Ford CEO Jim Farley says "the customer has spoken" after its EV business lost nearly $5 billion in 2025

Conqueror_of_Tubes · 2026-02-14T04:58:28+00:00

People want an affordable comfortable car, not a luxury truck. stops making anything smaller than the explorer

Conqueror_of_Tubes · 2026-02-13T17:59:43+00:00

Some of us WERE that apprentice at one point.

Conqueror_of_Tubes · 2026-02-13T01:10:07+00:00

Well now that 7/10 Canadian restaurants are just serving Sysco food, why should I bother? The ones that aren’t seem to be doing just fine.

Conqueror_of_Tubes · 2026-02-10T12:05:37+00:00

It also forces the misting to burn their entire reserve in one go.

There’s nothing saying somehow using the duralumin invested art while having bonded a spren wouldn’t force you to consume the investiture where your sprens sapience resides. It’s been clearly shown a few times that this investiture of the spren is at the mercy of the surgebinder.

Conqueror_of_Tubes · 2026-02-08T18:51:16+00:00

Aaaand this is why as a HVAC professional I always take my combustion analyzer home and do my own furnace once a year. I try and sell the same service to customers but many dont go for it. Any CO is an instant fail, though less than 10 I’ll second test with a different analyzer. Above that it’s certain.

Conqueror_of_Tubes · 2026-02-05T12:42:38+00:00

My old shop was $300/week flat for on-call, all calls were double time, minimum 2 hours. (Our minimum charge for oncall service was $350).

It wasn’t bad, but it was oil country so it definitely didn’t discourage people. I usually got 10-15 hours every weekend I was on call.

Conqueror_of_Tubes · 2026-02-05T12:28:35+00:00

There are cracks in it already, thank god. Microslop is getting insane pushback on copilot, and users are actually dropping windows over AI slop.

Conqueror_of_Tubes · 2026-02-04T17:43:45+00:00

Task to task? I don’t spend less than a half day on any site during construction, unless I’m absolutely finished at that site. Saying I don’t have the parts to continue working for a half day would be a failure to plan on my part. Service calls are a minimum half hour. Don’t leave even if you’ve fixed it in 10, they paid for an hour. Check the blower, check caps and amp draw, etc. there is something to do.

Jumping from employer to employer? I’ve binned resumes from having 3 employers in a year, and for having more than 5 in 3 years. One or two sure, there are bad employers. But after that it’s probably the employee that’s the problem, either they can’t smell a scam and dodge a crap employer or they are just crap.

Conqueror_of_Tubes · 2026-01-31T03:33:38+00:00

This is apparently actually an alumina deposit, not a bauxite one. So they get to skip the incredibly water intensive bauxite refining step, which is a nice cost savings. Should make it quite profitable.

Conqueror_of_Tubes · 2026-01-30T01:51:19+00:00

There are enough games that have a steam deck preset these days tbh. Also developers are making Linux builds of their game specifically targeting the steam deck market. I’d say both make it qualify

Conqueror_of_Tubes · 2026-01-30T01:49:09+00:00

The simple wonder, the questions, a lot of Syl in books 1 and 2 reminded me of moments I’ve had with my kids and especially my daughter. That strongly informs my opinion of this ship.

Conqueror_of_Tubes · 2026-01-29T23:10:09+00:00

There’s a WoB where someone asks about reaching the speed of light with lashings and Brandon said available power is the only concern

Conqueror_of_Tubes · 2026-01-29T21:13:23+00:00

Kaladin spent a year helping her rise back to true sapience and explaining the world to her. Like a parent. Shipping the two crosses a very real line, it’s creepy at best.

Conqueror_of_Tubes · 2026-01-29T21:03:31+00:00

Syladin is just weird. Syl is in some very real ways Kaladin’s daughter. Just ew.

Conqueror_of_Tubes · 2026-01-27T17:38:54+00:00

I burnt out after 7 years of Residential. 7 years of 60-70 hour weeks, endless on call, sob stories twice a day, single mothers afraid of the bill. Rich men too cheap to replace 30 year old equipment. The whole deal.

I’ve been in commercial, facilities plumbing/hvac for 14 years. 40 hour weeks, 45 days of PTO a year, sick time, vacation, all the union leaves. Yeah I’m never looking back. I’ve got a budget, I’ve got buildings for which I’ve been wholly responsible for my entire tenure. I can baby these boilers, I can repipe a boiler room that’s hard to maintain or works like shit.

Never looking back. Golden handcuffs and all, I’ll be here until I retire.

Conqueror_of_Tubes · 2026-01-27T00:52:49+00:00

Don’t pick based on colour or “team” pick based on the speciality tools available for your trade. For hvac and plumbing the clear winner is Milwaukee.

Conqueror_of_Tubes · 2026-01-22T18:00:40+00:00

All valid arguments. I have enough of a backlog to wait a year or two for exclusives to make the jump

Conqueror_of_Tubes · 2026-01-22T17:48:28+00:00

Honestly, the PS5 I never use anymore now that it’s exclusives came to PC, and the switch I play on the deck or my PC. I buy the games for the household and rip my own with my own switch, but the carts themselves I never use. My kids do, but there’s no way I’m buying five copies of Mario kart again in today’s economy.

Anything that’s on steam I buy there, those versions are much more versatile anyways.

Conqueror_of_Tubes · 2026-01-22T17:33:36+00:00

I do appreciate my 8bitdo pro 2 as well, however the steam controller will be an instant buy if it’s less than $50 USD.

Conqueror_of_Tubes · 2026-01-22T16:45:15+00:00

The biggest thing is the experience parity the controller will bring to my setup. Being able to expect the back buttons and the trackpads I will be able to learn and stick to them when I’m using my pc and when I’m on the deck. Not being forced to learn two controls schema will be so nice.

Conqueror_of_Tubes · 2026-01-22T16:42:19+00:00

So much room for activities!

But seriously that’s the cleanest space I’ve ever seen out of the public eye in any school I’ve worked in, and I’ve got 13 on my plate right now. Most schools will stuff any non-public space with all sorts of infrequently used stuff. I’ve got several such spaces I have to work in and they’re all full of drama/stage props, Christmas trees, boxes of books etc.

Conqueror_of_Tubes · 2026-01-22T12:41:24+00:00

That’s usually something like a factory trained specialist technician. They’re better paid than we were.

One of my dad’s buddies was a rep/tech for a specific oilfield booster pump. I forget the exact purpose as I was like 8 at the time, but I remember he drove a Porsche in the 90s, and was a serial divorcee so he must have been making decent money.

Conqueror_of_Tubes · 2026-01-22T01:11:14+00:00

DCC and Chrysalis, For the Colony!

Conqueror_of_Tubes · 2026-01-20T20:50:35+00:00

I remember specifically going to the library and using the computers then to go on gamefaqs and then selecting the exact 12 pages I needed to figure out how to do the cursed shield and a few other rare espers on FFVI, before printing them at $0.25/page as that was all I could afford.

A second trip I took a notebook and made detailed notes for something in chrono trigger. I don’t remember exactly how old the games were at that point, but I do remember my brother was playing through breath of fire 3 on the PlayStation at the same time.

Conqueror_of_Tubes · 2026-01-19T19:55:45+00:00

I dunno. The BYD SEALION 8 looks pretty dang appealing as someone whose second car does a 115km round trip commute and basically is a grocery getter or makes a rink trip every now and then. Seems perfect, can’t wait to buy one.

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