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Kinda want that on a bumper sticker. Time to whip out Illustrator and the Cricut
Galatians 4:16
If it’s a random sample that’s a pretty fuckin decent sample size. You’d get a margin of error ~±3%.
I’m so glad GM reversed their decision to discontinue the Bolt rather than just replacing it with the Equinox EV. My partner loved their rental Bolt when they totaled their Camry. It fits a sweet spot of being relatively small and affordable that few EVs on the market have filled.
Ford needs to come back with their Focus EV. That would sell so damn well.
Nope, I want an EV. I’m in the market for a car right now. My current vehicle cost me $5k out of college and is close to hitting 200k miles. It’s close to the end of its lifespan and becoming harder to justify repairs.
Most of the market is SUVs though. I’d really like more Sedan or Hatchback options with decent build quality and CarPlay. GM took themselves out of the game on CarPlay, Tesla/Polestar build quality is ass, and dealers mark up prices too much when I barely am interested in what they are selling in the first place.
No American auto companies make a car I want, and that’s a problem. The closest car to what I’m looking for is the Porsche Taycan Cross Turismo. I have the means to buy one, and when they release the next model with NACS and CarPlay I’m probably gonna bite the bullet.
Now, majority of Americans aren’t in my position. They want something cheap and reliable. Your cheapest EVs out price the majority of Americans before dealer markups. That’s an even bigger problem. Nothing really exists in the <$30k price range. So I don’t feel bad seeing Byd possibly hurting American auto manufacturers. They had the time to adapt and refused. It’s their fault.
No, but a 10% drop from the prior close triggers a short sell restriction for a full trading session. In that event, you can only short on upticks in price. Unless you are day trading shorts, it’s a meaningless restriction that’s easily abusable by HFTs.
Literally don’t know what you are talking about? Building more mid-high density residential is something lots of folks advocate for on Lemmy. But that’s one part of a bigger problem. As is corporations buying housing and colluding on pricing. Kinda needs tackling on both fronts
Are you familiar with the Bay Area by chance? The Golden Gate Bridge isn’t the only bridge nor are the hospitals in downtown SF the only accessible options. An ambulance is going to take you to the nearest emergency room that will meet your needs. On the north side of the bridge, there’s the entire Marin Health system. Across 580 you have the Berkeley, Oakland, and Alameda hospital centers. In the rare event that an ambulance is on the bridge prior to being aware there is a protest blocking traffic, odds are the protesters will let the ambulance through.
This round of protests was cleared out pretty quickly anyways. The November protest delayed an organ transplant by a few hours but did not put the patient in a life-threatening scenario per USCF Medical. Anything more urgent in the rare case a diversion isn’t possible and would require some sort of transportation across the bridge would use a helicopter, even during rush hour traffic.
I get your concerns about people’s lives being put in jeopardy are probably very real. Honestly, if I didn’t have experience working with local government and health districts that helped me understand what goes on during a protest blocking a major avenue, I’d likely be just as upset as you. However, dispatchers are trained and ready to work in a variety of tough scenarios, and protests blocking Golden Gate is absolutely one of them. Dispatch finds out about blockages faster than the public does, so guarantee they were already changing routes before the story even broke.
What a terrible sentiment. It’s honestly fucking impressive how easy an iPhone is to use for old people. My dad grew up in rural Mexico without any electricity and never learned how to use a computer. His first smartphone was an S3 and he HATED it. My mom traded it in for an iPhone, and he was close to losing his mind again until he used it for a few weeks. Dad learned well enough on his own that when he asked me to respond to a text for him while we were fixing a car, I unlocked his phone and Safari was open on Pornhub. Dude’s figured out how to use Spotify and can listen to all the music he grew up with and hasn’t been able to find CDs for. I used to have to sit with him to take his annual trainings on my laptop because he couldn't figure out a keyboard and mouse. Don’t even get me started on how well Apple handles accessibility features for disabled people.
Not everyone needs side loading or the ability to do shit like change your system font. Not everybody needs root access. Should Apple make that available for the people who want it? Fuck yeah they should. But 99% of the time, the phone works well and fits most people’s use-cases.
Anyway, I’m a tech-savvy zoomer and I use an iPhone (and Arch btw). Even the biggest FOSS guy in my old IT job switched to an iPhone (he uses Arch too btw). Definitely not just for boomers.