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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • Space Engineers.

    It’s not so much that I’m stuck, as that I hit a motivational wall when I realized I have no goal.

    Just building stuff isn’t so interesting to me. I like to build stuff to solve problems.

    For a long time my goal was to get to the moon. Now I’m just bored. I’ve done a little stuff on the moon, including making a specialized drilling ship that gobbles up ore at a ridiculous rate then lifts it back to my moon base, and a welding ship that stores massive numbers of plates, and a loading station that automatically fills it from the base’s network.

    But I’m just bored. Kinda want to play it multiplayer, but all the servers are too ephemeral to build anything of consequence on.






  • I rent a car for uber. They recently changed it so all rentals must be electric. I don’t have a way to charge at home, which means I pay 60¢/kWh to charge the car. I get about 200 miles of range for about $20.

    Those who charge at home, overnight, get subsidized electricity for charging an EV, so they pay 4.2¢/kWh, or about 7% of what I pay to charge the car.

    source

    It pisses me off that this decision, to force all rental uber drivers to use EVs, was probably made by someone who lives in a house and has no idea that people who rent cars to drive uber tend to live in shitty little apartments with no at-home charging.

    Not only do I pay through the nose for energy, more than I would pay for gas, I lose 1-2 hours of income per day just twiddling my thumbs in random grocery store parking lots.

    And that doesn’t count the time lost driving from station to station looking for an available charger.