it will be relatively easy to replace the body panels on this truck
IDK, if they're injection molded plastic then it kinda seems like the only way to get major damage repaired is to buy a replacement from Slate Auto. You can't just visit the junkyard and start cutting material to weld on for patches.
Slate Auto will have a monopoly in addition to having a more expensive manufacturing process. Going with plastic panels means they need less capital to build the factory, but it also means the panels will take longer to produce. Stamping sheet metal can be done fast and cheap, but the machines to do that have a higher up front cost.
some might like the style, but you're right, a lot of people who buy trucks just want a pavement princess
Headline is misleading and assumes the government is going to subsidize production. The initial, and likely optimistic price is $28k.
How much will the 240 mile extended range battery cost? That's going to be just about mandatory to make the thing useful. You don't typically fast charge past 80%, and start looking for a charger when you get down to 25%, so the effective range of the 150 mile battery is actually only 83 miles (150 * 0.55).
That aesthetic, of highlighting rather than hiding battle scars, is key to the Slate ethos.
I wonder how the owners will feel about the scars on their truck when a plastic body panel cracks and they need to caulk it back together?
That's fair.
People like that will say "just block them" with one fork of their tongue, and then "sort it out through discussion and voting" with the other fork.
Building cars in "Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game" and then exporting them to BeamNG.Drive is the most fun I've had sim racing. Automation really lets you dive deep into the nuts and bolts.
This.
Also, look at the attic, check for roof leaks and adequate ventilation. Make sure your soffit vents aren't clogged, and the soffit baffles and ridge vent have actually been installed properly.
Doubt.
Innovation comes from people who are not content to put all of their energy into trying to be the most mediocre.
Most people want to be normal, and in a low tech society, the ones who view statistical averageness as some kind of virtue will be exposed to different creative norm-breakers depending on geographic location. This results in diversity among normie cliques - while they're each competing to see who can be the most mid, their definitions of mid will be different.
Even if the kind of humans that have the desire to be seen as normal were to all form a singular herd, the source of their previous diversity will remain. People who don't actively mold themselves to become statistically average will still be here, setting trends, attracting followers and haters.
Its likely that OP's author doesn't see things that way because they're in the camp that views conformity and the mediocre as virtuous.
who seeks glory
Aviassembly.
Its fun in the way that building airplanes in KSP is fun. The game is small, and the physics are simple, but for $10 its a good value.
you can balloon the box out a ways to get more volume
that number needs 2 more zeros
You dig.
There's a lot of state sponsored propaganda from right wing, authoritarian countries that pay lip-service to popular communist ideas to keep the dictator in power.
A lot of the noise comes from just a few of the users, so for the moment its easy enough to just block them all.
“We, as the DNC, need to be seen as a body that can be trusted, that’s not putting its thumb on the scales,” a DNC member told Politico. “We have to be so strategic and careful with our resources right now. ... So why are we in this circular firing squad against Democrats?”
Which side of the debate is this person trying to support?
If the DNC wants to be seen as trustworthy and not putting its thumb on the scales against its constituents economic interests, then it makes sense to try to repair the broken parts of the party that are largely seen as untrustworthy and favoring the donor class over the people who vote for Democrats.
So why are the corporate Dems shooting their own party in the foot by resisting changes to the failed status-quo?
Never heard of them.
A joint research team has successfully demonstrated the complete confinement of mechanical waves within a single resonator—something long thought to be theoretically impossible. Their findings, published on April 3 in Physical Review Letters, mark a major breakthrough in the century-old mystery of b...
A joint research team has successfully demonstrated the complete confinement of mechanical waves within a single resonator—something long thought to be theoretically impossible...Many technologies around us—from smartphones and ultrasound devices to radios—rely on resonance, a phenomenon in which waves are amplified at specific frequencies. However, typical resonators gradually lose energy over time, requiring constant energy input to maintain their function..."We have broken a long-standing theoretical boundary," said Professor Junsuk Rho, who leads the research. "While this is still in the fundamental research phase, the implications are significant—from low-loss energy devices to next-generation sensing and signal technologies."
The Andromeda galaxy is surrounded by a constellation of dwarf galaxies that are arranged in a highly lopsided manner. Analysis of cosmological simulations published in Nature Astronomy reveal that this degree of asymmetry is only found in 0.3% of similar systems, painting Andromeda as a striking ou...
...According to the standard cosmological model, small galaxies merge over time in a chaotic process to form larger ones, leaving behind swarms of faint dwarf galaxies that orbit massive host galaxies in an almost random arrangement...Instead of being randomly spread around their host galaxy, as the standard model of cosmology predicts, over 80% of these dwarf galaxies are concentrated on one side of the Andromeda galaxy...Specifically, all but one of Andromeda's satellites lie within 107 degrees of the line pointing towards the Milky Way, a region covering only 64% of the host galaxy's surroundings..."We have to look at more than three hundred simulated systems to find just one that is similarly extreme in its asymmetry as observed." This makes Andromeda an extreme outlier, defying cosmological expectations.
In a universe that continues to baffle even the sharpest minds, new observations from the James Webb Space Telescope are stirring deep scientific unease. Astronomers have ... Continue Reading →
...there are two different ways to measure this cosmic expansion rate, and they don’t agree. One method looks deep into the past by analyzing cosmic microwave background radiation, the faint afterglow of the Big Bang. The other studies Cepheid variable stars in nearby galaxies, whose brightness allows astronomers to map more recent expansion.
You’d expect both methods to give the same answer. Instead, they disagree—by a lot. And this mismatch is what scientists call the Hubble tension...Webb’s data agrees with Hubble’s and completely rules out measurement error as the cause of the discrepancy. It’s now harder than ever to explain away the tension as a statistical fluke. This inconsistency suggests something big might be missing from our understanding of the universe - something beyond current theories involving dark matter, dark energy, or even gravity itself. When the same universe appears to expand at different rates depending on how and where you look, it raises the possibility t
Dark energy is weakening and the universe could (eventually) collapse, study says
...Scientists have believed dark energy was a "cosmological constant," but it is actually changing over time in unexpected ways...current data shows that, at the beginning of the universe, dark energy was very strong. But it has weakened with time and will continue to do so...The new research builds on data released from DESI in April 2024 that found signs that dark energy was changing. DESI has been surveying the universe for four years and an analysis of five years' worth of data is next for its research
Brennan Lee Mulligan is a treasure
15K likes, 64 comments - dndmemesdaily on January 21, 2025: "We’re having a Brennan Lee Mulligan day. What are your favorite Brennan Lee Mulligan clips? This is one of my favs! This is Brennan Lee Mulligan on dimension 20, the slideshow presentation is from kit.for.now on the clock app #brennanleemu...
when you can't words
sound on
Narrator: "The shape goes into a shape press that presses the shape into a pressed shape."
Stationeers and Icarus developers RocketWerkz are making a spiritual successor to beloved space sim Kerbal Space Progra…
A rotary engine better than Wankel?
This vane engine is sexy and it knows it.
no downvoting for specific communities? - SOLVED
I've recently noticed that downvotes don't stick for the community [email protected].
Bug or design choice? Is there a work around? My account is with lemmy.world - do I need to log into a different instance to have full downvote capability?
SOLVED - they banned me for downvoting their fascist frogs
maybe its a vampire, but the wall of Plato's Cave counts as a mirror?
“These criminals attack judges, pay off witnesses, and seek to undermine the rule of law,” she said.
