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  • As an owner of a recent one, but before Musk’s issues got so hard to ignore, it has good quality, as did everyone I look at. Tesla had some very well publicized quality issues, when they were hand-building the first vehicles, scaling up the model 3, and trying to build the very different technology of the cybertruck, but their normal, recent cars seem fine

    As a gadget freak, teslas have many features that just don’t exist on other vehicles. Has any other manufacturer even gotten over-the-air updates right?

    Several of the other vehicles you mentioned aren’t available in the US. We can expect increased protectionism so they never will be.

    At least at the time, my Tesla was the lowest price EV with capabilities I wanted. The incentives made a huge difference but I don’t think it would qualify anymore plus they appear to be getting cancelled

    We did have a wave of vehicles expected over the next couple years that may give some competition, if those legacy manufacturers don’t retreat to selling ICE trucks and SUVs only. However GM botching the Trailblazer, and Volkswagen screwing up the software on their attempts do not bode well. Hyundai/Kia has some good possibilities. The high end has several good possibilities but for too high a price and too low a volume




  • AA5B@lemmy.worldtopics@lemmy.worldEggs are 10.99 in denver.
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    Most groceries here don’t post prices online, but ……

    Boston Metro West - Amazon Fresh eggs from “Whole Foods”, not the cheapest grocery, $4.49/doz grade a large brown. My regular grocery is much cheaper than “Whole Paycheck” for most things.

    No taxes on food here, although Amazon Fresh has a delivery charge.

    I imagine the huge disparity of prices is that culling due to bird flu must be regional and our chickens must not be infected yet



  • We’re only talking eggs here, this is not an indicator of general inflation.

    We had that too so prices are higher over say five years, but as far as I know, general inflation is under control. The biggest problem there is all the price increases blamed on “global supply chain disruption” from a couple years back: why haven’t they gone away since the disruption has?





  • TCAS is … suppressed at low altitude by design,

    Yep so that may not have helped

    and city lights do not interfere with it.

    But they do interfere with what you can see, and they were told to see and avoid

    Every runway at washington national is in a different direction, it would be a different approach entirely and not a last minute change

    Jets head toward their expected pattern from quite a few miles out. Tower changed their runway, so they needed to adjust. You’re right that there’s no indication it was last minute, but it was a change from their plan and change brings risk

    The helicopter pilot seeing the wrong plane is a likely explanation. There were other planes in the area. The controller warned of the traffic. The pilot confirmed having the plane in sight.

    Distance and heading can be difficult to judge, especially in the clutter at low altitude. Maybe they saw a different plane. Maybe they saw a parking lot light




  • Decades ago (half a century ago) people believed energy production and usage was directly tied to growth. If your energy wasn’t growing, neither was your economy. If your energy per person started shrinking, that’s an oh shit moment …. Or so people believed back then.

    Then the last half century happened. Energy production plateaued , yet economic growth continued. Per person energy usage decreased yet the economy did well a lot of the time

    It turns out that correlation may have appeared in a manufacturing economy, but it’s not at all correlated when you have huge efficiency gains while also transitioning to more of a service economy