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Cake day: 2023年6月21日

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  • The Soltera (and bz4x which is just a rebadge) is literally the worst new car on the market considering price, range, charging speeds, and the outdated CCS port.

    Right now the cheapest EV is a model 3. Ioniq 5 comes in a distant second place. The ioniq5/6 have tiny screens if that’s what you’re looking for, but realize you’re paying more for a less technologically advanced vehicle.

    I have a Lightning (which uses the same infotainment as the Mach E) and the screen is gigantic, but basically unusable if you’re not using CarPlay/AA because the inbuilt interface literally runs at 15FPS on a good day. Yes, it’s that bad. The inbuilt maps is literally unusable; it doesn’t label major street names if you zoom out a little bit and lags like crazy.





  • Model 3 is the cheapest hatchback on the American market as of now. Buying new and not getting NACS will be painful in the coming years as well. I know Elon is a piece of shit, but it’s sad that exactly zero other manufacturers beat the model 3 price+range of any model on offer at the moment. Otherwise, there’s the base model Ioniq 5. End of List.

    It’s such a shame that car manufacturers are so slow to innovate and compete with Tesla, but that’s where we’re at at the moment until Chinese cars are allowed to be sold stateside. I’d buy Chinese tomorrow if it were available here. Western car manufacturers are fucked; check out the Xaiomi Su7, BWD, etc.









  • Tucson here: armed and unarmed guards are really common at low-class-linked businesses like thrift stores, Fry’s supermarkets, Walmart, Dollar stores, Walgreens/CVS. God forbid someone steal food or pharmacy items like shavers (shaver cartridges here are crazy expensive if you get name brand). Walgreens/CVS also has a tendency to lock the shelves behind plexiglass so you have to ask for help to buy more expensive items.

    In some cases, these kind of stores are targeted specifically. There are shopping centers with higher end restaurants that coexist with super high theft locations literally within walking distance.

    TLDR: it’s mostly to abate crimes of poverty