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by jbm 3y ago
I have a family of 6 and there are no decently priced EVs that fit it. I use a Model 3 for our daily driver (since all 6 of us usually are not going out together) and have a Sienna when we go out as a family, or for long distances. I don&#x
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by jbm 3y ago
I didn't mean to imply it was done without their permission, but rather that it is just not a big deal and more likely a research project. At this point they would be in the world of alternative facts if they thought this was something
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by jbm 3y ago
https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/26/23738581/tesla-model-y-ev... > Tesla Model Y is the first EV to become the world’s bestselling car It's mainstream, Tesla drivers don't even wave to each o
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by jbm 3y ago
I'm going to take a break from bashing Toyota to suggest that this might just be a special use car or for particular circumstances that are not related to EVs. (The EV slant seems to be mostly from the deranged writer on the website.)
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by jbm 3y ago
I hated my life when I worked at this style of company. When I worked at (a beverage company), one of the unfortunate realities was that the company did not really compete to make their money. The profit at the entity I worked at was compl
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by jbm 3y ago
Ah. My history of favourite ST games are this, then Begin 2 and finally Klingon Academy. Incidentally, I thought the backup ship was a "Vulcan Cruiser", why rename it?
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by jbm 3y ago
A side note, the author (Paul) is one of the nicest people I knew in Tokyo. Sorry about your laptop buddy.
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by jbm 3y ago
Even the memes from then still apply. --- LOL @ priced out renters! It's a new paradigm, and everybody who doesn't buy, now, will be priced out forever. Anybody who does buy will be rewarded with a lifetime of riches, as their pro
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by jbm 3y ago
For the sake of clarity can I ask for more details on the COVID19 effects around you? In my circles there is one person who lost her sense of smell, and another friend lost three elderly extended relatives but otherwise I haven't perso
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by jbm 3y ago
I generally agree with you about 2 electric cars. That said, I don't see how a 1000 mile car is possible. You can't even get that with generally available gas cars (The Volkswagen XL1 only has a 650 km range for those curious.)
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by jbm 3y ago
Now that you mention it, the electric connection in my home in Tokyo was much worse than the one I have in Calgary. They might have connections of 60 amps [1] or less where I lived (whereas my home in Calgary has a 100 amp connection which
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by jbm 3y ago
It is also possible that Toyota's engineers are not the level they used to be, much like Fujitsu's engineers (who caused one of the largest banking outages ever) or (other company of your choice that used to be a great engineering
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by jbm 3y ago
The 50Hz and 60Hz is an accident of history and neatly splits the country in half. It's not a problem.
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by jbm 3y ago
I graduated with my Comp Sci degree in 2003ish, and my life was awful for at least 5 years post-graduation. I know it wasn't just me too. (This is also because of where I graduated, and the fact that I didn't feel comfortable mov
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by jbm 3y ago
Sure it does, you aren't getting me this time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Flowers_Campaign Jokes aside, this definitely helped when I was in college, especially when I had a follow up session where I co
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by jbm 3y ago
That was one of the reasons I moved back to Canada from Japan. The 4 AM dash for the first train and then the bullet train to a ski resort was much worse than a leisurely 7 AM wake-up, walk to the minivan, and a 50 minute drive to Nakiska.
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by jbm 3y ago
Apparently, it is going to snow 30 cm next week here. No grass to be had sir.
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by jbm 3y ago
I've never done this, but if I was trying to be charitable; in bear country, I assume making noise to avoid startling the animals is best practice.
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by jbm 3y ago
> by German author B. Traven, whose identity remains unknown... Thank you for sending me down this crazy Wikipedia journey.
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by jbm 3y ago
The winners of this news coming out are the victims and family members of the murder victim, as the norm until now was to hide information. As normal people, we all win when governments hold less secrets. By sharing inconvenient informatio
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by jbm 3y ago
The UI is absolutely perfect. Please, don't change it.
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by jbm 3y ago
OK, let's take the fact that I'm brainwashed while you are a free thinking sovereign citizen who just understands reality better than everyone else for granted. The fact remains that they can't sell me a new car and deliverie
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by jbm 3y ago
My post above included a gas car (the Sienna) which is backordered for years in my country (Canada). There is obviously some kind of breakdown in the way their company is run; how else can you leave that many customers waiting for that per
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by jbm 3y ago
> actively committing state sponsored industrial espionage for decades I'm sure you are right but I feel this is actually beneficial. The interests that have captured China are likely different from the ones in the US, and much diff
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by jbm 3y ago
1000 km battery, 10 minute charge? I'm suspicious for many reasons. If they can't build their prime hybrids — or even supply gas Siennas in Canada — I'm not very confident about their manufacturing in the mid-term. I hope I&
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by jbm 3y ago
I used to feel this way, but I can't remember the last time I installed a new app that I still use. This is much different from when mobile apps were a thing and I would find something delightful every week.
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by jbm 3y ago
On one hand they talk about getting rid of leather, then they talk about getting something with a "suede" feeling. I hope we aren't replacing leather with microplastics-infused future garbage.
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by jbm 3y ago
We see this same sentiment in comments on this very website. Comments like "Straight line acceleration doesn't matter", for example. Except, as a driver, I never accelerate in a tight curve. Once I got an EV, aggressive dri
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by jbm 3y ago
I've been driving them for the past 6 months. There is a huge difference, especially for my in-city driving. I can't go back to being a gashole.
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by jbm 3y ago
I know it was meant as a throw-away part to the comment, but geothermal HVAC is extremely expensive. I live in Calgary and I looked into it. $50k, which is more than 10% of the value of my house; if people are complaining about house price

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