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34 minutes ago, chenGOD said:
yeah this shit is gross. the republican party is hell-bent on tearing down all the institutions that made america stable.
Back to my hypothesis that R ideology is built on selfishness. This is what you get when you have one party full of selfish assholes and the other actually periodically trying to help people (when they're not warmongering).
Ds just don't get it, and will never do stuff like this because it's just not in their nature. They're perfectly happy paralyzing the whole party by arguing with themselves.
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Agree that Tesla has been a huge positive for the EV world and with the model 3 they are definitely getting great at making cars, but I wouldn't trust their consumer satisfaction ratings any more than I'd trust a musk tweet. Their fanbase is so loyal and willing to forgive things that most other car owners aren't. Not saying Tesla makes bad cars, just don't trust those scores.
I have had a Chevy bolt EV for 5 years now and I love it. Chevy definitely wouldn't have made the bolt if they weren't trying to beat Tesla to the market with a "budget", entry-level EV, while simultaneously building knowledge, supply chains, general EV know-how, and "beta testing" their EV program.
I could've bought a model 3 but my main gripe is how everything is designed to minimize cost, which is totally fine, maybe even for a $60,000 car, but not to the point where they omit driver monitoring systems for autopilot (which every single other manufacturer uses), and are now ditching radar in favor of an all-camera system just to cut cost. IMO, they're putting lives in danger just to save money so that TSLA will continue to rise and Musk can troll the TSLA shorts.
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50 minutes ago, Soloman Tump said:
Sizes available: Tiny (holes) or Jumbo
designer voodoo, phone sex, and 501s.
I'm sure you've probably read the lyrics to Banstyle. That song is dirtayy.
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3 minutes ago, neurone said:
underworld underwear ?
underneath the radar
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Bought the vinyl. Somewhat expensive and shipping was also a ripoff ($20 to US, some were saying $50+ to ship to AUS).
I usually love the Tomato design / art but I really haven't been feeling anything design-wise in the recent "drops".
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4 hours ago, Squee said:
So you're telling me they love children in wombs... but hate the ones that walk among them?
Trying to wrap my ahead around what these people are like.DO NOT try to apply logic to Republicans here in America or you will just end up driving yourself mad.
Instead, try to get in the most selfish, racist, xenophobic, paranoid mindset you can and then off you go.
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9 hours ago, ignatius said:
perhaps it is just prepping people to be driven by the car when the time comes.
No. It's all because of cost. Having everything displayed on this one screen greatly reduces the cost to design and manufacture the cars.
Sure, the S and X have regular info consoles, but Elon wanted to get to lower price points with the 3 and Y. Oh, he'll tell you that they did it this way because of data and the future and all kinds of bullshit but the bottom line is that this is the best they could do for a base $60,000 car.
Fanboys say that you'll get used to it and even prefer the center screen after a while (of course they would say that), but I would refuse to pay that much money for a car where you have to go to the center control screen just to open the glove box.
Regarding cost, early on in the manufacture of the Y, Tesla was badly in need of meeting quarterly numbers and they needed to get cars out the door and into customers' hands (to prop up the stock price). There was a shortage of certain parts, so instead of waiting for the appropriate parts they used fucking faux wood trim probably from Home Depot on a condenser part. No way in hell I'm flying down the road in a 4,500 lb tank made by a company who would do that.
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1 hour ago, cwmbrancity said:
Neither colds or flu end up as long-Covid. More exposure to heavy viral loads can still result in rapid reinfection. More exposure to heavy viral loads equals more healthcare workers with long Covid, as an example.I get where you’re coming from about trying to live with this thing but it’s far from certain what the future holds. The NHS has thousands of open vacancies & yet we wonder why we can’t fill them (long as fuck hours, massive stress, underpaid salaries & working within fragmented services).
Yes, totally get where you're coming from. I was just highlighting the fact that we shouldn't automatically jump to doom and gloom when experts say that COVID-19 is here to stay big time.
There will always be people who have more severe adverse reactions to different viruses, and that sucks ass, but I was just trying to remain somewhat optimistic.
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OK but that doesn't necessarily mean doom & gloom, I mean you probably get infected with the common cold many times a year and flu possibly once a year or once every few years. When this virus becomes endemic, it could become less lethal especially with a vaccine once a year. We'll also have evolving vaccines (hopefully).
Of course you'll always have that unlucky few percent of the population who will have a much more serious reaction to the virus, but that's nothing new, that already happens with common viruses that we live with every day.
I'm not saying it's going to be a nothing burger, just that there are many factors to consider and not all of them are so negative.
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14 hours ago, J3FF3R00 said:
How can people be so fucking dumb?
There are a lot of people on the left side of the IQ distribution, and unfortunately they tend to be louder than the half on the right side.
I wonder if other traits not necessarily associated with IQ like susceptibility to being duped, lack of self-reflection, ability to judge when one is wrong about something, follow a cumulative distribution like IQ. I would guess so, and just imagine what happens when you get people who score low in more than one of those categories!
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I've been driving full EVs for the past five years and have stayed away from Tesla primarily because of this asshole. From what I've heard, the cars are built ok, fun to drive, and miles ahead of everyone on tech, but I have a HUGE problem with autopilot and how they implemented it. Like skimping on the driver monitoring systems that everyone else uses (no eye monitoring, just bullshit tug on the steering wheel every so often) so they can save cost while having these poor people be unwilling beta testers for his camera-based full self driving (FSD).
And they have been charging people thousands of dollars for the FSD option, which means a car that is "FSD ready", with absolutely no timetable on when FSD will be ready. Some automation experts say you can never get level 5 autonomy from just cameras. I mean there are tons of scary videos out there of FSD messing up big time.
But hey, if these fanboys are willing to pay for total vaporware, that's on them I guess.
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Just one datapoint, but our negative self-tests were really negative. The Mrs. ended up having a tonsil infection. Not sure why the antigen test was a false positive.
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Well turns out I don't have a conclusive answer, either. The PCA test that she took at the same time was negative. So we have 3 rapid home tests saying negative, then one antigen test saying positive, then a PCR saying negative.
We definitely have something, albeit not too serious. I'm guessing whatever she has gave a false positive on the antigen test.
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I'm out of the dodgeball game, wife tested positive so I assume I am too. Mild, almost no symptoms so far, but we'll wait and see. Both of us are vaxxed and boosted.
Both our rapid home tests were negative but she went to an urgent care because she had a sore throat.
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Enjoying the remainder of my Rochefort 6 from dinner on the back patio while little Lola enjoys a treat.
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12 hours ago, iococoi said:
muah ha ha
To be fair, lots and lots of stocks are at or near 52-week lows.
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Oh boy if Zeff was still around for this...
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No matter what resolution may come to pass, they should be thinking about a way to minimize Putin's ability to spin that resolution in his internal propaganda machine. Make it as hard as possible for him to paint himself as anything other than what he really is. Would be great to force him to do something like an allocution, but he would probably never do anything like that.
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Damn. I'm not from the UK so I hope I use this right, but YOU LOT ARE HARD AF.
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Damn, I don't have anything that serious (knock on wood) but I did break my thumb playing soccer (goalkeeper) a few weeks ago and it's not healing quickly because I'm 40.
All in all, though, I can't complain. Been pretty lucky health-wise so far. My wife has rheumatoid arthritis which was pretty bad until she found a doctor who actually took the time to find the right balance of meds for her and now it's basically in remission, thankfully.
Edit:. My eyesight is awful (was -9.5, drifted down to -8 recently) and my eye doctor keeps pestering me to get lasik. I honestly don't mind contacts and just don't like the side effects and possible negative consequences.
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1 hour ago, J3FF3R00 said:
Plus, his war chest is stuffed but countless corrupt billionaire oligarchs. That isn’t nothing.
Yeah I wish I could remember the numbers, it was something like half his assets were frozen and the other half was his war chest, something like 400 billion IIRC?
I think it was Ignatius who linked that podcast series, it's a good listen: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/winter-is-here-with-garry-kasparov-and-uriel-epshtein/id1612842845
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I heard somewhere, I think that "Winter is Here" podcast series that was linked here far earlier in this thread, that the daily money Russia gets from Europe & other countries buying its oil & gas is more than Russia spends on the war every day. So, unless that changes dramatically, we probably won't see any serious shifts in how things are going now.
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23 hours ago, trying to be less rude said:
yeah. he gets in front of government people. here's another one with pomeranzev, from 2019, also on disinfo. https://www.lawfareblog.com/lawfare-podcast-peter-pomerantsev-war-against-reality
"the nature of propaganda has shifted as authoritarian governments move from silencing dissent to drowning dissent out with squalls of disinformation"
Yeah they mentioned that in the first podcast, too, and made an interesting point that it's against the law (or attracts attention) at most places to straight up censor information so they've gotten around it by just drowning it out with their own BS.
It's good that he gets in front of governments, but then they have to first listen to him and then figure out what/how to implement the correct measures.
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On 4/28/2022 at 9:01 PM, trying to be less rude said:
very interesting reporting on russian disinfo: https://crooked.com/podcast/are-russians-buying-putins-propaganda
That guy seemed extremely knowledgeable on the Russian aspect of this mess. I hope our governments have consulted or are consulting with people like him.
Elon Musk's Starman - Is this shitty future real wtf
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The travel infrastructure definitely isn't there, at least for non-Teslas. For the past 5 years I've been taking my Bolt on a yearly trip from NJ to NC, a 400 mile trip which requires me to do 2 fast charges. There are a bunch of fast chargers on my route, but they've ALL reached the point where they're breaking and not being repaired because the money that the owners get from them is nowhere near what it costs to operate them. They were only installed so that the owners could get a one-time tax break. It's a chicken and egg scenario, and will probably need some subsidy to get started.
I think the future will likely be EVs with 350 - 400 mile ranges which would allow for virtually all charging to be done at home. There will still need to be charging stations along highways, but most cars coming out now can do a 10 - 80% fast charge in under 15 minutes which would allow you to drive for 4 hours, stop for 15 minutes, and repeat. That is pretty close to parity with regular cars, at least the way that I like to travel. The big problem with mass EV adoption will be stress on the electrical grid. If you and your two neighbors who are all on the same power transformer are all each pulling 11 kW extra for 8 hours on top of your normal house loads, that transformer is gonna be glowing red-hot. The grid will have to be upgraded and, if the utility companies are smart, they'll pay EV owners to keep their cars plugged in at all times so that they can essentially have a huge battery storage system to pull from and balance shifts in loads (vehicle-to-load, V2L, tech is almost there as of now).
There are lots of other barriers, one big one being having reliable home charging for people who live in apartments and other shared spaces.