You are not the market this truck is targeting if you were "considering" buying a Lightning and got spooked by something Trump did, not the massive price tag for something you yourself claim "would be nice to have a few times a year".

While I understand your point, in practice it's not hard to reach parity with the "convenience" you're getting from your EV being a huge backup battery, and if anything, that generator should be crucial in making sure your EV has tons of juice to get you around during an extended outage.

Have a dedicated fuel cannister for your generator. If you get caught with your pants down, that's unfortunately on you. If you can afford an EV, you can afford filling up a 40L gas cannister.

Regularly start, test and maintain your generator so it's ready to go when you need it most.

(My personal favorite) Battery tech has gotten cheap enough now that for a couple thousand dollars you can run most of your crucial (minus heating) devices for hours, maybe days depending on total usage and capacity. Your generator can be fired off for a few hours to replenish their juice. No additional hardware needed to plug your EV in.

(My second personal favorite) Batteries combined with solar, and a generator as a final fail-safe to keep everything happy, are more or less a trifecta of staying comfortable during what could be otherwise quite uncomfortable times.

All of this costs much much less than giving Ford tens of thousands of dollars for a product they most likely rushed out the door because competition is getting pretty stiff.

I'm not knocking EVs, I want one. But generators and batteries have gotten so cheap that pretending EVs feeding your home during an outage is anything else but a relatively well-off person's wet dream is not really cutting it for most people.

Whew.... glad my servers on the moon and mars are safe...
What a silly detail to add to TFS.

Is this not where the stronger students come in? If you can explain a concept, as a student, to another student and they finally "get it" (I have), you've not only confirmed you understand the topic deeply enough to explain in simpler terms but also helped a fellow colleague. Everybody wins, including the teachers that can't possibly 1-on-1 with every single student on every single topic.

For *new* customers. Our current contract is that as long as we never change our service, we keep paying the same price. The lady on the other side of the phone selling us the fiber sounded elated to be giving us that contract as well. We'll never be changing unless they try to start souring said contract. Everybody wins.

Is it really worth losing a customer over $15 a month? Because if and when you do, you now get $0 a month and have to cry to your shareholders that it's all the irrational customer's fault.

Is it wrong to feel resent towards an obvious attempt to overthrow the US democratic process? If so then I don't know what to tell you. Try introspection?

Dealing with MBAs has, for all intents of purposes, brought us to the world we live in now. Some of them not even graduates but still holding power as if they did. It's on us to decide how we deal with that moving forward because they're definitely not budging in this political environment.

It's not about that. It's about them trying to find literally anything they can use post-mid terms to waste the next 2 years of our lives having to sit through Trump telling us they were rigged because of X, or Y (and why, haphadzerdly). Because the average person doesn't know or care about these things, they're (the people in power) banking on what I have to assume enough people getting infuriated from this messaging to go out and cause a lot of fuss, thus delaying any proper/democratic way forward.

Remember, tons of MAGA folks still don't even acknowledge Biden won. The problem for them is that base is getting smaller and smaller, and if they're banking on another J6-like event, they likely won't get one, because people even on the right are getting increasingly fed up with the blatant lies and corruption of this government.

Seriously praying (and I'm not even religious), that we can get through this extremely tumultuous time with, at worst, some lessons learned moving forward. I have my doubts it'll go that smoothly, though.

All of it? You people literally freaked out and stormed the White House when you lost the first time. Corruption was last polled as 88% of American voter's concerns. God knows what you're going to do next time because a blue tsunami is literally on it's way.

The irony of someone with a UID over 8 million -> Feels the need to have a username that says they used to have one with more "prestige". Enough said. Nobody gives a fuck, and you giving one is enough of a tell for everyone reading literally anything coming out of your fingers/mouth.

This smells like artificial scarcity, if it farted directly in my face.

Linux-user for... I lost count now, but I'm not sure what you're talking about. I use Steam daily-ish and don't experience a 10 second load time. Are they testing these on toasters or something? Did *you* actually test it before regurgitating TFS? I don't play Fortnite, but unless there was some kernel-level anti-cheat a-la Riot Games-style (rip LoL and Valorant I guess), you can play pretty much anything on Linux. All my Blizzard games work fine, I have some EA games that force me through their portal, still works fine, etc.

Either way. Arguing about "seconds" is silly at best. Are we really that badly brain-rotted that we can't sit in our own thoughts for a few seconds?

It takes about 5 minutes after the initial boot up on my work laptop for Teams to even show its face, let alone be functional. Cmon Microsoft, just tell Astra to "make this software load faster" already.

"I have no feelings towards LLMs"... proceeds to froth at the mouth at anyone who dares challenge that self-belief. You could always simply admit you hate it, because your knee-jerk reactions to anyone on this topic is inflammatory at the very least, but sure, tell me why I'm wrong.

Look, it's blatantly obvious you hate LLMs, we know, and that's completely fine, but you can't re-word someone's rebuttal to you into total nonsense and then proceed by calling them "Pathetic" and "not very smart". If anything it just makes you sound like one orange man we all know too well (unfortunately). But you do you.