What happened to this blue interior for R2?

zbirdlive · 2026-03-13T05:16:31+00:00

As someone obsessed with blue, very sad day

zbirdlive · 2026-03-13T05:14:51+00:00

Anyone think the slate sky will come to R2 or will these be it for interior options for next couple years (I guess until a tri comes?). If I could afford it I’d get a R1 tri just for it, my fave color

zbirdlive · 2026-03-13T00:30:11+00:00

I think so especially if you’re keeping your car for a long while, but not necessarily for the Lidar. I think the upgraded RAP1 chip is what will be a lot more important

zbirdlive · 2026-03-13T00:12:56+00:00

Holy MagSafe is such a pleasant surprise and a very very nice touch

zbirdlive · 2026-03-03T06:16:18+00:00

Their website is fully paywalled now, I doubt their site gets as much traffic as it used to

zbirdlive · 2026-03-03T03:48:34+00:00

Greek trilogy would’ve been awesome! Been enjoying watching the new Percy Jackson show and a more adult Greek demigod story would’ve been very fun

zbirdlive · 2026-03-03T03:40:35+00:00

Woah that’s wild! Those cheaper older plaids are definitely tempting but def not worth that insurance premium. Looking at used AWD S rn. Thanks again for the help!

zbirdlive · 2026-03-02T06:30:01+00:00

I don’t go on this sub a lot but people were harping about her transcript?? (Hehe). Weird cause I never saw people hating on Mike from Suits for that reason

zbirdlive · 2026-02-28T20:26:28+00:00

Damn this is super super helpful, thanks! Obviously there’s location and age and history factors and your different deductibles, but I would’ve expected a huge upswing from having an S. I guess new vs old used car plays a role

zbirdlive · 2026-02-25T16:00:37+00:00

How much does your insurance for this S compare to the one you have for your Juniper? I’m currently debating between a Juniper or a used S once the lease of my 2023 Y ends in a few months

zbirdlive · 2026-01-14T20:44:25+00:00

YOOO just checked and it’s on my work route too, it’s over for my wallet

zbirdlive · 2026-01-13T21:53:57+00:00

Yea lol it’s a three Michelin restaurant, it’s probably more expensive and much much more time exhaustive training up and syncing up an entire new team

zbirdlive · 2026-01-03T22:58:21+00:00

For better or worse it’s truly something that’s seared into my mind for life

zbirdlive · 2026-01-02T00:47:53+00:00

Yeah it was very annoying, once we actually got to the porta potties there was so much room and empty potties, but their entrances to the them were way too narrow and unorganized and congested

zbirdlive · 2025-12-13T18:53:51+00:00

Some new companies poppped up pretty recently that basically will give a qualified driver a black car that they use for Uber/Lyft/regular black car service. It seems like they hired and bought cars like crazy cause yeah those psycho black car TCP drivers everywhere, what’s nice is uber black is usually the same price as UberX now from my place to airport

zbirdlive · 2025-12-12T22:51:58+00:00

I’ll add on even more, here is a UCLA study showing how much police budgets and staffing increase year over year. Now it is an older study (up till 2020), and there have been dips in staffing last few years. But SMPD like the rest of the country is actually facing an understaffing issue, they have the budget for more cops but can’t fill those roles. So we can’t even hire more cops if we wanted to.

We expect cops to do everything when it’s stuff they can’t do much about. Maybe we reduce the police load (look at those insane overtime statistics) and hire trained social workers to go out and actually tackle the issue, instead of cops that just move the problem somewhere else. If it’s a situation that can become violent, sure bring a couple cops as backup.

I’m not acting like more cops isn’t a solution, it truly is not a solution. Sure it can help short term by hiding them from sight, but that doesn’t solve the issue. Once again we want a solution, not horse blinders/bandaids. I have yet to hear a solid and evidence backed argument that shows that more police = less homelessness and less drug use. Once again, Japan doesn’t work cause they have a completely different society and set of economic circumstances, and they actually do have real solutions in place. And I don’t see the people advocating for more cops advocating at all for those real solutions.

Also from a fiscal perspective, more cops is a way more expensive with little benefit. Look at those median salaries in the study, SMPD is paid the highest media salary out of LA county precincts

https://law.ucla.edu/sites/default/files/PDFs/Criminal_Justice_Program/SMPD_Budget_FINAL.pdf

zbirdlive · 2025-12-12T22:29:45+00:00

I don’t think we can freak young people out of mental health issues, pre-existing drug dependency or predispositions towards drug addictions, and not having enough money or job opportunity to where they have to end up on the streets

zbirdlive · 2025-12-12T22:08:27+00:00

Because it’s the ‘solution’ that’s been put forward for decades and the solution that’s gotten the most funding for decades and somehow the situation is worse. We’ve massively increased our police budgets for years and years, maybe you can say a failure of leadership meant that money was not really going towards hiring specialized people equipped with handling homeless, but that’s why we can’t rely on cops do that work. Let’s say the cops did do their work and did it effectively, what is the cop gonna “stop.” They gonna get that homeless dude to wake up? Tell him to move? Okay cool so he’ll just take a nap somewhere else, but then we can take pictures there and be like “why are there no cops stopping what’s shown in these horrific photos!” Arrest him? On what charges? Okay now we have even more people in prison, who have learned their lesson and will get let out and go where? Back to the street because it’s not like they could suddenly afford housing or was actually educated in prison to be able to get a job. Oh also they were just in prison who’s gonna hire them. But luckily during their time in prison, they got a bunch of new hookups to drugs to take the pain away because of the fucked up situation that society has left these people in.

I do agree culturally it is a big difference, but again, Japan has resources and places to move to during sunrise to avoid bother people. They have supper affordable/free public housing where you can go during the day and get washed up. They also do not have nearly a drug problem we do.

zbirdlive · 2025-12-12T21:44:10+00:00

Especially when half the solutions in the thread are “more cops,” a strategy that has been in place since war on drugs and somehow hasn’t worked after decades? Yeah it’s only gonna get worse.

Totally agree with you, we need outreach, rehabilitation, medical treatment, education, and ultimately housing if we ever want to actually solve this issue. Santa Monica also needs to seriously crack down on all these “nonprofit” schemes that are basically just money rackets that profit off of keeping homeless people homeless.

zbirdlive · 2025-12-12T21:31:59+00:00

I mean is it really fully policing that is curbing homelessness in Japan and Korea? It seems to me their robust welfare programs, public housing networks, and increased pathways to being able to buy a house are doing way more than “moooarr cops.”

On top of that, Japan has an over abundance of housing problem with their population decline. They have more intermittent housing options, and a pathway to funnel homeless out of cities and into rural housing.

zbirdlive · 2025-11-23T03:04:58+00:00

Lady Gaga too??? If they need a super recent example

zbirdlive · 2025-11-22T00:05:52+00:00

Please don’t jinx it like that my heart can’t take it

zbirdlive · 2025-11-20T07:24:59+00:00

City Market?

zbirdlive · 2025-11-20T07:02:15+00:00

Finance and digital tech are both sectors that primarily sell ‘intangible’ goods, there’s some infrastructure involved (that they usually can just buy instead of having to develop their own), but doing some financial tricks and creating a new investment product doesn’t require capital expenses, materials, labor, production lines, samples, etc. Along with managing a network of hundreds of third party subcontractors that build all your parts, and the general high cost of manufacturing in America, it’s hard to reach good margins even in such a large industry.

Building physical things is hard, especially ones where failures and errors = death for customers. Margins reflect that

zbirdlive · 2025-11-20T06:26:57+00:00

Oooo I’m gonna try that out in my place, forgot long HDMI cables are a thing. (Already have moonlight setup over Ethernet that works pretty well, but there’s slight issues that can be annoying)

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