Notices by Ghost of Enrico Palazzo 🎃 (sir_osis_of_liver@beige.party)

Dude replaces EV6 20" wheels with 18" wheels, saving 20lbs (9kgs) per wheel in weight and increasing efficiency by 11%.

Stupidly large wheels have been a bugbear for me for a while. I'll be glad when the trend dies off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC4ojtpZYZw

#cars #ev

#AMAaSitcomCharacter
#HashTagGames

Hey Red. Have you ever run out of duct tape? And follow up: is it duck tape or duct tape?

Has anyone asked the EU if Canada can join up? We'd sit in the back and not cause a commotion, promise.

The problem with the USA's self immolation is we're in the burn radius.

#Europe

@Natasha_Jay @NeonPurpleStar

US and Canada. GM is in the same boat as they recently dropped the Malibu and Camaro, leaving only the Corvette. Everything left is an SUV or truck.

Stellantis' NA brands are basically dying on the vine.

@Gargron

If you can't see the difference between a massive, industry dominating conglomerate with a history of devastating what it considers to be competitors, and an instance run as a hobby, then I can't help you.

Frankly, I can't believe anyone could be that naive.

@Gargron

If I wanted to be on Threads, I'd have a Threads account.

As far as I'm concerned they can fuck all the way off.

I moved to an instance that blocks Threads so I don't have to interact with them.

@nic

I wish to contribute the Turbo-Encabulator:

For a number of years now, work has been proceeding in order to bring perfection to the crudely conceived idea of a transmission that would not only supply inverse reactive current for use in unilateral phase detractors, but would also be capable of automatically synchronizing cardinal grammeters. Such an instrument is the turbo encabulator.

Now basically the only new principle involved is that instead of power being generated by the relative motion of conductors and fluxes, it is produced by the modial interaction of magneto-reluctance and capacitive diractance.

The original machine had a base plate of pre-famulated amulite surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two spurving bearings were in a direct line with the panametric fan. The latter consisted simply of six hydrocoptic marzlevanes, so fitted to the ambifacient lunar waneshaft that side fumbling was effectively prevented.

The main winding was of the normal lotus-o-delta type placed in panendermic semi-boloid slots of the stator, every seventh conductor being connected by a non-reversible tremie pipe to the differential girdle spring on the “up” end of the grammeters.

The turbo-encabulator has now reached a high level of development, and it’s being successfully used in the operation of novertrunnions. Moreover, whenever a forescent skor motion is required, it may also be employed in conjunction with a drawn reciprocation dingle arm, to reduce sinusoidal repleneration.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac7G7xOG2Ag&t=1s

Checking in on US news

#biden #kamala

@Kathmandu @zakalwe @gemelliz @KimberlyN @Snowshadow

The "hero" CEO is one of the biggest myths sold to the general public.

They sell the fantasy that they're irreplaceable, while sitting at the top of a hierarchical pyramid.

Say that a company has an average "span of control" ratio of 1:5, so the CEO has 5 VPs reporting, and they each have 5 senior managers reporting to them and so on. That's 30 potential replacements, and we haven't even left the C-Suit, or accounted for the potential for outside applicants.

But CEOs and other senior management end up sitting on each others boards, hire the same exec hiring consultants and artificially boost their pay packets.

The whole point of the 80 and 90% top marginal tax rate wasn't to raise money for the government, it was to flatten the disparity between owners and workers.

It's no coincidence that worker wage stagnation, and C-Suit compensation inflation started in lock step with the elimination of those punitive top brackets.

@mekkaokereke
It's not a question of being smarter. It's a difference in history.

The US has a legacy transportation system that needs to be reformed.

China has only had widespread private car ownership relatively recently. Public transportation was more entrenched because of this.

Having said that, Chinese passenger rail, especially high speed rail has been losing money as operating costs remain high, and usage on many routes has been overestimated. It's only a matter of time before some of these lines end up dropped.

@mekkaokereke

If the US industry is allowed to pay Chinese wages, have Chinese government subsidies, and Chinese environmental and labour regulations, they could also produce EVs at Chinese prices.

The Europeans are currently looking into tariffs on Chinese imports under their anti-dumping laws.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/eu-set-allow-possible-retroactive-tariffs-chinese-evs-2024-03-05/

@heidilifeldman

I was confused for a bit:

"In parliamentary procedure, the verb to table has the opposite meaning in the United States from that of the rest of the world:

In the United States, to "table" usually means to postpone or suspend consideration of a pending motion. Generally, to avoid spending time on debate and consideration.
In the rest of the English-speaking world, to "table" means to begin consideration (or reconsideration) of a proposal."

🙂

@GottaLaff

When Tesla was the only game in town, I think people were more willing to put up with this weirdo.

Now that the traditional automakers have some decent products and are gaining access to the Tesla charging network, purchasers have far more options.

@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon

Sacrilicious

@gemelliz

"The 200-page document forecasts Ontario's deficit will more than triple from $3 billion last year to $9.8 billion in 2024-2025 — the highest non-COVID budget deficit since former premier Kathleen Wynne's 2014 spending plan."

Cutting any tax while throwing down a budget with a $10B deficit is just moronic.

@RickiTarr

Smarties aren't the same on either side of the border.

Smarties in Canada are similar to M&Ms. The compressed sugar ones we call Rockets.

@jeffowski @treleanor @bmacDonald94

GenX starts in '65.
I was born in '67, Class of 1985, the year The Breakfast Club was released. 🙂

@liztai

This was just a platform for Putin to repeat his propaganda to a sympathetic lightweight interviewer like Carlson.

It would have been a lot more instructive if he had been interviewed by Stephen Sakur from BBC's Hardtalk.

@Richard_hoperestored @arstechnica

We've known about the correlation between hood height and pedestrian deaths since the 1980s. This study reaffirms prior knowledge.

My last pickup was an '86 4x4 F150. I could still lean in to check the oil and such easily enough while standing on the ground. I could reach over the bed rails to grab things out of the back.

My brother in law's '22 GMC 2500 4x4's hood is basically at my chin, about the same as the D700 Dodge stake truck I drove back in the '80s. Forget reaching over the side. It's the least useful pickup I've been around for anything other than towing. That's about the only thing he uses it for, towing a large horse trailer and a gooseneck flatbed for his hobby farm.