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CrimeDad
Father; husband; mechanical engineer. Posting from my self-hosted Lemmy instance here in beautiful New Jersey. I also post from my Pixelfed instance.
Latinx doesn’t work and it’s embarrassing to force it. Latine at least kind of sounds right, but what are we doing here? If you’re speaking English and don’t want to say Latino or Latina, you can just say Latin American. In Spanish if an individual says they want to be referred to as latine then you should respect that. Otherwise, latinos is fine for a mixed gender group.
It’s competition for passengers. If it’s too easy and inexpensive for people to travel long distances in their cars, why bother with mass transit? I don’t know about California, but here on the East coast, chargers keep popping up, the highways are getting wider, and there’s barely any new rail service coming.
Then why the struggle to deploy new fast charging infrastructure? All we’re doing is avoiding mass transit and subsidizing the battery industry.
Looks like the existing rail is for Ikea horizontal sliding panel shades. Just take it down if it’s not what you want. Not sure if you can reuse the holes.
What we really need is more rail and less cars of any type. Anyway, it’s too bad that BEVs and their “fast” chargers are getting foisted on us. Maybe a future Who Killed the Hydrogen Car? documentary will get to the bottom of it.
Hell yeah put some middle name on that thang.