I’m not sure if this is available everywhere, but in California you can put up a bond in lieu of insurance with the DMV, either with your own money or with a surety bond company.

So you can do it, they just require proof in the form of the bond that the money is available when needed. They won’t just take your word for it. They might take the word of a company with a $1.3 trillion market cap, which is probably a bad idea. You get hit with one of these fuckers and instead of the admittedly shitty but known process of dealing with an insurance company, now you have to deal with a huge company that doesn’t want to admit their dumb camera only system is at fault.

What is there to breach? You’re already exposing your your real identity when you post under your real name with this new requirement. As long as the methods for verifying your identity aren’t something scammers can exploit there is nothing to expose. If, for example, you could use your photo ID with everything but your pic and name covered, and maybe also birth year for age checks, all it does is remove the ability for people to be cunts with impunity.

I’d have to give it some more thought, but I’m not against this right away. The Internet has become a vile place. Maybe if you wouldn’t say something in public for everyone to hear, you shouldn’t post it either.

We’ve all heard “it takes money to make money.” But rich people know it’s better to use other people’s money.

I have a question about this I haven’t been able to answer.

Is the problem the “flushness” or the lack of mechanical linkage to the door latch?

I’ve been in several Teslas, every model but the Cybertruck, and you push on the fat part and the skinny part comes up, which you pull to open. But as I understand it, that just activates an electrical servo or something that unlatches and partially opens the door, and that’s the problem because without power pulling the handle does nothing.

I had a Jaguar F-Type R (I think Range Rovers have the same handles) and it had flush handles that you could set to pop open when you approached, or you could hit a little button on the forward end to pop open the rear end or, like the Tesla, you could push on the forward end to manually raise the rear end and when you pulled on the handle you were mechanically unlatching and opening the door, unlike the Tesla. You could disconnect the battery and still open the door, which as I understand it, you cannot do with a Tesla. Would this be ok?

If it seems far fetched that every news organization keeps talking about flushness when that’s not the problem, I’m willing to entertain it because that’s what happens every time my area of expertise ends up in international news. Whenever my profession, or a related one, is in the news they almost always get it at least a little wrong, and sometimes ridiculously wrong. And they say the same wrong things across all news sources all over the world. I, and others in my group of professions, can see why this happens. They get some basic information but lack context so they interpret it wrong and what comes out is complete nonsense, or at least a little misleading.

I thought I was a “customize everything” Nova launcher kind of guy, but when I heard the original developer had quit the company that bought it I switched to Niagara. I thought I’d just try it out for a few days, immediately got hooked. Just a few things to set up then your done and getting to everything is so much faster and easier, one handed.

20-30 years ago they were awesome. Used to be around the speed and price of five guys but way better. They’ve been on a steady decline for a long time now. All of them near me have been shut down for a while, I’m kind of surprised they’re still around in any significant numbers.

Fucking paywall

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HOAs maybe? Mine would lose their shit if people started having these things “visible over the porch wall.”

Edit: Article says it’s for regulations about putting power back into the grid.

True, it is nice to be reminded of that piece of shit’s financial ruin. We just have to hope that any donations she got went to legal fees.

From our perspective, sure. But we wouldn’t know if it was stopped and started running again, or if it was reverted to a previous state.

WTF? Do I have to allow shit in my car and phone to start tracking me to provide evidence in my favor when some ai decides it has “tracked” me? The only reason this lady got out of it without getting a lawyer and going to court is she allowed all the bullshit in her phone and car that I block. And if she didn’t have it, what would have happened in court?

Thanks, it was more about not letting his doomer shit sit there unchallenged. If 1 or 2 people saw the exchange and said “roscoe is right, I’m going to go volunteer and try to get a little Mamdani elected to my city council,” I’ve done my good deed for the day.

Are you dense? The Republicans have not been stable, they’ve been taken over by the far-right. The R’s that R’s vote for for because they’re not D’s have become increasingly far-right due to decades of grass roots efforts. Meanwhile the left and progressives have allowed D’s to drift until they resemble Eisenhower Republicans, or even Nixonians.

Help move the Democrats left or stop whining about the very predictable results of your passivity.

I’m probably waiting my breath. You seem like the type that just likes impotently screaming into the void.

The far-right did it. The people of New York did it.

The far-right spent 20-30 years doing it. They started with the smallest elections where the fewest number of people could have an impact, city council, school boards, etc. They consolidated their power and moved on to things like small city mayors and state legislatures. Then large cities and the U.S. house. Then Governor and Senate. Then the fucking presidency.

You think support for Mamdani materialized out of thin fucking air? The locals did it. Despite the state and national parties trying to rat fuck him. Get enough local elected officials in New York state like Mamdani, the state party won’t try to rat fuck them any more, because they will be the state party.

Do you think the left is lazier than the far-right? Do you think they’re dumber? I don’t. I think they’ve been discouraged by people like you and I try to push back.

You could stop discouraging people and help me push back. Or you could just keep doing nothing and whining about the results.

Don’t allow “democrats” to continue to mean corpo Dems. Make it mean leftists and progressives. Or just keep whining.

You don’t seem to understand what I’m saying.

Those people aren’t the left, they’re the fucking problem.

Show up locally with other leftists, or at least progressives, outnumber the corpo Dems, and change the party from the ground up. Leaving the party in the hands of the people who currently run it and complaining about the candidates they put forward isn’t going to do you any good.

If you don’t like that, and you shouldn’t, show up to your local meetings regularly, not just two weeks before the primary, and encourage other like minded people to do so. Doing that allows you to get the better candidates recommended in the voting guide, canvas for them, phone bank for them, etc. I’ll be there waiting. In my precinct it would only take 3-4 people to tip the balance from corpo Dems to progressives, and maybe even an actual leftist, for local office and state legislative candidates. Start local and trickle up.

Or if you’re already doing that, thanks and keep doing it.

But until those efforts bear fruit, when faced with a binary choice please pick the less bad one.

Not surprised, I just clicked on the first inflation calculator that came up. I think it was the BLS CPI calculator.

And I only did it in dollars from December of '21 until now. Converting back to shillings, either in '21 or Dickensian times, before bringing it forward to today could result in a big difference due to the charging exchange rate between the pound and the dollar.

That was from December of '21. It would be $15.69 now.

My grandparents house built just after ww2 had, what was for a long time, a standard two car garage. Enough room for two land yachts from the 70s, lawn care implements and various other stuff and you could still open the car doors all the way and walk around. My parents’ house built in the 70s was the same. It’s more recent construction in built up areas where they are shrinking. They’ve been getting smaller as developers try to cram more liveable sqft on smaller amounts of land.

You’re right, being poor is expensive, but that doesn’t really apply to charging a vehicle.

The term “being poor is expensive” is generally applied to situations where you don’t have the money to pay for something upfront (a quality product, bulk purchases, preventative maintenance, preventative healthcare, down payment on a house) so you have to spend smaller amounts of money repeatedly and/or have a large unavoidable cost as a result (multiple cheap products that wear out, multiple small purchases with a higher per unit price, a blown engine, a root canal, rent), which can cost a lot more over time.

The electric bill is post-paid, not up front. Not being able to set aside the “$10 every few days” to pay the higher bill at the end of the month with money left over is just poor money management.

That being said, the higher purchase cost of electric vehicles preventing poor people from taking advantage of lower operating costs that would more than offset the higher purchase price after some number of years is an example of it being expensive to be poor.