blisterpeanuts

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by blisterpeanuts 10mo ago
It can wade through about 2.5 feet of water.
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by blisterpeanuts 10mo ago
What's unreliable about the Model Y, other than some fit-and-finish issues? Does it have battery failures or mechanical/electronic problems? Most MY and M3 owners I have talked to rave about their cars and have very high customer
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by blisterpeanuts 1y ago
You speak for all Canadians? Because I know a lot of Canadians (and I'm from there, myself) who are quite disenchanted with the Liberal Party.
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by blisterpeanuts 1y ago
Pre-Trump, I had a paid online subscription to Guardian for a time, because it was so well written and informative. After 2016, however, they seemed to adopt a firm anti-MAGA stance which I found to be biased and off-putting. Their highly c
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by blisterpeanuts 1y ago
Why not? What do you have against the 139,999 employees of Tesla who are not named Musk?
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by blisterpeanuts 1y ago
It’s nothing to do with my liking or disliking them. Maybe try formulating an argument that doesn’t have the word “you” in it.
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by blisterpeanuts 1y ago
And they have too much power, and sometimes abuse it. Or do you imagine that these agencies are completely perfect and free of corruption?
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by blisterpeanuts 1y ago
Electric cars do have an effect on urban air pollution, though. Chinese cities have really cleaned up the air and become more breathable recently, for example. You used to have black soot coming out your nose; it was awful.
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by blisterpeanuts 1y ago
If such bizarre actions were to actually take place, Tesla’s brand will be the least of our problems. It’s like saying that if Musk unleashes a billion Optimus robots to take control of the world, people will be mad and stop buying Teslas.
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by blisterpeanuts 1y ago
Like many unicorns. During the Dot Com era, when Oracle chief Larry Ellison was briefly thought to be lost at sea on his sailing yacht, Oracle’s stock tanked, then recovered after he was found safe.
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by blisterpeanuts 1y ago
Many such bureaus have been established over the years that have extralegal powers existing basically outside the Constitution. I’m thinking of the NLRB, CFPB, FBI, IRS, and several others. We as a society have a consensus that we need such
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by blisterpeanuts 1y ago
The permanent bureaucracy exists outside of checks and balances.
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by blisterpeanuts 1y ago
Tesla is not just cars. Their large scale solar power storage business is growing, they manufacture batteries, they have the largest charging infrastructure for end users, massive super computing to crunch fsd data, a lithium refinery in Te
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by blisterpeanuts 1y ago
Also, Elon != Tesla car owners.
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by blisterpeanuts 1y ago
I can find no evidence that Musk was involved in the Bud Light boycott. Do you have a link?
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by blisterpeanuts 1y ago
A smooth and picture perfect launch, docking, and return to Earth. Congratulations to SpaceX, NASA, the astronauts and all personnel involved. I’m surprised there isn’t more interest in this topic. Is there another hn thread that is more ac
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by blisterpeanuts 2y ago
The Chinese are ahead in the mass manufacturing and commoditization of electric vehicle batteries, but there are still some interesting innovations coming out of the U.S. and Europe, as well as Japan and South Korea. As for Tesla’s recent h
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by blisterpeanuts 2y ago
I’m also a data point for excellent Toyota service from the dealership where we bought our Prius. From the concierge who holds your hand throughout the visit, to the free lunch voucher in their pleasant little cafeteria (sadly, closed after
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by blisterpeanuts 2y ago
Standard supply side theory. Reduce tax overhead, reduce size of government, increase availability of capital for private investment, give people back the money to either spend, start businesses, or invest in markets. Money is more producti
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by blisterpeanuts 2y ago
Less than 1%. 45,000/400 = 0.89%. It was reported that they were not critical workers. Perhaps some will be rehired. A review of hiring procedures is underway. It's recently been revealed that not only does the FAA require a &quot
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by blisterpeanuts 2y ago
Lack of MagSafe is disappointing. How much would it have cost to include? It's an intriguing feature that distinguishes iPhones from Android competitors. I wonder if the intention was to avoid cannibalizing its more expensive siblings.
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by blisterpeanuts 2y ago
> "Maybe those jobs were important." It's been reported that 400 new hires on probationary status were let go. None of them were involved in safety related operations. The FAA has around 45,000 total employees, so it'
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by blisterpeanuts 2y ago
> someone whose first foray into improving the FAA was to arbitrarily fire hundreds of FAA staff 400 non-ATC, non-safety related probationary new hires, out of 45,000.
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by blisterpeanuts 2y ago
Not to mention the national security advantage of being able to service the ISS and to launch humans into space without help from adversarial regimes.
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by blisterpeanuts 2y ago
Like how, for example? Serious question. If SpaceX has the best, most economical, and safest route to space, why would Nasa and DoD not use them? Who else is there? Blue Origin's not there yet; others are in the works but not there yet
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by blisterpeanuts 2y ago
I've kept my Android phone on silent for years. I just don't like it beeping and interrupting all the time. I do miss a few phone calls but I figure, they'll leave a message if it's important. Silent mode and face down r
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by blisterpeanuts 2y ago
Nor on my S20 Ultra. Looks like an app is needed on non-Pixel phones these days (Play Store "flip to dnd").
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by blisterpeanuts 2y ago
I'm curious what's wrong with the self-driving, assuming you're referring to FSD and not Autopilot. Is there a different make of EV that has better self-driving capabilities? Genuinely would like to know.
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by blisterpeanuts 2y ago
In the China market, Tesla sold the most BEV's in 2024 (1.79 million units), versus BYD which sold 1.76 million units. It's possible, though, that BYD will dominate in 2025; we'll see. I'm not sure what "advanced&qu
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by blisterpeanuts 2y ago
What about the (proposed) ending of the federal EV incentives? Also, not to be nit picky, but how much rural broadband was actually implemented with the infrastructure funding during the Biden years? My understanding is, they didn't ac

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