Driving slower definitely gives better fuel mileage, as long as I'm going fast enough to get it into 6th gear. I don't measure in stop and go city driving because I do so little of it, and I rarely roll my windows down at highway speeds because I don't like the buffeting of the wind.... so unfortunately I don't have data on either of those. All my data comes from my drive home on backroads through mostly farmland.

My car has the fuel mileage thing in the infotainment system (2019 Volkswagen)... so I've tried looking at it on days when I drive with my windows down vs with the AC on. Oddly enough, on a ~30 minute commute at mostly 50mph, I get better fuel mileage with the windows down and AC off. It's even more odd because I feel like I drive more "spiritedly" when I have the windows down. It's not a huge difference, but 2mpg is still better fuel economy.

That said, I still drive with the windows up and AC on most days because summer humidity sucks here.

The things on Hexbear and Lemmygrad aren't "communists and socialists" though. They're just supporting straight up authoritarian regimes simply because they oppose "the west". It's just people shilling for Xi Jinping and Putin because they think they somehow still represent Communism.

I plan on subbing to the things on beehaw that I like. I just liked the concept of their community so I wanted to sign up there. That didn't work out though.

I'm guessing. I've been waiting 2 days on anything from Beehaw. Meanwhile, signing up on lemmy.world took 10 seconds.

Those of us who did write an essay still haven't heard anything back yet, so don't feel like you're missing anything for being lazy.