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Thlom commented on Ford kills the All-Electric F-150   wired.com/story/ford-kill... · Posted by u/sacred-rat
sroerick · 2 days ago
Other replies here have covered 'work truck' better than anything I'd come up with but I'll also add that some of the reasons people purchase trucks is:

- To be able to help your friends move.

- To be able to purchase supplies and move big things over long distances.

- If you raise horses, you have to have a truck to pull your trailer.

- If you own a tow behind or fifth wheel, you have to have a truck to pull it.

- If you like canoeing or camping it is a lot easier if you have a truck.

- If you live in a seriously rural area, or you enjoy hiking, you will need a truck or other vehicle in order to reach your home or many other destinations. I've gone up mountain roads in a Camry, and it's not a great experience.

- To comfortably haul a family

Thlom · 2 days ago
The rest of the world does all of this without widespread truck ownership. The reason trucks are so widespread in the US is a combination of culture and regulation, not any special needs Americans have.
Thlom commented on Iran begins cloud seeding operations as drought bites   arabnews.com/node/2622812... · Posted by u/mhb
energy123 · a month ago
Israel also said Pakistan was trying to build nukes, but they were stopped by the Indian PM in the 1980s from launching a preventive attack.

The silver lining is that we don't have to suffer the internet commentators saying "Pakistan has been weeks away from nukes for fifty years!"

You can choose to put your head in the sand about a theocracy that enriches uranium to 60%, holds up mushroom clouds in their protests, and repeatedly violated the NPT with clandestine facilities. Others won't be so naive.

Thlom · a month ago
Iran can of course build a nuke in a relatively short timespan if they want to, but for a range of reason they have made the decision not to. Perhaps they should have built a nuke, if they had one Israel and the US wouldn't have bombed them.
Thlom commented on Unlocking free WiFi on British Airways   saxrag.com/tech/reversing... · Posted by u/vinhnx
latentpot · 2 months ago
That's EAN, also used by BA as the backhaul.
Thlom · 2 months ago
EAN is a joint venture between Inmarsat (now Viasat) and Deutsche Telekom. The system uses a combination of ground based LTE and satellite connectivity.
Thlom commented on Why the open social web matters now   werd.io/why-the-open-soci... · Posted by u/benwerd
Thlom · 2 months ago
80% of the time social media is just increasingly bad slop created to generate clicks/views/engagement. 10% is people screaming into the void, the last 10% might be valuable content. The Internet was better when we all hanged around in big and small web forums and group chats. To this day the most interesting conversations I see and participate in happens in forums and on group chats.
Thlom commented on TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing taxes for free (2019)   propublica.org/article/in... · Posted by u/lelandfe
zegl · 2 months ago
Many other countries have figured this out since the early 2000s, the US could do it as well if they wanted to.
Thlom · 2 months ago
We got pre-calculated returns as an alternative in the early 90's, by the time I got my first real job in the early 00's everyone used the pre-calculated one and just made changes as necessary. The first years I got my tax return in the mail and I think a few years I had to mail back a signed copy, but these days everything is digital and if you don't have to make any changes you don't have to do anything at all.

Back then you also had to physically deliver your tax deduction card to your employer so they could deduct tax correctly, but these days that is also digital and salary systems just fetches the current deduction card before running salary jobs every month.

Thlom commented on America is getting an AI gold rush instead of a factory boom   washingtonpost.com/busine... · Posted by u/voxleone
varjag · 2 months ago
The leadership in democracy does what the population wants, even more so in the past couple decades.
Thlom · 2 months ago
Yet somehow the desires of the population is fulfilled to a higher degree in authoritarian China than in the beacon of democracy USA.
Thlom commented on Learning lessons from the loss of the Norwegian frigate Helge Ingstad   navylookout.com/learning-... · Posted by u/ilamont
internet_points · 3 months ago
Yeah, there was a recording published quite soon after the incident, of the conversation between the seemingly older and experienced tanker captain (speaking in a typical western coastal dialect as if he was born on a boat), and the seemingly quite young naval officer (who sounds like he's from the middle of Oslo), which I'm sure shaped opinion quite strongly:

https://youtu.be/NYqGxbKF0AI?feature=shared&t=110

Thlom · 3 months ago
And most people know that captains of civilian vessels have good navigational and maritime education and have worked their way up, especially on big ships like tankers, while the navy is full of 20 years old cowboys.
Thlom commented on iPhone Air   apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/excerionsforte
2muchcoffeeman · 3 months ago
I’ve dropped my iPhone 15 more times than any phone I’ve ever had. Still fine. I don’t know how I got away with it.

Am I representative? Dunno.

Thlom · 3 months ago
I've dropped my iPhone 12 a million times with no screen protection or cover. Still fine apart from some scratches around the edges.
Thlom commented on Pontevedra, Spain declares its entire urban area a "reduced traffic zone"   greeneuropeanjournal.eu/m... · Posted by u/robtherobber
Thlom · 3 months ago
Don't they have rain coats in London? :-)
Thlom commented on I bought the cheapest EV, a used Nissan Leaf   jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/calcifer
ChrisMarshallNY · 3 months ago
Try downtown Manhattan.

As to the GP, it’s refreshing to hear about a reliable VW. Most folks I know, that own VWs, complain about reliability.

But they still love their cars. I’ve never driven a VW, but, apparently, they handle quite well.

Thlom · 3 months ago
I had the VW e-golf a while, and it was a super car. Never had any problems with it. Sold it to buy a VW Multivan (I think it's marketed as California in the US?) which also was a great car, but it was over 10 years old so obviously had a few relatively minor issues, but all in all happy with it.

u/Thlom

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