@GottaLaff I tell everyone I know to avoid purchasing a Tesla for two reasons:
The after-sale service is terminally putrid. I've had to fight to get major KNOWN issues repaired, and the service centre I bought my car from didn't warn me that I needed an alignment -- burning through the inside edge of 8 tires (winter & summer) after 25k kms each - about a third of their expected lifetime... At a cost of nearly $5k CAD.
I regret contributing to/enabling Space Karen's fascist lunacy.
@GottaLaff Oh, and I made the mistake of purchasing 'Full Self Drive' -- a feature that has been repeatedly delayed for 4 years... The current version drives like a drunk 14 year old that has only ever driven in video games...
Having said that, the car itself is nice. However, I'd never have purchased it, knowing what I know now.
@GottaLaff@voron The article mentions the half-shafts -- that's the item I had to return to the service centre three times for -- the last time insisting on being in the car with the tech, because "No fault found" on the two prior visits was a pile of 💩. The car shook heavily under even modest acceleration. I have no doubt that the vibration, over time, would have led to a more serious failure.
@Edent I remain convinced that the vast majority of people don’t have anything to say worth listening to. See: Your parent’s Facebook wall, your uncle’s Twitter rants, all of Truth Social, 4chan, etc.
We worry about providing Universal Basic Income because people might stop working, but here's a thought: maybe, just maybe, with a little financial security, people might actually pursue work they truly choose rather than work to just not die. Imagine that world for a moment.
@scottsantens That's what all studies on UBI (even ones unceremoniously cancelled part way through) have shown. 80+ % of participants did something of value to society - caring for family (young & old), went to school, volunteered, worked part time, started a business, etc.
It's absurd that we're not doing this because a noisy minority of people are worried about some small percentage of people will take some time off.
@glennf "Detectors" only find infrared (IR) lights used in auto-focus systems and night-vision cameras -- and they're no better than using the camera in your phone, which will register the IR as white or purple flashes of light. Try it out by opening up your phone's camera and pointing your TV remote at the phone and pressing some buttons.
@RickiTarr I used to think “Rock Group” was a job title. So, no.
A long time ago, I asked my mother what she envisioned I would be when I grew up, and she said, “A good person.”
The bitter irony here is that the people around me, those I’m closest to, say I am, and I know she would say I’m not, because she’s become consumed by conspiracy theories and weaponized disinformation — and I refused to silently suffer through the crazy things she said she believed.
@thetyee Marginal tax rates need to return to the pre-1950’s era - a 90% tax rate afte you earn 10x the average annual salary, to deter insane hoarding.
@CAWguy@Rasta I used to say "Lotteries are a tax on those who are bad at math." To which an older and wiser co-worker said "... and yet, someone wins every week or so..."