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Sure, I did make a couple comments between today and yesterday, including this one, so I'm not sure where the "gotcha" is here.
I signed in yesterday to check how a deletion script of mine would work and decided to scroll around. Yesterday I saw a social security thread that was some news I didn't come across yet, and today I saw this thread in my list of active threads as I tabbed back and it piqued my interest.
If you're curious about my future activity:
- In a day or two I'll be making an announcement post in an announcements community saying I have a tool to help purge user posts
- In about a week-10 days I'll make a final "hey! this instance is shutting down real soon!"
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To add on,
Go look at some of the downvoters (link me any thread, I'll pull the list of votes since I'm an instance admin). Some of the folks doing some of the downvoting spend an enormous amount of time on Lemmy.
It's probably why Lemmy's activity has been dying off except for the hyper-active power-users.
This is an endemic problem on Lemmy and is part of why I'm mostly done with it (I'm just lurking around right now to keep an eye on my instance I'm decommissioning).
There's no point in trying to build a community with a very hostile environment for anything that doesn't align with the very odd hostile-against-everything-not-OSS zeitgeist.
Take a look at !tesla@lemmy.world. The folks downvoting don't even own EVs and just spam bad takes on News and Politics communities.
Ironically Reddit is a healthier place.
Have fun being mad at the world. It isn't good for your blood pressure.
If you haven't made an effort to get ahead of the potential nonsense around social security with 40-50 years of notice, that's on you. The Republicans have made it no secret they've been wanting to tear it down, especially through the 90s.
I’m not a fan of raising it but you’re just incorrect and ought to look into how this works.
You can start pulling benefits out at 62 but you can collect more per month the longer you wait.
There is nothing stopping you from deciding at age 62 to start collecting if you’re fine with the lower amount.
Next, the amount provided is never promised. You pay into Social Security for current benefit recipients and Social Security gives you an estimated amount of benefits you may see. This is called out many times, and I implore you to utilize the information on its site effectively.
Here’s the disclaimer:
We can't provide your actual benefit amount until you apply for benefits. And that amount may differ from the retirement estimates because: …
- Your estimated benefits are based on current law. The law governing benefits amounts may change. Congress has made changes to the law in the past and can do so at any time.
Or there’s your take.
Life after high school is going to open your mind up.
Yeah I completely derped on who this backfired on… That explains my confusion 😂 the rest of my comment remains relevant after the first sentence
Edit: I’m an idiot and can’t read: I thought this was referring to backfiring on the reps, not TikTok. Original comment remains below:
The BBC should settle down lol, it didn’t backfire. Some group of aides took 900 calls, probably tallied it up on a few sticky notes, and passed them to a rep who tossed it in a bin.
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it unanimously passed committee (!!!)
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it’s practically certain to pass the house
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it’s practically certain to pass the senate
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it’s guaranteed to be signed by biden
To also add: in a call with the WSJ, Farley suggested that Ford may be switching the charge port location because they want to go full-in on interoperability with Tesla Supercharging stations.
> Most Supercharger cables at NACS Supercharger sites should be able to reach your EV charge port, however, in some cases you might have to park over the line in order to charge comfortably. Avoid parking diagonally to reach the cable and try to obstruct as few charge posts as possible. Charge port locations vary by EV model, which requires cable sharing between adjacent stalls at many sites. Tesla is rapidly deploying our latest V4 Supercharger post which reaches all EVs in the same Supercharger stall. Additionally, we encourage all vehicle manufacturers to standardize charge port locations to the rear driver side or front passenger side. > > We are working on an NACS to NACS extension cable, which will be available for purchase in the future.
Preventing corporations is one piece of the puzzle, the next is finding a way to not incentivize people using their owner-occupied houses as the retirement investment vehicle.
We won’t be able to build more houses if people keep justifying their votes for bad planning over this fear their house value will drop to zero.
I genuinely am curious where you're living that everyone's having a hard time putting a roof over their head. The stats simply don’t match this narrative in the overwhelming majority of areas in the US.
This outrageous hyperbole that you repeat day-in and day-out is just unproductive and, quite frankly, insulting to anyone wanting meaningful political discussion here.
Commenting the same things over and over on a political forum isn't going to change anything.
This intentionally ignores real-world context.
This article is from 2022. It's practically ancient in terms of very-short-term economic analysis.
I highly encourage you to look at more recent data.
Anyone else watching CSPAN just for the unhinged call-in comments?
Considering the literal hundreds of other poorly reasoned comments you make on here…
Biden was never a progressive president. He wasn’t running on anything close to a progressive platform. I’m not sure why in this, or literally a hundred of your other comments here that get responded to by others, is still a surprise.
I disagree with the logic of complaining about inflation then suggesting all of the money should’ve been distributed to individuals.
This is more of an emotional argument than logical…
The Verge is a site focusing on tech products and services.
I cannot believe anyone would find it surprising that they talk about tech products and services.
Welp, I have nothing to say to that kind of attitude. It’s a fairly decent day across much of the US and Europe for an uplifting walk outside.
Is it only news if it invokes strictly trite and sorrowful commentary?
Rivian confirmed that its EV owners are going to start having access to Tesla’s Supercharger network in March. With Ford...
![Rivian confirms Tesla Supercharger access in March](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/e8caf3f0-74ad-4412-a397-498656c23d54.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Boston is EV-friendly, but it needs more accessible chargers, so it's going to install hundreds of public curbside EV chargers.
![Boston is going is going big on installing curbside EV chargers](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/4376451d-cc3c-478f-8303-7628e74b5ee2.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Another year, another batch of various EVs claiming the crown of the IIHS Top Safety Pick+.
- 2024 Toyota Prius (I'm counting the hybrid in this, sue me)
- 2024 Hyundai Ioniq 6
- 2024 Genesis Electrified G80
- 2024 Genesis GV60
- 2024 Tesla Model Y
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We put a Tesla Cybertruck Foundation Series through the Edmunds EV Range Test, to get an accurate estimate of this electric pickup's real-world range. How'd the Cybertruck perform? Find out right here.
It’s surprisingly similar to Tesla’s so-called Magic Dock adapter.
![Here’s Your First Look At The NACS Adapter Ford EV Owners Will Get For Free](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/2a1db53f-4b8c-4f77-b91c-8fa6cd2c48f9.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Fisker's Ocean SUV now faces a second investigation from federal safety regulators, after complaints of the vehicle rolling away.
![Feds open second probe into Fisker's Ocean SUV after rollaway complaints | TechCrunch](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/7fa48458-74bc-4bd1-83e8-db141bdcc64b.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Democrats in the Virginia House of Delegates forced their Republican colleagues to take an up-or-down vote Monday on a sweeping anti-abortion bill one lawmaker called “a slap in the face” to women who have been raped or suffer life-threatening complications from a pregnancy.
![‘A slap in the face’: Va. House GOP forced to reject own member’s anti-abortion bill - WTOP News](https://dmv.social/pictrs/image/cb3be616-0111-4f85-99b6-e3595c8d4d4b.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
So for those not following VA politics, I'll do up a bit of a TL;DR:
Pre-Nov-2023:
- Governor: Republican
- Legislature: 1 house was Dem, 1 house was Republican
- Abortion was used to try to drum up support to make both legislative houses Republican in the Nov 2023 elections (among other things)
Nov 2023 elections happen.
- Plan backfires. Dems get both legislative houses, but Gov seat is still Republican.
New Legislative session starts for 2024.
- Republican filed a bill to remove funding for abortions
- Dems were like "lol no", wanted to bring a floor vote on the bill to get votes recorded on where everyone stands on it
- Republicans tried to revoke and water down bill, Dems were like "lol no"
- Dems forced the bill to floor vote
- Almost every single Republican decided to vote "no" on bill, so it failed by 97 votes (out of 100).
https://supercharge.info/map?siteID=7603
https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/supercharger-lost-hills-ca-highway-46e-permit-applied.316070/
Permit: https://twitter.com/MarcoRPi1/status/1757117378981191693/photo/1
CEO Jim Farley says that eligible Mustang Mach-E and F-150 Lightning owners in the U.S. and Canada can reserve the OEM adapter soon.
![Ford Will Offer Free Adapters For Tesla’s Supercharging Network This Spring](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/00049c57-4986-4200-a465-febd53f7cae3.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
GM is investigating what caused two of its big electric delivery vans made for BrightDrop commercial customers to catch fire last month.
![GM recalls dozens of electric BrightDrop vans after two caught fire.](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/c59d6d82-879d-451a-9a86-e132e79e0ab2.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Tesla’s Chinese team, the same that was behind the Model 3 facelift, is apparently responsible for the update.
![Redesigned Tesla Model Y On Track To Debut In Mid 2024: Report](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/623200b3-45fa-427f-ae64-8a16fe3f3311.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Rivian will manufacture the next-generation R2-platform-based electric SUV at the upcoming Georgia plant.
![Rivian's $5 Billion Expansion Plans Finally Moving Forward](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/a9fb5672-e06b-4b49-965c-9940b5efbb89.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Tesla has confirmed the first two automakers to adopt their electric vehicle (EV) charging technology, Ford and General Motors, will gain access to the Supercharger network in February. Tesla had previously committed to opening up […]
![Tesla to open Supercharger network to Ford and GM in February](https://dmv.social/pictrs/image/19b4f652-a6f9-4906-bcac-b5a50708ec5c.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Looks like GM and Ford are soon able to join the NACS charging party!
With hundreds of supercharger sites (not chargers, sites!) deployed since the original announcements, it'll be interesting to see what impact this has on charger availability, if any.
SAE has finalized its NACS certification effort, and the new standard promises to fix a *lot* of the current issues with EV charging.
Great news everyone!
> [Electrek] had another chat with Rodney McGee, Ph.D., of the University of Delaware, who chaired SAE’s NACS task force, and told us that the new standard will be announced on Tuesday.
In October, without any surprise, the number of new all-electric car registrations in the United States increased once again.
![U.S. BEV Registrations Exceeded 100,000 For The Second Time Ever In October 2023](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/f938f683-230e-42c6-9c4a-46bee8f30d2a.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
And the most interesting blip of data around total BEV registrations:
> Total: 955,509 (up 58%) and 7.4% market share (vs. 5.6% a year ago)
Or roughly, BEVs were 1 in ~18 of new registrations last year and are now closer to 1 in ~13.
A new complaint with the FTC alleges that Toyota is engaging in false and misleading marketing of its vehicles, leading...
![FTC complaint filed against Toyota over its false electrification claims](https://dmv.social/pictrs/image/e9390c1e-ef00-4beb-93cb-f484e0287fe9.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Public Citizen filed a complaint against the FTC regarding Toyota’s advertising strategy with their Hybrid vehicles
Original source: https://www.citizen.org/article/ftc-toyotas-misleading-advertising/
Edit: Removed “primarily with non-plug-in hybrids” from description
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