Nope. It’s over. Threads only had momentum from it automatically creating accounts for Meta users. Bluesky is organic.

I believe guns increase the likelihood of suicide. There was a study on this, and lately firearm instructors have been conveying(in Utah at least) that removing guns from your home if suicidal is crucial. And to watch for signs of depression in other gun owners.

But I agree with your overall point. Removing the guns won’t eliminate those suicide deaths, only reduce them.

And more to my point, if RFK is in power when bird flu achieves human to human transmission, gun deaths will be background noise.

I’d rather have guns on every street corner than a pedo as attorney general, an anti vaxxer as the leader of health, and a racist rapist felon as president.

This is a losing issue that will cost more lives than the 30k a year they claim they will save.

Plato had this whole thing about perfect forms that exist outside the physical world, and those perfect forms get corrupted once they are manifested in reality.

Not sure if he specifically had an ideal definition of friendship, or the notion of a perfect, non romantic friendship is described as Platonic because of how messy real world relationships can get.

I was referring to Subaru not having enough capital.

But in terms of Hydrogen, it is either a product of fossil fuel extraction via natural gas, or a product of electrolysis at a huge cost of electricity which is better spent charging an EV.

It’s never gonna be widely adopted(which is why Toyota is pivoting after their ceo stepped down).

Subaru’s EV future is tied to Toyota, and Toyota is fucking around.

They don’t have the capital to pursue an EV on their own unless it’s a rebadge or repackage, maybe in 5 years when EV components get more commoditized.

Yeah I feel ya. Funny thing is as soon as the EV9 starts selling Tesla is gonna drop model X price. They’ll also undercut the Escalade IQ with that same stroke.

The honest truth is only VW has what it takes, but they have to commit.

Bolt is too small, the ID4 can’t fit 3 car seats comfortably either, and the Aryia is too small and is a sad excuse for an ev, especially given the legacy of the Leaf.

The Buzz comes close but isn’t widely available, the EV9 would fit the bill were it not for its excessive size. That size also rules out the R1T.

What I want is essentially a lifted full-sized wagon, which in ICE terms is like an Outback or Sorento.

Enter GM with the Lyriq/Blazer/Prologue. Perfect dimensions, reasonable range.

Except they haven’t shipped them, and they announced they are stripping CarPlay starting this year.

Lucid has an SUV that might do if I was rich.

Or I can walk into a Tesla store today and buy a model Y with more range, less weight, a great charging network with a future proof connector, and a more proven platform than the unproven and rather piggish Ultium platform. I could buy the Y, put my fucking child car seats in and be done.

Now I’m not buying a Tesla because fuck Elon and fuck not having CarPlay, but you can see why they are so relevant.

There are simply too many unfilled niches in the EV market.

Yeah I went to the Kia dealer due to those designs.

The real missing player here is Japan. But as the saying goes, Japan has been stuck in the year 2000 since 1980.

The local Hyundai/KIA dealer dicked me around when I went to test drive a car. They also add absurd markups to the EV6. There are already headlines about KIA asking dealers not to do similar markups on the EV9.

Also the reliability track record for Kia is mixed for ICE cars, they made defective oil-consuming engines and tried to cover it up.

Their EVs show a similar pattern.

https://m.carcomplaints.com/Kia/EV6/2022/ https://m.carcomplaints.com/Tesla/Model_3/2022/

Tesla being mediocre doesn’t mean Kia isn’t shit-tier.

Unfortunately Tesla is still relevant in that you can actually buy a Tesla sedan or suv with very little hassle.

Meanwhile I’ve been on a waitlist for years for a GM EV that has been “launched” but with not a peep about my order.

One of my friends got so dicked around by dealers and waiting he bought a Tesla, and it wasn’t even on his list because of lack of CarPlay.

Rockets are harder than cars, so hopefully this means Elon is too stupid to contribute anything but haughty goals while the actual engineers make sure we don’t blow up any astronauts.

Do not encourage businesses to rent more necessities to us.

Selling my Intel stock was a good decision.

Can you give a concrete example where CarPlay has been implemented properly and a bug still exists?

This is simply not true. Plenty of natives fought against other natives, whether independently, or with US troops, or for bounties.

Google has killed plenty of things that work just fine. Being a bad product has nothing to do with cancellation, it is an organizational illness.

This is not true.

Anti collision systems of various sorts have been around for over a decade. The problem space is minuscule compared to self driving, and almost all car manufacturers offer both forward and reverse collision detection at this point.

In fact I think EU is making it a requirement soon.

DNC misread the room. It was populist season, and only one populist ran…

NASA doesn’t build many rockets. They are almost all done under contract.