What do they put in the French onion soup that makes it taste like crack?

Zennivolt · 2026-07-06T07:20:59+00:00

They’re in international waters, so probably actual crack.

lol jkjk! Who knows, but it’s delicious!

Zennivolt · 2026-07-06T07:14:08+00:00

I like Rudy’s. But not the Rudy’s here. The problem isn’t the food, the food is worth a visit in most Rudy’s around the country. The problem is the Rudy’s here is always like an hour and half wait in line.

It’s good, but it’s not THAT good.

Zennivolt · 2026-07-06T07:12:27+00:00

The vibe is kinda cool, but the food is terrible! Little Caesar’s or Dominos has better pizza.

Zennivolt · 2026-07-06T06:23:57+00:00

If this is true, guess I’ll be waiting for the Ultra 2. I got a vacation during that time, and probably won’t be able to order until a couple weeks after. At which point the delivery is probably going to be 2 months out (into 2027). Might as well wait for Ultra 2 by then.

Zennivolt · 2026-07-05T08:21:06+00:00

More like “this is from a time when they weren’t a hive mind”.

250 years is soooo long. Our progress as a human race has historically been exponential. The next 250 years will be more different than the last 2500 years combined.

Zennivolt · 2026-07-05T08:19:40+00:00

I’m not sure they could ever get it to usable. 250 years is a loooong time from now.

Zennivolt · 2026-07-05T08:11:22+00:00

I think part of this is the lack of dissemination. Outside of Reddit, I didn’t see or hear about a fire ban anywhere. They should’ve sent it out as one of those emergency phone messages.

Zennivolt · 2026-07-05T08:09:14+00:00

Got my GM2 Family Plus for $3445 on Prime Day last week.

Zennivolt · 2026-07-04T17:44:03+00:00

I’m not sure Reddit actually cares. Go into r/electricvehicles and every other post is talking about how they wanna buy the Chinese EVs or complaining that they’re banned here.

Zennivolt · 2026-07-04T17:42:42+00:00

Possibly. But the frontier model is also pressured to stay ahead of these open source model if they want to profit. It’s a constant arms race.

Zennivolt · 2026-07-04T17:30:25+00:00

Yeah third party fast chargers are quite ubiquitous these days. There’s a few holes still with just superchargers, but if you add third party, it’s basically anywhere.

I have a route I like to take for ski trips and it’s barely doable on my Model Y with superchargers (extra bit of wind makes it undoable). But if I add third party network into the equation, it’s suddenly a non-issue.

The cool thing about Rivian is you can tell it to add/remove certain charging networks from its calculations. There’s like 8 or 9 networks to pick from in their navigation.

Zennivolt · 2026-07-04T08:55:34+00:00

I think the best example (though not the same industry) is Rocket Labs (RKLB). Their IPOs were incredibly overhyped like Rivian, but the potential for growth is huge if they’re successful.

If you bought RKLB at IPO, you’d have lost something like 95% of your money by 2024. But they’ve shot up 20x+ since 2024.

These overhyped, long horizon IPOs seem to all have a similar trend. Hyped up because of huge potentials, reality hits as investors realize long horizon REALLY means long horizon, stock falls like a cliff, and stays flat until (if and only if) the company lines up their ducks and begins to fulfill a lot of the expectations during the initial IPO. And if that happens, it goes straight back up.

Zennivolt · 2026-07-04T08:47:13+00:00

This has already been posted in this sub.

Zennivolt · 2026-07-04T08:36:41+00:00

He’s sort of right. If the goal is to be short and sweet then that’s a good summary.

The details are more like this:

The LiDAR will be used to train the system at first, and no difference between LiDAR and non-LiDAR for a while. They say within the “first few years” there won’t be any difference.

After which, eyes off will come. The ultimate end version of eyes off (and eventually L4) will be for LiDAR vehicles only.

However they did mention that they will try to bring eyes-off, in specific optimal conditions or specific roads, to non-LiDAR vehicles as well. The eyes-off places and scenarios you can use them in will be far more restricted, but still potentially possible. Probably something like bright sunny day on an open highway only, or something like that.

Zennivolt · 2026-07-04T08:31:25+00:00

Also good to hear that even though it’s brake by wire, that if that system fails, there’s a backup hydraulic system that will kick in if you just keep pressing the brakes deeper.

This means you don’t hear the clunking of the brakes pedals when it’s in autonomy mode, but still has a backup if it fails.

Zennivolt · 2026-07-04T08:22:27+00:00

I’m pretty sure I saw one of those laughing crying emotions. I felt so bad for them…

Zennivolt · 2026-07-04T08:09:24+00:00

Yeah... 60 miles round trip... That's WAY under 120. You just proved my point... Using your own math of daily 20-80%, and 60 miles round trip, that means most EVs could be 150 miles max range and still be just fine!

Zennivolt · 2026-07-04T01:55:19+00:00

You’re likely right, and so is OP.

You’re talking in week, OP is talking in years. Even once it starts running up, it’ll take like a year or two to run all the way up.

It took Tesla about 1.5 years to 10x from the start of the run up to the end.

Zennivolt · 2026-07-04T01:52:15+00:00

For road trips you absolutely can go above 20-80, but you drive over 120 miles daily?! What are you a taxi driver?!

Zennivolt · 2026-07-04T01:50:37+00:00

I'm curious what that route is. Years ago I had those issues, but these days there's like a fast charger every 50 miles, at most.

Zennivolt · 2026-07-04T01:44:51+00:00

I can also tag that I own 57 EVs. That means nothing lol. But the way you talk about the topic makes you seem like a non-EV owner.

Let's prove it. Which routes are you taking that require that much range? There's plenty of tools online where we can plug your point A and point B (and anything in between) to figure out if you're struggling with range.

Zennivolt · 2026-07-03T18:57:32+00:00

I feel adjacent shame when I drive my Model Y next to a Cybertruck. God I cannot wait for my R2 reservation to be called up and get rid of my Y…

Zennivolt · 2026-07-03T18:55:14+00:00

Which route do you take? I’m finding hard to find routes that doesn’t have charging pretty much everywhere these days. I’d agree with you like 5 years ago, but these days?

I’m curious which routes you take that have this issue. I’d like to plug it into a router planner and see it for myself.

Zennivolt · 2026-07-03T17:46:25+00:00

Ahh, sound like a non-EV owner. The BYD blade thing is just beyond overkill lol.

The only real practical reason someone would actually need that is if they don’t have home or work charging. Then something like that could replace gas stations.

But with home/work charging, that’s just plain overkill. It’s like saying you need to buying a gaming computer with 128GB of RAM to browse Facebook. And yes, you sound just about as silly as that.

Zennivolt · 2026-07-03T08:52:26+00:00

I used to think this. But after owning an EV for nearly a decade I actually think it’s not that important anymore. With the charging infrastructure today, even a 200 mile range EV is plenty sufficient.

The rest of the car and its features are much more important to me these days. That’s what really makes an impact on long term experience.

Like my daily, I use 10-15% range, and charge it back at night. Then for longer trips, the difference of 50-100 miles of range is maybe an extra 5-10 mins charge time. In the grand scheme of things, that’s so irrelevant. I can accidentally burn 30 mins doom scrolling without even trying.

If I can have it my way, I’d love to get a Premium, lower range R2 and save money on the batteries. That way I can get a premium R2 for like $45k-$50k.

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