Martok will pave the road to Gre’thor with his ashes! Unfortunately it doesn’t help our issues of decorum in Congress :/

He should be replaced by Martok.

… well, that might be worse.

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and grits straight off Natalie Portman.

Go on…

TAY TAY IS BIG BOOGEY MAN

The gop is so goddamn pathetic.

At a point where a drive unit has to be rebuilt, it’s going to be hundreds of thousands more miles than an ICE would have on it when it requires a rebuild, and engine rebuild means “lifetime” is over. It’s effectively a new engine after that.

It isn’t an interval, though, it is lifetime. I’m apparently continually failing to make that point.

120k is only the warranty period on the drivetrain/battery, and I’m using it as an example, for parts that have zero maintenance, and are guaranteed for an amount of miles most people never even put on an ICE vehicle that otherwise requires oil changes every 3k-5k miles.

put back the old fluid

Irrelevant. Even being in the position of having a drive unit serviced at all is outside the norm or intent for lifetime of the vehicle.

Dude, this is utterly ridiculous nonsense and no one should be having their Tesla motor drive units cracked open to change lubricants. Not only does it void the 120k mile warranty, but it proves you have no experience with them.

You may as well be telling me to have my rear diff rebuilt on an MX-5 after 10,000 miles.

The motors are sealed and will last long beyond drivetrain warranty periods (which is 8 years, 120k miles on Model 3/Y). Battery packs do have a coolant that is intended to last the life of the vehicle, though I’ve heard of it being drained/replaced after maintenance where someone had failed valves in the coolant system.

ICE vehicles break down far faster, requiring loads more maintenance and parts replacement over their lives, even when properly maintained. More moving parts, more friction, more points of failure.

Since I once again have to get serious after a shitpost, Most EVs definitely don’t, because most on the road are Teslas, and there is no oil to change in their regular service.

oil

/smugEVdriver

Dumb story time:

Many years ago when meeting up with friends for drinks, one brought along her classmate/friend from out of town. I already thought she was cute, but then talking about work (as a jr. sysadmin at the time) she talks about her CS classes and that she was into Linux, so this was already “head over heels” territory for very early-twenties dork me.

So I decided to be saucy and asked her, “pico or vi?”

She immediately responded, “pico is for pussies.”

After I replaced my jaw, I did the only logical thing I could think of and proposed to her on the spot. I never saw her again.

Great, I’m the jerk that shows up a few years afterward, inspecting the errant arm and elephant trunk wondering what the actual F the original programmer was thinking.

Then I cut off the trunk and slap a dog nose on it because I hate VB.

WHAT HAVE I BECOME!?

Not even One-Punch Man?

Normalize and index your damn drawers or you’re deadlocked!

NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooo!

Then I’d be an E.U. citizen? Fuck yeah! Give me two months of vacation!

Oops, sorry, uhh let me contact the admirals… oh uh, probably should hit the sonic shower if you got any on you…

“Software engineers aren’t real engineers because they don’t work on physical engines.”

-An absolute dumbass telling me this to my face years ago while literally designing a software solution for (hardware) engineers on a manufacturing line