First gear: how does he keep getting away with this? Gah.

Ah thx for the correction!

I was gonna say, aren’t crimp/butt connectors more prone to failing than a good soldering?

It’s also questionable judgment to use a dystopian vision of the future to drum up excitement for your “Robotaxi” - though it might be an accurate representation of where society is headed if Musk and his ilk get more power and influence.

LOL. TSLA down 8+% so far.

And they say timing the markets doesn't work...

Ah there we go! Thanks for the clarification!

Huh, I was expecting a Cybertruck on this article...

If I’m not mistaken, he has a Nissan Pao, so he is speaking from some degree of personal experience!

I agree with your greater point that employees should conduct themselves with professionalism and conscientiousness. But my point is this manager is ignoring a pretty big logical flaw when they claim temp workers’ 2% rate indicates that others are abusing the system.

Thanks. For context, I consider my S2000 to have a decent enough trunk, and I used to have a BRZ so maybe I’m just used to tiny trunks!

Thierig also noted that temporary workers in the same conditions only had a 2% sickness rate, suggesting that permanent workers were taking advantage of the German labor protections.

128i convertible. Parts appear to be largely interchangeable with other BMWs, and with the NA engine of the 128i (instead of the 135i’s turbo mill) fuel consumption and maintenance should both be more affordable.

Yup. I do also like the idea that for the resources needed for 1 BEV, you could potentially have at least 5 PHEVs, which seems like a better deal when we're talking about reducing emissions or fossil fuel use (of course, assuming people are plugging in their PHEV).

Confucius has a quote along the lines of “learning without thought is useless; thought without learning is dangerous.”

Yeah, the PHEV angle would be my proxy for opting for the smallest battery possible. The engine would serve as a range extender for me.

I looked into the article in hopes that some nuance was lost, and that responses were for hybrids and PHEVs over BEVs.

I wonder if it’s precisely because of your family’s professional knowledge that your brother (you didn’t mention what he does, so I’m assuming he’s not in the medical or research field) is “rebelling” against the prevailing understanding.

And the Teamsters are saying “this is our guy?”

Yup. Hard to determine which was worse between the deliberate and calculated brutality of Unit 731, or the mass-scale psychotic barbarity of the Rape of Nanking...