I got the vase for free. It's part of set of 3 glassblown art vases. Got them from a free pile from local estate clear out, a few years ago. I'm good at scoring lots of #freebies & rarely buy anything new.
It's proven to be #DroughtResistant, once established. One of very few #plants proven to be resistant to air pollution too. I highly recommend this for #ClimateAction#gardening. It's a gorgeous plant too.
Stolen and reposted because "no alt text" which is especially relevant when you're trying to get a message across to everyone with your posts. Inclusion isn't a buzzword my dude.
@msquebanh@stephanie@voxofgod also… people who think they are saving themselves time (ie. selfish annoyance) and don’t realize they’re actually doing a lot more work by having to edit a post and add alt text than just taking the extra 30 seconds at the start. Silly ableists.
P.S. Apple dictionary/autocorrect apparently doesn’t think ‘ableists’ is a word…. Ableist Apple!
I am baffled that people actually still believe buying an EV will not have an immediate positive impact on their family's monthly budget. And yes, I know the initial cost is out of many people's range, but I also know for a great many, it is in their range. So lets talk operating cost:
Case in point: Our EV is at the doctor getting rear end surgery (due to no fault of ours or its, insurance covered, yay).
We received a courtesy car we nicknamed "The Beast". It's a Dodge Journey. I figure one trip to work and back (160km) would probably cost $50. I was forced to use it today so I took the time-hit and drove it to the Transit park-and-ride 35km away
instead.
It means leaving 15min early and getting home 45min later. But that's another topic...
What taking the bus does do immediately is saves me more than half the cost of fuel for The Beast.
A full 160km roundtrip in the EV is about $5 worth of electricity. $50 vs $5.
Fossil fuels? In this economy?
P.S. Oh ya, and you want to talk "range anxiety"? Not only is The Beast only good for around 200km on $50 of gas... that's almost half a tank! Which is not farm from the EV on "range". Sorry, I'll take the EV "anxiety" any day of the week!
@cferdinandi@josie_osborne of course a fully paid off car not ready for replacement would be. As I said in my opening, I acknowledge not everyone can afford that bracket of ICE or EV right now but many many people can. As a family of four in 2019 we made that choice and I can say 100% that it was the better financial decision.
Has anyone here taken a golf cart, made changes to it & turned it into a street legal electric vehicle?
In my dreams, last night, I was driving around roads, on an upcycled, electric golf cart with a trailer attached to back, with my cat in a backpack windowed carrier in passenger seat. We were heading to a cats cafe.
@msquebanh there is a company in Coombs called CanEV that have been doing small-electric for decades. They used to do conversions but not anymore I think. The hard part I think with golf cart type things is that "street legal" issue. Golf
carts aren't insurable by ICBC but I am sure you could find a tiny truck, like those little
Mitsubishi's and convert that!
There is just no question in my mind that the culture of the fediverse (by any name) is a better model for civil discussion. But oddly, even many of its biggest champions have largely returned to Twitter, or pivoted to Threads, which may be a step up from Nazis, but that’s a pretty fucking law bar.
@shoq not going back or anywhere else. The non-algorithmic #Fediverse may not be the Future for everyone, but it is the only one I'm comfortable being in. #Mastodon
I am booked to be on BC Today on CBC TV, GEM, Radio 1, and YouTube at noon today (Friday 24 May) for a ~20 minute discussion on London Drugs ransomware leaks and Cybersecurity in general. Join us if you're free and interested!