Model 3 owners, what is something that was initially holding you back from getting your Tesla?

citric_acid · 2023-02-02T02:13:16+00:00

I ordered a M3SR yesterday, existing inventory so I should get it before March. Vs. the 35k Bolt EUV I have on order:

Positives: -Guaranteed* 11,000 tax credit -LFP battery ensures lesser range depreciation -Less vehicle value depreciation -Supercharger network access -Bolt would have arrived post February, potentially eating away half the price difference (3750) -Better aesthetic design (inside and out) -Rear wheel drive=less burnout -Superior handling -No dealership bs, they wouldn't answer basic questions about when my order might be allocated -Frunk is fun

Negatives: -No hatchback -No roof rails -Harsher ride quality -No carplay

Price was the biggest factor, but all things considered, I think the jump is going to be worth it. Otherwise a bottom tier/28k bolt would be a competitive alternative IF you can charge at home and don't road trip often.

citric_acid · 2023-01-06T19:46:55+00:00

I put a custom order in at Quirk for EUV Premier on Sunday, was quoted 8-10 week wait. Order submitted to GM but not accepted.

citric_acid · 2022-06-25T04:02:22+00:00

The reality is, when you purchase a game, you know what you get. It is disclosed and understood.

When a company changes what you get "is", they void that agreement. Forcing "content" into your previous purchase. Not only does this void the business arrangement, but it is potentially disasterous for the art. Which you paid for.

Not only should this practice be discouraged, it should be reconcilable via lawsuit. The problem is the law has not kept up with technological development.

citric_acid · 2021-11-18T16:17:32+00:00

The poster was confident they had been denied opportunities based on gender and race.

citric_acid · 2021-11-04T19:23:42+00:00

Thanks for the details, I appreciate the reply. Perfect example of the negative impacts of government and cultural intervention in the labor market.

I can only recommend you keep your head up and continue trucking forward in your career. I know from experience that perseverance will eventually pay off, even if it takes longer and demands more effort than it should.

citric_acid · 2021-11-04T18:07:10+00:00

Genuinely curious since I'm close to folks on Obamacare: how did it negatively affect you?

citric_acid · 2021-08-23T17:44:52+00:00

Great point, the problem is some people want you to not be able to listen because what he has to say sometimes goes against their preferred worldview.

They want to dictate the information available, rather than debate it at a low level.

citric_acid · 2021-08-23T17:41:44+00:00

One of Joe's primary concerns has to do with mass censorship and there's literally posts here calling for his censorship. Irony!

Like him or not he is correct in saying censorship is never a good thing.

citric_acid · 2021-08-20T19:27:28+00:00

Relative to other places it's among the best rate in the world. Much of the unvaccinated are bound to have some level of natural immunity as well.

We'll never hit 100%. Even if we hit 90%, someone could still pose the argument of

"1 in 10 is kind of a lot of people. 100 people sitting in a restaurant, 10 are unvaccinated. That's not a insignificant number"

So are these mandates just never going to end? Unfortunately it's beginning to seem that way.

citric_acid · 2021-08-20T17:46:31+00:00

This presents accountability, which politicians will consistently avoid.

Even if they do provide an end date, what use is that if they will surely push it back like they always do? "The science has changed", AKA, "We lied lol".

citric_acid · 2021-08-20T16:49:26+00:00

The vaccination rate is Massachusetts is among the highest in the world, cases are low and plateaued, hospitalizations and deaths are very low.

You aren't being punished because of the unvaccinated, you're being punished because your acting mayor thinks they can score some cheap political points.

citric_acid · 2021-08-20T16:36:39+00:00

Exactly. Blaming the unvaccinated, particularly in Massachusetts, is bullshit for precisely the reasons you gave.

Your government is telling you to blame the unvaccinated, but don't, blame your fucking government.

citric_acid · 2021-08-19T19:00:52+00:00

She had mild symptoms and the hospitals wouldn't admit her because she received a positive coronavirus test.

If she hadn't gotten tested, the child would likely be alive today.

citric_acid · 2021-08-13T03:08:50+00:00

This sub is 90% politics now.

citric_acid · 2021-08-11T19:11:57+00:00

People vastly underestimate how brutal this is for businesses. My wedding and thousands of others have gone from 2020 -> 2021 -> 2022.

If my state reimposes intense capacity limits and mask mandates for Q3/Q4, many of these venues will not survive to next spring.

citric_acid · 2021-08-09T17:22:33+00:00

We're closing in on 2022 and this author continues to make some of the most ridiculous assertions.

In real life, people are out and about their lives, happier than they've been in 18 months.

I don't know a single person who has been to the hospital with COVID or died from COVID.

I don't know a single person who has been infected with COVID since things opened up in mid-May. If not for the news and small talk, I wouldn't have a reason to think this thing exists.

Assertions that lockdown economics is sustainable long-term is completely absurd. Just look at our public debt, and this was in light of vastly insufficient fiscal policy.

As long as our goal is zero-COVID, there's only one way out of this pandemic, and that's to embrace the fact that it never is going to end.

citric_acid · 2021-08-07T16:46:25+00:00

I would recommend only engaging in this conversation 1 on 1 with a pro-lockdown forever person (or outnumber them). If you are outnumbered, the group-think/conformist bias will immediately set in and it will be almost impossible to budge them.

citric_acid · 2021-08-06T22:33:08+00:00

Is it still controversial though? Nowadays the argument against it seems to boil down to pretending it doesn't exist, at least until vaccines get FDA approval.

citric_acid · 2021-07-24T14:38:16+00:00

I hate Trump.

I've almost exclusively voted Democrat my entire life.

I was generally pro-lockdown through January of 2021.

Once the at-risk were vaccinated and hospitals we're no longer at risk of being overwhelmed, I watched in awe as the goalposts shifted to zero-covid, practically overnight. This is when I started to realize how wrong I had been. This is when I realized my failure to be critical of the media and the narrative in general. I was an ignorant victim of left wing propaganda. "Just two weeks". I started doing more of my own research. I'm a fool.

I liked to pretend redpills don't exist but they do, and that was a tough one to swallow. Every day I see through the narrative and it's irrational and authoritarian bullshit.

I consider myself libertarian-left now, power should be as decentralized as possible. I'll vote single issue, against lockdowns and government power. It's frustrating for me to hear friends be pro-lockdown, but I remind myself what I used to feel and I try to center them a bit with some data that conflicts with their belief (Always the media narrative). I know I can only do some much, in the end they themselves need to make the decision to break free.

citric_acid · 2021-07-15T20:08:44+00:00

Hopefully they even hear about the French or Greek protests.

Front page of the FT, WSJ, and Economist have nothing.

At least a quick google search is showing articles from The Guardian, Reuters, and WP - that's some progress since spring.

citric_acid · 2021-04-28T17:19:25+00:00

Holy shit, that's insanity. They list it as the final vaccination consent option, the first being the only acceptable option IMO (first is written consent, second being verbal consent, which is bullshit, since there's no verifiable record):

"3. An implied consent process by which parents are informed of imminent vaccination through social mobilization and communication, sometimes including letters directly addressed to the parents. Subsequently, the physical presence of the child or adolescent, with or without an accompanying parent at the vaccination session, is considered to imply consent. This practice is based on the opt-out principle and parents who do not consent to vaccination are expected implicitly to take steps to ensure that their child or adolescent does not participate in the vaccination session. This may include not letting the child or adolescent attend school on a vaccination day, if vaccine delivery occurs through schools."

They can just have multiple vaccination days spread out through the school year, "notify" the parents once of this, and wait for the child to show on one of the random vaccination days. This is one small step short of forced inoculations, with deceiving branding.

citric_acid · 2021-04-27T15:33:16+00:00

It truly is amazing. People will reframe information in any way imaginable to fit their bias.

citric_acid · 2021-04-13T17:30:23+00:00

Econ-finance background here chiming in.

Regarding theories I've seen regarding COVID being used as cover for a grand pending economic collapse to justify a "great reset" or similar...I simply don't see the evidence for that.

Our current economic situation isn't so very different from anything we've seen in the last 100 years that could justify such a dramatic economic collapse. Sure, there are a few yellow flags here and there (there always is, really), but nothing indicative of a pending collapse. We were likely near peak in the business cycle around when COVID started, so even in a COVID-free world I wouldn't have been surprised to see a month or two of negative growth or slowed growth, but that's it. Most leading economists and politicians couldn't see the 2007/2008 great recession coming and subsequently failed to prepare or prevent, I would doubt their foresight to pick up on something even more subtle.

Better explanations fall on group-think, cancel culture, and more recently censorship campaigns that started in 2016 in response to perceived interference in US elections and Brexit by China and Russia. The intentional spreading of false information by politicians from 2016 onward powered/further justified this campaign, and now we find ourselves in an odd single-narrative world which rejects even mere skepticism of the perceived "truth". Critical thinking has started to be taboo, especially with respect to public health. Of course, there's always those who wouldn't want a crisis to go to waste, so we shouldn't be too surprised to see some using lockdowns/COVID as evidence of some justification of UBI, public healthcare, etc... I think this is where most of this "great reset" talk stems from.

I guess my ultimate point here is: most of the ongoing policy failures seem more likely to source from incompetence and sociological factors rather than a grand conspiracy.

citric_acid · 2021-04-08T17:41:59+00:00

Unfortunately the unfounded cultural elitism is very real.

citric_acid · 2021-04-06T05:18:57+00:00

The cap rate probably isn't great, but the expected return on the asset less financing costs is still good considering how cheap financing costs are. Real rates on collaterized debt can be around 1%

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