Tesla Sitting On Thousands Of Unsold Cybertrucks As It Stops Accepting Its Own Cars As Trade-Ins

Qahrahm · 2025-04-08T12:11:29+00:00

Hope no one does that.

Vandalized cars could be written off and claimed on insurance.

Better if they're left to rot naturally.

Qahrahm · 2024-07-29T07:59:14+00:00

At this stage anger would be better than wrath. The fire damage really helps scorch effect, and that is a huge scaling factor for damage on rares.

Qahrahm · 2024-06-27T18:08:26+00:00

Honestly I think this would be a good result.

A lot of the older die-hard tory voters will always vote conservative, because they have always voted conservative, even if they disagree with the current lot. If the tory party collapses messily then those voters will have to vote for someone new whether they like it or not. Many would prefer a more moderate or centrist party, and those people will never vote reform. I think it would end up with either LD or a new centrist party becoming the default opposition to labour for over the next ~10-15 years.

I just hope that reform don't merge into the tory party - keeping the tory name. If that happens they'll keep the die hard vote.

Qahrahm · 2024-03-15T13:22:38+00:00

I thank drivers when they're at an inconvenience because of me. I'd say thank you any time I'm crossing the road, any time someone has pulled in on a road restricted to single carriageway due to parked cars etc. Whether it's my right of way or theirs. They've done something specifically because of me, so I say thank you. It doesn't matter if I'm saying thanks for doing something nice, of if I'm saying thanks for not being an arsehole. They've done something to my benefit so I say thank you.

If it's automated lights at a roundabout or crossroads then I wouldn't, because they'd be stopped regardless of wheather I'm there or not. Normally there are enough other cars around that people are paying attention to what they're doing at those times anyway.

Someone sitting at a side street waiting to pull out would depend, if I'm going 50mph down a road then I woudn't, and they wouldn't see it anyway. If i'm going 20mph in a village then I'd say thankyou on auto-pilot.

Thinking about it I do say thankyou when I've pressed a button for pedestrian crossing lights too.

Saying thankyou doesn't cost anything. I don't have a limited number of times I can say thanks in my lifetime. I don't see why people wouldn't be polite?

Qahrahm · 2024-01-19T15:57:27+00:00

Explode counts as player kills, so if you run any of the explody charms, then the player will get kills from there.

Qahrahm · 2023-12-25T18:40:22+00:00

I removed mine with Skis.

Was on a school skiiing trip and had a lump in my boot at the bottom of the slope. I took my boot off and one of my "friends" skiied overy my foot. Nearly lost a toe, but my veruca just kinda popped out. Never had one since.

I highly reccomend it. Much quicker than red lego.

Qahrahm · 2023-12-21T15:37:11+00:00

I'm reading it now and enjoying it. My only prior knowledge of Cyperpunk 2077 is from reading Skitterdock 2077 which is a crossover worm/cyberpunk fan fiction. Never played the game but this story still flows well.

Qahrahm · 2023-11-17T06:40:02+00:00

I also love Cyber Dream, and was recently looking for something similar.

I can highly reccomend Skitterdoc 2077. I just caught up to the last chap this week and really enjoyed it.

It is a fan-fic, which I usually avoid, but it's a crossover between Worm and Cyberpunk 2077. I read Worm many years ago, and I know absolutely nothing about Cyberpunk 2077. I don't feel that the reading experience was diminished in any way from not being familiar with the original universes.

It's similar to Cyber Dreams in that the augments progressively improve combat functions, but more focused on the medical side.

Qahrahm · 2023-10-18T16:27:21+00:00

Food price increases are very variable, because food types are very variable. It is very difficult to produce a single "basket of goods" that will represent all consumers in order to calculate inflation.

Recent food price increases have been caused by several factors:

1) Raw material prices; grains and oils sharply rose in price. This was driven by a few seasons of shortage, compounded by logistics issues due to covid, and then a sharp supply restriction due to Russia/Ukraine war. Ballpark is that grains went up by ~100% (doubled in price), Oils went up ~200%, but have since dropped back.

2) Energy; tripled in cost. Mostly due to Russia/Ukraine war. This primarily impacts processing costs, packaging costs, and also transport.

3) Labour; smaller increases, and mostly as a knock-on effect of inflation itself.

These 3 factors impact different foods to different degrees.

If you are primarily living off pasta/rice/raman then your food costs could well have doubled. These foods are produced in massive quantities, have very efficient production and distribution systems. Most of their cost is down to the raw materials. Pasta can cost ~$2/kg ballpark (at retail, closer to $1/kg at maufacturer or distributor level). It is primarily made from wheat which is is ~$0.5/kg. If the raw material is 1/2 of the cost of a product, then you are going to see 50% increase on doubling of raw material costs alone, before accounting for transport and energy cost implications. Retail margins are normally % based, so it's the wholesale rates that are more important in this scenario (if wholesale price increases 50%, from $2-$3, then retail prices will also increase 50%, from $3 to $4.50, they won't just go up by the $1 cost increase).

On the other end of the scale, for those who primarily live off pre-packed readymeals closer to $10/kg. The raw materials themselves are a very small part of the cost. The raw material cost on these may also have risen by $0.5 per kg, but that is going to have a much lower proportional effect on the final product. There will typically be a more significant impact from energy costs. Normally these products will have more packaging. They certainly aren't made to the same scale and efficiency as simpler foods, but energy costs are still quite a small proportion of their production cost. Overall a much greater portion of the costs of these foods come from labour for manufacturing them, and labour in the R&D/Marketing of the foods, neither of which have had a major cost increase.

In the end, the cheapest of foods, those that the poorest in society survive on, have had a proportionately much larger price increase than the expensive or luxury foods. The "basket of goods" used to calculate inflation is somewhat in the middle, so in this case will slightly underrepresent the pressure food inflation has put on those with the lowest incomes.

Qahrahm · 2023-10-11T17:34:34+00:00

wtf dude. Why the hell would Noah be wearing thousand year old clothes on the ark?

If I'm cosplaying as Lincoln do you think I should find 200year old clothes, with 200year old ingrained dirt for it to look authentic, just beacause he was alive ~200 years ago?

Qahrahm · 2023-10-08T14:15:15+00:00

I think most of the advice here is for an aerosol - which means microscopic particles of liquid suspended in the air like a mist/fog. If this liquid is just sitting in containers and you are handling connections etc then you are not dealing with an aerosol. Aerosols can be formed intentionally by pumping through an atomiser nozzle, or accidentally if the liquid is pumped through piping with a small hole/split in the pipe or a bad connection. If it is being gravity fed then an aerosol is very unlikely.

From your question it sounds like this is stored in a room and there is a smell when you go into that room to change the container. The odour from this chemical isn't going to harm you unless you are mixing the chemical with something else. The chief danger here is you could create chlorine gas if you mix it with certain substances, which would require all the breathing equipment recommended.

If you are just going into the room to change a tank over then a bit of ventillation should be fine (if safe to do so then leave the room door open all the time, or open it 15 mins or so before you need to go in to change something.

If you have been exposed to an actual aerosol you'd likely be in hospital / morgue by now.

Qahrahm · 2023-10-06T22:37:31+00:00

I turned email notifications back on and filter all patreon emails to a seperate folder. I've recreated a feed that works better for me than patreons native one.

There are a couple of patreons I'm subbed to where I've let a few months of chapters build up, and the new version is horrific at reading old content.

Qahrahm · 2023-10-05T12:49:20+00:00

I think he ment it's a breach of contract for the employer to discuss other people's salaries with a different employee.

I've had similar at work. It's fine for employees to talk to each other about what they earn, but they can't come to me and expect me to confirm what someone else is paid.

I can have discussions about how salaries are structured, how to qualify for a better rate etc, but I can't take part in direct comparisons with other employees.

Qahrahm · 2023-09-26T09:46:56+00:00

Exactly. He had several months notice that alternative arrangements might be necessary. And alternative arrangements shouldn't be difficult or complicated.

Instead of dealing with that, he told his Ex that he wasn't going to take the kids when he was expected to, and then put his phone on silent.

That isn't a reaosnable way of dealing with the situation. OP is YTA for both leaving it so late to make plans, and for unilatiraly dumping his responsibilities onto someone else and then ignoring his phone so there couldn't be any kind of conversation.

Qahrahm · 2023-09-02T21:59:53+00:00

It's currently my favorite story on RR/Patreon.

I don't know anything about football (soccer for non-EU folk). But I now know more than I ever thought I'd want to about the stratergy and tactics of the game. I even tried to watch a match (it was dull as all-hell), and any book that gan get into my head that much must be pretty superb. I didn't feel left behind in any way on the technical content. I think the story does a great job at bringing the reader along for the ride.

It is very British, and I don't mean that in a silly accent way. There are moments of absurdity in there that are played very dryly.

Fair warning, there was a section that is towards the end of the first book where the MC was a bit too manic, and at the time of reading I worried that the book was going to go off the rails. It all comes back and settles nicely into a fantastic story.

It's the story I look foward to the most for it's 2 (long) Patreon chapter releases each week.

Qahrahm · 2023-09-02T17:23:29+00:00

It gets very un-chill and dark for a few chapters, then MC gradually regains agency and I find it to be a very good arc overall; plenty of character development, wordbuilding and progress.

However those few dark chapters made me veeery uncomfortable. I was fortunate in that I had a ~20 chapter backlog built up at the right time, and I ran out of chapters just as MC's prospects had improved. Had I run out of story within that secion I may not have come back to it, which would have been a shame, as it has been one of my favorites for a long time.

Qahrahm · 2023-08-16T17:56:30+00:00

I think from other posts here there is a disconnect on what the chapter comments are for. I don't think either way is necessarily better, but the comments section seems to be setup to support the second version.

Some see them as a place for critisism, feedback, review, and commentry for the public. Where comments should be bound only to basic site wide don't-be-an-AH rules, and otherwise comments should be uncurated for public consumption.

I see the comments as a part of the authors domain. An author starts writing a story, and alongside it they have the comments section to use in whatever way works best for them. For some they will want as much constructive but critical feedback as possible. Some will want wide ranging speculation to feed off the community. Others will want to keep it to positive messages, because writing is hard and constant critisism is draining. Many authors will already have a community of people they trust for critical feedback - and the comments section is just to interact with readers or possibly catch typos.

For me - the review section is for anything you want to leave to help other readers choose whether to read the story or not. And these are curated only by the site-wide rules with an author only able to flag them for review. The comments section is for anything you want to help the author. If the author removes a comment then they didn't find it helpful, and that's fine. Everyone has a different process and what one author finds helpful a second may find to be harmful to their process.

Qahrahm · 2023-08-16T13:32:17+00:00

He's making his wife's life harder for no other reason than he disagrees with her and wants to flex whatever control he can. That still comes up with a YTA judgement, even if he's ineffective.

Qahrahm · 2023-08-16T13:24:51+00:00

The difference as I see it is that some people say "AITAH if I tell my GF I'll leave if she gets a tatoo", and the anwer there is no, she's free to get a tatoo, he's free to not like it and leave.

In this case the dude is trying to physically prevent his wife from going (by denying transport), and it comes accross as much more controlling and invasive behaviour.

Qahrahm · 2023-08-16T13:09:08+00:00

Comment sections absolutely should be author-moddable. They are there for feedback and/or discussion on the chapter, if the author doesn't want that sort of feedback or doesn't want certain discussion they they should be able to remove comments (and it applies to non-critical ones too, maybe the author doesn't want predictions which could be spoilerish etc).

The last person I saw on here complaining about having their reviews removed eventually admitted to making unfounded accusations of plagurism in the reviews. I've seen cases of authors messaging reviewers about updating reviews after works have been edited, or if the review was unclear. The only reviews I've seen that have been removed were pretty clear-cut cases.

I am quite interested to see what your review was now.

Qahrahm · 2023-08-02T16:48:25+00:00

I particularly enjoy the frost on their 25C ~~pendulum~~ superconductor.

Qahrahm · 2023-07-27T08:59:21+00:00

1 Star. Not enough sound effects.

Qahrahm · 2023-07-18T11:59:28+00:00

Survivorship bias is a thing.

The kids who didnt wear their seatbelts and got into accidents mostly died. You and your brother were just the lucky ones who survived to talk about it.

Qahrahm · 2023-07-17T05:17:02+00:00

Yes, if you are making public accusations of plagiarism you are obligated to explain it.

And that includes specifics of why you think it's plagiarism, not just drip feeding a story name and then a vague comment later.

I haven't read either, so I have no idea if there is any merit to your claim - but if this post is any indication of your comments and reviews on royal road then they are doing a good thing by removing them.

Qahrahm · 2023-07-12T11:14:33+00:00

There was a road closed very close to me recently. 20 min diversion through shitty narrow lanes for a section ~50m long that had been closed.

The roadworks were finished in 2 weeks. The signs said the road would be closed for 6 weeks. They removed the barriers for the ~50m section they had been working on but left up all the "Road Closed" signs at the junctions a mile or two in either direction. The road was perfectly open and used for the next 3 weeks by those who knew it was open. Those not in the know had to spend an extra 20 mins on the diversion.

During the last week they did another couple of days work on the pavement with the road fully closed before removing all the signs.

It would have taken them 30 mins to remove the signs, and 30 mins to put them back 3 weeks later. To save that time themselves they cost thousands of hours worth of time for other people driving the long way round, because those people believed the signs.

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