EVs require less service especially since they don't have an engine, dealers make their money selling service and parts, and engine problems are the source of the biggest and most expensive service jobs.

They'd be perfect if you could get a tradesman model with the big battery, but you can only get the upper trim levels with it, so you're paying extra for upholstery you're going to fuck up when you get in the truck with concrete on your pants or what have you. Maybe they're ideal for someone who only does cabinetry and trim, though.

Pickups are bought by two kinds of people: those who will tow, and those who think they will. For the first group, range anxiety is real. For the second, they will only imagine it will affect them, but it would if they actually tried to tow.

To be clear there are lots of little trailers out there that don't affect range much, but there are also lots of TTs which absolutely do.

Crypto is about crime and JP Morgan Chase is about money laundering for human traffickers.

How has Tesla proven that with their non-autonomous driving system (It's not even level 4, let alone 5) that mistakes the side of a semi trailer for the sky and drives under it?

Hell, it may have actually been done to force it, in order to bolster America's espionage programs both at home and abroad.

That may explain it. I have a Qrevo S, which is from 2024, while yours is from 2022. The only thing that it ever gets stuck at is one spot where, from under the couch, it can see out the ground-level window, and get stuck between the couch and window ledge (not actually stuck, just confused), because the LiDAR sees out the window. And I fixed that just by setting a small exclusion zone there. It never "gets lost" - maybe your house has some vast open spaces that it can't handle? But the LiDAR seems to see pretty far. The only other issues I've had are things like where I'll have a loose cord on the floor or some large piece of debris or whatnot, and even then, it's usually good at not getting stock on them. I'm also impressed with how well it deals with doors vs. a Roomba - my Roomba used to always get itself locked in rooms by accidentally closing doors after it entered, while the Roborock really tries to avoid ever touching them.

The Qrevo S has actually rotating mops, and they do a superb job with the floor. Spotless. My robot has the hardest mopping job in the world, too - it has to clean under my parrot's cage, and he poops off the edge onto a plastic mat under it ;)

I've never had to contact support - hopefully I don't need to :)

I've used ChatGPT to write code and Gemini to debug it. If you pass the feedback back and forth, it takes a couple iterations but they'll eventually agree that it's all good and I find that's about 90-95% of the way to where I need it to be. Earlier today I took a 6kb script that had been used as something fast and dirty for years - written by someone long gone from the company - and completely revamped it into something much more powerful, robust, and polished in both its code and its output. Script grew to about 20kb, but it's 10x better and I only had to make minor tweaks. Between the two, they found all sorts of hidden bugs and problems with it.

You don't fear the Soviets you love them. The Soviets are the friend of the right wing because the Soviets weren't Communists they were oligarchs and right wingers and you love them.

That's why you can have Daddy Trump fucking kids and doing whatever the fuck Putin says and just loving every moment of it.

The US Republican party is now a wholly owned subsidiary of the KGB and Soviet Russia under a different brand name. You're not fooling anyone. Go back to worshiping your kiddy fucker.

Did it take to get that nonsense modded up to +4.

It's impossible to have conversations with the right wing because the right wing never does anything in good faith. The second you do anything in good faith on the right wing you stop being on the right wing.

The right wing is about obedience. You obey the people above you on the chain and you get obedience from the people below you. That's why it appeals to so many people. For some they are cowards that want order and want to feel like somebody is in charge and for a lot of them they are losers who desperately crave respect but are incapable of doing anything worthy of it.

And that's why the right wing will always support kiddy fuckers. So long as those pedophiles are above them on the chain they are unquestionable and can do no wrong. And Trump is at the absolute top of the right wing chain. So he can go around fucking kids and still get solid support from 1/3 of the country.

Meanwhile foreign nations are using the destructiveness of right-wing politics and economics to obliterate America.

Honestly I think those foreign nations are being stupid. They do not understand how crazy and dumb Americans are and they haven't realized that although we may be destroying our economy we aren't doing the same to our military. Sooner or later we're going to hand nuclear launch codes to religious lunatics and then it's game over.

But in the meantime you'll be able to say the n word in public and get away with it and people will tell you Merry Christmas and you won't have to look at trans girls except when you're masturbating.

Ford is a real mixed bag, I'm not a superfan by any means, or even a fan frankly. I've bought two Ford pickups and regretted them both. But I also got frankly some of the worst examples, one of them was supposed to have been worked on and it turned out it was rebuilt incorrectly and the other was a 7.3 IDI with a turbo and I didn't know about their weak blocks at the time. But I also had a V6 Aero Bird which was a shockingly good car, and have only respect for the 80s F150 with the 300ci straight six even though I'd rather have a '60s Chevy with a 292.

The F150 Lightning also isn't a good enough truck for what they charged for it. Ford was banking on a larger supply of suckers. I'd love to own one, but I'm sure not shopping in that market segment. Ford also didn't plan to ever offer the Lightning I wanted, a tradesman model with the big battery.

Oligarchs and billionaires do.

Getting worried about government is like getting worried about a hammer. I'm not worried about the hammer I'm worried about the psychopath bashing my head in with it.

What's funny is the same people who tell me gun control is bad also tell me that we should ban hammers.

For the depressingly large number of people who don't get the analogy see, government is the hammer here and conservatives demand we eliminate government without understanding that is both impossible and leaves a giant power vacuum that billionaires are very happy to exploit.

You've got Google you could leave your bubble anytime you want. You could for example use Google to find multiple news stories and lots of direct evidence of exactly what I described. You could find lots more direct evidence of right wing media being inorganic and billionaire backed too if you care to leave your bubble.

But golly gosh gee isn't it comfortable there?

I mean until it's not. The other thing the internet outside your bubble is full of is people who are just fucked eight ways from Sunday because of right-wing trickle down economics.

If you're old enough you will die before it hits you. Good luck.

When this bullshit crashes the economy. Unlike the 2008 market crash the upcoming grifter crash is going to have no floor because there's no actual assets behind it except your 401k.

There's only so much money laundering can do. A recent study found. Since 1975 80 trillion dollars has been moved to the top. So consumers are not going to be able to weather this. Especially with the collusion going on for rent that was just starting to get eliminated before the administrative change.

I think the problem is we have too many old people who think they are insulated from this. By the time they find out they aren't it'll be too late.

Make a specific objection or fuck off with your vagueposting.