reddig33

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[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

If you can easily park your vehicle near an electrical outlet, consider buying a used EV the next time you need a car. Used EVs are comparatively cheap and their batteries usually last longer than their eight to ten year warranty. You don’t need a high voltage charger for in-town driving — just plug it into an electrical outlet overnight.

I recommend finding one manufactured after 2021 for good range and battery life (but avoid the first and second generation Nissan Leaf).

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world -1 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

2/3 of Americans still won’t buy an EV. They love overpaying for overpriced, oversized gas guzzlers. This has all happened before and will probably happen again. This is the country that elects people who want to tear down windmills and solar panels so they can “drill baby drill”.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 27 points 8 hours ago

They’re still trying to court republicans, when they should be going for non-voters.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

My recommendation is to play the sample of the book before you check it out or purchase it — not to see if you like the story, but to see if you like the narrator. A bad narrator ruins an audiobook.

If there’s a narrator you particularly like, there’s usually a way to tap on their name to see what other titles they’ve done.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 12 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

2/3 of Americans still won’t buy them. They love overpaying for overpriced, oversized gas guzzlers. This has all happened before and will probably happen again. This is the country that elects people who want to tear down windmills and solar panels so they can “drill baby drill”.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Another reminder that naming schools and streets after famous people might not be such a great idea.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

H1B is just the same problem as H2A and is heavily abused. The poster is correct — this is a way to avoid paying what those jobs are actually worth.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Pretty sure I watched “Pluribus”. Not sure what you were watching.

https://kevinmathews.substack.com/p/pluribus-just-hit-the-wall-why-the

“But there is a fine line between portraying aimlessness and actually being aimless as a storyteller. Pluribus crossed that line this week. Nothing pushed the story forward. We didn’t learn anything new about Carol’s internal state that we couldn’t have gleaned from a five-minute sequence. Instead, we got forty minutes of wandering that felt less like character development and more like the writers needing to stretch the runtime before the finale.”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2025/12/24/pluribus-season-1-finale-review/

“My frustration with Pluribus stems largely from two major problems. First, the pacing and repetitiveness. Second, the stretched-thin plot. This show’s story is like too little butter spread over too much bread.”

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

Slow? Plodding? Lots of filler shots to pad out the season?

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

That bad, eh?

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

And you’re the one paying for it.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago

Sounds like Buzzfeed will be out of business soon.

 

So if Sony studios hadn’t made that “exclusivity” deal with Netflix recently, I’m guessing this moderately successful show would have been shopped to other networks?

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by reddig33@lemmy.world to c/television@piefed.social
 

Show returns March 27

 

Evidently I have finished “Talamasca” on AMC. Tuned in last night wondering where my new episode was. Looked it up — that was it. Six episodes. Not eight. Not 13. Not 26.

Six episodes.

This wasn’t a mini series. Will I have to wait two years for six more episodes? How pathetic.

 

Half of the top ten drivers were sporting events. Since I can’t see the linked report, I’m not sure how they arrived at this list. Correlation/causation, etc.

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Today I learned the metric equivalent of horsepower is, horsepower. You’d think someone would have come up with a better name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsepower

 

Some good background info on why. TLDR: Larry Ellison’s son already pissing off the talent.

 

And Trump administration wants Larry Ellison to buy it now that he owns Paramount. See linked article for more info.

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WBD up for sale (www.theverge.com)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by reddig33@lemmy.world to c/television@piefed.social
 

What a mess. Just what we need — more media mega mergers.

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