Herding Llamas

Wait… I totally thought this was fake. Is this fake?

Save yourself and never talk to Germans about these folding measuring sticks VS the auto-rollup kind. If you make this mistake, just ask them why they are called “inch sticks” in German and not “CM sticks”.

Clock I did not read clock the first two times.

I’m Curious. it looks very very symmetrical. What asymmetrical part are you talking about? The lights in the windows?

If I understood what you meant correctly; You had mentioned that you had multiple fidelity issues (where you cheated on partners). Open relationship models sound like they could help in your case. As long as communication is clear in a open relationship (such as poly) this would not be a issue.

As they sound like trouble: they can be if you don't do them correctly (as most things in life). But they can also be great if you put the work into learning about them.

Maybe you should consider other relationships models for the future. Let me know if want any recommendations for reading or listening for something in a polyamorous direction, it might work out well for you and better than most people would think.

Yes and no. It is not in your face anti EV, that would be too obvious and it does not need to be. Answer a few questions for yourself (don’t worry answering them to me).

Will this article make people want to buy a EV as their only car?

Is this article mostly for or against EVs? Would you say it’s 80 or 90 percent about the problems of owning a EV?

Does this article have fair criticism of gas cars and gas Infrastructure in wild fires? Do they even mention the issues with gas cars and fires?

Will people question the safety of a EV after reading this?

They address peoples personal safety while charging, specifically for woman (the most likely buyer of a EV). They talk about back areas, poorly lit places where you are alone and they could be dangerous. How will this make women feel when considering their next car purchase?

The US like everywhere has a history of nearly 100% gas cars and gas car infrastructure. To have a article pointing out that gas car infrastructure is better than electric vehicles infrastructure is shortly said as no shit, how is that not obvious? So then what’s the point of pointing out the obvious? More importantly what’s the cause of pointing this out? More people will consider not buying a EV. When less people buy a EV there will be less infrastructure for them. See where this is going?

I get it, you feel like we need to talk about the problem to fix them. But do we? Is this not obvious already? Do we all not know that taking a EV into remote areas and wildfires may not the the best of ideas?

EVs are great in 999 ways out of 1000, but let’s find one extreme example of how they may not work perfectly in extreme conditions that won’t happen to the majority of people. There are obvious bias things in the article, as with many anti-EV articles as gas companies pour millions every year into anti-EV articles. Do they mention gas stations are turned off around fires for obvious reasons so gas vehicles also have issues - nope. There are simple obvious solutions around this that are simply not presented.

It just reminds me of an article that I read everywhere about how a tesla blew up. Nearly every article talked about it like it just spontaneously blew up. Nearly no article mentioned that it blew up after it collided into a huge boulder on the road. Nor did they mention that the driver was totally fine as it caught fire half an hour after the accident. Or the obvious, that gas cars can also blow up but they slam into a boulder at high speeds.

I understand. And that’s understandable. My comment was directed to society as a whole, and specifically non autistic people.

Many people like Americans say as a trained friendly greeting “hi, how are you”. Other people like Chinese say “hi, have you eaten (had rice) yet”. They both simply need to be viewed as greetings. Neither actually want to know your full life story of your eating habits or the many bad things that may have happened to you in your day week or life.

Don’t try it here in Germany. Often people will try and test you and tell you a long story of many bad things to see if you “care”. But it is in fact missing an important cultural contex. It is not that they don’t care if you have eaten or that your wife is dieing of cancer… It is that is not what they were truly asking. It should be interpreted simply as a friendly greeting such as good morning. It is as inappropriate to responding to good morning with, “no it isn’t. It’s a terrible morning. I had diarrhea this morning and my cat died”. The lady at the grocery store doesn’t need these details and was simply being nice.