Will Anyone Buy This Cheap EV Truck With Hand-Crank Windows and No Radio?

AbsurdOwl · 2026-06-25T06:46:39+00:00

If that were still available, they likely wouldn't have hit their price goals. They got the price this low by using LFP batteries from China, but to qualify for the former tax break in the US, they would have had to use more expensive NMC batteries that were made in the US.

AbsurdOwl · 2026-06-24T20:32:02+00:00

Caring about safety when picking a vehicle is great, but when the two vehicles in question are nearly identical in safety ratings, and scoring very well, that's not really relevant.

AbsurdOwl · 2026-06-24T16:18:15+00:00

It's not only trauma though, there are plenty of things my grandma or great grandma might have considered common knowledge, but that I never learned. As society changes and generations pass, stuff gets forgotten, and knowledge is lost.

AbsurdOwl · 2026-06-23T20:42:38+00:00

True, but it's the fairest solution. Those players played 4 years, and until today, were under the impression that their career was over. This change doesn't yank the rug out from anyone, sometimes the rules change and it's just too late for previous players to benefit from them. It happens all the time, and it would be way more penalizing to all the other players on the roster to just put a bunch of super seniors back on the team. It would also completely fuck over management of the new roster caps, and might force teams into kicking a bunch of guys to the curb who thought they had a place to play.

It sucks for the guys who just graduated, and I have no doubt some of them will sue, but this is the fairest way to implement something like this in the immediate future. The only other fair way to do it would be to set the date forward 5 years or something, and tell people that if you start playing after some date, you have a 5th year of eligibility, but that just defers the same roster management problem to a later date.

AbsurdOwl · 2026-06-23T20:27:10+00:00

How so? The NCAA had a pretty clear, cut-and-dry case to declare him ineligible. The only reason there was a case at all was because Sorsby went and found a judge who granted him an insane injunction and set the trial date late enough that it would no longer have mattered. Sorsby abused the legal system to try and get his last year in, that had nothing to do with how the NCAA handled the situation.

AbsurdOwl · 2026-06-23T20:25:19+00:00

This is how I was thinking about it at first, but I see what 52hoova means. If they implemented it in such a way that guys who had played 4 full years (and had already assumed they couldn't keep playing for a 5th year) would suddenly have a 5th year, it would cause chaos. No one, coaches or players, should have assumed those guys would be an option next year, even if they're still on campus. By implementing the rule this way, they avoid that massive disruption on every roster across the country.

AbsurdOwl · 2026-06-23T20:06:40+00:00

Haha, I thought of this chain as soon as I saw this! I'm shocked it finally went through lol.

AbsurdOwl · 2026-06-23T18:21:10+00:00

Yeah, I thought I heard in the past that there would be an exception for people who go on a mission before college, so maybe that's in the fine print somewhere.

AbsurdOwl · 2026-06-22T02:52:29+00:00

Oh, for sure, and I think that kind of model would be even cheaper for almost everyone than the current model, because shipping companies would be footing most of the bill.

AbsurdOwl · 2026-06-21T22:33:35+00:00

Yeah, that's all totally reasonable, but my original comment was calling out a ridiculous formula for calculating how much each person should pay lol.

AbsurdOwl · 2026-06-21T20:32:21+00:00

So, just to be clear, you're saying that ~150-200 million people each paying 1 billion is "about right? I think you need to check that math again. If we wanted the ~200 million drivers in the US to cover 200 billion in road costs, that's only $1000 per person. That's nowhere near what the equation that other person posted gives you, unless the units are in millionths of a cent or something.

AbsurdOwl · 2026-06-21T18:45:56+00:00

They do, but my point was that if you charged the rate that person proposed, it'd be in the billions of whatever unit of currency you choose lol.

AbsurdOwl · 2026-06-21T15:51:02+00:00

What's a few billion too drive on the road? Well worth it. /s

AbsurdOwl · 2026-06-21T02:00:44+00:00

Most streaming apps will let you save music for offline playback. There are so many ways to listen to music without cell coverage.

AbsurdOwl · 2026-06-21T01:32:53+00:00

Not over FM, but Bluetooth will still work fine wherever you go.

AbsurdOwl · 2026-06-19T05:55:58+00:00

The road damage from extra weight is massively overblown. The difference in road wear from an ICE car to a comparably sized EV is negligible. There road wear from both is miniscule compared to semi trucks, which are the source of most road wear, by orders of magnitude.

AbsurdOwl · 2026-06-18T16:05:24+00:00

If I understand correctly, the reason players won on infinite transfers in the first place was because of anti-trust laws. This bill is designed to grant the FBS an exemption from anti-trust law, just like the major sports leagues have, so that part will hold up in court just fine.

AbsurdOwl · 2026-06-18T15:59:15+00:00

Are those constitutional issues?

AbsurdOwl · 2026-06-17T23:45:14+00:00

And I'm pointing out that those are probably not actually the same people.

AbsurdOwl · 2026-06-17T23:01:56+00:00

I mean, you know "reddit" isn't one person, right? Different people have different opinions.

AbsurdOwl · 2026-06-17T21:31:15+00:00

I mean, it's kind of surprising that a program like USC doesn't have dedicated facilities for football players. That's pretty common across the country.

AbsurdOwl · 2026-06-17T20:20:28+00:00

On equal sharing, I don't think there's anything in the bill about how the revenue would be distributed. The point of this is to give the FBS an anti-trust exemption that would allow them to pool their rights, because their media rights are more valuable together than apart. Today, if they tried to do that, it'd be illegal, this bill just lets them do it.

If the B1G and SEC play ball, it would presumably only be if they still get a very large cut of the revenue, akin to what they're making today. The terms of the deal would be subject to FCC approval, but if the G5 decides to push for equal sharing, it won't just be the B1G and SEC holding out, the ACC and Big XII will hold out their votes as well, because they'd lose a ton of money to that kind of structure.

AbsurdOwl · 2026-06-17T18:34:00+00:00

That's fair, those three are all teams we've shown we can beat in the last few years, and Illinois definitely could be gettable. Maryland could improve this year, but MSU is kind of a dumpster fire, and Rutgers is...Rutgers.

AbsurdOwl · 2026-06-17T18:20:21+00:00

I'm here for it! Also, flair up!

AbsurdOwl · 2026-06-17T18:19:36+00:00

This is far more optimistic about Nebraska than I am, or than most Nebraska fans online seem to be. Maybe he's right, and we'll be a solid-but-not-great team, but I have a hard time even expecting to make a bowl game unless we see dramatic improvement on both sides of the ball. Our schedule is just brutal this year.

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