That’s a bit of a stretch. The corporate veil can be pierced, and deliberately murdering someone seems like the kind of thing that would do it.

The decision was just plain old executive aggrandisement, like the the last wave of fascists were fond of.

If the supreme court hadn’t ruled that criminal law doesn’t apply to the government, that would decidedly be murder.

As I understand it, ActivityPub-compliance basically requires that a vote is tied to an actor. Although, they could have made a dummy actor do it. Maybe they were worried about stopping vote manipulation?

It sounds like you’d know better than me, haha. Since they’re talking about being capital-lean I’m guessing they must outsource the frame pressing. Having a rare, super-specialty injection molding machine would not be lean.

IIRC they mentioned fibre reinforcement, but it couldn’t possibly be the aerospace-style precision product, exactly because that would cost a lot.

Edit: And I’m guessing cold-setting resin would be too expensive?

Hmm. Well, plastic can have a pretty good strength to weight ratio, if taking up more volume in the process. If sheet metal can do it maybe they went all-plastic.

If they’re including fibres too, that famously exceeds metal’s rigidity depending on to what precision it’s done.

Yeah, friction losses scale with angular velocity and not torque, and moving a ton of metal takes torque. Don’t forget the braking losses, though, unless it’s a hybrid of some kind. There’s no turning movement back into fuel the way you can turn it back into electricity.

The point is if you’re looking good range, there’s several dials that can be adjusted on an ICE car, related to the prime mover. On an EV, drag is the start and finish of the considerations (unless you’re going to move it onto rails, maybe). And of course range is a huge deal, because a liter of secondary cell can’t come close to the energy density of a liter of petrol and 38 liters of ambient air.

Are truck chassis usually stamped? I had assumed they were made from cast components.

Dope. I wonder if there’s a way to customise it into a sedan. I can speak less to the mechanical aspects of having a super-bespoke super-integrated manufacturing process, but I’m confident the electronics part needs to go back to basics like this.

Quite possibly. They’re gambling on a market for a no-frills car existing, but it might just be too small. That’s what killed economy cars the first time.

Volt or Bolt? Volt is a hybrid.

If Bolt, I’m guessing that was a very old one that will get like 50km of range.

As I understand it, the aerodynamics can be no joke on EVs. The acceleration is very efficient, there’s very efficient regenerative braking, and an object in motion just continues in motion until there’s a force. That means drag is pretty much where your whole battery charge goes. (I’m not sure how much tire flexing accounts for exactly)

For an example off the top of my head, the Arrow concept car manages 500km by not having side mirrors. Compare that to an ICE engine which wastes most of the fuel energy as heat, but to a widely varying degree depending on design and implemented energy recovery features.

Does he know what concession means?

TBH the difference is surprisingly technical.

Eh. It’s more that you hear a lot about the nuts ones. Number 5 on the richest list is currently a guy named Bernard Arnault, who mostly French people know about, while the infamous Peter Thiel is at 129.

Same story here. Rowling may or may not have a full billion, but she’s famous and good at getting rage views like this one.

“Please come beat them up for us, daddy Trump. Tariff, tariff, it’s a tariff!”

For people not familiar with this, hodl and rebalance (neither early nor late) goes for the non-crisis investments too. The beauty of it is that, inevitably, one of your things is going to preform poorly, and you’re guaranteed to buy the dip when that happens. Panic selling is death, it makes you do the opposite.

Still do.

I had to look it up, but it sounds like he was a new age/counterculture personality. I don’t really see the connection.

Yup. In the last week or two, I managed to snort shampoo. I wasn’t trying to get high; I’m just operating at that level of organisation.

I’m not personally a left-wing asshole, although that’s more of a show thing than a tell thing. But, I’ve gotten to know plenty. The point being that thinking Andrew Tate is cool is a very specific kind of dumb and/or mean.

There’s green-tea smelling book clubs too if that’s more their speed, but a lot of people think raves are fun. Same for the pasties; they’re an option, but it sounds like hipsters in a version of full Victorian dress are just as much of a thing. The central fact being that they get a choice.

The various cultures around the world have many, often contradicting versions of traditionalism. My own tells a good story about women having “respect”, but it’s a version of respect that doesn’t require much from men.

Listen to a random country song. There’s a party with cheap beer, where the women are just potential bedpost notches, but the protagonist goes to church on Sunday and feigns piousness, so they still get to be One of the Holy Ones™. A girl’s dad shows up and defends her “honour”, but it’s implied he did the exact same shit when he was young, and at no point are her preferences considered at all. The song ends with a thinly veiled plug for the pickup truck company sponsoring the artist.

It’s easy to see why dudes who hew to that are just looking for a way to justify how shitty they always were, underneath it all. Because in practice I see that all the time, living where I do.