!whitelistsilver
The cheapest Tesla battery is 5k. The average American spends 2k a year on gas. You have to budget for gas for 3 years to have the price of your battery. Gas will keep costing you forever. The batts are rated for 200 000 km, and there are warranties if they start losing their charge too early so it's very hard to have to pay for a replacement before you come into your money.
Its impossible to not come out on top if you factor in the gas, it just seems like a no brainer to me. I haven't seen your other comments, I just now the reasons you listed under mine simply aren't valid.
If you can't afford or need a new vehicle, that's completely fine. The used market for EVs is just not good and keeping your old car is always better than getting a new car, regardless of how it runs.
How much money do you spend in gas every ten year? Do you really think it's less then a new battery? Not to mention the price of batteries are dropping like a stone.
Ice vehicles still need mining to produce. The one time cost is practically the same and quickly becomes unimportant when you compare the cost of running them. It's fine if you want to keep using your old vehicle or if the only vehicle you can afford is the cheapest ICE, but buying an ICE vehicle when there are evs at the same price literally means you are part of the problem. Whatever extra cost there is after that in terms of battery replacement pales in comparison to the constant cost of gas so it isn't a valid reason.
Do not minimize the effects of constantly burning gas. It is more than not ideal, it is leading to a complete collapse of our ecosystem.
Do you close your eyes every year whenever a new spill happens, or another thousand acres get burned? Call me when the tech industry is causing shit like that. Not that they aren't doing bad things, but saying "what about them" when the crimes of the oil barons is soo much greater is farcical.
Building a carless society will take time but we need to get rid of gas right now. The difference of emission for the use and manufacturing of an EV is absolutely not close to the cost of use and manufacturing of an ice vehicle PLUS literally burning gallons just to move it.
Oil companies, their assets and the assets of the barons who own them should be violently seized and used to offset the cost of what they created. Until that happens, we will have to suffer a bit or we will be stuck suffering so much more probably sooner than we think.
"They've built a library of small building blocks for character movements. These blocks can be combined in various ways to create a wide range of animations."
That's what they patented. Their animations a tiny bit more modular. The patent and copyright system is literally only their to fuck us.
Goku sesh
Model: Dalle-3 Prompt: Goku passing a tiny conical inverted very slim small cone of paper by the tip, the base of the cone is on fire and smouldering with smoke. detailed background, black and white manga, rastafari, hydro, Glaucom. Goku is saying "Rastafari" in a speech bubble
I press my eye against the telescopic lens, fumbling with the frame to adjust it in the direction of the hottest star.
Then, with a bang, she drops dead on the stage and all of her band members run for cover in helpless panic.
Original Author: Vice-Monkey
As Ryan followed Death into the misty afterlife, he asked, "are you taking me to Heaven or Hell?"
"Everyone goes to both," Death replied, "and what you called life was the Heaven portion."
There isn't any open source solution possible if AI models are beholden to copyright laws.
This is advocating for a world where only a handful of companies would be able to train AI models, and the rest of us would become their pets as we move towards an AI driven society.
The artist and writers already lost, there is no going back. Now we see if we all win together or if only google, openai, shutterstock, Adobe, stack overflow, github and reddit win since they are the only ones with the data or able to pay for it.
The shadow part is usually implied, I'm surprised to see it actually written
To add to the other reply, you also don't need to watch a full video, they register slight pauses as you scroll. They also build a profile using all their platforms and multiple types of data.
Go to the press, make it public. They will only hurt you to silence you, once it's out there, it's too late. The press would love this story too
Panicking, I tried to warn the other passengers that the plane was going to crash but I couldn't make them understand.
They just tutted and turned away because no one likes a crying baby on a plane.
Original author: Forward3000
"A bit of sunshine and fresh air won't kill you."
I was 37 when the cops arrested my dad and assured me it was perfectly okay to go outside.
Humanity has truly peaked when that scientific research team developed the device to see into the future.
I was horrified when I found out they all committed suicide, and even more horrified when I found out they only looked 6 years into the future.
It's about a dystopian future, where health are services are stretched so thin that having access to them depends on a lottery.
Dnd Iso Map 4
Model: Epic Realism V3 Prompt: (far intricate isometric side painting of the inside of a church, far view, zommed out, jail, octane render, 3d render, photo realistic, dreamlike, art by greg rutkowski and miyazaki and leonid afremov, Isometricclas2-10, isometric-10, intricate details, masterpiece, hd, vivid, beautiful rose window, intricate colored window, pews, wooden benches, lora:Isometric-10:0.7 lora:Isometricclas2-10:0.9 Negative prompt: (worst quality, low quality, artifacts, pencil lines:1.4), person, sketch, drawing, ugly, (deformed:2), low quality, spots, low resolution, drab, red spots, small red decoration, red artifacts, red spots, people, statues, stairs, (blurry, fog, mist), broken furniture, error, defect Steps: 23, Sampler: Euler a, CFG scale: 7, Seed: 1704927937, Size: 1024x512, Model: epicrealism_pureEvolutionV3, Clip skip: 2, ENSD: 31337, Tiled Diffusion: {"Method": "MultiDiffusion", "Tile tile width": 96, "Tile tile height": 96, "Tile Overlap": 48, "Tile batch
Original author: halloha
People say that losing an identical twin is the worst kind of grief there is.
I guess that explains why my wife has been so different since her twin sister went missing.
Original author: Slacking (Came up with this one myself!)
"Make him real, make him real" the small child said clutching his worn-out teddy bear.
As I granted his wish and disappeared back into the lamp, I could only watch as the once comforting plush figure began to grow and transform into a massive beast.
As my last wish, I asked the genie for the power to read minds.
My blood went cold as I heard a series of 0101010101010101010's over and over again.
As the knife stabbed into my chest for the third time, I made eye contact with my killer and realisation began to grow in his eyes.
Now they would never find the children.
"Congratulations, you are our 5th caller and the winner!" the perky voice declares as I hyperventilate into the phone."
"Having won the elusive prize of receiving police, fire or ambulance assistance from 911, what is your emergency?"
I got this house for cheap because the couple who lived here were brutally murdered in their bed.
Feels good to be back!
She looked confused when we tied the rope around her waist, but she said nothing and just kept eating the candy we gave her
When we finally pulled out the blindfold and baseball bat, she began to tremble and asked "is there a pinata?", to which we replied "it's almost ready, eat up"
Alien 3
Model: Realistic Vision v.4 Prompt: photo of an Alien Infused crystal on an onyx pedastal, vivid exotic glow, alien artifact, rare extraterrestrial mineral, infused ionized energy, distant nebula, cinematic lighting, professional colorgraded, on a wooden tables, dark lighting, neon glow, crackling with energy, dslr, photoshoot, intricate details, real, sharp details, refracting, beautiful alien object, dangerous Negative prompt: (worst quality, low quality, artifacts, pencil lines:1.4), person, sketch, drawing, ugly, (deformed:2), low quality, spots, low resolution, drab, boring, hand, fake, painting, egg Steps: 30, Sampler: DPM++ 2M, CFG scale: 5, Seed: 1704927938, Size: 512x768, Model: realisticVisionV40_v40VAE, Clip skip: 2, CFG Rescale phi: 0, Version: v1.4.0-RC-14-gdbc88c96
The distant sound of steel drums retreated into the night.
My mouth filled with salt water as I realized the cruise ship wasn't turning around.
Alien 2
Model: Colorful v.3.1 Prompt: galaxy, space, universe, purple, BASE BLACK, stars, battered, low angle, 4k, hyper realistic, focused, extreme details, unreal engine 5, cinematic, 3D, 400MM, alien planet in space, alien station Negative prompt: (worst quality, low quality, artifacts, pencil lines:1.4), water mark, signature, person, sketch, drawing, ugly, (deformed:2), low quality, spots, low resolution, drab, boring, hand, fake, painting, egg, room lights, street light, day light, moons Steps: 30, Sampler: DPM++ 2M, CFG scale: 5, Seed: 1704927938, Size: 512x768, Model: colorful_v31
The wet thwack followed by the dead silence of a head hitting concrete is a sound I'll never forget.
I started working in elderly care just so I can hear this wondrous noise once again.
Unable to move I could only look at my killer.
In a fit of childish curiosity my two year old pulled the plug.
"Daddy, why do I have to wear this to see Mommy?"
"It will be over soon," I said as I tightened the noose.