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My 2023 Pachy makes a loud creaking noise on slow wide turns. Is this a common issue in Pachy?

Does anybody else have this issue? Is it a serious concern? Has anybody fixed this issue before?

One thing I have noticed is that it is a bit difficult to see your blind spot in the EQEV.

If you turn and look left out the front window without leaning forward, you can't actually see the blind spot.

If you try to look through the back left window, the angle is a bit odd so you can only see a very narrow view. And the side B-pillar is quite thick and wide.

How do you guys handle checking your blind spot?

When I push my brakes, they make a squeaky noise. Sometimes it seams like the noise is coming from the brake pad itself. More often the noise is coming from the brake pedal.

Anybody else have this?

Lomachenko makes so many decisions that I don't understand. He fought Salido who didn't make weight, and allowed dozens of low-blows without hitting back. He fought Teofimo with a bad shoulder that needed surgery and didn't throw punches for half the fight.

But I think the worst boxing decision he made was withdrawing from the Kambosos fight that would've made him unified undisputed. That was his goal all along.

What was the point of joining the territorial defense force? His own country wanted him to go and box to boost morale for the soldiers. Loma would've helped his country a lot more that way. Usyk did just that and look how his career turned out. And he could've just won the Kambosos fight and then come back and join the forces a couple months later. He could've taken the fight and donated the winnings to the defense force, which would've been more helpful.

Furthermore, what was the point of joining the forces and then be labeled as Pro-Russian? I'm genuinely confused by this last point. If he really is pro-Russian, why join the forces and waste your career? If he is Pro-Ukranian, why give the appearance of being a Vatnik?

I hear this sound all the time when the car is off. Sometimes it makes the sound immediately after turning the car off. Sometimes it makes the sound hours after the car is off and just sitting in the garage.

Is this a normal operation or a defect? Here's a recording of the sound

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m9xdjKxmquBXgfLa32u_fg677uUtmE2r/view?usp=sharing

My friend came over for dinner last night with the Toyota BZ4X. After dinner I asked to test drive it just to see how it compares to the Equinox EV.

EQEV has much better screens. The driver display is bigger, has much more information, is prettier to look at, is easier to read, and is better arranged. Also the EQEV has much bigger center screen.

BZ4X has better seats. EQEV seats are a bit too flat and wide, like sitting on a bench. BZ4X also uses a type of synthetic leather, so it feels a bit more premium. I think EQEV should've used a mix of the synthetic and the fabric.

BZ4X has more buttons, which is a mixed bag. You can turn One-Pedal mode on and off with a button, for example. On the flip side, it is more crowded. I feel EQEV at least has the commonly used buttons available.

BZ4X get criticized for being underpower, but I don't really see it. It has similar horsepower to EQEV, and for a family use car, the power feels completely fine to me. The drive feeling is quite good and a bit better than EQEV. I think the feeling is a bit smoother and has less aggressive regen than the EQEV. The aggressive regen on the EQEV is my most hated feature, as it feels like I am fighting the car to go forward.

BZ4X also is missing the regen lever. I find this to be one of the best features on EQEV. You can come to a full stop without using the brake pedal.

Recall: #44D 2022-2026 RU PHEV - REPORTING ISSUE OF CHARGING MO

Who did this recall? Were there any bugs or issues after doing this recall?

A friend of someone I know was bragging about using AI to buy stocks. He claims he is making 30% a year buying and selling with the AI. He says the AI just tells him the ticker and when to buy and when to sell.

As fundamental value investors, most would just scoff at this idea.

But just out of curiosity, is this type of AI actually a thing? What is the name of the program and how exactly does it work?

I'd like to take my kids out from school for a few days for family trip during the weekday during the school year. I know it will go down as a unexcused absence. Is this a bad move? Will there be serious consequences?

Has anybody done this before? What did you tell the school? Did they push back on you?

CATL retains 93.3% and LG retains 91.5%. Panasonic is even lower.

Just curious, why did GM choose LG for their battery? Was it cheaper than CATL?

Wouldn't CATL be the obvious choice given their scale and longevity?

Is this a thing in the automaker world? Can the user-base create a petition to get GM to update the software to fix bad user-experiences?

In my case, my biggest complaint against GM is that there is no hard start-stop charging times. I simply want to tell the car to only charge within my discount charge window. I don't want to use the "finish by 9" system. I have seen countless people complain about this.

Is it possible to make a petition to GM and get them to update the software? Is there some existing method to do this?

When I was a kid, Civ2 was my favorite game, but I always played on Chieftain. I always thought Deity would be impossible.

Some years ago I set out to find the optimal strategy to beat on Deity, and now I can win new game every time. Here is my strategy:

1. Build 2 cities first and get 2 warriors. Send out the warriors to scout the villages.

2. Build 1 warrior for defense in each city, then switch to settlers. Build 2 more cities, so now you have 4.

3. Immediately focus science to get to Monarchy, you need it to build cities.

4. Switch the first 2 cities to building great wonder, any great wonders it doesn't matter. The 3rd and 4th cities should build 1 warrior each, and then 1 settler each.

5. After you get Monarchy, raise science rate to 70%. Make your main objective to rush to Polytheism. If not available, then 2nd objective should be Pottery.

6. For each new city, you can generally follow the pattern of getting 1 warrior for defense, 1 settler to expand, and then switch to Elephants and keep pumping out Elephants.

7. As soon as you have enough money, switch your great wonder to Hanging Gardens and complete it with money in City 1. Have that city build 1 more warrior for defense, and then switch back to great wonder.

8. Science, in order of priority, then should be aiming for Monotheism, then Feudalism, and then Literacy. Nothing matters after that. You will win the game.

9. City 2 should then complete Art of War ASAP. After that, City 1 and City 2 should just keep building wonders: Michelangelo's chapel, Great Library. Nothing else really is needed.

10). By now, you should have 8 or 10 cities all pumping out Elephants/Crusaders. These will all be veterans because of Art of War, and you can just go and conquer all the nations.

That's it. That's the entire strategy. Literally nothing else is needed. It works everytime.

The most critical element is to get the Hanging Gardens, as you need it to keep citizens happy. A distant 2nd would be to get Art of War so you have veteran units. And Michelangelo's chapel is nice to keep citizens happy in case your cities get too big. Great Library isn't truly needed, but it can be nice to prevent your enemies from accidentally getting gunpowder or something.

From the 1970s to 1990s, the US lost market share to Japanese/Korean auto makers. Why was the US so happy to do so? Why didn't they just ban those countries so that US auto makers could have 100% market share?

Why are they willing to give up market share to Japan/Korea but not to China? Why apply protectionist policy to only China? Money is money, no?

Please don't respond "because China is communist" or something illogical. US busy electronics and computers and medical instruments and all sorts of products from China, so they have no issue buying other products. So why cars specifically?

Please no loaded political agendas. I simply want to understand the economic logic of losing market share.

No question right now, the top guys are Bivol, Beterbiev, Opetaia, and Benavidez. Fans would love to see any combination of fights involving these 4.

Bivol appears to be out with elbow surgery and will take comeback against another tune-up-ish opponent in Callum Smith.

Benavidez wants an easy fight so he can be in a good position to renegotiate his contract. So he is fighting Mikaelian.

So it seems like the best thing to do is for Beterbiev to fight Opetaia now. Maybe do it at a catchweight.

And then let Bivol and Benavidez fight each other after they win their respective tune up fights.

Navarette-Foster winner can face the Loma-Cacace winner and we will have a unified undisputed champion within 2 fights.

This is what Loma always said he wanted to do. He is just 2 fights away from achieving it.

I hope Loma is paying attention and makes it happen.

I have a few friends with really solid looking mechanics. They can drive, they can loop, they can push. They have the mechanics and the look of a typical "1800" player.

But week after week, I watch them play in the local leagues and they can't ever beat the players that look much mechanically sound.

One guy is 1100, and he keeps losing to the 1000 players. He takes both group and private lessons, he looks pretty good mechanically, he is in shape, but he just can't win.

Another friend has even stronger mechanics. Has a pretty spinny loop, good power, fit, and looks like he should be 1700-1800. Yet he always loses to the 1400-1500 players. These guys look significantly worse across the board. My friend plays better against the 1800 players than he does against the 1400 players.

What is the mathematical or statistical or scientific reason for this kind of phenomenon?

Why is my X feed so horrible? There are very specific themes on X that I follow. I only followed X accounts of people in those themes. I only ever comment on these themes and serious posts. For example, Financial markets and news, technology, breaking news, global statistics, etc.

And yet, my X feed is filled with totally useless, senseless, and unrelated posts. I am constantly clicking on the "show less of this" button. But after clicking this hundreds of times, X still can't figure out what I want to see.

I am constantly being given posts of people fighting on the streets, sexy girls, and random garbage that a drunk college kid might like.

Why does it give me so much trash?