InevitableSwing [none/use name]

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Cake day: March 19th, 2022
  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPtochapotraphouse@hexbear.net•The Cybertruck does not comply with the European Union's safety and protection standards for pedestrians and cyclists. [Article title is clickbait.]English
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    8 hours ago

    There’s the perfect mix of local corruption / incompetency, always giving the rich the benefit of the doubt.

    About ten years ago when I was an earnest lib I spent some time trying to understand libertarianism. I wish I had learned about leftism and talked to leftists instead. Somebody could have told me libertarianism was bullshit. But I was naïve and I didn’t know any better.

    I ended up starting to watch a series of Youtube vids of Michael Badnarik who at one time ran for president as a libertarian. I thought it meant something. I didn’t know there must have been 100s of people who had done that. An oddity of the vids is that he had bugbears. An example is that he went on and on and on and on and on about allodial titles for cars.

    Alloidial title is the concept of title ownership of property by virtue of possession.

    It took me far too long to realize he was a wacko. Eventually I realized that in general libertarians are nuts. And all their explaining of their political philosophy and editorializing and lecturing is a lie. When they want to do something or they want something - they don’t want any pesky laws or regulations getting in their way. They dream of that perfect mix existing in the entire US.

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPtochapotraphouse@hexbear.net•The Cybertruck does not comply with the European Union's safety and protection standards for pedestrians and cyclists. [Article title is clickbait.]English
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    17 hours ago

    I had to google a bit to get a concise, recent article (not a tweet) on Cybertrucks in Europe. Google gets shittier all the time.

    The Tesla Cybertruck does not comply with the European Union’s safety and protection standards for pedestrians and cyclists, information that has also been confirmed by Tesla’s VP of Vehicle Engineering, Lars Moravy. In order to be able to market it in Europe, Tesla should modify the basic structure of the vehicle.

    And it is not just the sharp edges of the Cybertruck’s body that led to its prohibition on European roads. The pickup truck is too heavy to be driven with a B-category driving license, which restricts the weight of the vehicle to 3.5 tons. Above that, drivers will need a C1-category license.

    However, Tesla claims that the heaviest of the variants, the tri-motor Cyberbest, tips the scale at 6,843 pounds, which is 3,104 kilograms. That is below the 3.5-ton limit, but it would easily hit it with five occupants on board and with luggage in the load bed.

    Furthermore, trying to squeeze a Cybertruck into the narrow streets of Italian or French cities, for instance, would be next to impossible and would surely prompt some viral videos with stuck Cybertrucks.

    Clickbait answer.

    If you are wondering just like we are what in the world is the Cybertruck doing in Copenhagen if it can’t even be sold there, here is the answer: the model is on display at the Mikkeller Baghaven in Denmark’s capital on June 14 and 15.

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.nettotechnology@hexbear.net•Boeing does it again.English
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    2 days ago

    News breaks when he and the media are on the tarmac waiting to get on Air Force One.

    “Wha?” He cones his ear with his hand. “The Boeing Spaceship blew up and the astronauts died? That’s too bad. But it happens. Rocket fuel is dangerous. Very dangerous…” And then he tells a bizarre two minute story about “my uncle at MIT - the physicist who made airliner planes”. For a few days lib media fulminates that he didn’t give proper respect to the deceased astronauts who Lawrence O’Donnell calls “explorer heroes for humankind”.