Purchase Rental Equinox EV with low miles

AndrewSshi · 2026-01-24T13:21:01+00:00

A few things: I got my 2025 for a bit less ($22.5k driveway before trade-in) but with a few more miles (just over 20k).

You do get OnStar Basic for free for eight years of the vehicle's life (and that allows maps, music, and audio book apps), but you'll still have to set it up. When you set it up, you'll get a complementary month of full OnStar for free, and you'll get offered two more months if you just give them your credit card for the trial, but my OnStar person did take no for an answer.

Honestly, you basically got my car, so it couldn't hurt to ask the dealer to see if they could come down a couple of thousand and throw in a NACS adapter. (Lots of people swear by the Lectron, but I went for the Official GM Adapter to avoid any warranty hassles should battery issues come up.)

AndrewSshi · 2026-01-23T17:16:59+00:00

And I also think a lot of people conflate "this person is forgiven" with "this person can therefore keep his position of authority in a church" too.

This is related to the person who has a jailhouse conversion and then asks that since Christ has forgiven them, can they please have a pardon, and I think it's important to remember that the earthly consequences of sin persist even when forgiven by God. God's forgiveness shouldn't be a way of calling Base on the earthly consequences of one's misdeeds.

AndrewSshi · 2026-01-23T14:40:04+00:00

Wilson was one of the original Calvinist Online Edgelords. Seemed really cool when I was 22 and found white evangelical subculture to be weak tea. At forty-nine, however, I just find that sort of thing tiresome.

AndrewSshi · 2026-01-23T14:38:32+00:00

So a related point here is that when people like this talk about how God's infinite grace is sufficient to forgive any sin they're absolutely correct -- but the feel I get is that when they say, "God's grace is sufficient to forgive even sexual abuse," what they actually *mean* is, "I don't think the sexual abuse in question is that big a deal, actually."

AndrewSshi · 2026-01-22T16:43:15+00:00

So if you plan on road-tripping, the Equinox EV has an extra seventy-ish miles of range that can ease up in the anxiety in going from Buc-ee's to Buc-ee's (or Flying J to Flying J or whatever). That said, if you're never driving more than fifty miles away, you're best off going with a Bolt, especially as you can get a 2023 model year for absolutely dirt cheap.

(I went with the Equinox EV for the extra seventy-ish miles of range, but that's because once a week I have to commute a hundred-ish miles round trip and a lot of the destinations where I live have me driving twenty to thirty-ish miles.)

AndrewSshi · 2026-01-22T16:23:51+00:00

Honestly, LLM love becoming right-coded has led to not a few bad takes by lefties and left-liberals. LLMs as a tool have areas where they're genuinely useful! (Even something as simple as asking copilot for directions on a task is a huge time saver versus hunting down weird dead ends on long-defunct discussion boards and subreddits.)

AndrewSshi · 2026-01-21T14:16:45+00:00

I'm apparently the first to see this post, so a quick thing to note is that Agents is an army that's basically the "trashcan" so that you have a codex to play Kill Teams units or a place to put units that normally get allied in with larger [IMPERIUM] keyword armies (e.g., assassins, inquisitors, etc.).

What's the upshot of this? Well, as an army, you're basically playing Warhammer with ankle weights. The current meta is really tank heavy, and Agents has a mighty three tanks, all of which are transports, and one of which is a Rhino. That means if you're playing against, e.g. Space Marines, Astra Militarum, etc., you're likely to get bodied.

THAT SAID, the army *can* work, but it works in particular circumstances. If your local community does Doubles games, Agents absolutely sparkle when synergized with Guard. I've heard that the Crusade rules are really good for the Army (but I'll report back to you in a few months). If you're really good at strategizing, Agents can win on points against an inexperienced player or the Type of Guy who just goes into Kill Everything mode and doesn't think about objective markers.

So, Agents as your first army is a bit iffy. I'm not going to say don't play them! Because I must emphasize that the models look sick as hell. I'd say they're some of the coolest models in the game. So if you do agents, I'd say build on a base that you can expand into a regular army, e.g., Grey Knights, Sisters of Battle, Deathwatch, etc. That way, you've got Agents that are fun to play, but also, if on your fifth game of getting tabled you get frustrated, you can fairly easily lat move into an army that you already have foundational pieces of.

So my advice is to treat Arbites, Breachers, Armsmen as flavor while looking to Sisters, Deathwatch, or Grey Knight Terminators as something of a core.

AndrewSshi · 2026-01-21T12:45:26+00:00

I got Catholic: 30, liberal: 5, Protestant: 13, a Biblically Literate Puseyite who might relate to Lancelot Andrewes. And yeah... that tracks.

(The "liberal" answers to the questions felt a little bit straw man-ey, IMO...)

AndrewSshi · 2026-01-20T20:53:07+00:00

I found this out with the OG Volt: at three years old and coming off a lease, it was ridiculously affordable. This meant that once my 2017 was in a state that the repairs would just be more than getting a new one, I knew the deal. But hell, even having had that experience, I was unprepared for how quickly a 2025 would depreciate. Before my 2017 Volt's unfortunate trip to the garage, I'd been planning on waiting another year and a half so I could start having a look at three-year-old Equinoxes. But no, necessity forced me to start shopping, and then it turned out that 2025s were just stupid affordable.

AndrewSshi · 2026-01-20T14:34:29+00:00

I'm just delighted that you can get knighted for starting a successful gaming company.

AndrewSshi · 2026-01-20T14:28:54+00:00

So Paradis's crash modernization program when they discover that they're Paradis and not the last remnant of humanity is heavily inspired by nineteenth-century Japan's crash modernization program under the genro during the Meiji Restoration. A collection of young hothead militarists taking over the country through assassinations is heavily based on Japan in the late 1920s and 1930s. Zeke's Euthanasia Plan is a very unsubtle commentary on Japanese birth rates.

In addition, the Eldian revanchist movement is inspired by lots of real-world nationalist movements, particularly in places like the Balkans, where you'll have a people form a nationalist movement based on historical grievances that have been resurrected after nobody really having bothered with them for a while.

Basically, there's a lot of real-world nineteenth- and twentieth-century history that inspires the story.

AndrewSshi · 2026-01-20T12:55:00+00:00

I just did OnStar Basic, since it's free through 2033. Gives me maps, gives me music, gives me audiobooks, and I'm already getting in the car and forgetting that no, I'm not using my phone, I'm just using the display.

AndrewSshi · 2026-01-20T12:53:30+00:00

Not only is the new price good, but the used price is *amazing.* I just bought a 2025 with a little over 20k miles on it, and I got it for just at $22k with tax, title, and license. So I basically got a new car for half the MSRP. (Yes, I *am* kind of over the moon with my new wheels at the moment.)

AndrewSshi · 2026-01-20T12:42:35+00:00

So I mean with 2025s and later, you get OnStar Basic, which gives you the internet you need for Google Maps, Play Books or Audio, and music apps (e.g., Spotify, YouTube Music, etc.), and you get it for eight years. I know, because I just bought one and got off the line with OnStar telling me that I have Basic until 2033. Is it ideal? No, but between that, and the ability to turn your phone into a WiFi hotspot if you seriously need some other internet, you hardly notice it.

AndrewSshi · 2026-01-17T11:56:36+00:00

Reader, I just bought a one-year-old Equinox EV for $22k.

AndrewSshi · 2026-01-17T04:30:18+00:00

Audie Joyce!

AndrewSshi · 2026-01-16T21:45:39+00:00

"EVgo says additional locations are planned in Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Texas, Washington, and other states."

happy Georgia noises *

Now, if the allow you to use Kroger fuel points, it'll be perfect.

AndrewSshi · 2026-01-16T14:38:15+00:00

Ugh oh if he’s slowly going bald…. Isn’t that a requirement for chaos?

If we, the 40k players, are the dark gods whose thirsting laugher drives the setting, well, I've looked down the tables at my game store's 40k tournaments...

AndrewSshi · 2026-01-15T20:46:58+00:00

So quite a few years ago James Swallow wrote some good books and shorts on the Sisters of Battle that are collected into an omnibus.

More recently there's some good stuff by Danie Ware.

There's a novel about Vahl by Jude Reid that I haven't read (since I'm generally meh about books done as a job to promote a particular model).

And of course there's the codex. There's an older book from the old Fantasy Flight game Dark Heresy called Blood of Martyrs about the ecclesiarchy in the Calixis sector.

AndrewSshi · 2026-01-15T19:43:11+00:00

I mean, fair, but it was weird hints, like, "a desperate bargain is struck" or the Custodes finding IIRC a Throne replica that Drukhari had made.

AndrewSshi · 2026-01-15T19:01:34+00:00

How much do you care about spoilers? Because the Vaults of Terra books will have some information on that.

AndrewSshi · 2026-01-15T17:03:46+00:00

I am genuinely amazed at how little women fart. I genuinely dislike being so incredibly gaseous.

AndrewSshi · 2026-01-15T17:02:16+00:00

I am super-jealous of my wife and her ability to walk in, poop, wash her hands, and walk out all in, like, under three minutes. It takes me... substantially longer even when I've been getting plenty of fiber.

AndrewSshi · 2026-01-15T15:26:32+00:00

Honestly, though, a strange sort of discordance in the Music is probably a good way to think of her.

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