As a disabled dude: hello 😏

🤔

Oh, carry o… wait a minute

Mom says it’s my turn to paste it!

I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!

Gentlemen, I think I’ve found my next job. Now, if only I was good looking…

I’m satanic and so I’ve got it on good authority that he’d do a damn fine job. Plus free cover to his club, full nudity is permitted, full public sex is encouraged. Main talking points are all that other stuff like saving humanity, body autonomy, protection for marginalized people… and the club access and sex…

Does Trump’s plan include any of this? I rest my case. :P

UvU

Yeah, opening an app and typing 6 numbers? Way too much work. Also why can’t my password be ‘password’ like the good old days?

round

heh

The prime launched with just checks notes 11 miles of EV range. The volt had something like 40 miles. The volt doesn’t have a ton of range but it at least fits your explanation of what is best; but the prime, lmao. Are you going to commute to work and run errands, then make it back home, all within 10 miles? Cmon now.

Nissan as a whole is in a bad way right now, no doubt, but that doesn’t change the fact that they were the only company that even remotely gave a fuck about realistic affordability and availability a decade+ ago; that’s why everyone else sat on the sidelines. Wait for someone else to trip and stumble, and then learn. Problem is, the leaf was good, so when everyone else was waiting, people who wanted an EV with realistic expectations, bought one. Suddenly there wasn’t a large market incentive to compete, they’d all be playing catch-up, so everyone just kept waiting. Eventually stuff like that soul EV came out, and you had outliers like the smart, but both of those had worse range, less cargo space, etc. Only with the announced launch of the model 3 did anyone else wake from their slumber and finally start to do something - ‘hey bro, can we share notes, I didn’t study’. And it would take Toyota another what, 7 years from that announcement, to bring their offer to market? And it’s… not great, on specs or price. The og leaf could easily get 5mi/kW, but Toyota’s can only hit half that with effort - needing more batteries. At a higher price. Oof.

I fail to see how emissions show that Toyota is making the right decision here - sounds like more “hybrids are better, and totally not because we offer lots of them” paired with “lots of people bought our hybrids, so we are proportionally lower - yay, marketing works!” clouding things.

Imagine thinking that a delivery service where each van has thousands of packages is going to cater to each and every recipient 🤣 👌

Nah, Gork is the Simpsons version. Like “Bort” novelty license plates.

But the prius is not built the way you are explaining - up until recently, there was no prius plug-in. What you are arguing for is exactly like that Chevy Volt. Daily EV use, long-distance capability. The standard prius can do something like 1.5mi of range at light throttle application (like ‘you’re going to get shot at’ acceleration speeds), from a full battery.

I could make the same types of arguments with engines, and the fact that tiny explosions happen a foot away from the passenger compartment, every second, for the life of the vehicle, regardless of factors like how economical it is to drive that vehicle, or how scarce fuel becomes. Whereas batteries can be recycled and refurbished, making the argument of creating new batteries less of a viable argument day by day.

Public transport is important, but unless the average consumer can also drop a few mill on helping build that infrastructure faster, it’s out of our control. Vote for it, but that’s about all you can do.

I’m not ‘not seeing the big picture’, I’m telling you that a company has lied to you about its intentions and what is best for the potential customers.

I used to own a first gen, first year, Nissan Leaf. Thing was damn amazing - large cargo capacity, enjoyable driving experience, charging the battery cost me just ~$1.25 to go around 75 miles. It was the pioneer of affordable mass-market EVs, and I expected Toyota of all competitors to jump in the most aggressively and not let Nissan steal the slow. A decade later, they have just one true EV model in their lineup for NA. They spent damn near 30 years sitting on the idea, and didn’t bite. Using the popularity of the prius to push back their R&D, and aiding that with legal bullshit and disinformation. They have only now shifted strategies since they realized that it’s no longer viable.

I can be both pissed off at a bad company, and also hopeful for the future. It’s not one or the other.

“what? the reception in here sucks”

“wtf are you talking about”

“I’m… I can… tunnel…” walks out the front door

Huh? Oh, sorry, I was just thinking why this meeting was not a FUCKING EMAIL

works every time

them getting angry and confused when they have rephrase the same thing 5 times now

Ding ding ding, this is correct

‘it is better if all cars are hybrids’ says the company who has the largest hybrid lineup. Even their current EV offering is paltry and is only there for people to point at and say ‘look, they have an EV, they can’t be anti-EV!’

They leaned way too hard, way too long, on the success of the prius and then spun it like a positive thing. Successfully, apparently.

Toyota isn’t a great adjacent jump either, seeing as they have always been and still are anti-EV… but it’s a small improvement I suppose.

“they’ve hit the new tower”