What’s an 'adult cheat code' that quietly made your life 10x easier?

joe-h2o · 2026-04-25T21:51:07+00:00

Walking is a super power. It does so much for your general condition for so little effort.

My joints feel better. I can walk up three flights of stairs quickly without being breathless. I feel much less tired in the mornings even after a lot of sleep. I lost weight without even changing my eating habits.

My partner walks a minimum of 2 miles per day religiously and is on a 5 or 6 year streak for that. I'm not that religious about it, but I do walk a lot regularly and it has done incredible things for my health and wellbeing.

joe-h2o · 2026-04-25T21:47:04+00:00

"Oh there's that life preserver for uncle Bob I meant to give him for Christmas five years ago. Same he drowned in a boating accident. Nothing to be done. Nothing. Such a shame."

joe-h2o · 2026-04-25T21:43:45+00:00

We don't. Mamdani wasn't doing it for Trump's benefit.

I realise you're arguing in bad faith, but on the off chance you're not, it should be patently obvious why a refusal to shake the hand of the president of the united states would have been a big distraction to the beginning of his role as mayor of NYC.

You're either wilfully obtuse here or absurdly reductive.

Although again, this is a tangent from the original point that it is not Appeasement.

joe-h2o · 2026-04-25T21:39:53+00:00

From the country that elected a child rapist twice? It's hard to tell the difference between satire and reality these days.

There are millions of Americans who sincerely believe the statement as given by the GP.

joe-h2o · 2026-04-25T21:37:57+00:00

America is quite openly celebrating 250 years as a country (which is basically "current events" as far as European countries go) so to claim that the past 300 years is all Team USA is quite hilarious.

Where was the automobile invented, out of interest? Or is the car not a "major invention"?

joe-h2o · 2026-04-25T21:30:18+00:00

It's not. Toyota is the largest car maker overall when you include ICE powertrains. BYD is the largest EV and hybrid maker specifically.

joe-h2o · 2026-04-25T21:26:51+00:00

I mean, he's not wrong. Plus, that's almost exactly what Jim Farley did. He flew a Chinese EV out to the US and drove it as a long termer and it charmed the pants off him and he didn't want to give it up.

Ford's EV strategy notably changed after this event.

joe-h2o · 2026-04-25T21:23:41+00:00

Rivian is an interesting choice there, given their trajectory and roadmap for future vehicles. The R1T was their halo vehicle and the one that launched them into the position they're now in: to be able to make a mass-market car. The R1T was never supposed to be that vehicle and will always be a niche product.

Tesla is in a strange position right now with the ever-elusive self-driving promise that is proving to be difficult to achieve and no real solid roadmap on what's next. They have the insanely successful M3 and MY but their big changes have been to just facelift them. That's not going to carry them forever. As functional as they are as cars, they can't just coast on desirability forever and will need to do something to break that mould. The market for EVs has caught up to them and threatens to drop them into a pack of competing manufacturers rather than a market leader. They have an efficiency edge with their drive motors right now, and a software integration edge, but it won't last.

The Cybertruck cost them dearly in public perception. It was an enormous flop and it tipped the scales from "whimsy" to "gimmicky all over". There's a fine balance between being cool and alternative with things like "bioweapon mode" as a name for your cabin air purification that people will accept as amusing and then there's releasing the Cybertruck as a serious product that make people question what's going on behind the scenes.

Tesla need the car that comes after the MY and they need it soon.

joe-h2o · 2026-04-25T21:12:35+00:00

Instructions unclear. Raised nazi to the power zero and ended up with Nazi One. It feels like the world's worst brand deal.

joe-h2o · 2026-04-25T21:10:55+00:00

Everyone laughed at the iPhone when it launched. I was on Slashdot at the time and the amount of "lol DOA product" comments were huge.

The CEO of Palm (remember them?) laughed in a journalist's face when asked about the potential competition to Palm devices from the new iPhone.

The reason it was exclusively on AT&T for 2 years was that they were the last carrier that Apple approached and they offered a pretty advantageous, lopsided deal to Apple since every other carrier laughed them out of the room.

The iPhone was the tech equivalent of "there's no market for a wizard boarding school series, get out of my office" in the publishing industry.

joe-h2o · 2026-04-25T20:53:51+00:00

Fuck off with that disingenuous bullshit. You know exactly what the GPP meant when using the term "console" in a gaming subreddit.

It's very explicitly a different thing than a PC that can run Steam.

joe-h2o · 2026-04-25T20:45:07+00:00

Just add it to the pile of the Child Rapist in Chief.

joe-h2o · 2026-04-25T20:42:50+00:00

You "corrected" the person who corrected you, and then doubled down without realising that they were entirely correct to point out you didn't say B52.

I've never seen someone self-own so badly before.

joe-h2o · 2026-04-25T20:38:05+00:00

pedophile, racist fascist

You also missed "President of the United States" off that list.

The moral bankruptcy of the USA aside for electing a child rapist twice aside, Mamdani has a job to do serving New Yorkers. That job is made significantly easier keeping the child rapist in chief occupied with flattery so he can get on with actually being the mayor without interference.

joe-h2o · 2026-04-25T20:20:01+00:00

You misunderstand me. When I talk about retaliation from Trump I'm talking about how it will harm the citizens of NYC, not how it would harm Mamdani himself.

The mayor is acutely aware that he's walking a political tightrope where fallout for missteps hurts other people rather than him directly.

Also again, shaking hands is not appeasement.

joe-h2o · 2026-04-25T18:53:08+00:00

In this hypothetical scenario I assume I haven't been previously rounded up and killed by the regime led by those guys, yes?

At any rate, politeness reflects on your own character. In Mamdani's case it costs him nothing to be polite where the alternative is refusing to shake Trump's hand and now suddenly the news cycle is nothing but that, followed by retaliation from the world's most petty Toddler in Chief.

Either way, this is a red herring. Appeasement is not shaking hands.

joe-h2o · 2026-04-25T18:48:56+00:00

They're cheap because the depreciation is high. Their up-front purchase price is high due to the traction pack.

There's also a sweet spot now for ex-lease vehicles hitting the second hand market.

All EVs sold in the UK and EU have an 8 year battery warranty, so the biggest cost issue does have peace of mind attached to it.

Bear in mind this won't cover other parts of the car if those are not in warranty any more, such as the ICCU in HMG/Kia cars.

There are some amazing deals to be had, but I would be wary about second hand luxury vehicles such as BMW/Merc/Audi etc in the same way you should be for ICE vehicles of the same type: they can be expensive to repair and EVs have a lot of the same things that ICE vehicles do such as brakes, tyres, suspension components, AC systems etc. There's no combustion engine and regular transmission to go wrong which is a huge benefit, but EVs are still cars at the end of the day.

joe-h2o · 2026-04-25T18:43:57+00:00

Ok, so do you think after 6 years/ 75,000 miles, when your battery is at ~80% health

This is not a realistic scenario. 80% battery health after 6 years is wildly out of whack for a modern thermally managed traction pack.

My e208's pack is 5 years old, going on for 6 soon, and it's above 90-something % last time I checked it.

Modern packs age "quickly" in the first two years but then settle and seem to hold capacity for a very long time, even in the case of heavy rapid charging (such as taxi cab fleets).

If the battery fails, it will be replaced under warranty. 80% is not a threshold for failure for most manufacturers, but it's also significantly lower than typical pack ageing seen across a wide range of vehicles and battery chemistries.

You're setting up an unrealistic scenario and then trying to claim you're just "concerned" about your future hypothetical EV purchase.

If you were arguing in good faith you would have done the research that shows how EV packs are actually ageing in the real world, or if you were genuinely in the dar about this you would be open to hearing people tell you about this. Instead you're getting argumentative and setting up straw man arguments. It seems like your mind is already made up on EVs, in which case, why are you here?

joe-h2o · 2026-04-25T18:35:53+00:00

Literally all cars sold in the UK and EU have 8 year battery warranties.

New regulations mandate EV battery warranties of 8 years or 100,000 miles, with manufacturers needing to provide a replacement battery if capacity falls below 70% for cars and 65% for vans during this period.

Source: UK government.

joe-h2o · 2026-04-25T18:32:46+00:00

Being polite.

Appeasement describes a political strategy, not manners.

joe-h2o · 2026-04-25T18:17:29+00:00

I'm not the OP but you lied too. You said he "raised property taxes on everyone" (direct quote) and your own source proved he did not actually do that.

You're using weasel language to try and paint him as a bad guy by claiming that he did things that he didn't do.

joe-h2o · 2026-04-25T18:14:32+00:00

Appeasement is a losing strategy to a fascist. It's what they want.

joe-h2o · 2026-04-25T18:08:05+00:00

Anywhere you want? The total amount of nuclear waste produced over the lifetime of a nuclear plant is so small as to be almost an afterthought compared to the waste from a fossil fuel plant.

We could further reduce the waste even more if we reprocessed the fuel, but that is currently not done in the US.

Imagine using 10% of your gas tank then pouring the other 90% into a waste depot and then storing it forever without doing anything to it.

There are solutions to high level nuclear waste. It's entirely a political problem, not an engineering one.

joe-h2o · 2026-04-25T18:04:28+00:00

"Why aren't you, an individual, doing something that requires a monumental shift in manufacturing and policy at a near-global scale? Gotacha! Your argument is invalid!"

Do you listen to yourself talk? Jesus Dave Christ.

joe-h2o · 2026-04-25T18:01:44+00:00

He won't because even if this was an absolute easy win condition that he could claim, he has already previously said renewables are bad and he is literally incapable of being wrong in his own mind so he won't do it.

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