Enk1 @ Enk1 @lemmy.world

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$25 an hour is sadly not too good for any job in the US these days. $50k doesn't go that far anymore.

I use my F-150 fairly often to haul and tow. If I didn't need to tow ~5000lbs I'd have just kept my old 97 Tacoma. I was all in on getting a Lightning a few months ago, especially with $15,000 in rebates and tax credits. Then I did the math and realized going from my brother's shop to my place while towing 5000lbs means I'd have to stop and charge for 30 minutes SIX times on that trip. And sadly, it seems that's as good as it gets for EV trucks right now. I'm 100% onboard with an EV truck, especially a Lightning with the ability to use it as a generator for your home in an outage, but towing/hauling range has to improve astronomically before they're practical.

If they marketed it as such, but they heavily marketed it as capable as, if not better, at doing truck things than other trucks. And to be fair, most of us knew it was bullshit, but it's impressive how absolutely wrong they were. I mean, Elon said it'd tow a Porsche 911 faster in the quarter than the 911 could run the 1/4 mile itself, and they released a video to prove it...except keen eyed folks quickly noticed that the "finish line" they show is actually the 1/8th mile marker on that drag strip, and the 911 is clearly about to pass the CT at that point. Engineering Explained on YT made a great video detailing how it couldn't beat even the slowest modern 911.

But Tesla specifically marketed this as a fully capable truck, which it is not. The F-150 Lightning gets the same range towing as the Cybertruck gets with no cargo.

It's a truck that's meant to tow and haul loads. Using it for that purpose is a much larger drain on the battery than aggressive driving, and significantly reduces its useful range. If it's getting these numbers just being driven, you can expect a sub-100 mile range per charge when towing. Imagine having to stop to recharge for 30+ minutes for every hour and half of towing you do. Woof.

It's a truck, meant to tow and haul loads. If this is its range unladen then it's hauling range is 50% or less of this range. Meaning a full charge gets you 82-103 miles, which makes it nearly useless as the thing it's supposed to be: a truck.

Unless you're talking about Android Auto or CarPlay, I'd have to disagree. Even in high end luxury cars the OEM infotainment systems are a joke.

And before someone chimes in and says "But Tesla," please understand that a clean and stylish user interface does not make for a good user experience. Tesla put simple but important functions behind an interface that often requires multiple clicks to find what, in any other car, is a single button, knob, or stalk away. Buttons and knobs make for a better user experience and safer driving because they don't require you to take your eyes off the road to navigate a menu.

Everyone is required to have insurance in the US or they face a tax penalty. The ACA was so hamstrung by GOP pols that all it actually did was force Americans to buy insurance with low premiums but absurdly high deductibles, copays, and out-of-pocket costs. For many Americans, their health insurance exists only for catastrophic things, because being in debt for a $5000 deductible is a lot better than having $100,000 in medical debt, despite the fact they can't afford the deductible either. Many can't afford preventative healthcare that many of us take for granted, because for them the choice is the $50 copay for a checkup or buying food for their family. Healthcare outcomes for them are abysmally low.

POS software is right up there with vehicle infotainment systems when it comes to reliability and usability. They get the dregs of the programming world because decent coders have a way better selection of companies to work for.

I'm not sure if you're being genuine or not; your last sentence makes me lean towards racist, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.

The issue is not doctors giving lesser quality healthcare to children of color, it's that healthcare in America is the most expensive in the world, and people of color are extremely disproportionately impoverished in the US compared to white people. They get poorer healthcare because they literally cannot afford decent healthcare.

The US government spent the century after the Civil War preventing free men and women of color from voting and creating generational wealth. Regressive tax laws, and private school vouchers that serve no other purpose than to defund public schools people of color rely on for education are just a couple of the litany of things that keep poor people in a cycle of generational poverty. Does this also affect poor white people? Absolutely. But Black Americans are more than twice as likely to be below the poverty line in the US.

The system is broken for all of us that aren't shareholders and CEOs, it just happens to disproportionately affect people of color. We're all on the same team and we're not part of the 1%. But politicians and media have convinced 49.5% of us that the other 49.5% are our enemies so we'll be distracted while the 1% picks our pockets.

For a lot of people, particularly in large, spread out countries there's no choice. Someone has to deliver freight, some people have to commute to work, etc.

Cars are heavier with long noses because of crumple zones and stronger cabins that are exponentially safer for passengers than older cars. They're also far safer for pedestrians and bicyclists. Lotus makes cars that are impractical for any amount of cargo (you're not doing your grocery shopping in it) and their crash tests show they're far less safe for drivers and pedestrians. 50kW couldn't safely accelerate even a tiny 1 tonne vehicle onto any highway.

We use US Standard, not Imperial. Americans took Imperial and changed the measurements but kept the names, because "fuck you, Britain" but "fuck you even more, everyone else!"

The spelling of whisky/whiskey is not tied to the speaker's dialect, it's actually tied to the whisk(e)y's origin.

Scotch, Canadian, and Japanese whiskies are spelled "whisky."

American and Irish whiskeys are spelled "whiskey."

So "bourbon whisky" would be incorrect in any English dialect, as would "Canadian whiskey."

Theater room, maybe? The receptacles on the ceiling and along the side walls could be for speakers. A Dolby Atmos setup has speakers on every wall, the floor, and the ceiling.

And this appears to be a shot of a closed station that appears to be lit by flashlight - my guess is someone urbexing an abandoned station. There are quite a few stations in NYC that have been closed in the past century and aren't well maintained. Some are still passed by active trains even though there's no longer a stop there.

Nice, I'll have to try this soon. Last time I checked the process was way more complicated.

Heritage breeds are the way to go if you can find them. Taste better and typically more humanely raised.

Disney and Miami/Keys. No one WANTS to go through Jacksonville, but it's the shortest route if you're going down the coast.

Where is this at? I've never seen 440ml or 440ml cans in North America. Canned drinks/beers usually come in 355ml (12 US ounces), 473ml (16oz), 500ml (16.9 oz), or 19.2 US ounces (20 British ounces aka British pint). Other less common sizes are 8oz (236ml / Red Bull) and big beer formats like 24oz and 32oz (just shy of a litre).

404ml is around 13.66 US ounces or 14.2 imperial ounces. 440ml is around 14.7 US ounces or 15.5 imperial ounces.

Usually when you get a measurement that's not a nice round number like 500 or 750 it means it was probably converted from some other measurement standard. But both measurements seem completely arbitrary for what I assume is an English speaking country.

I looked through some antique measurements but didn't find anything useful. It seems to be more than half a chungah, but far less than a butt.