One of the things that feeds into my insufferable smugness about living in a walkable city is I haven’t paid for gas in years (outside of like… maybe 2 road trips a decade). It’s just not something I think about.

I had the luxury of being able to move somewhere with trains and buses, though.

I’m still haunted by the realization that conservatives want hierarchy. They want underclasses. Even when they’re not the top! They don’t want free health care because then the wrong sort of people will get it!

They’re bad people! It’s not about “cost” or market efficiency or anything else they say.

Even if the electricity was renewable sources, there’s the opportunity cost. You spent that electricity on AI instead of something more useful and immediate.