Harbor Freight is awesome, but as with everything else, you should know what you're buying, and know what you actually need.
Most people don't need to pay a premium for something they'll use just once, or maybe a handful of times, and never touch again.
For most people, they don't really know what they need, so buy Harbor Freight the first time, if you use so much it breaks, then buy a quality replacement, because you proved you actually need it.
Oh they do care what's legal, but not for the same reasons.
They think that any laws against their beliefs are there specifically to persecute them. Because that's exactly what they would be doing (as an individual) if they were in power. Hence the bullshit we are seeing now with them gaining power.
In any sort of political adjacent topic there's always a comment from someone that seems to assume that they're inherently better than everyone else for no actual reason and that everyone else cares about their opinion of others. From your response here to a random person on the internet you know absolutely nothing about, I think it's safe to assume you have a single digit number of people that tolerate you on a daily basis.
I hope you have the day you deserve, I know I will.
Attacking your own assets to make it look like an enemy isn't new. And attacks like this are nondestructive. They don't actually lose anything by doing so. But some idiots will just assume that it couldn't be anyone associated with the group being attacked.
But if you don’t have an anti elon sticker I’m starting to side eye them
I don't have a sticker, only because I don't like stickers or badging on my vehicles at all. My Model 3 was early enough that they didn't even have the Dual Motor badging for them in stock. They brought the badging to me at some point about a year later when the Rangers came to a tire rotation in my yard, there wasn't even have a full Service Center here yet. I didn't have them actually install the badging, it's still in my glovebox. It's as low key as I can make the damned thing.
But that's a major contributing factor to my looking at alternative options now instead of when it's fully paid off in September. The swastikar is becoming a target, and I don't want to have to deal with shit just because Elon's a Nazi. Got a test drive setup next week for a Polestar 3, and if I fits and I likes, going to be looking at that probably, especially with their added discounts and bonus for leasing and currently owning a Tesla. Most other manufacturer vehicles I'd consider are at least 1-2 years away still, so a 27 month lease is just about perfect for filling that gap, and making a decision then. Would still be less than I'm paying for my Model 3 with those discounts.
For many of us we've had our vehicles for a long time before Elon went dipshit crazy. For some it's because EVs were essentially dogshit before the Model 3 was introduced. Either short range grocery getters or expensive luxury. Even now most "electrified" vehicles everyone advertises are hybrids, not EVs.
I got my Model 3 near the end of 2018. Elon wasn't posting far right and Nazi shit at that time. He was sort of controversial, but that was about it.
Egg supplies in the US are down like 5%. The price bullshit isn't just from that.
EDIT: Because I know some people will want some hard numbers, I looked some up quickly.
USDA report puts some hard numbers on American egg production (Published: February 20, 2025, so these are 2024 numbers)
The average number of egg-laying hens fell to 375 million, a 2 percent drop from the previous year, while egg production declined 1 percent to 109 billion eggs. The total U.S. chicken inventory also decreased by 2 percent, reaching 514 million birds.
Despite a modest rise in broiler chicken prices, egg prices have surged. In late January, the wholesale price for large eggs in New York soared to $7.46 per dozen — more than double last year’s $2.94. USDA now projects an annual average egg price of $4.44 per dozen.
Highly pathogenic avian influenza remains a major driver of price fluctuations. Though the report does not account for recent bird losses in 2025, economist Bernt Nelson of the American Farm Bureau Federation estimates that 43 million birds were lost in January and February alone — representing 25 percent of all birds affected since the outbreak began in 2022. These losses suggest continued price volatility as producers work to rebuild flocks.
Now, the article does mention the recent bird infections being higher at 25%, however look at the specific wording used. "representing 25 percent of all birds affected since the outbreak began in 2022". So it's saying the recent infections and kills represent that amount from the last 2+ years of avian flu infections, not a sudden spike of 25% of the current supply.
Oh look this is making the rounds again. I thought Reuters was above taking years old stories and recycling them for clicks. Apparently the current Elon hatred was just too enticing for them.
Having worked in retail phone repair for 15 years, both for a major US carrier and privately... A lot.
I saw water damaged phones every single day, and I'm hundreds of miles from an ocean, sea, lake, or any major body of water. That's just from mistakes near things like backyard pools.
Was looking to get into something a bit bigger. Would have gotten a Model Y if they had been on the radar at the time I got my Model 3, but that was years later. I'm pretty tall and getting tired of having to drop down into a car.
Been looking at the Hyundai and Polestar options mostly.
Currently researching available alternatives to my 2018 Model 3 as well. I don't really care about the luxury aspect, which is where most EVs are. The big US auto makers still make terrible vehicles after decades, so I definitely don't trust their quality with first or second generation technologies. I'd rather trust a completely new venture based around the tech than legacy auto.
I never said it was impossible. I said it was harder to both make them replaceable and water resistant. And they won't bother to do both for 99% of models, they'll just drop the water resistance to comply with replaceable battery requirements. There might be a few that they bother and then sell at inflated prices.
They'll make them replaceable and ignore waterproofing them for 99% of models citing the added difficulty in making a good seal without being able to glue it shut. Which is arguably true. It's possible, but more difficult to design and much more likely to fail.
The problem is that the Executive Branch is the one that enforces laws, and they have the authority to ignore laws they don't want to enforce. Discretion is a fundamental part of law enforcement, it is why you can get a warning for speeding instead of a ticket every time, their discretion ability wasn't codified. That is why generally federal law enforcement like the FBI operates independently even though they're under the Executive, so they can enforce laws and judicial decisions without interference. Interfering should trigger check and balances from the Legislative branch, and impeachment.
The system was never designed with the possibility of a takeover of all three branches simultaneously as a possibility. That just wasn't a thing they thought was likely to happen. But the system was also designed at a time when only white landowners could vote, and part of their societal expectation was to be educated, critical thinkers that were up to date, and active with politics. So those voting actually knew what was going on, and were educated to look at the various outcomes, even with media bias of the time.
As we've expanded voting rights, we never adjusted the system to account for uneducated voters or an increase in propaganda and outright lying from media outlets in any way. On top of that we've artificially limited the expansion of the House of Representatives so it no longer operates as designed. It was designed to represent the people via population, but the limit of 435 means that instead of it being representative of population, there are members representing a couple hundred thousand people and members representing millions, yet they have the same single vote. The House has become a pseudo-Senate, and is no longer capable of doing its job correctly because of it.
They are learning, but the versions launched are never the current version at launch time, they are all older models. As changes are made those changes go into the next one being built, not the ones currently under construction already, unless it's an easy retrofit, like when they were changing the tile layouts.
And even those retrofitted changes may not be adequate depending on the cause. When dealing with lost vehicles you also have limited forensic evidence to use to determine root causes. Cameras don't see everything sensors don't log every aspect. And fixes you thought were adequate, may not actually be enough. That's why they iterate and try again in the real world, instead of just simulating everything and hoping it works at launch for 10x the cost. These issues sometimes taking multiple tries to fix are an expected parts of the process.
At least Elon doesn't actually run things at SpaceX, despite what he might say in public. Gwynne Shit well actually runs the company, and is likely the reason it's actually pretty on track and hasn't gone the way of Tesla.
Starship is not like any other rocket currently being made, and it's being built in an iterative process, unlike the legacy rocket manufacturers, and even most new companies. This design process is intended to make changes and break things at every step, in the real world. Then make changes to try and fix those problems, and test it again. And not every step will fix previous issues. They're building multiple Boosters and Starships simultaneously, and none of the ones being launched are the newest version at this point of development. They're all older models by the time they fly.
halcyoncmdr @ halcyoncmdr @lemmy.world Posts 0Comments 1,756Joined 2 yr. ago
Harbor Freight is awesome, but as with everything else, you should know what you're buying, and know what you actually need.
Most people don't need to pay a premium for something they'll use just once, or maybe a handful of times, and never touch again.
For most people, they don't really know what they need, so buy Harbor Freight the first time, if you use so much it breaks, then buy a quality replacement, because you proved you actually need it.