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Fermented Tinal
Aug 25, 2005

by Pragmatica

Metal Geir Skogul posted:

Looks like either a BA7S or a BA9S.

BA7S, figured it out about 5 minutes after I posted.

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Liquid Communism
Mar 9, 2004

коммунизм хранится в яичках

ilkhan posted:

My brain isn't parsing that. What?

Much of the western 2/3 of the country, and a lot of the non-coastal Northeast and South, are really, really loving empty. Most of this area doesn't have the power infrastructure to support any major uptake in electric vehicles. Even in dense places like California, local grids haven't kept up with population booms, so they're already seeing brown-outs from air conditioning.



Until hybrid and electric ranges in the lower price bands get vastly better, they're not going to even get a second look in much of the country. Combine that with the consumer need to be able to do a week's shopping in a trip while hauling the family because it's not worth a half hour drive back and forth every time you need a roll of TP, and you see demand for more cargo space and hauling capacity than most of those vehicles offer at present as well.

Where I think the car companies are really missing right now as far as possible efficiency gains is not bringing stronger 4-cylinder offerings in the light truck and small SUV markets at a less than premium price point.

briefcasefullof
Sep 25, 2004
[This Space for Rent]
I'm in one of those super dense places on the map above (Davidson Co, TN), and there's not that many charging stations. There's a few, but they are still pretty uncommon. We considered an electric car, but there's no stations, really, and we take a lot of road trips. Again, population is spread out pretty far and visiting family takes us out of the range of one charge of an electric car - and there's no stations in between despite being on an interstate. There's barely any gas stations, even.


I saw a Spyder with the tags "ITZBITZ". Couldn't snag a picture, but I found it amusing.

Ether Frenzy
Dec 22, 2006




Nap Ghost
So I bought another car to join the M3 because I happened to look at craigslist yesterday, It's a '92, 68k miles, 1 old-man California owner, no rust anywhere. Everything mechanical works like it was 1995, even the radio/power antenna work. Has new tires, the original key, no shithead PO's, $3800 out the door. Pulls hard and strong and I'm wondering how come no one around here ever mentions how good Miatas are. Look at those motherfucking wheels, they're glorious.


Rhyno
Mar 22, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!

Ether Frenzy posted:

So I bought another car to join the M3 because I happened to look at craigslist yesterday, It's a '92, 68k miles, 1 old-man California owner, no rust anywhere. Everything mechanical works like it was 1995, even the radio/power antenna work. Has new tires, the original key, no shithead PO's, $3800 out the door. Pulls hard and strong and I'm wondering how come no one around here ever mentions how good Miatas are. Look at those motherfucking wheels, they're glorious.




Gorgeous!

OBAMNA PHONE
Aug 7, 2002

Seminal Flu posted:

gently caress the steaming pile of cancer that is YouTube targeted to kids.

I've got a traumatized 8 year old, because my dumbfuck brother-in-law and his wife don't pay any attention to what their kids watch.

We were at a family gathering on Saturday and my 8 year old girl ran off to play with their 10 year old girl. Just like they always do. Except, after that, she's been inconsolable with her crying about this scary video the 10 year old showed her.

What did she describe? The exact scene of 4:30-ish here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tjd8no-9Eo

Holy gently caress. That whole douche bag's channel is a steaming pile of cancer. And that video should NEVER be seen by anyone, much less a 10 year old.

I've got my kids on a pretty solid supervisory system. They know I watch what they watch and I search their history. They have NEVER strayed... it's just not in them right now. But now I'm uber-pissed off about this, because I don't even know how to deal with an absolutely innocent 8 year old having seen that poo poo, explaining it to her that it's meant to scare adults, and it's only makeup and scary camera shots, and then have her say "I know that in my brain, but my eyes keep seeing it" as she sobs.

gently caress people.

the scene at 4:30 isnt nearly as bad as the one after it

the whole genre of 'reaction' videos is entirely traaaasshhh



i think your kid will be ok soon but i did see poltergeist at a pretty young age and it scared the poo poo out of me for a long while

INCHI DICKARI
Aug 23, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
The ones for Cattle Decapitation's 'Forced Gender Reassignment' are pretty great

The Door Frame
Dec 5, 2011

I don't know man everytime I go to the gym here there are like two huge dudes with raging high and tights snorting Nitro-tech off of each other's rock hard abs.
The rabbit hole that is YouTube Kids is a loving terrifying place, there's basically no oversight unless it gets reported X amount of times. Remember when YouTube deleted hundreds of thousands of videos and disabled comments on nearly a million more because pedophiles were forming a real community on their site? If it wasn't for ad companies pulling out, YouTube would've been happy to let sexual predators stay there and keep uploading videos

I want to say that it's like being on the Newgrounds Flash Portal and kids should be allowed to experience the freedom that I had as a largely unsupervised child on the internet, but it's not the same as it was 20 years ago

randomidiot
May 12, 2006

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 11 years!)

WE HAVE ANOTHER CONTENDER... er, I mean, My little Tupperware party at my place this weekend. TT, bring yer Redline.



Another 06. Slight step down (Ion 2 instead of Ion 3) - losing automatic headlights, 5 way adjustable seat, silver gauges, and fog lights. Still has keyless entry, power locks, power windows, sunroof, etc. Has a few issues (sunroof doesn't work, hvac blower crapped out on the drive back to Austin, power mirrors don't seem to work). But it wasn't advertised as having a sunroof.. or power windows, or keyless entry, or power mirrors, or cruise control. The ac was blowing cold until the blower stopped, according to gf. 130k, and she says it drives a lot better than mine did last time she drove it. It's also missing all the knobs from the HVAC controls, but I can yank any needed parts from the silver one.

GF said it drives a lot better than the silver one did - better clutch feel, no dead spot in the steering. I'm picking it up from her this weekend. :woop:

Pretty fair price on it, especially for a dealer. Carfax shows mostly dealer maintenance for most of its life, and regular (3-5k) oil changes. I'm going to do oil changes more often on this one than I did with the silver one, it seems the silver one has low compression on #1 when cold now (also a bad enough misfire on #1 when cold to cause a flashing CEL + thick cloud of blue smoke for about 30 seconds, if it's sat more than 24 hours).

randomidiot fucked around with this message at 07:12 on Apr 12, 2018

cakesmith handyman
Jul 22, 2007

Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

Nice, can you swap your 5 way seat into it? Lack of foglights has got to be a plus with the number of times you complained about not finding a bumper at the jy.

randomidiot
May 12, 2006

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 11 years!)

The seat bolts right in. The pattern on the upholstery won't match, but it's the same color. If I wanted everything to match, I'd have to swap all of the seats.

But the padding in the 5 way is just... gone. The upholstery isn't torn, but the left bolster looks like a 90 year old man's scrotum - it's just hanging there, for the entire world to see, and the rear end padding is worn heavily. If I did swap it, my OCD would want me to swap all the other seats, which is fine, that's not a big deal - the rest are practically new aside from some sun fading, since the car has rarely ever had passengers in it. I haven't seen it in person yet, but she said the seat "doesn't poke [her] in the rear end" like mine did.

Just finding a coupe bumper at the JY is hard enough. Finding an 06-07 one is harder (03-05 is different, not quite sure how, since the rest of the front bodywork is the same). Finding an 06-07 bumper with fogs isn't happening.

We actually do get a fair bit of fog here in the spring and fall; i had yellow bulbs in the fogs, so they actually did something a bit more useful than the stock bulbs. I would really prefer to keep fogs; I'm going to have to see if the wiring for the switch and lights is already there. If it is, I'll just hack them in. If the wiring isn't there, too much :effort: to graft in the factory ones.

She's bringing it up here Friday, and staying the weekend. I've already swapped the cars on my insurance and added her as a driver, and sent her a PDF of the insurance card. I'm turning in the rental car Saturday morning, and driving her back to Austin on Sunday (and of course staying the night, because why would I drive 3 hours each way without showing my appreciation for going through the trouble of finding another car? I need to get viagra or cialis before then...). Also need to buy her coworker a case of beer, some booze, or whatever he prefers to drink; he drove nearly 2 hours with her to get the car, then drove her car back.

randomidiot fucked around with this message at 07:26 on Apr 12, 2018

dee eight
Dec 18, 2002

The Spirit
of Maynard

:catdrugs:

Liquid Communism posted:

Where I think the car companies are really missing right now as far as possible efficiency gains is not bringing stronger 4-cylinder offerings in the light truck market at a less than premium price point.

Please yes I want it.

I drove an '84 Toyota pickup for ~25 years and I loved it dearly. Ask ol' gramps to tell you the story of The Dirtmobile.

LloydDobler
Oct 15, 2005

You shared it with a dick.

Seminal Flu posted:

gently caress the steaming pile of cancer that is YouTube targeted to kids.

I've got a traumatized 8 year old, because my dumbfuck brother-in-law and his wife don't pay any attention to what their kids watch.

We were at a family gathering on Saturday and my 8 year old girl ran off to play with their 10 year old girl. Just like they always do. Except, after that, she's been inconsolable with her crying about this scary video the 10 year old showed her.

What did she describe? The exact scene of 4:30-ish here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tjd8no-9Eo

Holy gently caress. That whole douche bag's channel is a steaming pile of cancer. And that video should NEVER be seen by anyone, much less a 10 year old.

I've got my kids on a pretty solid supervisory system. They know I watch what they watch and I search their history. They have NEVER strayed... it's just not in them right now. But now I'm uber-pissed off about this, because I don't even know how to deal with an absolutely innocent 8 year old having seen that poo poo, explaining it to her that it's meant to scare adults, and it's only makeup and scary camera shots, and then have her say "I know that in my brain, but my eyes keep seeing it" as she sobs.

gently caress people.

Are you saying that was available on the kids filtered version of youtube? Or is it not caught by the regular 18-up filter? I monitored use with my daughter very heavily too so I never used any of their filtering. I also started showing her scarier PG movies at around that age but nothing like that clip.

I had a similar problem when my daughter saw the walking dead for the first time, around age 10. She'd seen lots of action movies and blood/gore never bothered her even when I showed it to her too young. She figured out the "it's not real" detachment pretty early on. But there was something different about the walking dead that just hosed her up, she had nightmares for a few weeks straight. I felt terrible, I was sure she could handle it but was wrong. Ironically she still loved the show and refused to stop watching it, and it became a joke between us soon after. We'd have exchanges like this: "Are you sure you want to watch this?" "Yes Yes Yes". "You're not going to have nightmares?" "Oh I'm definitely going to have nightmares."

I went through the same thing when I saw the head exploding scene in Scanners back in the early 80's. Of course it was at a friend's house, it seemed all my friends had cable TV and no supervision when I was in junior high. I was either 11 or 12 and it took me about a month to stop having serious nightmares about that one.

Which I guess is the only consolation, you could just reassure her that the more time that goes by, it will bother her less, until one day she tells stories about how scared she was when she saw it. The other thing I do with my daughter when she gets worked up is a go-to thing to think about that makes her feel really good. I usually talk about family vacations to the beach and it takes her right to a happy place. But yeah, sorry you're going through that, probably the worst feeling a parent can have is watching your kid suffer in any way.

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

:h:


Watching poo poo like Robocop at 8 was a trip, the execution scene at the start where Murphy's hand gets blown off has stuck with me foreverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr (though it didn't scar me, I'm just amazed to this day it was allowed in a movie, poo poo was hyper violent).

meatpimp
May 15, 2004

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:kheldragar:

BraveUlysses posted:

the scene at 4:30 isnt nearly as bad as the one after it

the whole genre of 'reaction' videos is entirely traaaasshhh

i think your kid will be ok soon but i did see poltergeist at a pretty young age and it scared the poo poo out of me for a long while

I didn't watch past the 4:30 scene, apparently the 10 year old had already seen it and determined that the scene that followed was too scary. :fuckoff:

I talked with her about it some more and she said that knowing it was a mask helped her make sense of it. She's tough, she'll figure it out... I'm just pissed that she has to.


LloydDobler posted:

Are you saying that was available on the kids filtered version of youtube? Or is it not caught by the regular 18-up filter? I monitored use with my daughter very heavily too so I never used any of their filtering. I also started showing her scarier PG movies at around that age but nothing like that clip.

I had a similar problem when my daughter saw the walking dead for the first time, around age 10. She'd seen lots of action movies and blood/gore never bothered her even when I showed it to her too young. She figured out the "it's not real" detachment pretty early on. But there was something different about the walking dead that just hosed her up, she had nightmares for a few weeks straight. I felt terrible, I was sure she could handle it but was wrong. Ironically she still loved the show and refused to stop watching it, and it became a joke between us soon after. We'd have exchanges like this: "Are you sure you want to watch this?" "Yes Yes Yes". "You're not going to have nightmares?" "Oh I'm definitely going to have nightmares."

I went through the same thing when I saw the head exploding scene in Scanners back in the early 80's. Of course it was at a friend's house, it seemed all my friends had cable TV and no supervision when I was in junior high. I was either 11 or 12 and it took me about a month to stop having serious nightmares about that one.

Which I guess is the only consolation, you could just reassure her that the more time that goes by, it will bother her less, until one day she tells stories about how scared she was when she saw it. The other thing I do with my daughter when she gets worked up is a go-to thing to think about that makes her feel really good. I usually talk about family vacations to the beach and it takes her right to a happy place. But yeah, sorry you're going through that, probably the worst feeling a parent can have is watching your kid suffer in any way.

This was not on kid's youtube, it was on regular. I know it's unmonitored and unfiltered, that's why my 8 year old doesn't have access to it. (I know there's problems with kid's youtube, too, but from what I've seen, that's more of a fringe problem... my girl watches Dr. Squish, puppy vids, DIYs and these weird "family" shows that are just a camera in front of a family of attention whores doing stuff... not my thing, but no real harm in any of that).

I made the mistake of assuming my in-laws had some kind of control or oversight of what their kids watch, and their response was a virtual shoulder shrug, so that's a problem for me... hell, if a parent comes to me with an issue regarding my child, I assume it's the truth, just because poo poo happens in life... I can't stand people that stick their heads in the sand and pretend that their snowflakes are the mostest preciousest things out there. A little bit of responsibility-taking goes a long way.

I was into scary stuff early on, Fangoria, the Dawn of the Dead series, stuff like that, but even that was ~12 years old or so... the line between something young kids should see and what they should really not see can be super thin now.

I talked to her about it and last night was better, she'll be okay. I'm still pissed, though.

Edit: Followup -- just got a text from my BiL. His 10 year old came to him crying this morning and copped to everything. So now he believes her and he apologized for the situation. That makes it okay with me, but it's still not cool that he couldn't see through his 10 year old's bullshit, in spite of overwhelming evidence. :shrug:

meatpimp fucked around with this message at 13:59 on Apr 12, 2018

Siochain
May 24, 2005

"can they get rid of any humans who are fans of shitheads like Kanye West, 50 Cent, or any other piece of crap "artist" who thinks they're all that?

And also get rid of anyone who has posted retarded shit on the internet."


Liquid Communism posted:

Where I think the car companies are really missing right now as far as possible efficiency gains is not bringing stronger 4-cylinder offerings in the light truck and small SUV markets at a less than premium price point.

Ayup. Give me a cheap 4-cyl pickup that's peppy at low speeds, good on gas, and that I can haul a load of lumber/tow a small trailer comfortably with, and I'm happy. I mean, I love my Tundra, but jesus gently caress that V8 sucks gas faster than gun chat sucks the fun out of AI (jokes, jokes). I miss my old Tacoma - it was at least a bit better on gas.

The Door Frame
Dec 5, 2011

I don't know man everytime I go to the gym here there are like two huge dudes with raging high and tights snorting Nitro-tech off of each other's rock hard abs.

Siochain posted:

Ayup. Give me a cheap 4-cyl pickup that's peppy at low speeds, good on gas, and that I can haul a load of lumber/tow a small trailer comfortably with, and I'm happy. I mean, I love my Tundra, but jesus gently caress that V8 sucks gas faster than gun chat sucks the fun out of AI (jokes, jokes). I miss my old Tacoma - it was at least a bit better on gas.

I love tow capacity conspiracy theories, I even kind of believe them when looking at the numbers. The 1.5L Toyota Yaris with its weak rear end engine is rated for 1500lbs in the UK, but isn't rated for any weight at all in the US. Most tiny econoboxes are rated for about 1000-1500lbs in the UK, but even small trucks and SUV's are barely rated for 2000lbs in the US

Ferremit
Sep 14, 2007
if I haven't posted about MY LANDCRUISER yet, check my bullbars for kangaroo prints

Even In my late 20’s Event Horizon would give me hosed up dreams and poo poo sleep for about a week. Something bout that movie creeps the gently caress out of me

Fermented Tinal
Aug 25, 2005

by Pragmatica

Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:

The seat bolts right in. The pattern on the upholstery won't match, but it's the same color. If I wanted everything to match, I'd have to swap all of the seats.

But the padding in the 5 way is just... gone. The upholstery isn't torn, but the left bolster looks like a 90 year old man's scrotum - it's just hanging there, for the entire world to see, and the rear end padding is worn heavily.

Can you swap the ion2 seat onto the 5 way's frame?

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

:h:


Ferremit posted:

Even In my late 20’s Event Horizon would give me hosed up dreams and poo poo sleep for about a week. Something bout that movie creeps the gently caress out of me

"...is that guy eating his own loving arm?!"

and other assorted pits of insanity you see extremely briefly in that video clip.

NitroSpazzz
Dec 9, 2006

You don't need style when you've got strength!


Siochain posted:

Ayup. Give me a cheap 4-cyl pickup that's peppy at low speeds, good on gas, and that I can haul a load of lumber/tow a small trailer comfortably with, and I'm happy. I mean, I love my Tundra, but jesus gently caress that V8 sucks gas faster than gun chat sucks the fun out of AI (jokes, jokes). I miss my old Tacoma - it was at least a bit better on gas.
Small basic pickup trucks are the best kind because how often do you really need to haul 5k pounds of poo poo in the bed or pull a 10k trailer. My Dad was down a year or so ago and used the Courier for running around while he was in town. The second he heard I was thinking about selling it he asked how much then wrote a check for it. That stupid little thing is a beast.

The Door Frame posted:

I love tow capacity conspiracy theories, I even kind of believe them when looking at the numbers. The 1.5L Toyota Yaris with its weak rear end engine is rated for 1500lbs in the UK, but isn't rated for any weight at all in the US. Most tiny econoboxes are rated for about 1000-1500lbs in the UK, but even small trucks and SUV's are barely rated for 2000lbs in the US
I get a lot of looks, and poo poo, for towing with my golf but it works great and in Europe it isn't unusual at all. I have a basic class 1 receiver but I've had it loaded down several times and it's performed great while still getting 40+ mpg.

Darchangel
Feb 12, 2009

Tell him about the blower!


The Door Frame posted:

I love tow capacity conspiracy theories, I even kind of believe them when looking at the numbers. The 1.5L Toyota Yaris with its weak rear end engine is rated for 1500lbs in the UK, but isn't rated for any weight at all in the US. Most tiny econoboxes are rated for about 1000-1500lbs in the UK, but even small trucks and SUV's are barely rated for 2000lbs in the US

I think the prevailing theory on that is partially due to the prevalence of high speed highways in the US versus the UK, and possibly the litigious environment in the US.

As far as small pickup availability, a young friend of mine was talking about this. His '80s B2000 got wiped out by an inattentive driver, so he was looking at getting a replacement. His dad was being a dick about him buying a used car, so he was looking for a new Toyota Tacoma 4 cylinder single cab 4x4. He was having difficulty finding anything. They all seemed to V6 4-doors, with prices approaching a full-sized Tundra, enough so that you would be stupid to not just step up to a Tundra. A coworker had the same issue with Chevy's Colorado. Sort of a chicken and egg problem. Dealers don't order base model 4-bangers because people don't buy them, but they can't buy them because no one has them. Cheap gas doesn't help.
I definitely don't want to pay $35K for a "small" pickup, not even getting into the fact that the Tacoma and Colorado aren't really that much smaller than their full-sized equivalent.

InitialDave
Jun 14, 2007

I Want To Believe.

The Door Frame posted:

I love tow capacity conspiracy theories, I even kind of believe them when looking at the numbers. The 1.5L Toyota Yaris with its weak rear end engine is rated for 1500lbs in the UK, but isn't rated for any weight at all in the US. Most tiny econoboxes are rated for about 1000-1500lbs in the UK, but even small trucks and SUV's are barely rated for 2000lbs in the US
I believe we've discussed this before, and there was a strong argument on the side of "People are too loving stupid to stick to ratings, so better to not let them tow anything".

On the other side of this, when you are allowed to tow, you get a much higher weight than we do. My licence is a joke in terms of towing limit.

InitialDave
Jun 14, 2007

I Want To Believe.

Darchangel posted:

I think the prevailing theory on that is partially due to the prevalence of high speed highways in the US versus the UK, and possibly the litigious environment in the US.
But you don't really drive that fast, and the average annual mileage people drive is little different.

The average US highway is little different to a UK motorway, really.

Darchangel
Feb 12, 2009

Tell him about the blower!


NitroSpazzz posted:

Small basic pickup trucks are the best kind because how often do you really need to haul 5k pounds of poo poo in the bed or pull a 10k trailer. My Dad was down a year or so ago and used the Courier for running around while he was in town. The second he heard I was thinking about selling it he asked how much then wrote a check for it. That stupid little thing is a beast.

I get a lot of looks, and poo poo, for towing with my golf but it works great and in Europe it isn't unusual at all. I have a basic class 1 receiver but I've had it loaded down several times and it's performed great while still getting 40+ mpg.

I have a class 3 on my Crown Vic. It's V8 and perimeter frame. As long as I don't overload the rear springs, it'll be fine. Not going to be towing a 17' car trailer with a car on it or anything. Funnily enough, my 2.5L Jeep Cherokee was rated for higher loads, despite being unibody and 2.5L, thanks to leaf springs. That thing once towed a HF 4x8 trailer full of 3 layers of pavers. It towed it just fine. Stopping was... well, it required pre-planning, because that little poo poo just flat out didn't weigh enough, and the trailer would shove the thing across an intersection with the brakes locked.

Darchangel
Feb 12, 2009

Tell him about the blower!


InitialDave posted:

But you don't really drive that fast, and the average annual mileage people drive is little different.

The average US highway is little different to a UK motorway, really.

Well, *I* don't drive that fast when towing, but you should see some of the idiots out there on the highway.
An, no, a US highway isn't really any different from a motorway, but we ha a whole lot more of them. Whether that figures in, I'm not sure. Your previous post is probably closer to the truth.

LloydDobler
Oct 15, 2005

You shared it with a dick.

Olympic Mathlete posted:

Watching poo poo like Robocop at 8 was a trip, the execution scene at the start where Murphy's hand gets blown off has stuck with me foreverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr (though it didn't scar me, I'm just amazed to this day it was allowed in a movie, poo poo was hyper violent).

Agreed 100%. It didn't give me nightmares but I had this sick feeling in my stomach for a few days after watching that. I think that was the first movie since Clockwork Orange where the criminals were reveling in their evil and enjoying taunting their victims as they tortured them in that over the top way, and it bothered the poo poo out of me. "Well give the man a hand!"

Seminal Flu posted:

Edit: Followup -- just got a text from my BiL. His 10 year old came to him crying this morning and copped to everything. So now he believes her and he apologized for the situation. That makes it okay with me, but it's still not cool that he couldn't see through his 10 year old's bullshit, in spite of overwhelming evidence. :shrug:

Oh wow, you didn't mention that they were denying it. That'd piss me off too. At least if everyone's on the same level you can all talk about what is ok and what isn't, and make sure it doesn't happen again.

Fermented Tinal
Aug 25, 2005

by Pragmatica

Darchangel posted:

I think the prevailing theory on that is partially due to the prevalence of high speed highways in the US versus the UK, and possibly the litigious environment in the US.

As far as small pickup availability, a young friend of mine was talking about this. His '80s B2000 got wiped out by an inattentive driver, so he was looking at getting a replacement. His dad was being a dick about him buying a used car, so he was looking for a new Toyota Tacoma 4 cylinder single cab 4x4. He was having difficulty finding anything. They all seemed to V6 4-doors, with prices approaching a full-sized Tundra, enough so that you would be stupid to not just step up to a Tundra. A coworker had the same issue with Chevy's Colorado. Sort of a chicken and egg problem. Dealers don't order base model 4-bangers because people don't buy them, but they can't buy them because no one has them. Cheap gas doesn't help.
I definitely don't want to pay $35K for a "small" pickup, not even getting into the fact that the Tacoma and Colorado aren't really that much smaller than their full-sized equivalent.

This is a real shame, I had a similar experience around the time I bought my land cruiser. I wasn't looking for a 40yo project truck, but a 4cyl 5spd manual Regular Cab Tacoma. In 2011 they weren't even offered in Canada and I looked into buying one in the States as they were still offered down there. I tried about a dozen dealerships but couldn't find a single regular cab, or 5spd. If I wanted a 4cyl, had to be auto and access cab or double cab, if I wanted a stick had to be v6 with the failure-prone 6spd and double cab. Someone turned me onto the cruiser as I lamented to them about how hard it was to find the truck I wanted and the rest is history.

Applebees Appetizer
Jan 23, 2006

Seminal Flu posted:

Edit: Followup -- just got a text from my BiL. His 10 year old came to him crying this morning and copped to everything. So now he believes her and he apologized for the situation. That makes it okay with me, but it's still not cool that he couldn't see through his 10 year old's bullshit, in spite of overwhelming evidence. :shrug:

Not surprised at all with that. A neighbor of ours whos child was kind of friends with my son never did anything wrong, even tho I myself witnessed him blast another much younger kid in the face with a soccer ball point blank and told his idiot mother, she refused to believe it happened because the kid denied it. Ok, you want to play that game? From them on, any time the kid sneezed in the wrong direction I sent him home and he eventually just stopped coming around. Buh-bye!

Really tho man, you have to expect poo poo like that to happen and just be prepared to deal with it because it's not good to be a helicopter parent, you just have to hope they learn from it.

ilkhan
Oct 7, 2004

I LOVE Musk and his pro-first-amendment ways. X is the future.

Siochain posted:

Ayup. Give me a cheap 4-cyl pickup that's peppy at low speeds, good on gas, and that I can haul a load of lumber/tow a small trailer comfortably with, and I'm happy. I mean, I love my Tundra, but jesus gently caress that V8 sucks gas faster than gun chat sucks the fun out of AI (jokes, jokes). I miss my old Tacoma - it was at least a bit better on gas.
So get a new Tacoma? Or the upcoming ranger has the 2.3EB in it. Should be fun and decent on gas.

The one thing I'd love to see on my F150 is a turbo lockout button. Because when they spool, and they spool pretty easily/often, the mileage goes out the tailpipe.

Fermented Tinal
Aug 25, 2005

by Pragmatica

ilkhan posted:

So get a new Tacoma?

Did you not see the two posts about how hard it is to obtain a new 4cyl Taco?

Maker Of Shoes
Sep 4, 2006

AWWWW YISSSSSSSSSS
DIS IS MAH JAM!!!!!!
Got a text from Cox saying I'm pretty close to my cap. I check their stupid meter thing and yeah I'm close but its time stamped two days ago.

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Marie B. at 11:13, Apr 12:
Good morning. It is wonderful to have you here with us today. Allow me a few minutes to check your request. I will return in a moment.
Marie B. at 11:13, Apr 12:
How may I help you?
MoS at 11:14, Apr 12:
Is there a place that the Data Usage meter is actually useful and updates?
Marie B. at 11:15, Apr 12:
I apologize for you being having issues by checking the usage meter, please try to access this tab from your online account using a different browser.
MoS at 11:16, Apr 12:
This has nothing to do with my browser. "Usage as of: 04/10/18" <- this is not useful as the 10th was two days ago.
MoS at 11:16, Apr 12:
Is there a place that I can check my data usage thats close to current?
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tldr the answer is no, get hosed. The provided meter is bad by design enjoy paying us extra for literally no reason

KakerMix
Apr 8, 2004

8.2 M.P.G.
:byetankie:

Maker Of Shoes posted:

Got a text from Cox saying I'm pretty close to my cap. I check their stupid meter thing and yeah I'm close but its time stamped two days ago.

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Marie B. at 11:13, Apr 12:
Good morning. It is wonderful to have you here with us today. Allow me a few minutes to check your request. I will return in a moment.
Marie B. at 11:13, Apr 12:
How may I help you?
MoS at 11:14, Apr 12:
Is there a place that the Data Usage meter is actually useful and updates?
Marie B. at 11:15, Apr 12:
I apologize for you being having issues by checking the usage meter, please try to access this tab from your online account using a different browser.
MoS at 11:16, Apr 12:
This has nothing to do with my browser. "Usage as of: 04/10/18" <- this is not useful as the 10th was two days ago.
MoS at 11:16, Apr 12:
Is there a place that I can check my data usage thats close to current?
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tldr the answer is no, get hosed. The provided meter is bad by design enjoy paying us extra for literally no reason

I'm probably a part of the problem but I upgraded to Comcast business class years ago. Sure I pay more than most people but no data caps and I can do whatever the hell I want and they don't ask questions regarding data use. I'm a business you see :eng101:

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



i have WOW! and get 150/50 with no data caps and 200 tv channels for $99/month

comcast was going to give me a terabyte cap and i told them to go gently caress themselves

Fermented Tinal
Aug 25, 2005

by Pragmatica
75/10 unmetered for $50/m here.

Applebees Appetizer
Jan 23, 2006

I thought data caps were only for phones lol.

How do you even use that much data on home internet, gaming?

Queen_Combat
Jan 15, 2011
A house with two kids and a GF that primarily use netflix and plex and you'll hit a 1TB cap very easily.

Data caps are an artificial limit solely for moneymaking, and bullshit. If you have a few "whales" that drag the infrastructure down, then traffic shaping is a better deterrent, or just plain upgrading your infrastructure so you can actually deliver on the promise you're selling. To do otherwise is peak late stage capitalism.



everdave
Nov 14, 2005

QuarkMartial posted:

I'm in one of those super dense places on the map above (Davidson Co, TN), and there's not that many charging stations. There's a few, but they are still pretty uncommon. We considered an electric car, but there's no stations, really, and we take a lot of road trips. Again, population is spread out pretty far and visiting family takes us out of the range of one charge of an electric car - and there's no stations in between despite being on an interstate. There's barely any gas stations, even.


I saw a Spyder with the tags "ITZBITZ". Couldn't snag a picture, but I found it amusing.

I'm in a town to the east with a tiny fraction of the people of Davidson Co. and we have multiple charging stations and a Tesla supercharging setup. It's crazy. I think there are only 3-5 Teslas in town and the Tesla station has at least 10-12 chargers.

Maker Of Shoes
Sep 4, 2006

AWWWW YISSSSSSSSSS
DIS IS MAH JAM!!!!!!

Applebees Appetizer posted:

I thought data caps were only for phones lol.

How do you even use that much data on home internet, gaming?

Very little gaming that requires any amount of bandwidth but like MGS said, it's VERY easy to hit a TB a month.

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Applebees Appetizer
Jan 23, 2006

Maker Of Shoes posted:

Very little gaming that requires any amount of bandwidth but like MGS said, it's VERY easy to hit a TB a month.

Huh, I don't even know what my cap is if I have one. But I rarely use the internet for much besides web surfing, Netflix once in a while and some PS3 online games that's about it. But I have cable, I suppose if i cut the cord I'd hit the cap pretty quick.

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