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Comment Before you dunk all over this van... (Score 2) 91

I'd like to hear if even one person in this discussion had ever heard of it before this was posted here. I follow quite a bit of automotive news myself and had never heard of this van before now. Granted it is a commercial vehicle that would have been difficult to obtain as a regular consumer here (similar to the larger current model Ford econoline (not transitconnect) vans) but I had never heard of this at all. I've seen news on the new USPS delivery vehicles, the new NYC taxis, but never on this.

It's awfully difficult - at least in real space - to claim to be an expert on something you never heard of. I'm sure that won't stop people here but nonetheless it is worth pondering why we had never heard anything of this vehicle. If regular consumers hadn't heard of it, how many potential commercial customers hadn't either? Plenty of commercial customers exist in this country who would do well with an electric van, if only they knew this one existed.

Comment Re:And the first to cry foul. (Score 1) 91

Just ignore the virtual (and actual) slave labor, skipping R&D costs by stealing IP hand over fist, strip mining for materials with no regard to environmental concerns, disregard of consumer safety, and massive subsidies from the authoritarian single-party government.

Are you sure you're talking about China there? That sounds like the MAGA party to-do list, especially if you add on corporate extortion and mandatory bribes to the leader of said one party state.

Comment Re:It wasn't space debris (Score 2) 57

Whose song is that remembered?
At random, serpenting
Through fatty coils emerging
Some other thought is thinking

This light stands above
The houses on the ground
This illumination
Visited upon the whole land

Unmarked helicopters hovering
The Lord is coming soon
Here comes the super copter
Here comes the noise it makes
The demon was an idea
The demon is awake

Or scratch mark left across
The surface of your mind
This hour, now upon us
The hour has now arrived

Unmarked helicopters hovering
The Lord is coming soon

Unmarked helicopters hovering
They said it was a weather balloon

But I know the truth
I know the whole shebang
And I know the names of men they had to hang

I let her out the trunk
Heard what she said at them
They've come to drag us through the double M

It goes black, black, black, black and blacker
It goes black, black, black, black and blacker
It goes black, black, black, black and blacker
It goes black, black, black, black and blacker
Unmarked helicopters hovering
The Lord is coming soon

Unmarked helicopters hovering
They said it was a weather balloon

It was a weather balloon
It was a weather balloon
It was a weather balloon
It was a weather balloon

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