#Cheapest electric car

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Revealed The Dark Side Of Electric Cars And Their Environmental Impact | Caractics

Electric cars have been touted as the future of transportation, but this new technology may have an unexpected environmental impact. Discover how electric cars could be doing more harm than good and what can be done to reduce their negative environmental impact. Watch the video Revealed The Dark Side Of Electric Cars And Their Environmental Impact by Caractics

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Revealed The Dark Side Of Electric Cars And Their Environmental Impact | Caractics

Electric cars have been touted as the future of transportation, but this new technology may have an unexpected environmental impact. Discover how electric cars could be doing more harm than good and what can be done to reduce their negative environmental impact. Watch the video Revealed The Dark Side Of Electric Cars And Their Environmental Impact by Caractics

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Top 5 cheapest electric car under 10 lakh launch in 2024

 Electric vehicles market is rapidly growing day by day. We have shortlisted  five india cheapest electric cars which are available under 10 lakh. 1.Eva-solar electric car   Eva is India’s first solar electric car which was unveiled at an automobile show in 2023 in India. It is directly with a battery pack that charges the battery and increase the range.The EVA car made by VAV…

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I love Direct Action

[stupittmoran]

This is a Tesla model Y battery. It takes up all of the space under the passenger compartment of the car. To manufacture it you need:

--12 tons of rock for Lithium (can also be extracted from sea water) -- 5 tons of cobalt minerals (Most cobalt is made as a byproduct of processing copper and nickel ores. It is the most difficult and expensive material to obtain for a battery.) -- 3 tons nickel ore -- 12 tons of copper ore You must move 250 tons of soil to obtain: -- 26.5 pounds of Lithium -- 30 pounds of nickel -- 48.5 pounds of manganese -- 15 pounds of cobalt

To manufacture the battery also requires: -- 441 pounds of aluminum, steel and/or plastic -- 112 pounds of graphite

The Caterpillar 994A is used to move the earth to obtain the minerals needed for this battery. The Caterpillar consumes 264 gallons of diesel in 12 hours.

The bulk of necessary minerals for manufacturing the batteries come from China or Africa. Much of the labor in Africa is done by children. When you buy an electric car, China profits most.

The 2021 Tesla Model Y OEM battery (the cheapest Tesla battery) is currently for sale on the Internet for $4,999 not including shipping or installation. The battery weighs 1,000 pounds (you can imagine the shipping cost). The cost of Tesla batteries are: Model 3 -- $14,000+ (Car MSRP $38,990) Model Y -- $5,000–$5,500 (Car MSRP $47,740) Model S -- $13,000–$20,000 (Car MSRP $74,990) Model X -- $13,000+ (Car MSRP $79,990)

It takes 7 years for an electric car to reach net-zero CO2. The life expectancy of the battery is 10 years (average). Only in the last 3 years do you start to reduce your carbon footprint, but then the batteries must be replaced and you lose all gains made.

And finally, my new friend, Michael, made some excellent points: I forgot to mention the amount of energy required to process the raw materials and the amount of energy used to haul these batteries to the U.S. sometimes back and forth a couple of times.

But by all means, get an electric car. Just don't sell me on how awesome you are for the environment. Or for human rights.

Credit: @Hanna Roth

[screamting]

Once again trapped in trying to figure out what Wayne Industries actually Does. "Everything!" yeah sure but they had to get there somehow. Amazon was an online bookstore at first there was a lot of very rapid growth between then and now.

Usually I hear that they started as a shipping business which makes sense when Gotham is 90% waterfront, but at some point they had to transition from just shipping other people's things to shipping things they made as well. I suppose if they started making their own transports for shipping (starting with their own steamboats and later trains and cars) that would make sense. Maybe in the industrial revolution they even bought their own steel mill upon getting tired of having fluctuating prices or a steel shortage and just deciding they were going to get their own damn steel and sell the extra instead. If they chose to manufacture higher quality steel instead of cheapest possible steel that's also laying the groundwork for them to be well liked by their customers. Not railroad barons but making the steel to lay the railroad and build the trains. It's the 1800s so they have a couple patented medicines by then as well that are.... not really medicine but no one has officially noticed yet. They ship their own chemicals out west for a good time.

In 1880s Alan Wayne makes the building that becomes Wayne Tower?? Which I think is much too early, but apparently we were building sky scrapers in 1888 so business must have been booming I fucking guess. This is also the man that has them go corporate.

Of course the railroads start to fall out with the growth of cars and car lobbying. They are still used along with boats for transport but with railroads not being built as much and not being maintained and the union wars, Wayne Industries has to make a pivot somewhere to stay in the race. The family can have a lot of personal money but the business itself is still going strong in Gotham even before Bruce takes over.

I guess if they're already in shipping, they're probably importing as well by then. They may have started with steamboats but then in WWI and WWII all steel factories started producing things for the war efforts, surely they made a couple big ships by then capable of crossing the Atlantic, if they weren't already in oceanic shipping by then. It lets them ride out the great depression because of government maritime subsidies that were a little out of control until the new deal kicked in. That would've also presumably kept WI employees working in the depression and cemented them harder in the city as smaller businesses closed around them.

The patented medicine starts shifting to actual generics that are a little less Heroic post 1918.

Maybe at around that point was when WI started manufacturing... sort of everything. You get your ships, and all the things on board that you need to run a ship. You get your ovens and stoves and big pots and your radar and hell your sailors can even buy their boots and uniforms from us.

When WWII ends they shift back to transporting other people's goods but also maybe more luxury vehicles as well. Cruise services. Some nicer kitchen installations. Kitchens on land even. Get a nice WI electric mixer. Get your waterfront boots. Get your generic ibuprofen.

At that point we're closer to Martha and Thomas' era and they're just... Along for the ride I guess. Thomas is a figurehead CEO. He's off doing medical school and mostly just shows up for formalities, while Martha works in the Wayne Foundation (either the only thing Thomas really made or opened in the 60s to try and get Gotham really booming) as a charity liason. They're still not really celebrities as much as a charismatic couple in high circles. WI doesn't need them to function. It's basically just funding them as they do their own things.

And then the murders happen

And then Bruce, over eighteen, shows up having inherited the figurehead CEO title and his entire family's controlling stock in WI, and announces they're going to be doing things his way now.

The CEO/Board of directors is supposed to do things in the best interest of their stock holders.

If Bruce is the controlling stock holder, they do what he says his best interest is.

[things-about-cars-in-posts]

I do not believe that any modification ever could make a Honda civic 'cool'

I want your opinion on this

I think I can find a way to squeeze out some mental gymnastics by which I can technically agree. Oh, I've got it!

There's a stock EG Civic I see around sometimes, and it's the most basic spec that can be found - not the rarer, imperceptibly better looking facelifted model, not equipped with any cool option nor modification nor even alloy rims, preserved too poorly to be mint and not poorly enough to be heroic. Exactly like this picture I found looking up "civic" in a used car ad aggregator and sorting by cheapest.

And every time I see it I go "Civic! :D", like in one of my main's greatest posts.

Maybe the surprising rarity of hatchbacks of this generation is a factor (though local popularity hasn't quelled my fondness of Suzuki jeeps), but whatever the case, one arguably cannot modify that Civic in a way that makes it cool to me, per the logic by which something cannot become what it already is.

But regarding the intended meaning of "Civics aren't cool cars and no modification could make them such", well, not only could we be touching their bare metal and still not have a common ground (It's an electrics pun. It's devastating. You're devastated right now.), I disagree so hard that I am willing to go over every Civic and not just show a cool modified example, but even argue that the factory itself churned out something cool.

That's right. I'm doing a SERIES. That's how wrong you are.

Note for the poor-watersporting audience: Just because I'm not the type to cowardly shield myself from criticism by rattling out "i personally believe"s and "in my opinion"s doesn't mean I have the delusion to be dishing out statements of fact. Assertive statements the likes of the line above are to be taken as the friendly jest they are. Someone beat you to taking it seriously anyway, and community feedback about it was starkly negative.

Links in blue are posts of mine about the topic in question: if you liked this post, you might like those - or the blog’s Discord server, linked in the pinned post!

[tiktaalic]

The crazy dean criterion collection: curated by ME!

Crazy in this parlance. means. “sam gives dean a strange look" natural. recommendations welcome. i dont read a lot of fic so there are maybe 5 on here. here we go.

ROMANTIC THEORY - 2STREET2CAR

“It was an accident,” Dean insists, as soon as they hear from Bobby. They’re sitting at a diner halfway back to the hotel room and these are the first real words Dean has spoken. “I know it was. He didn’t mean to.” Sam stares at him. “He?” “Castiel?” Dean says, shrugs. “Boy name, right?” “Are you insane?” Sam blurts out.

CHEAPEST ROOM IN THE HOUSE - BIGGAYBENNY

“Why is the app on Dean’s phone? Why is someone messaging you on Dean’s phone?” Sam asks and Dean knows Sam’s staring at him even as he stares at the page in front of him with an intensity he hasn’t had all afternoon. When no one answers, Sam tries again. “What –?” Irritation flares like electricity through Dean and it’s only that spark of anger that gets his words out. “I’m just helping him out, Sam! Jesus, he’s – he was – he’s an angel. Celestial intent! How is he meant to know what Grindr is? How to – how to – to talk to guys, how is he –” “Dude,” Sam says emphatically, placating him with wide eyes, holding his hands up. “Okay, okay. Listen, I know you’re not –”

THE DEAN WINCHESTER BEAT SHEET - SALTYFEATHERS

Sam snorts and puts down his phone. His bed creaks as he gets comfortable. “So, what’s up with Cas?” “What do you mean?” Dean says. “Nothing. Just, like, what’s his deal?” For all the fretting he did over this trip, Dean never once thought to prepare an answer for this question. So when he blurts out, “Well, he’s gay,” the only person he can be disappointed in is himself. “Uh, okay,” Sam says. “I was looking for more of a big picture type-thing, but I guess we can start there, too.”

BUILT TO ROAM - SLEEPYVAN

They both throw the ball, Cas controlling Dean’s swing with his own arms and his own legs, strong and firm at his back. If he’s a shifter, he could kill me right now, Dean thinks, and stays put right where he is. He releases the ball and they both watch as the ball travels straight towards the pins, hitting them with a good amount of force and knocking them all down. no sam pull quote for this one. but trust he would have things to say about the bowling alley.

TO BE RESTORED - SERENITYFAILS

"Nah, there's nothing wrong with it, if you like H&R Block chic. I'm just saying, if I was reborn as a hot chick I'd want to show off a little." The matching looks Sam and Cas give him make his cheeks burn. "What?" Dean tosses his hands indignantly. "You're telling me if you were a woman you wouldn't want to look hot?" "I can honestly say I haven't give it much thought, Dean," Sam says, looking like he's about to ask Dean if there's anything else he wants to admit to, and Dean doesn't want to give him the satisfaction, so he climbs inside the car and turns the music up before Sam can open his pinched little mouth again.

that's all i got boss. if you've read something where dean is Crazy drop it in my inbox.

[materialsscienceandengineering]

What if a common element rather than scarce, expensive ones was a key component in electric car batteries? A collaboration co-led by an Oregon State University chemistry researcher is hoping to spark a green battery revolution by showing that iron instead of cobalt and nickel can be used as a cathode material in lithium-ion batteries. The findings, published today in Science Advances, are important for multiple reasons, Oregon State's Xiulei "David" Ji notes. "We've transformed the reactivity of iron metal, the cheapest metal commodity," he said. "Our electrode can offer a higher energy density than the state-of-the-art cathode materials in electric vehicles. And since we use iron, whose cost can be less than a dollar per kilogram -- a small fraction of nickel and cobalt, which are indispensable in current high-energy lithium-ion batteries -- the cost of our batteries is potentially much lower."

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Nerfe BACC Rules

The beginning.

This challenge takes place on an island or islands neighborhood.

Create as many as 8 sims in up to 4 households. Randomize everything.

Roll a d20 and a d10 (This maxes the amount of money each household starts with at 30,000 but can be as low as 2,000.) You can then use mortgage bushes for the rest of the cash.

I play my households for one season and then switch to another one, starting from founders cottage. This way it’s easier to remember when I should stop, pay taxes, etc.

Restrictions.

- no electronics, like tv’s, stereos, computers, alarms, etc. Only cheapest stoves and fridges are allowed. Your Sims can have a phone.

- no running water, so this means no showers & sinks.

- no cars, services or delivery services.

- no hobby and community lots.

- No fertilising gardening plots. The land is wild and has never been tilled before, and it will take a while before it can yield good crops.

- no townies. So this means that future spouses must be found on University, Vacations or among the settlers/unlocked townies.

Unlocking neighborhood add-ons.

Running water - at least one sim or two sims must have 6 mechanical points and 3 logic points. 10.000 $ must be paid from town funds. On every occupied lot must be placed at least one water collector. +1 new townie

Unlocks cheap toilets, sinks, showers, etc.

Basic electricity system - at least one or two sims must have 10 mechanical points & 6 logic points.20.000 $ must be paid from town funds. On every occupied lot must be placed windmill. + 1 new townie.

Unlocks simple & cheap stereos, lamps, phones, cash registors, etc.

Basic airport - unlocked with basic electricity system. A small airline decided to take a risk and land on the island. They need a clean land and lots of fruit punch, so 50.000 $ must be paid from town funds.  + 2 new townie.

Unlocks non wood/stone wallpapers, furnitures, pets, etc.

Advanced electricity system & sewerage - available with basic airport. 50.000 $ must be paid from town funds for plans and skilled construction crew that will do all the dirty work. + 3 new townies.

Unlocks tv’s, computers, fancy lightning, stereos, toilets, showers, etc.

University - available with basic airport unlocked and every sim who wants to go on University must pay 10.000 $ from family funds.

Because this university is not owned by the town, you are allowed to create as many Young Adults, as you want/need.

Sims can build their own campus - 250.000$ must be substracted from town funds. With its built,  University is free.

Downtown - 500.000$ - big island with lots of space for future lots (15 or more). Unlocks 15 townies.

Shopping district - 250.000$ small island or islands, with less than 10 lots. Unlocks 10 townies.

Community lots - like parks, playgrounds, bars, etc. can be build by Sims with basic electricity system unlocked. Lot value must be substracted from town funds if it is an unowned community lot. The mayor should buy the lot and then donate it back to the public (I have this donate lot mod for that purpose). Otherwise have a playable Sim purchase a community lot and run a business on it.

Vacations - unlocked with basic airport.

Clothes - basic clothing is unlocked with silver badge in Sewing (so its rather important to start working on this skill as soon as possible or your kids will be dressed in something game chooses ;) ).

Careers.

In most careers level 6 is the highest, before University is unlocked. I recommend using Cyjon’s Job Stopinator.

Some careers need special buildings to be built for certain amount of Simoleons. It can be either hood decoration or community lot. See list below for more details.

High priority careers.

High priority jobs means that when the specified condition occur one of available Sims must take a job & from now on in neighborhood must be at least one Sim, that works in such occupation.

Medicine - available when first Sim got sick and will spread his/hers disease to at least one Sim. 6 level is top, with Uni (Biology major) - all levels are unlocked.

When Sim becomes General Practitioner (6 lvl)  he must build a Clinic.

Clinic - 15.000$, Hospital (available at 10 lvl) - 60.000$.

Law Enforcement - available when first robbery occur. 6 top, with Uni - all.

Building - 30.000 (standalone). Can be merged with town hall, office, court, etc.

Education - first spot available when at least one kid in neighborhood hits child stage. 6 - top, with Uni (any major) - all.

Simple playground (6 lvl) - 15.000$

School (10 lvl) - 60.000$.

Private school - available with airport built and every Sim must pay a fee of 2.000$.

Early openings:

Science - when first sim gets obducted by Aliens - first spot is ONLY available to Knowledge Sims. 6 top, with Uni (Physics/Biology/Mathematics major) - all. Available to Sims with predistined hobby in Science.

No special building needed, school will do.

Business - available to anyone when first player-controlled business hits rank 6. Only one slot per business. (so if in neighborhood there’re 2 player controlled businessess, 2 slots are available).

Military - available when at least 3 obductions occured and there was at least one robbery. 6 top, with Uni (History/Political Science) - all.

No special building needed, town hall or police station will do.

Natural Scientist - first spot available to a Knowledge Sim when at least one sim becomes a plantsim. 6 top, with Uni (Biology major) - all. Later it’s available to anyone with predistined hobby in Nature.

Paranormal - available when sim was scared by a ghost at least 3 times. 6 top, 7 and rest available with police station built.

Law - one spot available when for the very first time one sim gets furious with another (but NOT with burglar). 7 top, with Uni (History/Political Science major) - all.

No special building needed, town hall will do.

Adventurer - available to one sim from a start, but 6 is top. When airport was built - all. Only one spot available.

Journalism - available to anyone when first robbery, fire, childbirth, death and obduction occur. Basic electricity must be unlocked.

Hobby/skill points limits:

Athletic - first spot available when first sim gets 6 points in sport and with predistined hobby in Sport or Fitness. Later available to anyone  with predistined hobby in Sport or Fitness.

Any sportground (can be merged with Gym).

Culinary - first spot available when first sim gets 6 points in cooking with predistined hobby in Culinary - he must build a restaurant to actually start this track though.

Restaurant - no money limit, after restaurant was built this track is available to anyone with correct predistined hobby.

Artist - first spot available to any sim with 6 points in creativity and with predistined hobby in Arts&Crafts with airport built. Later available to anyone with predistined hobby in Arts&Crafts.

Show business - first spot available when airport was built and to a Sim with high charisma AND creativity (at least 6 points each). Later available to anyone with predistined hobby in Arts&Crafts or Sport.

Music - first spot available to any sim with 6 creativity points and with Music&Dance predistined hobby with built airport. Later available to anyone with predistined hobby in Music&Dance.

Dance - first spot available to any sim with high creativity AND sport (6 points each) and with Music&Dance predistined hobby with built airport. Later available to anyone with predistined hobby in Music&Dance.

Population limits:

Criminal - available to anyone when population hits 20 playable sims and any aspiration failure occured.

Political - available since the beginning for one sim to be mayor of the island, available to other sims when population hits 20 playable sims - then one Sim with highest charisma gets a job (preferably most outgoing).with Uni (Political Science major) - all. 

Town hall - 60.000, can be merged with office, police station, court, etc.

Slacker - available when population hits 20 playable sims and there was in neighborhood at least two sims who never got any job.

Gamer - available with unlocked electricity and at least 20 playable sims in neighborhood to a sim with predistined hobby in Games.

Entertainment - available to anyone when airport was built and there are at least 20 playable sims.

University only:

Architecture - available to anyone with finished Uni (Art/Mathematics major).

Intelligence - available to anyone with finished Uni (History/Political Science major) and with built police station.

Oceanography - available to anyone with finished Uni (Biology major) and with predistined hobby in Nature.

Taxes.

At the beginning households pay as much as they can, so neighborhood add ons can be unlocked. I don’t care if it is 500$ or 5.000$ per season. With basic airport build this thing is replaced with Nepheris’ rules:

Households are divided into tiers based on their total funds (check from neighbourhood screen): Upper Class (net worth $100,000+) Middle Class (net worth $50,000-$99,000) Lower Class (net worth $25,000-$49,000) Poverty (net worth below $25,000) Each tier earns the city tax per season based on the number of sims in that household: Upper Class: 1.000$/Sim Middle Class: 500$/Sim Lower Class: 250$/Sim Poverty: 100$/Sim

Sim Multiplier.

The SM is the number that you multiply your number of playable Sims by in order to get the city’s population. Servos count as playable Sims. Pets do not.

+1 for your first community lot

+1 when you reach a total of 5 community lots

+1 for every additional 5 community lots

+5 for your Business District

+5 for your Downtown District

+5 for your University

Rules are a mix of Kahlenas, Wildwoodheightsbacc, and Nepheris.

[nicistrying]

Weds 16th October

Tues Weds office days this week. Flu vaccine clinic yesterday so went down with a couple of the girls on my team and got vaccinated. And got a sticker and a lollipop for it 😎

It's one of my colleagues' 30th birthday this weekend and I stupidly took charge of organising his gifts so rushed to get some giant balloons after work and came home and made up a hamper for him.

Up early this morning to make sure I had everything ready. It was team meeting day today so it was all a bit hectic but coworker was happy with his gifts and seemed to really appreciate them. He gave me a little cuddle to thank me for organising it all so I'm really glad I did okay.

As the day has gone on I've been feeling a little yucky and my armpit is killing me! So I think it's just the flu jab kicking in. "Rested" this evening bc I felt gross and exhausted when I got home and by resting I mean I spent 2 hours browsing cars bc we are in desperate need of a second one. Sharing ours is just not sustainable. I had hoped I could lease one from work but the cheapest cars are fully electric (great but I would have to then pay more to install a charger) and fuckung huge (not great because I am very fucking small and I currently drive a very small car I am not ready to upgrade to an SUV lmao) so we're back to looking at second hand from a local dealer and tbf there are a lot of good deals around, we just need to make the time to go and test drive a couple and get it sorted bc from November Matt's schedule is getting busier and I would really like to have the new car by then if we can. So I spent most of my night babbling out loud about the pros and cons of hire purchase bc that seems to be the way we could get the newest car with the lowest mileage. If we buy outright it would be an older car that's done more miles and had more wear and tear that we will need to pay to repair. But I can already hear his parents complaining about us paying for one large investment on finance. But like who can afford to buy a car outright these days lmao

[dosesofcommonsense]

This is a Tesla model Y battery. It takes up all of the space under the passenger compartment of the car.

To manufacture it you need:

--12 tons of rock for Lithium (can also be

extracted from sea water)

-- 5 tons of cobalt minerals (Most cobalt is made

as a byproduct of the processing of copper

and nickel ores. It is the most difficult material

to obtain for a battery and the most

expensive.)

-- 3 tons nickel ore

-- 12 tons of copper ore

You must move 250 tons of soil to obtain:

-- 26.5 pounds of Lithium

-- 30 pounds of nickel

-- 48.5 pounds of manganese

-- 15 pounds of cobalt

To manufacture the battery also requires:

-- 441 pounds of aluminum, steel and/or plastic

-- 112 pounds of graphite

The Caterpillar 994A is used for the earthmoving to obtain the essential minerals. It consumes 264 gallons of diesel in 12 hours.

Finally you get a “zero emissions” car.

Presently, the bulk of the necessary minerals for manufacturing the batteries come from China or Africa. Much of the labor for getting the minerals in Africa is done by children! If we buy electric cars, it's China who profits most!

BTW, this 2021 Tesla Model Y OEM battery (the cheapest Tesla battery) is currently for sale on the Internet for $4,999 not including shipping or installation. The battery weighs 1,000 pounds (you can imagine the shipping cost). The cost of Tesla batteries is:

Model 3 -- $14,000+ (Car MSRP $38,990)

Model Y -- $5,000–$5,500 (Car MSRP $47,740)

Model S -- $13,000–$20,000 (Car MSRP $74,990)

Model X -- $13,000+ (Car MSRP $79,990)

It takes SEVEN years for an electric car to reach net-zero CO2. The life expectancy of the batteries is 10 years (average). Only in the last three years do you begin to reduce your carbon footprint. Then the batteries have to be replaced and you lose all the gains you made in those three years.

The truth is far better than the fiction we are all being told !

[becomingkatie]

Y'all. I knew I was going to spend most of yesterday at the airport, but hoooo boy that was one sucky travel day!

I booked the "mystery car" with avis because it was the cheapest option, and it was an EV and I had no experience with those. I knew I'd need to charge it before taking it back, but since I didn't know how long it would take, I basically boogied out of the hotel and went straight to a charging station. I had to google where the port was, how to open it, and how to use the charger. But I got it taken care of. Ten bucks and one hour later, I was sufficiently charged to get to the rental car return with more than the requisite 70% charge remaining when I returned it.

So I wound up at the airport at 9:30am for a 3:50pm flight.

All right. Figured I'd grab breakfast, settle in somewhere and read or write for the rest of the morning. Over breakfast, I got a text that my flight was delayed two hours. Greeeeat. But there was a 1:55pm flight I could try to get on the standby list for. Okay! Cool! I've never done that, but how hard could it be?

The app didn't have the option to get on the standby list. It said to talk to an agent. But there wasn't a gate assigned to that flight yet. I ended up waiting at one gate until its flight had completely boarded and the gate agent was available, but then she got REAL huffy and said gate agents only work the flight listed at that gate, so I had to call the "agent on demand" line. That was totally fine, but her tone made me feel so small and by the time I was on the phone with an agent I was next to tears.

The agent on the phone got me on the standby list, except in the app it still only had information about my original flight and I didn't get a text or email, so... I was like, okay, 50% chance I'm actually on the standby list for this flight. But at least I have a seat on my original flight. And when the gate opens for this flight I'll ask them. The agent on the phone said, "I put you on the list, but I'm not going to check you in for this flight because it will remove you from your original flight, which we don't want, since there's no guarantee you'll get a spot on this one." All right, cool, fine. I'm stressed but it's fine.

And then a gate was assigned for that flight and I went there, and my name was not on the standby list when it showed on the screen. But then my app updated and only listed that flight, not my original flight. And it said "ready to check in" but I didn't check in because the agent on the phone had scared me about that. No agents arrived at the gate until literally 10 minutes before boarding was supposed to start. I was first in line to ask if I was on the flight, and he said no you're not on the standby list but you do still have a seat on your original flight. Which, fine, but my app is only showing the info for the standby flight and not my original flight.

I chanced it and checked in again on the app for the standby flight, and then everything was good. It put me on the standby list for real this time but still showed my confirmed flight for later. Woohoo!

But then minutes before boarding the standby flight got delayed until even later than my original flight.

Each flight got delayed another time, but the standby flight stayed later. I got a text saying congrats, you got a seat! And then I was like uh no I don't want the seat on the later flight, I want to stay on my original flight. I was not the only person at the gate making sure I could keep my original flight.

Anyway, it worked out. I got home at 1am instead of 9pm but we made it. I ate chick-fil-a twice in the airport. And I learned how to charge an electric car and how to get on the standby list for a flight. Working from home in pajamas today, though.

[adj4mp]

We have a housing problem what problems do you forsee and what solutions would you suggest for the upcoming projects?

Hi Anon, Thanks for the question

One of the big problems we will face with getting the number of houses built that this government has targetted is the requirement for parking spaces for those houses. We can no longer build streets of terrace houses because each house is supposed to have room for 2 cars. This is why new build blocks of flats come with carparks and new build houses usually come with front parking spaces or garages.

I'd like to use tech to solve the problem there are underground parking garages that would fit in almost any community but they come with the risk that a breakdown would cause a neighbourhood to be without access to their cars. I've seen examples of this on Tom Scott's YouTube here which can include electric car charging and are much more secure than on-street parking.

Storing cars off the street like this makes them a hassle to access, which means that you need to build the area around that limitation. While discouraging driving you have to provide all the things a community might need. Every 100 or so houses should have a shop or commercial space, every 250 houses should have a park. This makes the area walkable and enjoyable for families.

Every 1000 houses should have some form of community resource which might be a community centre, doctor's office, library, school or faith building. The community resource should be the last thing that's built, there should be space earmarked for it and when residents have started to buy up the finished properties and move in they should get an opportunity to decide what they think they would use most.

These should often be built in conjunction with one another, if there's the opportunity for 5000 houses to be built near one another. We could end up with a village that has 2 primary schools, a doctor's office, a library/community centre, and a church for the community buildings, while in the commercial spaces there could be 5 corner shops, 5 charity shops, a salon, a barber shop, a bank, a local supermarket, 5 pubs or takeaways, 5 other faith buildings, a telecom exchange, 6 electric substations, a retirees centre, several spaces for small local businesses/offices, and to fulfil the green space requirements there'd be 10 small parks/playgrounds and 1 larger park with 10x the space maybe with basket ball/tennis courts, lawn bowls, some football posts on a field and a set of toilets. This would end up being a somewhat balanced community with room for many different sorts of people to move in and become a community through their shared access to these spaces.

Social housing should be an integral part of every community, 1/10 homes being one that should be sold to a social landlord or council, these should be picked at random so it's impossible to tell which streets or which properties in a given street are social landlords vs owned by the person living in them vs private rented. They absolutely should not be the cheapest houses the building company can provide that meets the social housing specification while other houses in the same area are bigger or have more things built into their fabric.

Making a village like this walkable and limiting the parking to the parking structures means you can forgo streets and use many of the road spaces as green spaces with walking paths, trees and so on.

If I were designing this I'd have concentric circular roads connected by spokes on T junctions where the 4th road goes into a parking structure and the spoke roads may be on every 3rd or 4th 'street'. the result should be no one is more than a few minutes walk from one parking structure or another, and each structure could have storage for 50 to 100 cars, which would probably mean people would end up meeting at the structures around rush hours adding more opportunities to build the community.

I understand that this wouldn't be workable in all areas but I think that if 5-10% of the projects looked like this they'd be able to provide a higher density of housing with an improved local environment over the concrete jungle with tarmac driveways and tiny gardens model which has come to dominate in many new build locations.

Even though I think this is a good solution, I understand that it could only be done with planning directed by the government because this shift in the layout and structure of new communities is rather radical. I see that it would face huge amounts of resistance from commercial ventures thinking that it's not viable, installing the technologies is going to take skills and extra money we don't currently have easily available relatively speaking, even if I believe there would ultimately be an appetite for this sort of community and people would easily adapt to living in these sorts of villages because it's so different it might take time to be accepted.

Yet another Complicated answer for a complicated world and this isn't the only solution out there. I'd like to hear from other people what they think of this idea and if they could see themselves living in a place like this.