Every time I see Catholics worshipping relics on X, I think of this scene from the 2003 movie "Luther"
"As for myself, the priests assured me that by gazing at sacred relics, I could cut down my time in Purgatory. Luckily for me, Rome has enough nails from the Holy Cross to shoe every horse in Saxony. But there are relics elsewhere in Christendom. Eighteen out of twelve apostles are buried in Spain. And yet here in Wittenberg we have the pick of the crop… bread from the Last Supper, milk from the Virgin’s breast, a thorn that pierced Christ’s brow on Calvary, and 19,000 other bits of sacred bone. All authentic, ancient, sacred relics.”
@JSchripsema@HormuzLetter At work I drive graders, rollers, excavators, trucks.
Farmers often have up to 60yr old machines because they may not need every machine all the time but they sure are handy. Harvest, seeding and spraying are seasonal.
It all runs on diesel, do we just start over?
@JSchripsema@HormuzLetter This is such ignorant s--t.
I live inland and drive 165km per day.
Over 1,000km if I work Saturday.
I rent in town and have an old house with few lights let alone charging equipment.
Am I supposed to buy an EV and charge it daily?
Imagine how massive the propaganda must have been to convince young people that the one on the left “isn’t a child” and the one on the right “is a woman.”
@4paulryan@JohnLeePettim13 Plenty of guys I know are still using trucks and trailers commercially that are 30 years old.
If you count grain trucks and old Bedfords and Whites on farms make that 60yrs.
That will not be true for EVs.
@SeanWSkelton@JohnLeePettim13 That's the point, it may be more efficient with that energy but the energy density of those batteries still sucks and hence is not useful for heavy transport applications.
@bigRD73@JohnLeePettim13 Yeah, but trucking companies much prefer trucks and trailers that can do all jobs rather than some.
Might be practicable for some uses pulling light large, unrefrigerated loads from A to B in an urban area where it is certain to be back at the yard every day.