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RadiRoot posted:jfc. im sorry. Vox Nihili posted:Is this for real? That is loving deranged 100% real. Idaho couldn’t claw back any of the money because our mother in law didn’t have any tangible assets to claw back. States hate this one weird trick!
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Aug 10, 2023 15:04
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Joey Steel posted:Space to convert it to fully electric. The only real limit that the prius had to bring it fully electric is that you need a bigger battery. That's cool! godspeed pathfinding aftermarket conversions for the prius drivetrain. I keep thinking there has gotta be a robust aftermarket that develops for these things at some point, especially given there's a whole branch that is full on PHEVs already. Toyota built so drat many of them and they're all like, a better electric motor and battery away from being so much better.
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Aug 10, 2023 15:04
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Twerk from Home posted:Meanwhile the poor Prius he took the motor from is having to make due Wow
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Aug 10, 2023 15:19
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Joey Steel posted:I mean, yes. I am turning an underused automotive garage at my uni into an open ev conversion bay, where I have the students do the design work and then they publish their plans. Already I am being asked when I can get the plans translated to Spanish here in LA. Hey that's actually pretty cool and good
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Aug 10, 2023 15:19
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Justin Tyme posted:I'm begging you please, PLEASE just make an electric compact Hyundai makes an electric Kona that's reasonably priced given the current state of the car market.
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Aug 10, 2023 15:23
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FistEnergy posted:Correct. Utility workers/operators in power/water/gas should all make 200k and computer touchers should make 5 figures. but goons aint ready for that conversation I am
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Aug 10, 2023 15:26
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Buffer posted:That's cool! godspeed pathfinding aftermarket conversions for the prius drivetrain. We have an on staff machinist in the engineering dept that I ply with brisket and cookies. He's one of those good ol' boys doing it for 20ish years. And the motor alone is sufficient to run a compact car just fine. Maybe even a midsized if you don't want to go over 85 or so.
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Aug 10, 2023 15:27
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Nothus posted:Hyundai makes an electric Kona that's reasonably priced given the current state of the car market. Nope, too expensive because it doesn't qualify for Joe Biden's protectionist tax credit. Hyundais get built in a furrin country. The Chevy Bolt is under $20k after tax credit, so of course they're cancelling it so that nobody can get that deal next year.
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Aug 10, 2023 15:28
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I bought a Chevy Bolt in 2020 and it's my favorite car I've ever had but I walked by a tiny little Toyota Tacoma from the 90s yesterday and I'm not ashamed to say that I would murder for an electric version of that
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Aug 10, 2023 15:29
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at a fundamental level, if you can do your job from home, it's worth less than any job in the physical world
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Aug 10, 2023 15:29
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:ahahahaha of course this was going to happen, remember the whining about the Google chef? With "happen" you mean there were some posts?
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Aug 10, 2023 15:29
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Yeah, you're supposed to buy a Tesla with that credit
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Aug 10, 2023 15:30
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Twerk from Home posted:Nope, too expensive because it doesn't qualify for Joe Biden's protectionist tax credit. Hyundais get built in a furrin country. Didn't they announce they were walking that back and the Bolt would still be available?
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Aug 10, 2023 15:30
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triple sulk posted:i'm almost certain that delivering for ups an absolutely grueling job because those guys are moving thousands of pounds worth of packages a day and probably work 10-12 hour shifts when you take into account all the commute time to and from the hub I mean I fuckin wish, here I am doing that work for 47k Canuckbucks a year.
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Aug 10, 2023 15:33
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Nephzinho posted:Didn't they announce they were walking that back and the Bolt would still be available? They said the Bolt will return from the dead at some point years in the future, maybe 2027. Their CEO daily drives a Bolt, it's a great little car.
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Aug 10, 2023 15:35
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RealityWarCriminal posted:at a fundamental level, if you can do your job from home, it's worth less than any job in the physical world You're not wrong, but we also can't have most people commuting to work or basically doing anything that involves driving around all day, even with electric vehicles. If you want to go down this path, home delivery of consumer goods is probably a massive net social negative that needs to go away forever.
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Aug 10, 2023 15:35
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Twerk from Home posted:Meanwhile the poor Prius he took the motor from is having to make due Lol. More like auto salvage yards.
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Aug 10, 2023 15:35
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Twerk from Home posted:They said the Bolt will return from the dead at some point years in the future, maybe 2027. Oh, well, poo poo. I was hoping to get one as I'm moving and am going to need a car, but can't afford a Bolt right now, and was hoping to pick one up in a year or two. RIP.
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Aug 10, 2023 15:37
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palindrome posted:It's going to be really sad for a whole bunch of people. I can't imagine the disappointment waiting decades to inherit one of your parents' houses in Florida or Arizona and thinking it's a ticket to a better life. Or worse, a stash of silver coins and jewelry that are surely worth their weight in gold! The survey should have asked, do you have a trust set up with $250,000 of assets? My sister was certainly surprised when she inherited box of costume jewelry and then tried to get it valued. Everyone with kids should go out and buy a gold-plated brick or two just to wave around in front of them from time to time.
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Aug 10, 2023 15:38
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StealthArcher posted:I mean I fuckin wish, here I am doing that work for 47k Canuckbucks a year. https://www.globenewswire.com/en/news-release/2020/11/06/2122156/0/en/Teamsters-Ratify-5-Year-Collective-Agreement-with-UPS-Canada.html The new contract will improve wage progression for all categories of workers, meaning that some members will receive immediate raises of as much as $2 to $3 per hour. Workers already being paid the top rate will receive a $4.10 raise over the course of the five-year agreement. Full-time employees with seniority (at least 90 days on the job) will earn double time on the weekend, provided they work at least five hours. an 0.82$ cad raise per hour lmfao RealityWarCriminal has issued a correction as of 15:46 on Aug 10, 2023 |
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Aug 10, 2023 15:39
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 lol Power suppliers aren't even going to pretend to supply what we're paying them to supply, and when people die from their malfeasance it'll be explained away with "well, they should have had a generator."
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Aug 10, 2023 15:45
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:It's a SERVICE. it's not supposed to have to be concerned about PROFIT. gently caress me. we should be thankful it’s not privatised 🙏
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Aug 10, 2023 15:49
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:
I got solar this year after losing power in the dead of winter for 2 days in January, and for the last three months I have been putting energy back onto the grid for credit to spend in the winter months. No power bill then, right? Nope! The power company is charging me energy transit fees for the power I am putting back onto the grid.
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Aug 10, 2023 15:51
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Zodium posted:Tech workers react to UPS drivers landing a $170,000-a-year package with a mixture of anger and admiration they deserve every penny and more
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Aug 10, 2023 15:51
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Zodium posted:Tech workers react to UPS drivers landing a $170,000-a-year package with a mixture of anger and admiration They should just leave their lovely tech jobs and get a good ups driver gig then.
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Aug 10, 2023 15:56
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https://twitter.com/VoicesByZane/status/1689647682523144192 https://twitter.com/VoicesByZane/status/1689648883025182720 a mood of considerable scale.
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Aug 10, 2023 16:00
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Oh, we've been circling the drain for a while. But the fact that A.I makes everything it touches worse is probably a feature and not a bug. It's also Silicon Valley obviously trying to regain the clout it had a decade ago when people were less on to their obvious scams and empty promises.
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Aug 10, 2023 16:09
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Twerk from Home posted:They said the Bolt will return from the dead at some point years in the future, maybe 2027. they’re doing all the expensive as poo poo models first because they’re the first to transition.
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Aug 10, 2023 16:20
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the premium consumer is more likely to buy a new technology when you havent worked out the efficiencies and kinks because it immediately reads as a wealth signifier. thats what happened with teslas early on--except those never got better lol by going with the higher price cars and raising the prices even more, it allows you to set the costs of the cheaper options with higher markup bc its being compared to the premium cost and not the established cost of existing cars
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Aug 10, 2023 16:22
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The SV VC grifter jump from ape jpegs to slapping sticky notes with "AI" hastily scrawled on em on everything within arm's reach was pretty obvious and we still gotta just sit here and watch it play out V galling
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Aug 10, 2023 16:24
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i am harry posted:used cars under $15k make up less than 2% of the used car market now WFH has extended the lifespan of my vehicle for another few years. thank gently caress also that stat is insane to me. like how can it be true
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Aug 10, 2023 16:25
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Zodium posted:Tech workers react to UPS drivers landing a $170,000-a-year package with a mixture of anger and admiration lol tech workers aren't engineers, how much you wanna bet they hosed up that average salary there conflating the two
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Aug 10, 2023 16:26
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I feel like it was somewhat normal for teens to have their own cars in the 80s and 90s?? . like getting a job and buying a car or having parents help a bit. like a 1987 ford escort was not much money. I may be misremembering or biased by affluence I can’t conceive of anyone besides the rich getting a teenager a car
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Aug 10, 2023 16:28
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euphronius posted:I feel like it was somewhat normal for teens to have their own cars in the 80s and 90s?? . like getting a job and buying a car or having parents help a bit. like a 1987 ford escort was not much money. I may be misremembering or biased by affluence Transportation, just like housing, is not a human need in the twenty-first century. It is a speculative asset.
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Aug 10, 2023 16:30
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nomad2020 posted:My sister was certainly surprised when she inherited box of costume jewelry and then tried to get it valued. Everyone with kids should go out and buy a gold-plated brick or two just to wave around in front of them from time to time. We're all going to inherit nothing except a bunch of "collectible" figurines and coins that have a negative worth because we'll have to pay to take them to the dump since no one will want them even for free.
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Aug 10, 2023 16:35
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i am harry posted:used cars under $15k make up less than 2% of the used car market now
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Aug 10, 2023 16:35
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There's plenty of data science applications to churn through terabytes of data quickly but I'd call those algorithms instead of AI Because that's what they are: algorithms
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Aug 10, 2023 16:38
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:PMC jobs are largely hereditary and it turns out that a lawyer’s salary doesn’t buy what it bought your dad in the eighties also true of physicians, millennial docs refer to the period of boomers entering the field (80s and 90s) as the "golden era" of pay
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Aug 10, 2023 16:38
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euphronius posted:I feel like it was somewhat normal for teens to have their own cars in the 80s and 90s?? . like getting a job and buying a car or having parents help a bit. like a 1987 ford escort was not much money. I may be misremembering or biased by affluence That's because the lovely clunker that cost $500 but runs fine as long as you don't care if the back passenger window doesn't roll down or that it starts to shake over 50 mph doesn't exist anymore because now that same car is $5k.
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euphronius posted:I feel like it was somewhat normal for teens to have their own cars in the 80s and 90s?? . like getting a job and buying a car or having parents help a bit. like a 1987 ford escort was not much money. I may be misremembering or biased by affluence Yeah used cars used to depreciate super fast and also 7+ year old cars would be a pile of poo poo that was rusting apart and pulled away from every stop in a cloud of oil smoke. Now the average car on the road is 13 years old, but the longer life means that the manufacturerers don't crank out a million cheap shitboxes and they cost way more to fix than they used to.
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