FWIW, dealers in my Midwestern area are stocking the Ford F-150 Powerboost, and the Toyota RAV-4 Hybrid does very well here. Teslas are gaining in number too. People like hybrids. They like EV’s. It’s not a matter of something not being manly or whatever. It’s more likely that GM wants to try and see if Tesla’s sales…

A UPS manager once explained to me that parking tickets are attached to their vehicle so UPS eats them. Driving infractions go to the driver as it is attached to their license. I’m not sure if that is still the case for them.

But it IS changing.

I don’t give single fuck about the hurt feelings of US white working class voters who continue to deny man made climate change either.

In Alberta they’re now vaccinating 65 + as vaccines are finally trickling in to our country.  I’m still waiting for my age bracket.

Neutral: I’m back of the line but frankly I’m OK with that

Here’s Jim. He said that he wouldn’t be caught dead in a Kia. Well, we proved him wrong on that one.

Imagine all those people driving instead. Yikes.

ohno public transit loses money won’t someone think of the children?

The Northeast Corridor makes money. $200M year in profit.

Not his fault, really. He doesn’t see value in it, so he assumes it not worthwhile. And those folks in the NE corridor likely feel the same about the infrastructure around him. We have devolved to a WIFFM mode of thought, to go along with our NIMBY distaste for a lot of projects as well.

I read it the way that Charles did, where the point is to show racism of random stops and the arrest of Bucky is a clever way of not having to deal with Sam or Bucky really confronting the cop for a racist act while being a good cop, which strikes me as the hardest version of the scene to do well.

It’s absolutely wild the number of people who can’t be fucked to consider how their actions may adversely affect someone else.

The government didn’t put anyone on the moon. Boeing, Douglas, Grumman et. all did it

Don’t beat yourself up over it. You can’t commit every waking hour to the job search. In my experience, there aren’t even enough decent jobs available to fill a whole day of searching. You have to do something fun to offset how soul crushing looking for a job can be. It’s the healthy thing to do.

Why “Zeekr”? I’d call it Zephyr- a gentle breeze. Fitting for a clean car brand and sophisticated sounding enough to be premium. Zeekr sounds like the name of a D&D goblin.

I thought Geely already had a new luxury electric marque to compete with Tesla, and that it was called “Polestar”.

Pretty much the only reason we still have an office space is that we currently own our building and we will be entertaining clients in person once the pandemic ends. We mostly all worked from home for the past year and have had the same, if not better, productivity

Because the real bike makers implement the e-bike systems as assist only and usually have a top speed limit for when they will assist. If your legs aren’t moving, the electric motor can’t accelerate the bike with those designs. The Amazon specials basically are a moped where you can completely control the bicycle…

Good take. Tesla is mostly entertainment for me - the fact-ignoring railing on both sides is interesting. Tesla are building real products that really work, with (some) tech that they own, and they do not have the entrenched attitudes of others in the industry. But yeah, that CEO. I wouldn’t trust him to lead me to an…