MrSpArkle
@MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca
- Comment on If I live in a red state, would it be better to vote for rfk to take votes away from trump? 2 months ago:
How does it feel to always be the smartest person in the room?
- Comment on Are cars with AWD worth it compared to FWD. 2 months ago:
Excellent would be a stretch. They will be a variation on a Haldex system, and you’d have to look up which variation your particular model has.
I’ve yet to see a haldex type system(the type typical on FWD platforms) consistently outperform Subaru.
- Comment on Are cars with AWD worth it compared to FWD. 2 months ago:
Nissan fans like you and I are the hardest hit by their fall.
Always buy certified used. The Subaru CPO program with gold warranty is a great deal and you can save thousands.
If you don’t buy Subaru, still buy used if the CPO warranty is good and cheap.
What is your budget?
- Comment on Are cars with AWD worth it compared to FWD. 2 months ago:
Subaru CVTs drive like shit but not near as unreliable as Nissan units. Different manufacturers. I don’t know what chickens they sacrificed but it works.
- Comment on Are cars with AWD worth it compared to FWD. 2 months ago:
I’m just here to chime in and tell you Nissans are trash now, and are a shadow of what they were.
Also none of their AWD systems are any good outside the GTR and their trucks. Their CVT transmissions are fragile and the computer will protect it at all costs. They’ll disengage drive wheels and pull power if any threshold is reached(temp, load, etc)
If AWD is a priority, the only logical choice is an EV. No ICE passenger vehicle AWD system can compare to having a motor per axle, or a motor per wheel. Unfortunately Nissan evs are a joke too.
My short summary is that if you’re serious about wanting awd and want an ice car, get a Subaru. If you’re serious about awd and want an rv, plenty of dual and some tri/quad motor options out there.
If you stick with fwd ice just buy anything but a Nissan or Mitsubishi.
- Comment on Project 2025 Explained 2 months ago:
Conservatives think project 2025 is the latest silly liberal conspiracy from sad people who have “Trump Derangement Syndrome”.
- Comment on Voyager 1 4 months ago:
They were a software for decades before they became an “internet company”.
- Comment on Almost all Chinese keyboards have severe security flaws that can be (mis)used for mass surveillance, report reveals 5 months ago:
The real nightmare here is that her girlfriend is a Uyghur.
- Comment on Someone gets killed by a car, so they restrict e-bikes. 6 months ago:
This doesn’t seem so bad. I live in the PNW and have seen people absolutely hauling ass on home-made e-bikes and scooters, easily 40mph and passing traffic in the bike lane.
I’m not against people building their own e-bikes, but at some point it’s not an e-bike, it’s a motorcycle, and they need to be in traffic and ideally have the brakes to match.
- Comment on 23-year-old Nintendo interview shows how little things have changed in gaming 6 months ago:
I wouldn’t say always. The Super Nintendo, N64, and GameCube were more advanced in terms of graphical capabilities compared to many of their competitors.
- Comment on from "Demon haunted world" (1996) 6 months ago:
This book used to be one of my favorites, but now it’s in the horror/thriller section for some reason and it’s no longer my jam.
- Comment on A billionaire wrote this letter to Google a year ago. How likely is that Google's layoffs and actions since then are at least partly because of this? 8 months ago:
The thing about Google is that they have one of the highest profit-per-employee metrics in the whole industry.
- Comment on Teslas Have a Minor Issue Where the Wheels Fly Off While Driving, Documents Show 8 months ago:
I was referring to Subaru not having enough capital.
But in terms of Hydrogen, it is either a product of fossil fuel extraction via natural gas, or a product of electrolysis at a huge cost of electricity which is better spent charging an EV.
It’s never gonna be widely adopted.
- Comment on Dave Chappelle’s Obsession With Mocking Trans People Continues in New Netflix Special ‘The Dreamer’: ‘I Love Punching Down’ 8 months ago:
It’s incredible how being rich has separated him from the racial struggle he has highlighted throughout his career.
Like even if privately he thought trans people are a joke, old Chappellee might’ve seen trans persecution for what it is: kindling for the fire to burn away the rights of other minorities.
But he is rich now. He feels safe enough that invalidating the experience of other people would never lead to the invalidation of his own, and even if he does, he can escape with his wealth.
- Comment on Teslas Have a Minor Issue Where the Wheels Fly Off While Driving, Documents Show 8 months ago:
Subaru’s EV future is tied to Toyota, and Toyota is fucking around.
They don’t have the capital to pursue an EV on their own unless it’s a rebadge or repackage, maybe in 5 years when EV components get more commoditized.
- Comment on Teslas Have a Minor Issue Where the Wheels Fly Off While Driving, Documents Show 8 months ago:
Yeah I feel ya. Funny thing is as soon as the EV9 starts selling Tesla is gonna drop model X price. They’ll also undercut the Escalade IQ with that same stroke.
The honest truth is only VW has what it takes, but they have to commit.
- Comment on Teslas Have a Minor Issue Where the Wheels Fly Off While Driving, Documents Show 8 months ago:
Bolt is too small, the ID4 can’t fit 3 car seats comfortably either, and the Aryia is too small and is a sad excuse for an ev, especially given the legacy of the Leaf.
The Buzz comes close but isn’t widely available, the EV9 would fit the bill were it not for its excessive size. That size also rules out the R1T.
What I want is essentially a lifted full-sized wagon, which in ICE terms is like an Outback or Sorento.
Enter GM with the Lyriq/Blazer/Prologue. Perfect dimensions, reasonable range.
Except they haven’t shipped them, and they announced they are stripping CarPlay starting this year.
Lucid has an SUV that might do if I was rich.
Or I can walk into a Tesla store today and buy a model Y with more range, less weight, a great charging network with a future proof connector, and a more proven platform than the unproven and rather piggish Ultium platform. I could buy the Y, put my fucking child car seats in and be done.
Now I’m not buying a Tesla because fuck Elon and fuck not having CarPlay, but you can see why they are so relevant.
There are simply too many unfilled niches in the EV market.
- Comment on Teslas Have a Minor Issue Where the Wheels Fly Off While Driving, Documents Show 8 months ago:
Yeah I went to the Kia dealer due to those designs.
The real missing player here is Japan. But as the saying goes, Japan has been stuck in the year 2000 since 1980.
- Comment on Teslas Have a Minor Issue Where the Wheels Fly Off While Driving, Documents Show 8 months ago:
The local Hyundai/KIA dealer dicked me around when I went to test drive a car. They also add absurd markups to the EV6. There are already headlines about KIA asking dealers not to do similar markups on the EV9.
Also the reliability track record for Kia is mixed for ICE cars, they made defective oil-consuming engines and tried to cover it up.
Their EVs show a similar pattern.
m.carcomplaints.com/Kia/EV6/2022/ m.carcomplaints.com/Tesla/Model_3/2022/
Tesla being mediocre doesn’t mean Kia isn’t shit-tier.
- Comment on Teslas Have a Minor Issue Where the Wheels Fly Off While Driving, Documents Show 8 months ago:
Unfortunately Tesla is still relevant in that you can actually buy a Tesla sedan or suv with very little hassle.
Meanwhile I’ve been on a waitlist for years for a GM EV that has been “launched” but with not a peep about my order.
One of my friends got so dicked around by dealers and waiting he bought a Tesla, and it wasn’t even on his list because of lack of CarPlay.
- Comment on Teslas Have a Minor Issue Where the Wheels Fly Off While Driving, Documents Show 8 months ago:
Rockets are harder than cars, so hopefully this means Elon is too stupid to contribute anything but haughty goals while the actual engineers make sure we don’t blow up any astronauts.
- Comment on New cars are great... 11 months ago:
Yeah these infotainment systems are trash. I think the Subaru one is made by Denso. Like, Denso makes spark plugs and shit, stay in your line Denso! Thank fuck for Carplay/Android Auto.
- Comment on How do I get informed on Joe Rogan without watching his videos. 11 months ago:
The Joe Rogan subreddit has basically turned on him since Covid, and the comments are usually a good source of critique counter arguments against him and his guests.
- Comment on Why is everyone so giddy about the flooding thay happened at burning man? 1 year ago:
Ooh, what games? Where?
- Comment on Please Consider Defederating from rammy.site 1 year ago:
Have we not established that censorship isn’t something solely done at the government level? I was using government censorship as an example, but censorship can be performed by companies, groups of people, and individuals.
Also, why are you not addressing the dictionary definition of censorship? Why are you not addressing my example? Why are you ignoring my comparison of a network to a network, and instead trying to compare a network to a shop, apartment, or restaurant?
It’s really easy to pretend this isn’t censorship is you ignore the literal dictionary definition of the word and direct analogies(a federation list is more akin to a peering list than it is to a restaurant…), and instead supply a convoluted abstract example of your own.
I believe I’m satisfied that the issue at hand is cognitive dissonance on your part, wherein you hold censorship as morally objectionable, but are conflicted because in this instance censorship is a tool you wish(rightly) to be wielded.
- Comment on Please Consider Defederating from rammy.site 1 year ago:
I’m having difficulty yes.
The fediverse is akin to a network, instances join this network and relay content to and from each other.
The internet is a network, networks upon networks, and nodes in the network relay content to and from each other.
If a country decides to block objectionable content on the internet, the news article covering this will use the term censorship. Whether it’s porn, anti-religious content, or inconvenient history, they will call cutting off that part of the internet, whether via filtering or total disconnection, censorship. Even though this falls in your example of “you don’t let people into your house”, because those countries aren’t letting certain packets into their borders, it is still commonly referred to as censorship.
So, if an instance on the fediverse decides to opt out of relaying objectionable content, thus suppressing that content, how does it not meet the criteria for censorship if defederation is analogous to countries performing censorship via blocking internet content?
- Comment on Please Consider Defederating from rammy.site 1 year ago:
It’s not censorship if you don’t let people into your house. It’s not censorship if you don’t let people paint on your walls.
I gave a dictionary definition of censorship and you’re trying to make analogies to trespassing and vandalism. Just use the definition.
This isn’t the government.
Censorship isn’t exclusive to governments. Private entities and public corporations can perform acts of internal censorship or even self censor in external communications.
This isn’t the prevention or suppression or public speech. They can (and do) post that shit. You are free to go read it.
There are countries that ban pornography, however someone outside the country is still free to see said pornography. Does the suppression of pornography in that country cease to be censorship simply because some people are still free to see it?
Almost no media platform is required to host or publish any content they don’t want to. What do you not understand about this?
Yep, and that’s why there are many corporations that self censor according to their own sensibilities. And that what this whole thread is about, the question of whether to censor rammy.site by suppressing their content via defederation.
There’s nothing confusing about this unless you have mixed feelings about the word censorship itself but still support the suppression of speech you don’t like(and to reiterate, i find the content on rammy.site bigoted and high objectionable, and want it censored)
- Comment on Please Consider Defederating from rammy.site 1 year ago:
Dictionary says censorship is:
the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security.
Is deplatforming not suppression? Are we not talking about something that we find unacceptable?
It’s censorship, and that’s ok, because it’s the only real tool we have to fight the spread of bigoted lies, because the truth doesn’t work on the stupid and disingenuous.
- Comment on Please Consider Defederating from rammy.site 1 year ago:
Dude, defederation is a form of censorship, and there’s nothing wrong with censoring false and hateful views.