Again, the question is more about them than it is about you.

But to answer your question: by asking for them, or marking it in your profile or similar. For example, I now have you tagged as “grammar check me, daddy” so if I see it in the future I’ll know you’re down. But the fact that one person may appreciate them doing it does not mean they have an excuse to be rude (and obnoxiously anglocentric on an international forum) to everyone, just on the offchance they’ll like it.

Sure, and that’s a completely reasonable position for you! But the question is more “who cares enough about someone else’s typos to point them out in a pretty rude and completely unsolicited way” than it is “who cares about grammar errors”. You welcoming correction is genuinely great - them acting like a reddit grammar nazi isn’t.

Whocares?

Edit: No, hang on - Sincerely, why do you care? People make typos all the time and this isn’t reddit circa 2012, a person’s worth is no longer evaluated entirely on their passing a proofread.

Yeah, the fascists have really fucked the EV market here. Canada/Mexico are maneuvering to get around our bullshit, but it’s been… disappointingly slow. We all get some really kickass options if you want to spend ~$50,000 USD (or more) on a car, but I don’t think there even ARE any EVs available in the US for less than ~$30,000 sticker price, and then on top you’re paying 10%-25% in taxes + fees. Anecdotally I know tons of people that want an EV in the US, but the capacity to purchase a new car is plummeting (by some reporting it’s even hit an all-time low) right now thanks to Trump’s economy, and there really hasn’t been time for a used-EV market to establish itself.

Hoping the Dongfeng cars aren’t absolutely obliterated with regulatory/procedural bullshit by the Trumpers because man do we need something to fill that market segment already.

The reason for the gas/brake being next to eachother is due to the historical need to work the clutch pedal at the same time as the gas/brake in manual transmissions. However most modern EVs (including tesla model 3s) have single-pedal driving (press to go, release to slow), so the standard is indeed changing!

Actually yes. Event data recorders are highly regulated components, and Teslas especially are quite frequently tested for compliance (because nobody trusts them. They’re fascists). As far as I am aware (and to be clear I’ve looked into this rather extensively) there has never been any indication that Tesla has the ability to manipulate information stored in the EDR system, and if indications of it were found it would likely result in the temporary suspension of road certification for all affected models while the issue was investigated - the NTSB’s nuclear option.

While I respect skepticism as in this case it’s especially warranted, I do want to point out that you’ve gotten the investigatory body wrong - the NHTSA is not the NTSB. The NTSB preliminary report itself is really very straightforward and does not at all exculpate Tesla in this incident - a likely reason for that is highlighted in the Ars article:

For example, a Tesla defect known as “Sudden Unintended Acceleration” can occur when “components of the vehicle require additional power” and the draw on the battery causes “significant spikes in the system,” their lawsuit explained. If that happened to Butler’s car, the inverter may “incorrectly interpret that the accelerator pedal has been pressed” and rapidly advance to dangerous speeds.

It is fairly clear in the above NTSB release that they do not have proof positive that the accelerator was physically depressed, just that the logs indicate that is what happened. That ambiguity/uncertainty is likely the reason they have opened a special investigation into this incident, and given the vast horizons of potential biases in reporting about this tragedy I agree that best practice will be to look primarily at what the source has said, and treat speculation (both for or against Tesla) with a healthy degree of skepticism.

Edit: Further, the NTSB is likely pulling this data directly from the EDR itself - a device that must adhere to some extremely strict federal standards on retrieval and data integrity. Teslas do automatically report this information out to Tesla’s servers in the event of a crash, but there has never been any indication I have been able to find that Tesla has even the capability to edit the information stored on the device itself - and the EDR is a system component frequently audited by numerous independent bodies for compliance, including that most reliable of compliance tester: open source enthusiasts.

Edit 2: clarity

Eddie Izzard plays some random minion that gets thrown off a catwalk in The Avengers (1998). Completely jarring to suddenly have five seconds of someone charismatic onscreen amid all the tedious wtfery of that film…

Having recently driven a bunch of EVs while shopping for a replacement to my poor dead subaru, the 5N is… painfully fine. Like if someone offered you one for free say yes, but… It just kinda feels like you’re driving your standard daily driver, and someone snuck in and replaced the engine with some star trek bullshit. It’s as comfy as a nissan minivan, and has better acceleration than anything short of a true ICE supercar, and it’s just… I don’t know, it’s a really weird feeling to drive. Honestly it was just a little too discordant for me and I passed. If you want an EV that really nails the feeling of driving a proper classic muscle car though, the Mustang Mach-E is by far the best. Kinda a stupid car by every other metric (just like the ICE mustangs!) but damn if it isn’t satisfying to some deep, cliche’d part of my soul.

(That said if you like rally, the ioniq 5 XRT is the best rally car I have ever driven. Mach-E Rally feels deeply undercooked in comparison, XRT with a bit of suspension tuning feels like the car is having just as much fun as you are)

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Also, and this is incredibly petty of me, embrace the NACS port. It’s not particularly better than CCS (but everyone has finally agreed on a standard, so that’s good at least) and the adapters are clunky and a pain, but Tesla drivers get so damn butthurt about non-teslas taking up slots at the superchargers, and it’s Fucking Wonderful. I see your “I got it before I knew he was crazy sticker” and nah, fam, you’re driving a model Y; we all knew what he was by that point. Nice try, now get in line – the non-fascists need to charge.

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That’s pretty much the reason there’s protests - there hasn’t been a reason given for his removal, and people are concerned because of that.

Looks like most of them are being straightforward about it, if not quite as vitriolic as I’d like them to be.

Ah, I see I’ve fallen for the classic ambiguity - I was assuming the vast chemistry arena we were licking things in was not a frictionless vacuum. Yes, it’s hypothetically pyrophoric with water; though it would require some prodegious amounts of slobber (or some small amount of effort) to produce that effect just by licking it - and I’m not entirely sure how well human salivary glands operate under vacuum conditions…

… They ask, five days later.

Wait, why shouldn’t you lick magnesium? I’ve done that plenty of times (for giant dumbass reasons) and I’m no worse off than before I licked it…

Easy, just send the beam to their tongue instead of the duperwhatsit detector. Bam. Licked.

Guessing: They’re the only ones who tried, every other major auto manufacturer was at best barely working to move off ICE tech, and china actually encouraged domestic production of EVs and invested heavily to develop EVs in foreign markets.

Edit: yep

Yeah, I think it’s just one of those gamer isolation masks (or a weird stenography mask).

you put your mic inside it but it muffles the sound from the rest of the room. Some people use them as steno masks, or just to be polite while in the office and you’re in a bunch of meetings or similar. They’ve been around for ages, they got really popular during covid.

They might be using it for text-to-speech, but it’s a product that’s existed for years for use with text to speech so it’s not particularly a sign of the times.

Hmm. While I do apologize if you’ve been insulted, I’m also rather confused as to how you’ve been insulted. I haven’t been disparaging any community you’re a part of, unless you briefly moved from PT to humptulips and haven’t mentioned it. Is this just leftover hostility from misunderstanding that “the peninsula” does not mean the kitsap peninsula unless you are in the Greater Seattle Area++ ? A tad patronizingly phrased I realize, but geeze are you shifting the goalposts and that’s frustrating.

Anyways, I dislike these quote-heavy replies but sometimes they’re the only expedient way to address everything:

Do you think someone is going to just move here without preparing, just because I said it was cheaper than Seattle in a comment on Lemmy?

Yes. Lemmy has a huge concentration of queer people, and the queer community both sticks together and is not, on the whole, very large. You made your initial comment to contribute an alternative option for other queer/trans refugees to consider, much as I made my initial comment to highlight the need for caution around specific aspects that often go unmentioned in the greater conversation. Even if nobody is directly influenced by reading your comment, the people who go on to repeat your ideas may indeed influence other people - this is a core aspect of how human communication functions.

That they’re going to drop everything, including their brain, and move here at any cost? It’s really not as black and white as you’ve been trying to make it.

Yes again, though not the brain part. This literally happens every day. It’s a huge part of the reason why queer youths make up nearly a third of the homeless population in king county. It’s something I donate a fair amount of my time working to mitigate. For thousands of people in our community who are living in red states, it literally is this black and white. They’re fleeing - a process during which people are not generally known to sit down and do the prudent thing like make a budget spreadsheet.

I don’t think you understand how bad it is outside of WA for queer people.

I don’t think you understand how bad it is inside WA for queer people. But I also don’t know how you could possibly have drawn this conclusion from what I’ve said so far, so I’m willing to chalk it down to heated tempers and gloss over it if you are.

There are plenty that have made it work, aren’t in significant debt, and yet aren’t people I would call rich.

While I am sincerely glad you are okay, I think you may not realize how lucky you actually are. More than 50% of queer people in the US make less than $50k a year, and fully 35% make less than $30,000. I’m glad you were able to find housing, but the reality in which we live is that fucktons of queer people (literal thousands in many application pools) need help to live here - the entire premise of the above article - and offering areas that have seen some of the sharpest COL increases in the country over the last two years as an alternative is not helpful. And yes, I do understand that you never said they were cheap, just cheaper than seattle. It’s just that the $400 difference between paying $1750 and $2150 a month in rent isn’t particularly relevant when the most you can afford is $500.

Do you live out here to know what it’s like, or have you lived here within the last 10 or so years?

I’m a [edit: big data nerd] So… yes, I’m pretty well versed in this subject.

The issue is not that queer people can’t live here, but that people will move here because they have heard it’s culturally great for queer people and nobody mentions that it’s ungodly expensive to live here and our housing assistance programs are (in some cases quite literally) orders of magnitude beyond max capacity, so many of them become homeless or live in serious poverty as a result. That was what I called attention to in my original comment - and why I’ve been so confused as to why you brought up the possibility of living in the other nearby seattle-suburb cities. They have the same problem - there are few jobs that aren’t highly specialized, those that do exist are inundated with applications (some entry positions I have seen have had thousands of applications) and housing is scarce and absurdly expensive.

You have to be very careful before moving out here to avoid falling into the endless debt pitfalls or outright homelessness. People really need to be aware of the reality that this is a hyper-capitalist area and the disgusting realities that come with it, and be prepared to handle that.

Who could have possibly predicted that the logistical burden is much less common for people who don’t live in an apartment (me I did, it was me). Goodness. I had clearly never considered such a situation could arise (lies I said exactly that). You have clearly bested me, woe betide, etc, etc, this pretty clearly isn’t going to be a productive conversation, cheers or whatever.