https://sh.itjust.works/c/yiff@lemmy.smeargle.fans is ‘active’ though pretty sure it’s just automatically mirroring reddit.

So far the XCOM series has been pretty good at that. Each game typically has 1 big pack which feels worth the money and 1 or 2 chea[ stinkers there’s no need/push to buy

Earth: former european colony

And everyone else should be free from subsidising it 1

Ok, but you can’t actually isolate ‘knowledge of addictive behaviour’ into a regulatable thing without an absurd amount of government oversight i.e. examing every employees work to check they aren’t using that pesky psyschology degree.

Ok, but what would be the legal precendent there? We regulate tabacco precisely because of it’s psychological and medical effects, not because it’s bad for your wallet. This lawsuit depends upon a claim of addiction because you can’t just regulate something for annoying you.

Again this is a case of “it depends”. If you are not a market driver then yes it does. (‘mom & pop motor vehicles’ isn’t going to make a dent in the global car market. )

But some operational costs (I.e. Ground Rent, Marketing, Legal Fees, IP Costs etc…) do not scale with increased output.

even Ayn Rand didn’t particularly like Ayn Rand,

not to say she was rational of course.

I mean you might be, depending upon what % of the total market you operate and what the exact inputs of the new method are.

The thing is if you do that the other guy will just make a super-hero film in 4-9 years, collecting all the hard work you spent making the genre scarce again.

People kept making westerns for as long as they just barely made any money, I’m sure the same will happen with ‘capeshit’

it pokes through like a space marines pony tail

“It’s got a sacrafice of angels mod” literally all you need to know before buying

You will have to explain this, as it is not an inherent pro of a vehicle to have electrical propulsion.

It is when the vehicle is small & light like this.

Heat engines get more efficient with increasing size. Piston count can be increased (improving balance), or piston displacement can be increased (reducing friction, heat loss & gas leakage per unit volume)

Batteries on the other hand get better with decreasing scale, the net distance from source to sink is decreased so it needs less wire. The total number of elements is reduced so risk of fire is as well. The battery is more replaceable, so aging is less of a concern.

Range compounds the effect. Typically smaller vehicles have smaller ranges, and that’s good for electric where the engine is much lighter than the fuel, but bad for ICE, where the engine is a massive brick of iron and the fuel can just be a couple jerry cans slung on the back

In cars, the trade-off is a hotly contested race, but you don’t see many diesel skateboards or battery-powered containerships.

Also jokes on you, the levitation technology used is described as cracking apart the ground as it moves, and would likely do far worse to a human body than regular ass wheels would.

At least the the repulsor has an eco-friendly power plant lit with the sacred flames of mars. Honestly better than a diesel.

I mean, at that point just use soy beans.

“Of course we have national minimum wages that we need to raise to a living wage. You’re talking about 20, 25 dollars, fine. But I have got to be focused on what California needs and what the affordability factor is when we calculate this wage.”

To me this sounds like she’s calling for a $50 state wage, not a federal one.

… and $50 would be 60% more than that?

Well, at least they aren’t getting more expensive yet, it’d be werid explaining to my grandkids how I grew up in the ‘age of cheap semi-conductors’.