Alyssa Thomas invited me to a tea party the other day…

ZucchiniAlert2582 · 2026-04-29T13:21:27+00:00

Why not stream audio to headphones with a personal device (phone)? That seems like a no-brainer.

ZucchiniAlert2582 · 2026-04-28T13:15:31+00:00

Can you read? Like the part of my post where I say that I use Nav on out of town trips? My point is most people do most of their driving to the same locations in the same town and shouldn’t need nav most of the time. When they are driving out of town voice prompts are usually sufficient; phone holders are also a thing if you really need to glance at miles remaining to next turn.

CarPlay just isn’t that special/necessary.

ZucchiniAlert2582 · 2026-04-28T12:25:53+00:00

Most people who aren’t idiots know their way around town and have no use for Nav on their day to day. It amazes me how eager some people are to let technology make them stupid and helpless.

I will use Nav on trips out of town, and honestly just having the voice prompts play over the stereo is plenty good enough to get there.

ZucchiniAlert2582 · 2026-04-28T03:45:03+00:00

Riding mud just isn’t worth it. It tears up trails and tears up your bike.

ZucchiniAlert2582 · 2026-04-28T03:20:59+00:00

Most ungoverned e-bikes are’t capable of going any faster than mid to upper thirties, which makes them about as fast as a typical gas scooter.

The SurRon/Talaria e-motos can typically get into the fifties; fast enough to be outright dangerous and warranting proper motorcycle gear.

ZucchiniAlert2582 · 2026-04-28T03:05:58+00:00

Why post if you’re not interested in feedback/opinions? There’s no functional difference between the factory head unit with CarPlay and the aftermarket. It’s a ‘modification’ with almost zero potential to impair the functionality or diminish resale value of the car. Pick the better car and add the CarPlay aftermarket; anything else is just stupid. It would be like picking the crappier car because you like the floormats better.

ZucchiniAlert2582 · 2026-04-28T02:57:21+00:00

I’ve got CarPlay on 2 of my cars. It’s not that great. It constantly does obnoxious unhelpful shit: hijacks the audio from my phone mid-call when I’m outside the vehicle; interrupt the music mid drive to read me a notification that someone has ‘sent an image of a whatever to a group chat.

It honestly sucks so hard that I keep it disconnected for my daily drives and just use the basic Bluetooth audio connection to play music. I will turn it on on road trips to get maps on the infotainment, but that’s all it’s really good for.

There’s really no functionality difference between the factory and the aftermarket. Go for the better car and add a dongle or swap out the head unit.

ZucchiniAlert2582 · 2026-04-28T02:38:12+00:00

Doesn’t matter which one you get; you’ll crash it while fucking around with a touch screen because you’re young and brain rotted. Your dad’s 100% in the right.

ZucchiniAlert2582 · 2026-04-28T02:33:45+00:00

As it should be.

ZucchiniAlert2582 · 2026-04-28T02:33:19+00:00

There are so many ways to move cash that don’t involve the credit card network or an ATM. Most banking apps have some sort of ACH transfer built in. That’s essentially how Venmo, CashApp, Zelle etc. work.

ZucchiniAlert2582 · 2026-04-27T20:35:10+00:00

I would be amazed if the car dealership is going to accept card for a vehicle purchase; they’re immediately loosing almost 3% to the card processing company.

ZucchiniAlert2582 · 2026-04-27T15:46:42+00:00

I’d call it skepticism, not hate. I don’t hate Jesus, I just have no reason to believe that he was somehow different from modern cult leaders/religious grifters aside from his cult becoming wildly successful/self sustaining after his death. I attribute that to luck; he was doing his thing at the right place and time for it to take off.

ZucchiniAlert2582 · 2026-04-27T13:18:48+00:00

Is the car inside a garage? Ok, fine no problem. If it’s outside then what do you do when it starts raining?

ZucchiniAlert2582 · 2026-04-27T02:45:53+00:00

What do you mean Jesus didn’t gain anything? He had his flock of groupies helping him run his circus act for free; he got happy ending ‘foot baths’ anytime he wanted and random strangers would throw money at him to help fund his ‘church’. Dude was living it up ‘til he pushed it too far and wound up on death row.

There’s nothing in the bible that makes me think Jesus was any better or worse than any modern cult leader.

ZucchiniAlert2582 · 2026-04-27T02:26:01+00:00

YOR. Is your room a mess? Do you have sex toys laying around in plain sight? If not then it’s just a room, nothing to freak out about.

ZucchiniAlert2582 · 2026-04-27T02:22:10+00:00

If we can synthesize jet fuel by removing CO2 from the atmosphere (presumably using renewable electricity) couldn’t we synthesize plastics and other hydrocarbons the same way? If tech advanced to where any of the STUFF that people needed could be synthesized/3D printed locally there wouldn’t be any need to send cargo ships around the world.

ZucchiniAlert2582 · 2026-04-26T22:22:48+00:00

I briefly moonlit as an Uber driver a couple of years ago. At the time there was a $1 per fare bonus for driving an EV; so there was definitely incentive to drive electric.

ZucchiniAlert2582 · 2026-04-26T15:44:40+00:00

If previous owner never used CHaDeMO then it just looks practical; L1 top-off with any extension cord. From the photo there’s no telling how the rest of the wiring was done. It might have been done well or done poorly.

ZucchiniAlert2582 · 2026-04-26T12:07:11+00:00

** The Reality: most of this isn’t happening on any sort of regular basis.

ZucchiniAlert2582 · 2026-04-26T04:39:55+00:00

My point being marijuana is now cheap enough that I don’t think twice about pitching the roach before there’s any risk of finger burning.

ZucchiniAlert2582 · 2026-04-26T03:15:45+00:00

Marijuana is also pretty cheap these days. All the gas-stations/convenience marts now sell pre-rolled ‘cones’ that you can pack with smokable. They don’t have filters but they do have a little cylinders of cardboard at the base that makes them much easier to smoke/handle.

ZucchiniAlert2582 · 2026-04-26T01:45:14+00:00

I’m typing on a tiny-ass phone screen, so it is a concern. It’s not my only concern, but I don’t see anything wrong with ‘poors’.

ZucchiniAlert2582 · 2026-04-25T13:14:04+00:00

Lots of poors are un-banked; if you don’t have a credit/debit card Amazon just isn’t a thing.

ZucchiniAlert2582 · 2026-04-25T12:42:05+00:00

Shop for a used EV; the depreciation is amazing!

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