The mach-e is a great option. The pricing has come down enough to make it a comparable against the model Y. It’s not as small as a model 3, but it definitely doesn’t feel as big as it is.

If you’re looking for a similar class EV, I just got the mach-e and I love it.

There was something about the i4 I just didn’t like. I think it was how it felt kind of like an m3 to me. In the sense that if all you care about is going fast, then it’s a great car, but it’s not the luxury of the 5 or 7 series, which is what I think of when I think of BMW.

I’m too old for a car like that, and don’t drive enough to justify the i5 price, so I went economical (in comparison at least) with the mach-e. It’s fun to drive, has enough gitty-up-and-go for me, and it’s comfortable.

Though I got reeeeeeally close to saying fuck it and getting the i5.

Because it’s not that easy. Batteries are big, people want 250+ miles on a charge and battery tech isn’t there for standard sedans and smaller.

I just went through this and ended up with the mach-e (which I’m very happy with) but it still weighs about as much as my minivan (almost 5000lbs).

I just got the Ford Mach-e last weekend and I’m super happy with it.

As someone who has only been training for a couple years, that’s the point, no? Martial Arts is a self defense. The first lesson is always de-escalation and then removing yourself from the situation.

Learning foreign languages can definitely be a hobby.

Started getting into martial arts a few years ago (late in life). Stretch and train almost every day, I’m nowhere near close to being able to do a split. At some point, it definitely takes more than just practice.

I’m not saying it isn’t possible, I’ve seen guys older than me do it, but age, sex and past experience and training definitely play large factors. My wife doesn’t stretch at all, hasn’t exercised on a regular basis since she was in highschool (she was in cheer) and she could get a LOT closer to a full split than I can.

I feel like it’s far more likely the commenter was making a joke. I think the give away was when they referenced a post-human world populated by talking lions.

I don’t know. I find it to be a helpful tool. There’s definitely times it’s wrong (very very wrong sometimes) and there’s sometimes it’s right. It’s up to the user to figure that out.

Maybe I’m old and cynical, but I don’t take anything I read on the Internet, especially something automatically generated, at face value. It’s just another tool I could use to help get to the answer I’m looking for.

If you’re using AI verbatim without looking up answers and verifying results, then that’s on you.

When you Google something, do you take the first result and just assume it’s fact? You shouldn’t for AI either.

Maybe you just need a Snickers?

Can’t figure out if this is a joke or serious, so just in case, you might want to look up what happened to the Library of Alexandria.

That’s kind of the problem, you don’t have to do any research to know Musk’s politics and why he’s a shithead. He makes sure everyone knows it.

It’s one thing to have a political opinion, it’s a whole other thing when you spend 40 billion dollars to make damn well sure everyone knows what it is.

The Mach E is at the top of my list currently. It would be a great replacement for the Model 3. The only thing the Model 3 really has over the Mach E is the range, but since Ford can charge at Tesla chargers, it’s not really an issue.

There’s a bunch of trucks that do reverse charging now. The Rivian R2 supports it, the R1 was supposed to as well but I’m not sure if that OTA update went out yet. So does the new Silverado EV (which is soooo much cooler than the Cybertruck IMO). There’s probably more, but those are the two off the top of my head.

It was something I was also interested in until I realized I really don’t want a truck.

Check out some of his novellas like The Langoliers, If It Bleeds, Elevation, etc. They are shorter reads (for King at least, usually only a couple hundred pages) and generally get straight to the point (instead of spending a chapter describing a scene).

That and his short stories are some of his best work. It might make you want to jump into some of his more iconic stuff or allow you to realize you don’t love his writing style and save you a couple thousand pages.

The Boogeyman is my favorite short story from him. Jerusalem’s Lot is also the short story that Salem’s Lot comes from. Another great read.

The gunslinger is definitely a hard one to get going (but it does get going) because he was super young when he wrote it (I think he was like 19 or something like that) but overall the Dark Tower series is one of the best pieces of fiction I’ve ever read. Especially if you’re familiar with his world building (lots of books live within the Dark Tower universe like The Stand, Salem’s Lot, even The Shining to an extent). It also has one of the most memorable open lines of any book series “The man in black fled across the desert, and the gun slinger followed”.

It was more than just the phone books. Back before smart phones, if you needed to look up a phone number you’d call information (411) and they’d look it up for you. For instance, if you were stuck on the side of the road and needed a tow truck.

Information would be able to look up businesses close to where you were using the NPA/NXX of the phone number you were calling from (the first six digits of the number including the area code) and then give you a couple options in alphabetical order.

I had a client who had a phone number in every exchange in NYC and had a name like “AAA Towing” so no matter where in NYC you called information for a tow truck from, they’d usually be the first option given to you.

They’re not hurting the people they need to be hurting.