this guy gets it.

To unload the front springs one has to have a lever and a fulcrum and a force. The fulcrum will be the rear axle, and the force is the 4 wheeler, but the lever is non-existent because the weight of the 4 wheeler is right over the fulcrum.

The Cybertruck has adjustable suspension to aid in loading things into the back. When the feature is selected, the truck lowers the rear and raises the front to ease loading headaches.

What hurts us is driving a lot of CO2-farting ICE-powered trucks and SUVs. Tesla is totally succeeding at achieving their stated mission of motivating big auto to make EV cars and trucks.

Besides all the big three trucks are ugly as sin, they all have gotten taller + taller. I’d like to see a stat of how high the hood releases are thru the years. My daughter can’t unlatch the hood on her 2020 Ram. “It doesn’t matter-I can’t reach the dipstick!”

I personally feel it’s a deeply stupid design, ill-suited for actual, real-world truck use

Bingo. That’s exactly it and what people don’t seem to understand. This is not an arbitrary design that is different merely for the sake of being different.

Cybertruck wasn’t just built to look different for the sake of looking different. It also looks different because they are trying a design approach that doesn’t use traditional body-on-frame manufacturing and which uses a super-strong stainless sheet steel alloy exoskeleton (that can only be shaped along score lines…

“We’re celebrating black freedom by trying to free YOU from a big down payment! Get yourself into a 2021 Mitsubishi Eclipse for no money down!”

My guess was “Ted Cruz.”

He mentioned in his giant thread that he told his daughter no one in the house would eat *anything* until she figured out how to open the beans with no instruction more helpful than to imagine what the designer of the can opener was thinking.

Just going to preface this by saying that nothing in my original comment suggested that I thought this child was dying of starvation, and that your argument is disingenuous because it’s a counterpoint to a point that no one is making.

are we thinking she was literally starving to death for six hours. her only hope was in this can of beans. her father laughing at her as she wasted away to nothing?

A native English speaker who just as often speaks in a normal American accent doesn’t go to “How do you sayeee in Eeenglish ... cookumber?” by accident. That’s not “dialect.” It’s a mockery of an immigrant accent, used cynically by a professional influencer for clicks.

Then what about the fact that she claims to have grown up in Spain (when she grew up in Boston) and that her family is Spanish (they are Americans who moved to Spain when they retired)? Does that get any side-eye from you?

No, her family isn't Spanish. They are all New England WASPS.

Her family is not Spanish and moved to Spain to retire. The fact that she gave another impression tells you all you need to know.

Well, no. Vacationing in Mallorca with your rich American family does not make a Massachusetts prep school graduate named Hillary into someone who would say “How do you sayee in eengleesh ‘coocumber?’” It’s not like visiting your relatives in Georgia and coming back saying “ya’ll” for a week.