manualoverride

joined 1 year ago
[–] manualoverride@lemmy.world 1 points 40 minutes ago

100% agree, we are in a far better situation now. I was really hoping he would be beyond reproach, and we could completely turn a corner on the the political sleaze, even if it is just a few suits and football tickets.

[–] manualoverride@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago

The preferential treatment was that the body cams were just muted during the cover up and not all accidentally turned off for the entire encounter, not getting beaten up, tased or shot.

I mean as far as preferential treatment goes I’d take that deal, but the fact remains he was pulled out of his car, roughed up, taken to the floor and handcuffed for 18minutes for no reason when the cop should have been writing him a (dubious) ticket.

There are at least 2 cops here who should not be cops and the rest need to be retrained to ensure they step in if they see mistreatment like this again, for face being fired.

[–] manualoverride@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Thank you, as a TPM1.0 pc owner I did how borked a forced Win11 install would be.

[–] manualoverride@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah - I’m going to get around to it one of these days… it’s only £100, so as long as I get it back before Tesla goes bankrupt I think I’m good.

[–] manualoverride@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I still have a deposit on this thing, but as I’m in a RHD country with European safety standards I don’t think it will ever be produced.

I’m not considering any Tesla for my next car and I was a huge fanboy up until about 2020, but musk has made it clear he doesn’t want my business, so I’ll leave him to his new MAGA customers.

I’m also waiting to see how he’s going to get out of all those free Roadsters he promised to all the referral collectors.

[–] manualoverride@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

This is true, I remember one colleague who loved his car more than anything, had it as his desktop background, and went to car shows at weekends.

On his birthday during lunch we filled it with happy birthday balloons, floor to ceiling and watched out the window as he tried to work out what to do with them, how to get in and get home. I think that was the last time I truly laughed at work.

He came in to get some scissors to burst the balloons and called us bastards, but he was laughing just as much as we were.

[–] manualoverride@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

It's demeaning and ruining her greatest achievement in life by being shit colleauges. It immediately sets the relation between her and other astronauts and basically tells her that her only worth is cooking.

I’m assuming they had all worked together for some years previously, did it really ruin this achievement? Did it ruin their working relationship? Or are you projecting how you would feel, or how you think she should feel?

She was the first person to weld in space, I think as far as breaking stereotypes go, you can’t really top that.

I suppose I see this as a joke about stereotypes to the one person in the world (or off the world) that it applies to least, rather than sexism.

I read that she replied “I assumed you would be doing the cooking”, and they joked back “don’t worry, we’ll make you something”, to me it just seems like colleagues joking around that we are all reading too much into 40 years later.

[–] manualoverride@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Could you let me know what the problem is with my take?

Not trying to troll, the downvotes for my post and upvotes for yours tell me I’ve got the bad take here, just genuinely trying to see how specifically I’ve got it wrong.

[–] manualoverride@lemmy.world -3 points 1 month ago (14 children)

With a modern mindset of expectations in the workplace and the level of work and talent required for anyone to become a cosmonaut then this would be an instant dismissal for those involved, it simply would not happen today as expectations of professionalism are made crystal clear.

Outside of simple wordplay (dad jokes) humour and inside jokes in the workplace are now almost completely inappropriate.

If I had gone to a space station with an all female crew and they handed me a full trash bag, and a toolbox and told me to get to work I’d find it hilarious. I guess you have to know your audience when it comes to jokes, and the threat of it becoming an ‘HR issue’ means workplaces have less fun and laughter than they used to.

Maybe I’m just an out of touch millennial.

[–] manualoverride@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Someone keeps downvoting every factual post I make about Hydrogen, I’m guessing they work for an oil lobby or something… but I’m just wondering what they are downvoting?

Something I thought about is that I have more charging points for an EV in the Lounge I’m sitting in, than there are Hydrogen charge points in the whole UK.

[–] manualoverride@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well I last looked a couple of years ago and there were three in the UK, I found one source that says there are 14 but half of them are offline and in places like Universities.

An impressive 1 for every 18,736 miles of road, and a working one for every 37,471 miles.

I wonder how far you can get on a full tank?

[–] manualoverride@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I nearly did. this on my last car. A really good tip.

 

This is just a rant… maybe a discussion starter

Margins on 2nd hand and new electric cars are thin, gone are the days where you could get 25% off a new car, and thin margins mean lower commission.

Servicing costs are minimal so no kickbacks for selling the servicing plans.

People are wise to paint protection and alloy wheel cover that cost more than a refurb.

EV buyers tend to make better decisions and are more likely to be cash buyers or finance elsewhere, so no kickback for selling a finance plan.

Manufacturers still selling higher margin hybrid and ICE vehicles mean they are the real target for salespeople.

Manufacturers also want to shift their ICE inventories and new products so they are still pushing the FUD on electric, and myths like “EVs will be obsolete once Hydrogen cars come out, you may as well get an ICE car in the meantime.”

I’ve had a really bad customer experiences at Toyota, Honda and now Kia dealerships.

I know people will suggest the Tesla online sales model, but Musk is just ruining the brand to the point where I can’t buy or recommend one.

So now I’m going to do all my own research, find the exact car I want, and contact the dealer/seller directly while avoiding as much interaction as possible.

 

I need some help finding the simplest but safe small EV for my parents in their 80s. They currently drive a massive old Mercedes E and S-class, but they don’t need such big cars, as sight and reaction times dwindle having such big powerful cars might get them into trouble. I’m looking for a small simple EV with the ability to lock things down and start every drive with consistent user selectable settings. Maybe limit the power, ensure the air conditioning is set appropriately every time and that the radio turns on to their station and with the volume at a good level. Basically so they just have to get in and press the go pedal, without worrying about messing anything up because the next drive will be back to normal again. For size I really like the Honda-E but I have taken them to two garages and both have been terrible experiences, where the salesperson tried to convince my parents that EVs were a dead technology and that they should buy a Hybrid until the Hydrogen cars come out. The longest journey they ever do is 100miles but mostly journeys are <50miles round trip. Anything with 130miles + would be perfect and give some cold weather/degradation buffer.

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