It’s all situational.

My wife could absolutely rock an EV for her 3 mile drive.

However, for road trips we don’t have enough charger coverage where we live, so alas we have an ICE

I primarily use it to look up locations of grocery items.

When I’m looking for a niche item, it’s so much faster to find it in the app than to wonder the store figuring out where it is

Switched from Android to iPhone.

Everything just works in the Apple ecosystem. Android has an app for everything but none of them work well. They always require some sort of configurations, etc, etc. what really set me over was consistently missing calls because my phone just didn’t receive them.

Seriously, nothing in the Android ecosystem works well together. It all just sucks.

None of that takes much power, nor is it unique to EVs. ICE have much of that now.

Also cars are not centralizing those systems. They’re all in independent modules.

Soda is absolutely nowhere close to as damaging as meth.

But, furring strips don’t have the integrity or quality control to be structural components. Part of why they’re so cheap is because they’re complete junk structural.

I think might be confusing furring strips (a specific type of wood product) with anything laid against another structure (brick wall, studs, etc).

I just realized that you’re confusing gypsum board with drywall. While they are similar, gypsum board can be used for the loads you’re describing.

Drywall, however, cannot.

Those aren’t furring strips in that photo. That’s dimensional lumber. In this case, those spans are large enough that they require the strength of actual lumber.

No, that’s not structural since the furring strips are not integral to load bearing capacity of the structure.

In your sheet metal example, they are only there for visual reasons - to help keep the roof flat. The roof can be put down without the furring strips. It might bend, but it still function as a roof.

Well, you’ve changed the goalposts from drywall on furring strips to a shear wall.

Yes, it provided load support but it’s not providing structural load support……

To be extremely clear, your own, provided definition, is not talking about structural components.

Yes, on an interior, non-structural wall drywall can stiffen the structure. No, that does not mean the drywall is structural.

Drywall is not structural on block walls. The blocks are structural themselves.

The drywall may help minimize shifting/settling but the dreary is not a structurally required component of the block wall.

Well, if your dadoing your probably not using soft wood dimensional lumber….

No, that’s is not structural.

Structural means it’s intended to support and transfer loads in a way that cannot be safely removed.

Since neither the furring strips or drywall are part of a structural requirement, they are not load bearing.

Eh, Apple offers essentially zero cost financing.

If you actually have the cash and budget for this, it’s better to invest that $4k.

This won’t be COVID.

We already have a vaccine for this. We don’t need to develop and trial it, we just need to produce it.

Your anecdote isn’t meaningful. That’s simply an outdated map software.

How often do you move your TV off its shelf?

But what if you invest it for those 8 years?