Just a heads-up, there are activity reports that can be run that will readily show this.

I’m Asian and live in rural Oregon.

I’m a below average height male and on periodic occasion I don’t trigger the motion sensing ones and it’s awkward. Now I typically always just raise my arm and wave instinctively. Not quite jedi gestures, but eh.

This hurts.

I’m nowhere near Bill Gates money and never will be.

I think amongst my circle of family and friends, I probably net 3-4x more than the highest earner I know. For the most part, I can buy myself whatever gadgets or books or food or things I typically want.

But…I don’t, well, I don’t always.

In fact, oftentimes I find myself putting off buying Book A or B because I just don’t feel like it’s a good use of money right now.

Sometimes I won’t even buy myself new socks until all of mine have been worn down to absolute tatters. I own two pairs of jeans and one pair of shoes and they’re going to go until they completely fall apart.

Other times, I want this new game and I don’t buy it because I can’t really justify it for how much time I might end up having for it.

But if anyone I know gets me any of the above or similar, I’d honestly be super happy. It removes that mental battle for me and I get something I actually want / need.

When GM killed the Bolt, I tried to buy one at two different dealerships near me. One wanted a $10k premium over MSRP and the other wanted $8k.

They also both had a non-negotiable “security” etching added and wheel protection whatever that I had to pay for.

It isn’t that I didn’t want one, it’s that your dealerships fucked it up.

Honestly, may have settled for MSRP, but they wouldn’t budge. Fuck off.

I love seeing ads touting “military grade” things, it basically means…it probably isn’t worth buying.

You win my favorite internet comment of the day.

My personal cuticles need more seasoning.

Where is here…asking for a friend

Obligatory…

Favorite I’ve owned? Model S Plaid

Favorite impractical? Maybe a Porsche 918 Spyder

Favorite classic? Ford Fairlane 427 Black on Black

Favorite right now but I haven’t driven it or seen it in person? Maybe the new Corvette AWD Hybrid.

I worked briefly in journalism (before going a completely different direction) for an Oregon newspaper and we were instructed to write at a 6th grade level. This was…20 years ago? I can’t imagine it has trended better.

It’s always projection…so…

As a software engineer this is fascinating. Like, how would QC / QA have ever tested for this?

I mean, example, folding phones, it’s easy to just design a system that opens and closes it over and over. Samsung even has a butt sitting on testing device.

But testing whether the motion of a vehicle negatively impacts a wiring harness in some spot on the vehicle over time to cause this sounds rough. Again, though, I’m not in hardware jobs like these so maybe it’s actually easily caught?

Wherever is easiest to get up and out and go pee because I snuck in beer and I have a small bladder.

100% this. I used to be able to control my ceiling fan, my portable a/c, and my TV from my phone.

Now I have to use the fan remote, the a/c remote, and install and create an account with some stupid TV app.

…it was also fun for changing the channel of TVs at bars & restaurants.

Love this explanation. Thanks much. Sharing…

I’m actually within about 5% ± on my Model S Plaid depending on the time of year and that’s hardly driving conservatively (maybe luck?). Oddly enough, my Model S has been more efficient than my Model 3 LR was, which I know makes no sense. But pretty much across the board for all the same drives, I use less kWh, it boggles my mind.

This is based on data from Tessie.

All that said, I realize the article says other manufacturers have more accurate fuel economies. I’m sorry, but no, my friend’s leaf is absolutely wrong by an extremely large margin, especially in winter, and has been since day one. It’s not even close.

I sold cars for a year. During the initial onboarding we were asked to “sell a pen” to the trainer.

Everyone jumped right in to selling the qualities of the pen they had in hand.

At the end of the exercise the trainer said, “I’m looking for a pencil”.

The point was, don’t assume what the customer is looking for. Ask qualifying questions and identify 3-5 hot buttons, then based on what should be knowledge of the inventory and inventory of surrounding dealerships (yeah, they’re all connected to some degree), make recommendations that fit their needs.

Then describe all the ways it could fulfill their wants using positive, yes questions. Don’t ask a question you don’t know the answer to. We were taught that it takes 5-10 Yes responses to offset the negative mental energy from a question asked resulting in a No - so we weren’t supposed to mess that up. That was just one of numerous psychological plays we were taught and forced to use or get threatened with being fired or having bonuses taken away.

The whole training series was bullshit. And I say it was bullshit because it sucked playing all these games on people. Yeah, 1/5 of the time it didn’t work because they caught on. But the amount of times it actually worked made me feel guilty and sad.

The amount of times you put someone into a car they couldn’t afford because you successfully sold them on their wants and not their needs was awful.

I quit near the end of that year because fuck car sales and fuck car dealerships. This was 15 years ago, so who knows what it’s like now.

Also, because I assume someone might ask (lol assuming, I fail), this was for a conglomerate that owned 5 used car lots, a Scion lot, a Toyota lot, a Lexus lot, and oddly a Ford & Chevy lot. Last I heard they’re just down to a Lexus lot and one used car lot now. Apparently the mortgage bubble and COVID hit them hard. Fine by me.

Do you mean Vivaldi runs in Gecko or is Chromium?