based on source (nuclear, hydro & renewables at 0 etc.)

It’s beyond bad, it’s outright dumb as fuck.

As it stands, a 30yr mortgage at current interest rates means that you end up paying ~$1.20 in interest for every $1 borrowed.

A 50yr mortgage at current interest rates would have you pay $2.50 in interest for every $1 borrowed.

You would end up literally paying 3.5x the value of the mortgage - it’s outright criminal.

Touché, that definitely does sound like it would have been a a fun job!

I still feel like I lucked out compared to my classmates who were either flipping burgers at Macca’s, stacking shelves at the local supermarket, or waiting at a chain restaurant. Being a “Toy Tester” every December was just 👌🏼

Stocking shelves, helping customers and tidying up at Toys R Us was literally my first job during high school, and it was probably the best work a 16yo kid could in the early 2000s.

I will never forgive Bain Capital (and Mitt Romney for founding it), for its intentional sabotage of that business. Absolute scumbags.