Was it even his car? He wasn’t driving. There’s been no word about a drunk wondering on the highway or that the driver has stated why they crashed.
Unless they were driving something like 40 years old, vehicles usually get mad at you pretty quick if there’s a major issue with brake fluid. Plus almost anywhere you start at, you’ve used the brakes a couple times before you get into a highway. It still stands that the odds of dying in a car accident are very low.

You’re in a thread chain that started about a guy saying the crash doesn’t sound like an accident. I never said anything that looked like I knew some fact.

What’s it matter? Unless the driver claims the car suddenly started driving itself and stomping on the gas as it steered into the median against their efforts, why would you suspect any foul play? Article doesn’t mention anything about anyone’s bac. But it is a very short leap to make an assumption when a crash happens around when the bars close from a group of people in their 20’s.

People in their mid 20’s at 1:30 in the morning crashing while exiting the freeway sounds fishy to you? Because that looks like drunk driving to me.

Plus it sounds like he was the only one in the car of several people who died and it doesn’t infer anything about their being any other vehicles involved.

Then, if you went out to try and kill someone, would you really think a car wreck would be your best chance to do it? Like 95%+ of wrecks aren’t fatal anymore. It’d be like the dumbest most inconsistent way to try.

If you’re going to make conspiracy theories; they have to still be a little bit plausible. Not like wrecking a car that leaves three survivors\witnesses

I’d agree.

A really bad one? From a guy with a family of trump supporters? That went to a house no one was staying at? Who traveled from North Carolina? Seems like a pointless staging. No one’s going to get all up in arms about this.

If you glaze over all the shitty parts about the “dystopia.”

I wasn’t sure before, but after this last reply I can clearly tell that you’re pretty dumb. I’m sorry for your loss.

Just fyi: my mention of Amazon is because Slate is practically owned by Amazon. They’re a separate company but Slate was created by former Amazon ceo’s and Jeff Bezos has also invested 9 figures into it. So a slate is pretty much Amazon’s truck.

LFP is only typically about 15% less energy dense than NMC. You’re dead wrong about EV manufacturers moving off NMC. LFP is cheaper to make and lasts way longer. Only the US has more issue, because we’ve pissed off everyone else and getting lithium can be a potential supply chain issue.

The tax credit didn’t get killed off until the end of 2025. Way after Amazon had already purchased the batteries from a South Korean manufacturer, that was chosen because they have a fab in the US and it was going to meet the EV full tax credit (this is well known and documented. Go see for yourself).

You also don’t know that everyone will buy the bigger battery option. The range is supposed to be like an extra 100 miles, but Amazon hasn’t given price differences yet. If the base model is $25k, but the extended range model is over $30k, the smaller model may very well sell good. They’re just being made as city trucks. Neither battery is big enough or charges quickly enough for long road trips, so a lot of people may not care about the extra range. Depends on pricing.

The 100k battery replacement is pretty spot on. Smaller batteries means more complete charge cycles done faster. NMC noticably degrades after around 800 cycles. The batteries will start needing replaced at 10 years and 100,000 miles.

Lol. No it isn’t. The batteries are only 53kw\h in size and they’re using shitty NMC batteries instead of LFP (or other) batteries because they want the full $7,500 tax credit. $500 would more than make up for the aerodynamics. No manufacturers want to use those batteries anymore because they only last like 2\5 the charge cycles compared to LifeP04, and it get even worse compared to other batteries coming out right now. Really, putting those batteries in something with only a 150 mile range is kind of a shitty move, IMO. You’ll need a new battery after 100,000 miles. Fine for a cheaper option I suppose, so long as the batteries are easy to replace and it won’t cost $5,000 in labor.

Riiiught. How is that going to make it cheaper? They can use a bit smaller of a battery to get the same range? That size difference would just be around $500.

Not really true for pricing. A small truck isn’t much more weight or material than a sedan.

Full Metal Alchemist:Brotherhood (Nearly perfect)

The first 9 seasons of the Simpsons (great little 22 minute stories. Character depth is episode dependent, but some of the best episodes of anything television has ever offered.)

Battlestar Galactica (Had some iffy plotlines along the way, but great character development and intriguing story)

They can just buy used shit and not play at 4k resolution with 120fps. That stuff will also last longer now.

I just spent a few hundred to upgrade my gaming computer. I bought an old amd r5 5600x from 2020 for $150 and an old amd rx 6600 xt that came out 5 years ago.

I’m more than happy to let the “ever more demanding giant game” trend disappear. Half the games I play use pixel art graphics anyhow. If this pushes devs to make smaller and more creative games that run on decade old systems to reach the most gamers, I’m fine with this, still. Less e waste. Less constant feeling of needing newer components. Less bloatware from shitty games that want 100+GB storage.

Before prices get outrageous on 5+ year old components all these bullshit AI and data centers buying up everything will be dumping the current high end stuff out on the market to make way for newer stuff. And that’s IF the ai bubble doesn’t burst beforehand.

I gotta argue against the games costing more compared to cola. A new Nintendo game in 1988 was $40 to $50. At that time hamburger was 99 cents, a value meal from a fast food place was $4, a house was $80,000, a new car was $10k to $18k, and you were pretty much a Middle class family if you made $45k\year. Some original NES games even hit $60 a piece.

So videogames are one of the few things that haven’t kept with inflation. In no small part due to more people purchasing games and less physical overhead, but that doesn’t take away from my stance. 40 years later and a game price has gone up by like $20.

And massive only looked over like 40 documents during his two hours with the files. Imagine all the other shit still there.

Most apartment locks and such are made for the purchaser to be able to easily and quickly re-key. You set it to be rekeyed, put a cut key in, and then lock the key pattern for it in place. Takes like 5 minutes or less. That way every time someone moves out you can keep things secure without replacing the lock.

In your case, the building manager was just a lazy fuck.

It is common for lock makers of normal locks to do production runs of just like 50 different key sets.

A cheap used one you lead Linux onto.

Their pizza used to be much better. They lost some consumers to the places selling worse pizza for cheaper and instead of just excepting it, tried to compete on price. They turned their pizza to shit, just like their competitors. Only their competitors had smaller buildings with less overhead and kitchens designed from the ground up to sling out fast pizza. Super Dumbass move on pizza hut.

Back in the 80s pizza hut charged premium prices, but tasted fantastic with actual quality ingredients. Tasted even better if you ate it at the restaurant right out of the cast iron.

Then they lost some sales to cheaper on the go places that popped up like Dominoes and little Caesars. Instead of sticking to the higher end and maintaining for customers that we’re willing to spend more on taste, they opted to go down in the mud and compete on cheap, cheaping out on ingredients and cook\prep time. They couldn’t do that as well as the other guys, who’d been doing it from the start. So they completely tanked themselves. Dumb corpo decisions. You can’t make a shit product to compete with other shit product when all your brick and mortar is 4x the size and not designed to sling out pizza as fast. Instead of just excepting that they weren’t going to keep all of the customer base wanting pizza, they shot themselves in both legs.