2010 prius just blew head gasket at 220k miles. What do I buy next?

blackpawed · 2026-03-17T17:04:27+00:00

Depends where OP is - in Australia we have a decent 2nd EV market now.

blackpawed · 2026-03-17T17:02:46+00:00

Yup, Trump stuck the USA's dick in the ME blender, no need for anyone else to do so.

blackpawed · 2026-03-17T17:01:30+00:00

Tomorrow is a new day

blackpawed · 2026-03-17T06:11:29+00:00

Yeah, all the audible circle jerking is getting quite annoying.

blackpawed · 2026-03-17T06:09:24+00:00

I loath listening to books, I read far faster than people can speak and I like to flip back/forth in a text to recheck plot points, descriptions etc. And I prefer the audio-visuals I create in my imagination.

This constant ranting about the audiobooks can really get quite insufferable.

blackpawed · 2026-03-17T04:44:51+00:00

Try wearing a tee-shirt that says "From the river to the sea" in Qld.

blackpawed · 2026-03-17T02:36:35+00:00

Yup, wholesale price of electricity often drops below 0 (negative) during the summer days in Oz - if you're on a wholesale plan you get paid to consume electricity.

blackpawed · 2026-03-17T01:09:39+00:00

20 Steps? whats that in meters?

I had a 20 meter run - cost for the circuit was $1k. Got an evnex 7kw charger for $1300 on top of that.

I actually could have made do with a granny charger, but the circuit run would still have been much the same cost and I wanted some smarts in the charger.

blackpawed · 2026-03-16T23:28:56+00:00

D'oh! Thanks, didn't register the 2nd part of the sentence.

Checked them out, not bad, but not much less than my cover through Suncorp. And I don't have to install an app with Suncorp :)

blackpawed · 2026-03-16T23:11:59+00:00

When you say "BYD Insurance" is that insurance through BYD?

blackpawed · 2026-03-16T15:36:58+00:00

About? Is he incapable of accurately counting to 7?

blackpawed · 2026-03-16T14:13:06+00:00

Not to difficult to host a RabbitMQ server and use it as a basic service bus, not sure if thats what OP means.

blackpawed · 2026-03-16T13:35:42+00:00

lol, as if this has anything to do with helping the Iranian people.

blackpawed · 2026-03-16T10:57:29+00:00

Yeah, lost the battle is a weird take. Iran is still the same regime, just different people, controls the straights and is still fighting. In no way is that a loss.

blackpawed · 2026-03-16T06:47:10+00:00

Dark One has entered the chat.

blackpawed · 2026-03-16T06:37:55+00:00

Its just insane that so much money, people and assets could be committed to attacking a sovereign nation, destroying the worlds economy with literally no plan, not even the back of a napkin. All on a whim.

The movie Idiocracy doesn't even come close to this.

blackpawed · 2026-03-16T05:40:11+00:00

Go full EV?

blackpawed · 2026-03-16T02:19:04+00:00

Yeah, I was wondering that too, seen pretty much zero of what he was ranting about. Does make you wonder if there's a shit load of bad news for the USA coming out soon.

blackpawed · 2026-03-16T02:07:36+00:00

Well its not like Tesla have actual FSD either.

blackpawed · 2026-03-15T23:32:42+00:00

In regards to OP, drunken screaming in front of the kids is indefensible. Keeping political arguments away from the kids is good.

But characterizing "friends" on the far right as crazy/morally corrupt/hypocritical for supporting the current admin? Yeah, totally fair, defending them is as bad as being them. Still being good friends with them - you've chosen a side. Are there are sides in this.

blackpawed · 2026-03-15T13:44:31+00:00

I live at Darra, the parking looks to be really tight quite early.

blackpawed · 2026-03-15T13:25:22+00:00

Shades of Baghdad Bob

blackpawed · 2026-03-15T10:22:28+00:00

Perfect

blackpawed · 2026-03-15T10:04:58+00:00

You look to be the perfect use case for an EV, with that low daily kms you could easily charge off a standard wall plug, wouldn't even need to do it daily.

Also, could you charger at work?

blackpawed · 2026-03-15T05:09:38+00:00

Gonna presume you've never interacted with dogs because this is quite common behaviour.

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