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robolemmy

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I’m with you. If there weren’t health and social complications, I’d be wishing for full-blown alopecia.

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I’m super lazy. I started losing my hair at age 14 and it was pretty much all over by 30. I didn’t give in and start shaving the fringes until 40-something

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My solution to the problem was to preemptively lose all my hair in my thirties but yours probably works too.

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It’s just the one shade of gray, actually.

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It’s also not good as hairspray.

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Can I opt for both?

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I have been, but I ate beans or potatoes, not rice. I know lemmy loves to bang on about beans and rice but it’s not my thing. Growing up in a farm community meant there was a lot of cheap food to be found locally.

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Dude! I thought you were dead! Welcome back!

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Wait… people actually like rice? I thought it was just a thing you ate with other things because of reasons I don’t understand. It never occurred to me that people would eat it on purpose, because they enjoy it.

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I love electric cars. I drive one. Still, this idea that gas/diesel fires are more common needs to be put into perspective.

Yes, per mile driven, ICE cars catch fire more frequently. That much is true. BUT putting out a fire in an ICE car is almost trivial. I’ve extinguished two of them with just a handheld fire extinguisher.

The same absolutely can’t be said of EV fires. They burn much hotter and a many, many times more difficult to extinguish. Even when you think the fire is out, the energy in the battery cells can restart the thermal runaway and reignite the battery. That means you will almost always need a multi-truck response from the fire department and at least one truck will have to sit with the vehicle for hours after the fire is controlled. You can’t even tow or flatbed the thing until you’re reasonably sure it’s out. Even with all that, there have been a few cases of EV fires restarting in junkyards/impound lots.

TL;DR: EV fires are not comparable to ICE fires. They are much worse.

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