She’s young and trying things out. Polyamory is pretty low on the tier list of mistakes one can make in their childhood. When I was a kid, thanks to my environment, I thought relationships were physically transactional before I could grasp the idea of “making a living” and empathy for others. Chances are, she’ll pick one sooner or later.

They’re all from Alberta

you should definitely request your data to be deleted before it’s too late

I’ve been saying option 2 was in full force after Elmo went right wing years ago. You see it here in Arizona. The Trump right wingers are not principled outside of religion, and even then there’s an argument against that. If there’s a lack of principals, and their opinions are handed to them by Fox News and Newsmax, then option 2 is entirely conceivable. Anecdotally, I see a lot more conservatives going electric now that they have a brand that shares their values. Anyone remember how right wing people hated social media a decade ago? They didn’t really hate social media, they hated that their views weren’t popular there.

Issue with waiting for the R2/3 is that the tax credits will probably be gone by then.

The issue is that the alternatives generally aren’t that much better in a vacuum. Infotainment vs Tesla infotainment (removing the CarPlay merits): It’s not even close. Tesla is like 10-15 years ahead of everything else on the US market in their price range. Car manufacturers famously lock in their tech and designs something like 3 years before public release.

Will there be meaningful software updates for your Kia EV6 in 2028? Absolutely not, no way.

Do you want to tow anything more than 1000Kg? Good luck outside of Tesla.

NACS? Not one single other car available yet.

Do you want a dashcam? Rivian is the only other brand, IIRC.

I’m not apologizing for Tesla, but it’s really painful how awful all other cars are compared to the competition.

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Not necessarily Carl Benz himself, but it has been litigated that the company had ties to the nazi regime. I’m not arguing that Mercedes was founded on Nazi values, I’m just saying there was a connection and a less than stellar history of bedfellows.

Everyone forgets where the German cars, Henry Ford, etc came from politically.

I was looking into my first EV, and politics just didn’t weigh that much into the decision. Now, the “infotainment as a perpetual service”, that turned me off and away from Tesla. With CarPlay my car dash will never lose service, and will always be free to use with updates from Apple/Google. I can’t imagine why people would ever pay for their infotainment when CarPlay is better or equal in all cases to the alternative.

That said, if Tesla and other brands were equally weighted in my purchase decision, I’d then happily rule Tesla out based on merit.

I work in Arizona with the homeless and downtrodden. The overwhelming majority of them are right wing and are homeless because they actively refuse help, among other severe mental health issues.

Dude I fuckkkkking Loved Titan AE. Such a good movie for its time when adult cartoons weren’t everywhere. Cartoons at the time were all hand hold-y and made for kids; it was such a breath of fresh air.

What is it that rust is less preferable to?

My father physically and mentally abused me to the point that when I talked to friends I thought it was normal to ask how hard their beatings were for a particular infraction. My best friend reported him to CPS without telling me and he stopped putting his hands on me around age 14 (my mother would yell at him and tell him she didn’t want to go to jail, or him). I thought parents who didn’t beat their children were the most liberal parents imaginable. At my age 20 when I was home visiting from college, he nearly killed me and my mother via trying to flip the car into a ditch on the passenger side where we were both sitting because she let my younger sister drive his car on a joyride. I got into financial troubles after college and had to move back in with him. At my age 25 he got plastered drunk one night and voilently raped my mother in our trailer. Next morning I confronted him about it when he was stone cold sober and he grabbed me by neck and got in my face telling me to stay out of it or else he’d kill me. When I moved out, I didn’t feel “free” until I was in my mid 20s.

He’s about to inherit half my grandmother’s 700K house. He’s openly said he’s taking my mother’s inheritance too.

I have been told I’ll inherit 50K from my grandmother, but that’s not guaranteed because if my grandmother finds out I’m gay I most certainly get nothing.

Mexico may have French brands, but here in Sonora (I live in on the USA side), I’ve never seen any. Actually learned something new haha.

French cars are banned in the USA (also we use CCS1, moving to NACS, while y’all use CCS2 everywhere), but we have Volvo, Pollstar, and German brands everywhere. I wanted a Volvo for my new car, but they’re not rated for towing horses in the USA like they are in Europe (USA versions are rated half the towing capacity than in Europe).

Was in France for 3 weeks on holiday and saw almost exclusively Citroën, Renault, and Peugeot. My rental car was a Renault E Tech and after driving it,I looked into importing one to the USA (sadly it’s not possible for regulatory reasons).

It’s for the best. X11 is 40 something years old now and lacks any future proofing and security.

The multitouch trackpad for me is a great way to get the eye candy of having linear animations tied to your finger movement. In a practical sense, I use linear animations in MacOS to “peek” between desktops and pages in Safari all the time. The fact of the matter is that linear animations are just far smoother, and useful than ones that snap into place from a single input trigger. I even have a trackpad for my home desktop setup and literally don’t use my traditional mouse unless I’m playing a game that doesn’t support controllers.

A good example of this is to compare Windows’s app exposé with the MacOS one. In Windows when you swipe up (or down? I forget which one) with 4 (3?) fingers, once you hit a certain point the app exposé just appears no matter how slow or fast you’re doing the gesture. On MacOS, you can do the app expose gesture on the trackpad as slow or as fast as you want and it’ll animate in time with the speed of your fingers doing the gesture.

in my searching I found XClipper, but unfortunately it’s windows only on the PC side