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We also have those Christian holidays in France, and fête de la musique is just one evening, not a holiday. But it is on the longest daylight day of the year, so that's nice.

I mean that's fair : value is relative.

The main value of Nebula is no ads. I have YouTube on Firefox with uBlock Origin, so no ads either, but shitty performance due to YouTube fighting the AdBlocker. But more importantly I don't think the ability to watch YouTube with no ads is a given, so I want to have a viable alternative.

And secondly, I want to support the creators and a platform that sees me as a customer, not as a data-cow to be milked.

I'm sure Nebula will eventually have a free tier, but that can incur high costs and degrade the experience for paying users. They'll do it when they feel comfortable.

It's not for everyone, but I think it's reasonable to pay for a platform that pays its content creators fairly. I spend a lot of things watching videos, and even though my income is limited, some kind of payment for the service makes sense.

I don't mind blocking ads on YouTube because they used unfair practices (endless resources from Google) to destroy the competition and become the only video provider. They put us in a corner and deserve to be put in one too.

There's a ton of content that's much longer. There's no 8-minute limitation.

Nebula's getting better and I spend more time there now than on YouTube. Happy that YouTube is working hard to encourage this transition.

Kids don't go hungry because of money, they go hungry because of politics. Famines are the product of conflict, especially war. And hunger in countries that are not at war is a product of social inequality. Sure a billionaire could help but that's just a temp fix.

SUVs typically have less cargo space than SWs

An electric SUV is the stupidest thing. They have shit range. There's an electric SW from Nio with 1000 km of range.

Call it American Party X and we have a deal.

A lot of these arguments are not logical.

Yes you can have large PHEVs, but the trend for bigger stupider cars is independent of power source. You can get a PHEV Renault Clio and it's 20% lighter than the smaller electric Renault 5. And uses 80% less precious minerals because you have a smaller battery.

The gas engine needs maintenance of course, but you do use it much less than the electric motor, requiring much less maintenance than a normal car.

The fact that people buy PHEVs for the tax incentives and use them as gas vehicles is stupid and annoying, but that's not a fault in the technology itself.

It just fully depends on the driver. A PHEV which the driver does not recharge is just a heavier HEV.

But if you have less than 70km to drive every day and have a home charger, there's barely ever any reason to use gas.

The issue is that many PHEV owners only get one because it allows them to get around regulations for driving in city centers, so they just use the cars as gasoline powered cars.

Plug-in hybrids are ideal. They get the cleanliness and efficiency of regen breaking, the efficiency of an electric motor, with the much smaller footprint of a battery 15% the weight of an ev battery. They effectively suppress range anxiety while still heavily incentivizing electricity use instead of gasoline. And when they do run on gasoline in exceptional circumstances, they are running more efficiently than conventional gas cars.

Eurotunnel was not state owned. Yes it can technically go bankrupt, but it won't.