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- Comment on Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles 1 month ago:
I’m not sure I’d want to be swapping my battery out like a propane tank. Not everyone would follow charging recommendations, etc.
- Comment on Google layoffs: Sundar Pichai-led company fires entire Python team for ‘cheaper labour’ 1 month ago:
Maybe they will save money because they don’t have to offer healthcare?
- Comment on Tesla’s in its flop era 2 months ago:
This is a good point, I’m more inclined to support a unionized company. Still… my understanding is that GM and Ford (and others) all circumvent unionization by manufacturing (to some extent) in Mexico. I guess it depends on the individual car. I’m supportive of Federal and State EV incentives that prioritize made in the US, unionized manufacturing.
- Comment on Tesla’s in its flop era 2 months ago:
Yeah, this is my dilemma. I have heard positive things about Ford and GM in regards to them making it easier to skip the dealership, do that at least addresses the convenience factor. Another factor in wanting to avoid the dealership is that I don’t trust their business model where they sell you a car that they want you to bring in regularly for maintenance. I’d rather buy from a company that doesn’t see vehicle service as a revenue opportunity. Does that apply to Tesla? I’m not sure, but I know that’s how the traditional dealership model works so it’s hard to trust those companies.
- Comment on Tesla’s in its flop era 2 months ago:
Replies to a thread with lots of well-thought out comments with some BS and doesn’t even elaborate.
- Comment on Tesla’s in its flop era 2 months ago:
You seem to be missing the point. Show me a car company that’s not screwing over the consumers and the workforce, and I’ll buy from them. Not every consumer has the luxury of maximizing altruism with their car purchase. At least those supposedly untrained employees are US citizens getting paid a US wage. Do you honestly think that things are better at the Mexican plants?
Maybe Honda and Toyota or Subaru? But they’ve been too busy sucking off the oil industry with their hydrogen push, and now their EV offerings can’t compete.
- Comment on Tesla’s in its flop era 2 months ago:
Cars and car companies suck. If I could lug all my sports shit around in an e-bike I would.
I imagine the conditions aren’t great at all these “American” car plants which are conveniently located in Mexico for maximum abuse of labor.
I’m not saying your wrong, there just needs to be alternatives in order for consumers to vote with their wallet on these issues.
For something like a car which is not optional for me, it’s either an ICE from a scummy car dealer with a scummy company behind them that uses questionable labor practices, or an EV from a scummy car dealer with a scummy company behind them that uses questionable labor practices, or an EV from a company with a scummy CEO that uses questionable labor practices. At least with a Tesla you can cut out some of the scumbags? I’d be interested in Rivian too if I could afford one but they start at 70k.
- Comment on Tesla’s in its flop era 2 months ago:
It seems like it would be a good move to have him step down.
I’m not sure they will though, I think the board is probably still stuck in the mindset that their company is valued highly because of Musk.
- Comment on Tesla’s in its flop era 2 months ago:
This probably is true for some people, which is why I hope he steps down.
Me, I’m waiting for the prices to come down (more than the recent price cuts) on the Model 3, or for a more affordable AWD EV with similar range becomes available.
I order online from Amazon and Walmart too, it doesn’t mean I agree with their CEOs, board, or business practices. The shit those companies get away with is arguably worse than Musk’s right wing BS on X, with union busting and employees depending on benefits to survive.
If you’re able to make a statement and buy something else, great! I support that. My requirements for a vehicle are: full EV, AWD, 300+ mile range, final cost under 40k. The access to supercharging also seems nearly essential, but I’m willing to explore my options if they meet the other requirements. I also never want to buy from a scumbag car dealer again. That really doesn’t leave me any other options that I’m aware of.
If not, I guess I could stick it to Elon and just buy another ICE vehicle…
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 2 months ago:
Picked up Talos Principle 1 and 2 for 20$. Really enjoying the first one so far. It’s like Portal but more serious, makes you feel really clever, lots of “outside the box” thinking.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I haven’t seen an AWD EV more affordable than the M3 yet, and the last I checked the nearest supercharging station is only for Teslas.
For me NOT buying from a scummy car dealership is also part of my criteria.
So it looks like it’s basically a choice between Tesla and Rivian for me and there’s a big price difference.
Would be interested to check out some other options though.
- Comment on Finance guru Dave Ramsey slams 'awful' Gen Zers and millennials who live with their parents: 'They suck. They can't buy a house because they don't work' 2 months ago:
Although it does feel like rage bait and they’re making money off the clicks/engagement…
If it’s true that they are
- reporting something that he said
- didn’t take him out of context
- adding additional context
- didn’t explicitly tell the reader one opinion or another
that would be good journalism right?
- Comment on Boeing: Last Week Tonight 3 months ago:
One of the defining characteristics of Southwest is that they ONLY fly 737s (Boeing). That and their focus on domestic flights helps them offer good rates and low/non-existent fees. I guess their maintenance only has to focus on one plane. However, it seems like they got caught up in Boeing’s “737 MAX is the same plane” scam because they fly some of those too and I believe it affected their stock.
- Comment on Venus by Tuesday 5 months ago:
If those people could read they’d be very upset.
- Comment on Google lays off “hundreds” more as ad division switches to AI-powered sales 5 months ago:
Eventually there will not be enough human workers creating training data for LLMS to hallucinate with, and they will just be training each other with more and more incorrect bullshit.
I do find GitHub CoPilot helpful to save typing, but last night it took me longer to track down the mistakes it made than if I had just did a combination of copy/paste + regex.
- Comment on Gamecube is the most underrated console while it was in circulation. 5 months ago:
Spent so many hours on Smash, Wind Waker, Pikmin, Twilight Princess, RE4 (originally GC exclusive).
Also have that Zelda OOT promo with Master Quest on one disc, as well as the one with various Zelda games on one disc including MM.
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 5 months ago:
20v to house DeWalt!
- Comment on Electric School Buses More Than Doubled In USA From March 2022 To June 2023 5 months ago:
I’ve tried out both a battery-powered weed wacker and a battery powered lawnmower and had to get rid of both. As much as I wanted them to succeed, they were both just seriously under-powered and needed multiple batteries to complete the job.
Probably will take another look at them when my current gas models need to be replaced maybe in 5+ years, hopefully they’ve gotten better.
- Comment on Tesla again threatens to sue Cybertruck buyers who try to resell the cars 6 months ago:
I’m curious what you’ve looked at? In New England and as a snowboarder, AWD and high range are both requirements and I’m not seeing anything cheaper than the Model 3 unfortunately.
- Comment on Twitch allowing more nudity after disproportionately banning female streamers | Twitch confirmed its policy banning nudity was sexist. 6 months ago:
Why not have a “no nipples” policy in general? I’m guessing that if parents think that their 7 year olds are going on Twitch to see boobs, they could lose some viewers.
But yes, policies should be applied equally.
- Comment on GitHub Desktop or Git CLI? 6 months ago:
I primarily use GitHub CLI to interact with the GitHub API, not Git. I don’t really see it as an extension of the Git CLI, which I use much more frequently. Everything you can do with it can also be done through their REST API.
I use it for things that aren’t really git features, like:
Syncing repository admin, pull request, and branch control settings across multiple repositories
Checking the status of self-hosted actions runners
Creating pull requests, auto-approving them
- Comment on Salesforce Signals the Golden Age of Cushy Tech Jobs Is Over 6 months ago:
Part of the issue is that their sales pitch to get management to onboard is full of outright lies. They have one chart that basically shows that they are the leading cloud provider, beating out AWS and Azure.
As a software engineer I called them out on their bullshit right away. Sure, you can build pages on Salesforce, similar to SharePoint and some other CMS products, but it is NOT a platform that is truly competing with AWS or Azure.
Management still proceeded to go full hog into Salesforce as our “development platform” and pay consultants 300$ an hour to build shit solutions that should have just been built with standard languages on real cloud platforms. I left that dumpster file shortly after.
Now it almost seems like Salesforce is a joke in the industry, since many companies made those same mistakes and got stuck with huge bills and having to eventually back out. It doesnt help them that they basically priced themselves out of the CRM space, by trying to get you to build everything on their “platform”.
- Comment on Senators Introduce ‘Fans First’ Bill Intended to Reform Live-Event Ticketing System 6 months ago:
Live Nation apparently supports this bill, which is suspicious. Their statement in the article makes it sound like this situation is NOT their fault, when we know that it is. Seems real fishy to me, similar to Apple’s support for the right to repair bill that continues to allow them to screw over third party repair shops.
- Comment on Tesla's reputation slumps as GM, Ford climb - Tesla ranked 62nd by reputation among the 100 most visible brands, tumbling from 12th last year and 8th in 2021. 6 months ago:
I’m no fan of Musk or Tesla’s in general. However, my next car WILL be an EV, and I will NOT be purchasing it through a car dealership.
If there’s a way for me to buy a Ford or GM without the middleman, I’ll think about it.
- Comment on Japan automakers play catch-up in EV race 6 months ago:
So you’re saying that the major issues with storage and transportation of hydrogen have been resolved? Do you have a source? Everything that I’ve read today is that they still can’t store it without it evaporating at a pretty high rate.
In an abstract sense, I understand that FCEVs WILL be better once infrastructure exists and the problems with transportation and evaporation are resolved. Ideally the hydrogen would be used as energy storage for renewable sources, though my understanding is that most hydrogen produced today is produced using oil and gas.
The reality is that I’m going to need to replace my ICE in the next year or two, and there is not currently a FCEV available for me to replace it with or infrastructure for me to fuel it. My house gets good sun, it wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to power my small amount of driving with my own solar and a BEV
It’s not really productive to say that people who support BEV over ICE are stuck in the past. What would you recommend people do? If your answer is “buy another ICE until hydrogen is a realistic option”, isn’t that MORE stuck in the past than someone advocating for BEVs?
- Comment on Japan automakers play catch-up in EV race 6 months ago:
Aren’t there still immense challenges with the safe storage and transportation of hydrogen? Will I be able to generate that hydrogen from my own solar panels?
I’m actually in agreement that FCEVs are the future, I just haven’t seen anything to convince me that those challenges have been addressed. Didn’t Toyota screw up by betting heavily on FCEVs instead of BEVs and now they have to play catch-up?
- Comment on Japan automakers play catch-up in EV race 6 months ago:
All the people vehemently defending ICE in this thread are missing the point.
All the expensive maintenance/problems with my current ICE are with things that do NOT exist on a BEV:
- head gasket
- timing belt
- catalytic converter
- oil change
Also, the scumbag dealer straight up LIED because I specifically asked about the common head gasket issues with Subaru and they assured me that they had been fixed, and then proceeded to sell me a car with the exact engine which had that issue even though the same model year had started shipping with a new engine that didn’t have the problem.
So I do NOT give a SINGLE fuck about the environmental tradeoffs between lithium extraction and all the dirty fluids involved with a ICE. If you have a hard-on for breathing smog, I won’t kink-shame you.
In summary, I’ll be getting a BEV because:
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It won’t ever blow a head gasket and spew coolant and oil all over itself for no fucking reason while I’m just trying to get home from work. The battery will slowly degrade over many years, but that’s very predictable and can be planned for.
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It won’t ever force me to replace it because it needs a catalytic converter that costs more than the car is worth and can’t pass emissions. Again, I won’t link shame you if you get off on breathing smog, but I also don’t believe you have the right to force that on everyone else with your bypass kits and rolling coal BS.
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I will NOT have to deal with lying scumbag car dealers. These middlemen add NO value to the transaction and they lobby to force the state governments to keep them involved.
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I’ll never have to go with a gas station and deal with their bullshit gas pumps with poor usability, I can charge at night and while I WFH
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My car will be able to run on any fuel that can generate electricity: natural gas, nuclear, solar, wind, etc. ICE cars are dependent on a very specific nasty byproduct of petroleum refinement which is constantly price gouged for windfall profits by greedy corporations and our government just lets it happened because they are bought and paid for by the same industry, they’ll even send subsidies their way as an extra fuck-you to the taxpayer. I’ll stick with my local, municipal electric company which is held accountable to provide me electricity without padding the windfall profits of the 1%.
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An electric motor is a much better engineering solution to the problem of creating forward momentum than an ICE. There are some things that you need to burn a liquid fuel for, like if you’re going to try to launch a rocket. Turning a wheel is NOT one of them. Do the ICE fetishers even know how an ICE works? It’s immensely over-complicated to create an explosion and then harness the power of that explosion to create rotation, which is trivial to achieve with electricity. So many moving parts which all have to be properly lubricated and aligned or it will literally explode and spew metal and toxic chemicals everwhere. No thanks. Kids can make electric motors in science class.
All that being said, I’m still not going to drop 3x the cost on a BEV over an ICE, the prices DO need to come down. Thankfully, with lots of options in the market it looks like they will.
- Comment on Heat-pump water heaters are a winner for the climate — and your wallet 7 months ago:
For me it means I don’t need any propane deliveries in the summer, and it helps dehumidify a damp corner of the basement. I’m not sure if it actually saves me any money though.
- Comment on US asks Qatar to 'turn down the volume' of Al Jazeera news coverage 7 months ago:
Al Jazeera surely is biased in favor of Arabs and Palestinians. The Western media is also clearly biased in favor of Israel and western imperialism. Therefore, it’s an important non-western perspective for trying to understand a complex issue, particularly for Americans who know more about the Kardashians than they know about what’s happening in the world.
- Comment on Matter 1.2 is a big move for the smart home standard 8 months ago:
I thought litter robot was great, unfortunately the larger of my two cats does not. Unfortunately he decided that he does not like them only AFTER we bought a second one, and AFTER the 90 day trial period expired.