In my area the biggest factor is multiple families purchasing homes together. When you’re splitting the mortgage it’s a lot more affordable.

Where am I going? To make room for people trying to clear the intersection behind me. Failing to pull forward means they’re either stuck on the far side for another cycle of the light or they’re going to block the intersection. With really busy intersections leaving those big gaps can make a huge impact on traffic trying to get through the one behind you.

The overlap between “cares enough about image quality to not be okay with jpeg” and “doesn’t know to install a third party app” is probably too small for most manufacturers to care about.

The perfect middle ground happened for me with my 2001 E46. Modern headlight shape but with easily replaceable lenses. Gluing the damn things together is BS.

• Manual transmission availability
• Being able to easily modify for more power
• Being able to take part in full sessions for a whole track day and be able to get home after
• Much less weight so you aren’t cooking the brakes and chewing up tires on track
• Minimal planning for road trips
• Much better flexibility on stops on road trips

It’s still like that?! That was one of the most irritating things back in 2015 - 18 when I had a Fiat 500e lease. I had to join several different charging networks, each with different options of free membership and paying per kWh, free that paid one rate and paid that was a different rate, paid by time, etc. I had to charge up some accounts while others were just pay as I go. Some I could tap my phone to start a session and others I needed to have a card or keychain tag with me.

Then I needed all their apps, plus a couple of independent ones to find the charging stations because the independent ones never showed everyone’s stations or couldn’t show the status. Even on those I’d have to check the comments about each station because it was so common for it to show as being available and working but every comment would say “doesn’t work even though the app says it does”.

I’d love to get another EV but it sure as hell won’t be anything I take outside of single-charge distance from home until there are big damn changes to charging…

I’m really not interested in being told I need English lessons from someone who uses “sowing discourse” when they mean “sowing discord” and who implies that refuting something in a debate is a bad thing when it’s literally the entire point. To be fair I suspect you used the wrong word there again. You might want to look up what a malapropism is and work on avoiding them if you’re going to try and claim the high ground on language…

I’m not sure how you expect to get unpaid volunteers on an enthusiast forum that don’t have any connection to said industry but in the real world that’s just not going to happen. More importantly you’re still ignoring the main point that insulting any group - especially insisting on doing it repeatedly - is a rules violation, whether a mod is a member of said group or not. I’m not in the slightest bit surprised you’re sickened by a mod who applies rules evenly and doesn’t make exceptions for you. I do appreciate your revulsion though; it tells me I was doing things right more than anything else could.

I’d suggest you take some time to ponder how the rules here even are a general “be cool / don’t be an ass” and do not make any exclusions for groups you don’t like. If the rules are ever updated to “don’t be an ass except to people who work at a dealership or who don’t hate them” you’ll be good to go! I’m sure you’ll have all sorts of arguments about how you should be allowed to be an ass anyway though. If you’re going to insist on it, try to make it an original thought at least instead of reposting something so commonplace again and again.

Mods showing up and doing something in a thread you’re freely saying was about hate? You don’t say! You and I both know those kinds of threads never contain the hate to just that topic, it gets evenly spread around to anyone on the “wrong” side of the argument. If some of them are employees of dealerships you know that you’re talking about posts that directly target them personally right? You’re not discussing hate about some faceless corporate machine; you’re blithely talking about how they, their friends, their family are horrible people. I can see how they might take that a bit more personally. Imaging someone whining about not getting to constantly post about how everyone doing your job is a piece of crap. Even if we take for granted that some of them are dealership employees, do you really think they went to their boss and asked to get paid to kind of sort of defend the industry on Reddit?

Dealership arguments also inevitably bring in Tesla which is a flame-bait topic and things get heated really quickly. Mods - despite your theories - don’t get paid by anyone to do what they do. They show up to browse just like everyone else and while they’re there they take a few minutes to clean things up. When somebody posts a topic that inspires hate and argument and it starts drawing in hordes of people it turns into a whole lot of work. Work that again, nobody is getting paid for. So yeah, when threads turn into high-volume spewing of “you suck and this is why”, it’s gonna get shut down because screw that. If people want to be children and ignore rules as simple as “be civil”, and “no politics”, it’s gonna get closed. Yes, even if you think people need the valuable public service announcement of “dealerships bad” yet again.

And how exactly were the mods representing themselves so that you consider them to be “misrepresented”? Nobody there or here is telling anyone about where they work, or what investments they might have so I don’t see how they’re represented in any way at all.

Better brace yourself for getting those accusations anyway. The moment you do something they don’t like - no matter how clear and simple the rule they broke was - you’re automatically power-mad and/or paid off.

Having been a mod over there I can tell you none of the mods were getting paid shit by anyone and I can also tell you that not a single discussion was had pro or con about dealerships. Hell, a quick search will tell you that even if someone had been getting paid by some shadowy dealership cabal they’d have lost that pretty quickly considering how many anti-dealership posts you can find open right now. Posts got locked or removed because someone else had posted it shortly before or the comments were a total shitshow of hate speech, insults, and/or politics.

I can say for certain that the people that screamed the loudest about mods being paid by whatever group or of somehow power-tripping on their ability to delete an internet post were always the people who ignored the rules the most. Even this forum here has “Be cool / don’t be an ass” as rule number 1. I can guarantee you that when it gets big enough that most of the “you’re power-hungry / paid off” comments about the mods will be from people who got their hate speech or just plain douchebag comments deleted. Everyone wants the rules applied to people they don’t agree with and exceptions made for everything they like. And no, not everything you personally agree with is “the true values of the community/consumers”.

Even if it’s not illegal it sure as hell makes their hypocrisy rather glaring doesn’t it?

I’ve been on a jury a couple of times myself. The first time was boring and was a frustrating case. The second time was disturbing but very interesting and definitely a satisfying experience.

I understand that not everyone wants to serve if their employer doesn’t pay them; it can be a burden. Luckily mine does so I always look forward to summons in the hopes I get on a jury now.

It might be good to get the perspective of actual prisoners about this before you demand an end to prison jobs. I’ve seen several answers to “what’s life like in prison” that touch on this but this is the first one I found over on reddit. I bolded the relevant section. https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/59tp8q/this_is_slavery_us_inmates_strike_in_what/d9bkz7p/

I am a convicted felon and have spent time in various prisons in California, I don’t know how it is in other states maybe it’s different I don’t know. So as a disclaimer my perspective is ONLY on California prisons. I discharged parole in 2005 and was last released from prison in 2003 so it’s also been some time. It’s also important to note that at the time of my convictions when I agreed to a plea deal I had to literally sign away my civil rights and in California (not sure about everywhere) those are replaced with what is called the Title XV which are a set of rules and rights granted to prisoners, I don’t know how those came about I just know that it is what governs prisoners rights in California at least. So that’s a different set of rights and regulations you would probably want to be familiar with prior to arguing the merits of prison conditions.

It’s pretty common from my redditing experience to hear people decry the 13th amendment (which I believe is the one saying slavery is illegal with the exception of prisoners?) as though we are running a modern slave trade in prisons. In my experience that is simply not true. In California prisons while there is certainly incentive to work, you do not have to and are not forced to, although I don’t know anyone who would choose not to. However, the wages are not why people work for the most part. In California you have what is known as the good time/work time credit. For every 2 days of good behavior (no write ups) you receive an additional days credit of time served. So without working and with good behavior you will do essentially 2/3 of your sentence. Work time credits add an extra day to that so once you go through reception and are able to get a job in prison whatever it may be, you have the opportunity with good behavior and work to only serve half of your remaining sentence. This is the primary motivating factor for working in prison in California, everyone wants to get out. The second would be boredom, prison is incredibly boring, a lot of time spent with nothing to do, so anything to break up that monotony or get you out of your dorm/cell is a benefit. The paltry amount of money they give you for doing the work is tertiary to these first two incentives. In fact, I never received a paying job in prison, I chose (and most in my position did) education instead which counts as work as far as good time/work time credits go. Education is non-paying but you’ll be placed quicker and can start your “half-time” sooner, which to anyone other than a lifer is a greater benefit. You are fed and housed either way and the state has a minimum of what they have to provide even the most indigent inmates as far as toiletries and the like. In CA slavery doesn’t factor into the equation, boredom, time served credit, and maybe a little extra cash for the store once a month are the driving factors.

There is also often a big hubbub made of private prisons. Again from my experience in California I have to assume that the people complaining about these things have never spent time in any prison. I have been in state run and private run prisons in California and I’ll take the private one every time. In California they are called CCF’s or Community Correctional Facilities, and the living standards there are FAR superior to the state prisons. Better food, nicer beds, you wouldn’t believe the difference in quality of life an extra inch to a prison mattress or a decent pillow makes. In fact, if it were my choice based on my experiences and those of people I knew, I would rather every prison were like California private run prisons. However there is a limit to that, because you don’t want prison to be too comfortable for its inhabitants. You can talk about punishment vs rehabilitation and the merits of other societies views vs the US. But frankly, I stopped doing illegal things because I didn’t want to go back to prison, for me it’s that simple, though I know for other it’s not I can only speak for myself.

Trusting prisoners is a tricky thing. When you go to prison you hear a lot of stories, and you quickly learn that the vast majority are just that, stories. There is a lot of down time and sitting around with not a lot to do and people like to talk, it happens. Exaggerating is a very common plot device to inmate stories. Prison makes you feel small having almost no control over your life and anything you can do to make you feel better about yourself is a welcome relief, which includes telling stories which are often largely exaggerated to the benefit of the story teller. Secondly, inmates like to have something to complain about, it galvanizes them while at the same time gives them something to do, like I said boredom is a big deal. As well as, when you can spend your time feeling like a victim, that’s less time you spend feeling like the criminal. Everyone in prison has a hustle, and if they feel like there is something to gain from doing a particular thing, then they probably will. Which is why when you watch prison documentaries, at least the ones I’ve seen from inside California, I have to laugh at some of the most insane stories these people tell for the camera. Take that shit with a grain of salt because these people will ham it up for the camera, it’s human nature to want attention and to want people to sympathize with you rather than look down on you as a criminal, and a better more fantastic story gets more camera time, but I can’t really blame them, I just don’t sympathize with them.

The amount of people in prison primarily for weed is a tiny percentage of the overall population, so if you think legalizing recreational marijuana (which I am for, even though I don’t smoke it) is going to empty out the prisons and bankrupt private prisons you’d be in for a rude awakening because it’s just not going to happen, there will still be plenty of people in prison I assure you. Oh also it’s a common belief that felons can’t vote, which isn’t true, you just can’t be in prison or on parole for the conviction of a felony. I have discharged parole and will be voting in the coming weeks and my vote will be to legalize, it’s just weed so why no, hopefully it passes, but it’s not going to have the devastating effects on private prison populations that you may be hoping for. Marijuana based arrests might be more than all violent crimes combined, but based on the numbers I would say that primarily marijuana based imprisonments are certainly not more than other crimes, and I don’t specify violent crimes there because even if weed is legal, meth still won’t be and personally I don’t think it should be but you’re entitled to your own opinion on the matter.

Oh and before anyone asks I’ve never seen or even heard of a rape happening in a prison I was at. Plenty of trans/homosexual people though so sex certainly does happen but it’s generally consensual every time that I’ve known of it. Which I’m fine with two adults having consensual sex, just wish they would find somewhere other than the dorm to do it, hard to sleep when some dude is getting a sloppy bj three bunks down. They probably oughta give them condoms too since people with AIDS are in the general population now with no one knowing about it.

Anyway that’s my ten cents, take it or leave it.

Edit: my username is unrelated I never killed anyone. Also thanks but don’t give me gold, give some money to someone who could actually use it.

2nd Edit: I want to be very clear that the things I’ve said are ONLY based on my personal experiences and my opinion of those experiences, I don’t have a side or an agenda, I’m not trying to preach about what’s morally right or wrong I’m just giving what information I can give based on what I’ve personally been through I cannot say that it is a universal truth.

In modern media it pretty much just means they found two people who think that. If they want to get “official” they can arrange for polls to be done but those are very easily crafted to get the results they want.

Tell her “danger zone” for me!

74% and 1 day 2hr left on my Pixel 7 Pro. It’s been a light use day…

Well Spuck Fez then…

The base has a length of 230 meters on each side and the largest interior chamber measures roughly 10 x 5 x 6 meters so yeah, loads of dense solid stone there.

Not sure how old the program was OP watched but they found one void in 2017 using cosmic rays. I’m guessing the pyramids are way too solid for ultrasound or x-ray to work.

https://www.science.org/content/article/cosmic-rays-reveal-unknown-void-great-pyramid-giza

The void isn’t like a room we simply haven’t entered, it’s more like the equivalent to an empty space inside the walls of your home. It’s there, but there are no passages leading to it. About 75-80% of the interior volume of the pyramids is solid stone as far as we know so it’s much less like a modern building and more of a huge pile of stones that happens to have a few open spaces with passages leading to them.

Here’s an article that includes an illustration showing just how solid they are as well as the recently discovered void and more info on how they found it using cosmic rays of all things: https://www.science.org/content/article/cosmic-rays-reveal-unknown-void-great-pyramid-giza