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Re: Cybertruck's Many Recalls

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Post by DonHopkins » Thu, Dec 05, 2024, 11:17 AM UTC

mewpmewp2 wrote: post #329

DonHopkins wrote: post #324

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And the word "Email" has strong implications to actually putting a piece of paper in an envelope with stamp, and physically delivering it to their mailbox. But the world adapted and survived the change in the strong implications of the word "mail", somehow, and continues to turn on its axis.

How does e-mail have that implication when it specifically has e in front of it?

Because lots of words start with "e", like "envelope".

If I'd said "Electronic Mail" then maybe you would have a point, but I didn't.

Re: Cybertruck's Many Recalls

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Post by cableshaft » Fri, Dec 06, 2024, 6:58 PM UTC

gibolt wrote: post #165

cableshaft wrote: post #158

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Train stations are in many of the Chicago suburbs already and take on average 280,000[1] commuters to and from downtown Chicago on a daily basis (it's called the Metra system). Hell, I just found out those same commuter lines extend all the way north to Kenosha, Wisconsin, and east to South Bend, Indiana, so into neighboring states. I did know people who commuted to Chicago from Indiana everyday so that's not too sur…

They exist, but new ones aren't being regularly added...

Well at least for Chicago, they are actively extending one of their lines all the way west to Rockford (which is 90 miles away), which should start running in late 2027[1].

Like I'd have to drive an hour and a half to get to Rockford from where I'm at in the far Chicago suburbs. And I'd be driving past a lot of corn fields to do so. So that's pretty far.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockford_Intercity_Passenger_R...

Re: Cybertruck's Many Recalls

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Post by jart » Sun, Dec 08, 2024, 9:54 PM UTC

orwin wrote: post #210

jart wrote: post #176

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It's not just Tesla. All the online services you depend on are run this way, and none of it's regulated. Governments don't know how to regulate software companies like Tesla. They know how to regulate people constructing homes, cooking food, and building bridges but most attempts at regulating software development have petered out. This is a good thing. Thanks to Tesla's modern approach to car manufacturing it is now…

People who have 100k to burn on a car are middle-class? What's the median yearly income in the US? 90k?

The middle class is the bourgeoisie, not the 50th percentile.