The only catch? The Xiaomi SU7 Max isn’t available in the US, and won’t be for a while. Sigh …
Tales of True Adventure for Rugged Men Not Unlike Yourself
Tales of True Adventure for Rugged Men Not Unlike Yourself
The only catch? The Xiaomi SU7 Max isn’t available in the US, and won’t be for a while. Sigh …
There was also a rave review in the WSJ, but from their main tech gadget reviewer, not their auto reviewer. With US car makers pulling back from EVs, I assume these will be available in the US eventually. Trump has said he’d lift the tariff on them if they’d build them in the US, but I wouldn’t count on them doing that. If they were planning that today, production couldn’t start until Trump is out of office, and who knows what the next administration will want?
Oh I’m definitely gonna need one of those. Although the “purple” color he describes was not appreciated by my aged retinas.
My video birdfeeder is made by a company based in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. I had a meltdown this past weekend when it wouldn’t hold a charge, got frozen in the ice storm, and required me dragging its entire 14 foot pole mount inside to recharge via USB-C. Then deleting and rebooting the device.
It’s scary to think how I would react to a heavily app-ed car when the beeps and boops don’t conform to my immediate wishes. I hope it has redundant circuits. Hulk smash.
Go ahead, ask me about my birds. I dare you.
What about your birds?
Birds were a highlight of getting ice-bound last week. I was often working at my desk which is in front of a side window near the fence. I saw quite a few cardinals and blue jays perched there throughout the week.
Señora Monquistador got me this camera two years ago but I hadn’t set it up due to general sloth and no viable squirrelproofing scheme.
But now it’s up! and it has become my whole personality.
Below please enjoy a sampling of local fauna.
Species count on my cam is now at 14!
bluebirb
TITmouse
house finch
downy woodpecker
starling
red-bellied woodpecker
pixar-ass-lookin yellow headed warbler
mystery birb
These are so cool! In an old man kind of way.
Very cool.
But back to EV’s, they’ve gotten interesting as a cultural phenomenon. They’ve scrambled what was once an easy way to classify drivers politically. Back the aughties, a Hummer or a big truck almost certainly contained a right-wing knuckle-dragger, whereas throughout the decade Toyota Priuses slowly displaced Volvo wagons as the official liberal sissy-pants car. EVs have changed all that. A Tesla or Rivian likely contains simply a person who worships at the altar of technology. They want the most recent and advanced tech. They might lean left or right or neither.