I admire your optimism, comrade.

People have a right to exist, but countries isn’t a people and Isn’treal isn’t a country.

Wait, who thought the Brits were going to recover?

When have they ever done anything good?

“That’s the neat part, you don’t.”

Oh, NICE! I found The Counter-Revolution of 1776 very helpful for formulating arguments.

Institutional scale buys of buses which are mostly or entirely used on private roads are not at all the same thing as individuals purchasing consumer vehicles for use on public roads.

But yeah. If you have a couple dozen million to spare you can kind of do whatever you want.

Hyundai Santa Cruz AWD? Honestly, the truck market is grim and mostly sells massive dadmobiles that can’t do anything useful or get decent fuel economy.

Lemme hit you with the full list of all hybrid trucks available in North America and their MSRP.

Ford Maverick Hybrid - $30,000

Ford F-150 PowerBoost - $41,000

Toyota Tacoma Hybrid - $48,000

That’s it. Seriously, there’s just three somehow.

The F-150 is also considered one of the least reliable vehicles in the market.

Certified Pre-owned Ford Maverick Hybrid? DO NOT buy a brand new truck, it’s impossible to not be financially underwater on one.

Absolutely, they all do. It’s literally unavoidable on any new phone. :(

I just turn all that shit off. Could always go for an 8 or 9.

Nope! All Chinese vehicles have a 120% tariff and are not really eligible for registration. No Chinese manufacturer is willing to enter the market based on these conditions. The $3000 mini trucks are entirely banned from roads. Imports must be 25 years old at time of import, or older.

Eventually, they’re going to need repairs even for a brand new car and it simply isn’t a good idea to buy a vehicle that will forever be impossible to find parts for.

Do they actually need a large pickup truck? Would something like a UTV meet some or all of their needs?

Simply put, now is the worst time in American history to buy a new car. ICE vehicles are about to become unusable in the next 10-15 years, while EVs are using battery chemistry that won’t last much longer than that.

Honestly, a used pixel is probably the best bet for you. The Pixel 11 is supposed to come out in October and it’ll be an AI Slop nightmare. Picking up a 1 year old used pixel 10 is probably the right call.

Neither a current gen EV nor an ICE vehicle will be viable in 25 years. Current batteries will have significantly degraded in that time to a point of being largely unusable and petrol will be prohibitively expensive.

The country and climate you’re in will massively affect which vehicles will be available or viable, and it’s important to note that some countries won’t allow imported Chinese light EVs or kei trucks on any public road. Importing a vehicle also means you’re not going to have access to any replacement parts or service.

How cold does it get there in winter? How hot in the summer?

The three things that will help with bogging down are lower mass of vehicle, having 4wd/AWD, and having a winch to pull yourself out. Getting a winch is probably the best thing you can do for a work vehicle since the other two are harder to control.

Okay, nice! I stand corrected on the A series pixels!

I stand by my analysis of the Samsung budget devices. I regularly see the MediaTek A06 and A07 devices go out and they are absolutely Straight To Landfill garbage that should genuinely be illegal to manufacture.

The presence of a headphone jack or an SD card do not make a device viable to hold onto for 10+ years, a powerful CPU and GPU do.

You have an old flagship phone, they almost certainly have a budget phone. The Samsung A series are among the worst phones money can buy and it’s unlikely that they suddenly switched from that to a phone that retailed for over $1000 because people don’t usually do that.

All budget and mid-range phones are designed to be genuinely terrible pieces of shit and consequently, they universally run significantly worse than far older flagship phones. Simply put, if you are not buying the Expensive Phone, the companies want you to be absolutely miserable so that you give up on saving money and just buy the expensive one.

Buy a used flagship Pixel (do not buy a model that ends in A!!!) that fits your budget, they’re the only devices that can run custom OS so you can keep it functional longer. A Pixel 7 or Pixel 8 is likely in your budget and will massively outperform anything else you could get for that price, especially anything new.

I would like to imagine it’s just this one dude at the train company that does this because he thinks it’s rad as hell and nobody can remember his name to file complaints with a manager.

Any chance it could be overclocked?

Which hardware requirements specifically aren’t being met?

Get as far away from this girl and her friends as you possibly can and seek change in your professional help.

This is an unbelievably toxic relationship and you’re both harming one another. Nothing will change for either of you until you permanently excise eachother from your respective lives and find a different drug therapy regimen that works for you.

Talk to your psychologist about something like Ketamine assisted therapy or a different set of SSRI/SNRIs, because your current meds are not working.

I remember this being somewhat implied in Raising the Bar