TBH as a owner of EVs since 2012 and an all in owner (no gas left) since 2018, I can say I have no idea. Because I have used L2 chargers for almost everything and think I used super chargers maybe 3 times ever. I haven't used them in the year since I traded in the Tesla's for Ioniq's.

While I have no doubt fast charging can matter. I think the actual need for it is overestimated by non-EV folks.

As a three time Tesla owner, I can state their cars were not low quality. In virtually every possible way they were better than any Big 3 car I ever drove. Owned a 2016 S that I traded in for a 2022 S. Wife had a 2018 3. Both traded in last April.

We ditched our Teslas last year for Ioniq 5's, but that decision had nothing to do with the car quality. I just couldn't keep dealing with the Musk that hovered in the air being a Tesla owner anymore.

True to a point. Legally they can't take the funds off the books, but they do re-appropriate it into other projects to cover up for any extensions to the national debt that they seemingly have no meaningful plan to repay. So while they aren't "stealing" it and are technically "borrowing" it, the reality is they seemingly have no plan on how to pay back said borrowed funds.

That's why discussions about reducing benefits and such come up because it's a way to reduce the cost of the IOUs congress has spent years issuing.

So the logic that I've heard by someone who sounded reasonably intelligent (ie: not MAGA) is that Social Security has a hard limit on the payout side. To offset the fact that there is a payout limit, they also limit the amount of income that is brought into it. Reasonable people can argue if that should have been the case or not, but it's a decent justification of the income limit.

Remember SS was never designed to be another tax. It was meant to be a taxpayer funded safety net with very strictly defined benefits. Congress already basically steals from the SS fund to do their pet projects. Now imagine if the SS fund exploded because there's still a benefit limit but no income limit. Congress would simply rob that money too. So removing the income limit without addressing the benefit limit may just make things worse, unfortunately.

I was thinking that myself. For every company that thinks more and more annoying ads are a good thing, there are thousands (millions?) of users determined to find a way to get the content w/o said ads. I mean, hell, they should know already given how much content they stole w/o digesting ads...

They can't explode / burn in a vacuum...

And the PE firms tend to "lose records" of long term warranties after they buy out the company. That happened to me once witha HVAV company. Inhad a HVAC system blow the coils after 3 years. 1yr labor / 10 yr parts means little when the parts are $1k but the labor is $5.

It was a builder grade HVAC that was poorly sized for the house anyway so I replaced everything. I insisted that anything inreplacee it with was 10 yr parts AND labor warranty though, including all materials like the refrigerant.

Got everything in writing, bought and installed a new system, loved it. Shortly after PE bought the company. A year later coils blew (muly luck sucks). Tech comes out, quotes me the labor and refrigerant cost to fix and trys to sell me a new system. Point out I have a 10yr warranty for all. He calls his manager who "can't find any record" of a warranty like that.

I pulled the paper out of my file system, made a copy, and said he could send that to his manager. To their credit they did honor it after but how many people really keep their warranty docs handy?

I think the important thing is more the fact that if you type: **Bold*, it will mostly render the rest of the page fine you just missed your bold tag and have an extra asterisk. But >b>bold>/v> (because of typo) would screw up everything, especially back then.

At Disney, the managers were just as likely to be in a different building than their teams. That's certainly possible here as well.

Best part of plasma is the more you used it the more the screen showed true black from wear!

A bare bones gcp server with low ram and a shared CPU is free. Works great as a ssh bridge.

I guess it depends. Is the phone "discounted" if you do this? For a while, committing to a yearly plan meant that you got a phone for the price of a phone plan. The alternative is paying for your phone, and just change service anytime.

There's a third option, and one I've done in the past. Remember, the contract is for a term defined plan. The phone is part of the offer to get you in the contract. It's possible he wanted the phone to put on another service and he would have used a different phone on Verizon to continue the plan. I've done that for my kids when I have a free upgrade and they broke their phone. Get it by extending my service, give them the new phone, put my pre-existing one back on the line.

Intel realizes what every other OSS dev has recently started complaining about⦠large companies using but contributing nothing back.

That's pretty much a distinction without a difference.

I was thinking the same thing. I doubt there's a lot of real money that anyone can call savings due to a change like this, but I also think that a longer window between reporting might increase longer term thinking. If that were to happen, I would call it a net positive.