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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • Neat. It definitely looks like a BMW X5 from the side profile, with some of face lines cleaned up/changed.

    Front wheel drive seems iffy on a car of that weight, as well as range is lacking – 40 and 60 kWh won’t do 300 miles on a car that weighs 5,500 lbs, that’s just ignoring basic physics - they’ll do 120-160 miles if you’re lucky and drive entirely slip-streaming behind trucks, you need at least a 120-150 kWh battery for a high profile SUV (with a higher drag coefficient) to attain reasonable range.

    No other analytical complaints besides those - the interior looks great.

    Curious to see how much this costs at MSRP









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    21 days ago

    I walked into a big bank ™ once looking to take out a loan.

    They said: “Sorry, we don’t do personal loans anymore.”

    I blinked for a moment and went: “You are a bank – who doesn’t do loans?

    She blinks back and says: “We do business loans, and we have mortgages but that’s all online. You can download our app.”

    I’m like: “Yes, but I came into the bank, to take a loan, in person.”

    She just stood there and smiled.

    I felt like I was taking crazy pills, but she told the truth. Most banks are for/about business transactions. Our personal accounts are a drop in the bucket for them. Even if they stand to make ~10% interest on a giant loan – it sometimes doesn’t pay for them to bother.

    That’s why capitalism will fall apart eventually – the idea of “too big to fail” and capital concentration removes the fear from these institutions in carrying out their basic purpose as defined in their corporate charters :)




  • Yeah, it’s definitely a vibe. I took a wormhole (time travel) to 1991, walked into a blockbuster and keeled over from nostalgia.

    Nostalgia is such a complex/convoluted feeling – you can’t have it if you didn’t have a past to draw the experience from, but when you do have it, it’s almost like a religious or philosophical experience both acknowledging and becrying (or grieving) the passage of time.

    Unfortunately, even with a “time machine”, we the people who walk through the portals are ever changed. We won’t ever live in the past again. We can see those places and experience them in our present states, but…

    Just like a glass shattering on the ground and the pieces scattering: Entropy cannot be undone.


  • I learned this technique – we called it “cutting off the head of the snake”.

    Traffic moves like water, and becoming fluid and just rolling sometimes can kill traffic completely, I was on a stretch of bright red (5-10 mph) that began moving at 55 MPH after patiently rolling – there was no actual reason for the traffic jam.