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  • Not talking about towing

    Talking about a bedspace only, 1-2 man crew setup

    A Bobcat ZS4000 Stand-On Mower 48″ is a 64" long mower for example, so it should juuuust fit in there, but to be safe I mentioned smaller, though personally if I were to do something like this I’d want a greenworks electric, costs half as much as the truck

    For sure, you’d see a range drop, but it shouldn’t be anywhere near as severe as pulling a trailer

    A small standon, a ramp to get it on and off the truck, a rack with a trimmer, edger, hedger, blower, pruner, mini chainsaw, maybe a delta powerbank or gas generator to recharge the tools as you drive about or they’re in standby

    I’d expect a drop in range about 25-30% with that but not as severe as a pull behind trailer

    ~130-150 miles of range is doable if you plan the route and cluster clients, which any Semi-competent business owner who could afford a fleet of these would be capable of doing or paying someone to manage the routes


  • Slate is a good niche, its range is fine for the purpose its supposed to fill

    Imagine a fleet of them for a lawncare business paired with a 30-42" standup electric mower rig

    Cost of operations would be dittly squat, could be further buffered with solar and replacememt parts dirt cheap. Roi would be extremely quick and then it’d be pure profits

    People are already doing that with used Teslas pulling trailers (yeah its funny to see, but the people doing it have shown their numbers and its pretty nuts)

    Whats not fine about the Slate is no awd version. On an EV it’s a minimal endeavor to make that work so there’s really no excuse

    Having experienced awd I will never personally own another vehicle without it if I have a choice. Especially a truck. My driving conditions are way too harsh to not have it











  • As for damages

    Say you have a old masonry structure like a masonry brick fence in the way of the easement

    They can tear it down and will, and will not replace it with one of comparable quality if they bother to at all

    Ive seen some beautiful 1950s work like that where it goes from amazing tradesmen quality masonry and iron fencing to jank 4x4’s and basically chickenwire on the easement, even 2 sections of the masonry/iron fence would take thousands to fix properly from what they did and there’s the likelihood they’ll do it again in the future.

    Those are homes of people on fixed incomes or investments. They usually can’t keep fixing the damage. And those fences aren’t really decorations, its not even slightly uncommon for people to die from dog maulings in my area. Happens a few times every single year

    Say you have a road, driveway, etc? At some point you will have a massive random pothole or speedbump because they’ll cut a trough right through it and fill it with asphalt not repour expensive concrete. I can in my neighborhood point out four locations where cable and fiber easement companies have done just that


  • Theres really no eli5, this is a purposely convoluted topic

    Best I could offer you is recomemend you go look up the channels Lehto’s Law and The Institute for Justice on YouTube

    In the US, easements have a history of being abused to render large areas of privately owned land useless/unusable, to legally trespass, and to harass landowners

    There’s a reason for example that American Tribes fight especially hard to prevent easements from oil or rail or really any companies

    Cable companies in particular have a reputation of destroying peoples properties, have numerous times now been given insane payouts to build the very infrastructure with taxes that they just bought and in those instances pocketed the money without even a slap on the wrist. Further their involvement indicates that any further infrastructure projects expanding that fiber are basically dead, and for any that exist they’re going to be on life support

    Those same bailout companies just got their hands on the easements that were allowed to go to a group who at the least didn’t have that history of abuse, and precedent of the that deal going through so it is more likely to start happening in more places

    All of those easements should be considered as dead space and new ones will have to be allocated when expansion is taken up by yet another company on 10 or 20 years when they prove they won’t upgrade or properly maintain theirs to modern needs, that means further encroaching on people’s property

    Think of it like sidewalks that moved another 3-4 feet into people’s yards every 10 or so years which you as a homeowner are not allowed to alter or use or complain when their representatives do so



  • Look up easement abuse in the US on YouTube, Lehto’s Law or Institute for Justice

    From rail, to cable providers, to city municipalities, easements in the US have been utilized maliciously to destroy and seize peoples properties

    Why bother asking permission?

    In the States, enough people have proven uncivilized enough and willing enough to face the consequences that come with utilizing tools easily and cheaply available at their disposal so that trespassers and even politicians think twice before sending people to mess with other people’s land without asking permission


  • I know it may difficult to believe, but humanity existed before the internet era. If it doesnt actually serve the people and is instead being egregiously leveraged against them, it needs to be flushed down with the rest of the waste

    Doctors can still accommodate clients without internet communications

    Banks can still give out and accept your money, and you are perfectly capable of writing down those transactions in a ledger with red and black ink

    Landlords or mortgage holders do too, even if you use paper cheques. You… Can… write a cheque… right?

    Employers have been whining for at least since I started working about people being on the internet on their phones (2010’s), they’d consider you ditching it a win

    Friends and family? Oh man you may or may not believe it, but you may actually have to meet up irl to maintain those relationships. Maybe even every weekend.

    How to avoid it when implemented? TOR, self hosted Docker programs like TeamSpeak6, Fluxer or anything similar. There’s a lot of options there though you have to have the slightest interest to fix then

    It can go as far as meshtastic nodes and HomeAssistant using LORA communications these days. There is a guy in Ukraine doing just that to use HA at work to trigger smart home systems when cellular is down

    https://reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1r8ftc0/i_control_my_home_assistant_over_lora_radio_when/

    People use this garbage because its convenient and easily accessible is all, it takes maybe a weekend of research to bypass all formal methods of communication on 10 year old hardware sitting in peoples closets if someone is even slightly aspiring to, and it only takes one person capable of doing so per family or even maybe town if this goes far enough past people’s willingness to tolerate it



  • Yeah

    I agree with the misworded commenter

    Europe ditches US Based tech and software for stuff they control, so they can better enforce their insane privacy invasion laws better more like

    Let’s not forget most of the swill age verification legislation around the globe is originating from the EU, and that privacy/encryption focused software groups are fleeing the region (see proton) due to their mallegislation