Miscellaneous Tech News
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@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@jaredbusch read their title, then read mine. Other than pointing out that it was BBC's opinion, there is no spin. None. Read them, where do you perceive the slightest spin whatsoever?
I did and no, they are not at all implying the thing.
Right, mine implies that it is BBC's opinion. Had I purely quoted it in my own voice, it would have been me adding my own statement of it being the case. In order to avoid the spin, I HAD to reword it as being a third party opinion. I added no spin of my own one direction or the other. But I avoided adding a strong spin that would occur had I simply quoted the title.
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@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
You are incorrect. Words are words. And you use ones that the authors did not. It has nothing to do with your thoughts for or against. Just with you having to put in words that the authors do not.
Rewording is standard journalism, not spin, though. Rewording to add spin, is adding spin. They are different things. To be spin, it must create a bias in the reader different than the original.
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Spin from Cambridge dictionary: "a way of describing an idea or situation that makes it seem better than it really is, especially in politics".
Exactly the opposite of what I am doing - a careful rewording to describe an idea as closely as possible to what it is.
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@jaredbusch Yeah I'm buying my next car in 2020. I want a red or black volkswagon toureg with sunroof, just because I like it
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@jmoore Paying off the wife's car around Christmas, then saving to get me a new car next year. Hopefully a black or blue Chevy Sonic Hatchback LTZ or something.
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@jmoore said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@jaredbusch Yeah I'm buying my next car in 2020. I want a red or black volkswagon toureg with sunroof, just because I like it
My car is new enough (3-4 years old), I'm honestly thinking I might just make it without buying another one. It'll be tough, but it could happen.
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We'll probably be leasing a new truck in the near future depending on some things. Other then that we have two 2014 vehicles going strong.
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We bought two new cars in 2015. Although we got a good deal and a bit less than MSRP, I won't make that mistake ever again. I will never buy newer than 5 or so years.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
n statement of it being the case. In order to avoid the spin, I HAD to reword it as being a third party opinion. I added no spi
We just replaced my wife's 2007 with a new 2018. That one might make it to be replaced by driverless. Mine is a 2011, almost no chance it will not be replaced before driverless take over.
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@dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
n statement of it being the case. In order to avoid the spin, I HAD to reword it as being a third party opinion. I added no spi
We just replaced my wife's 2007 with a new 2018. That one might make it to be replaced by driverless. Mine is a 2011, almost no chance it will not be replaced before driverless take over.
My wife's is a 2012 with only 45,000 miles. It will make it years yet.
Mine is a 2010 with 191,000 miles. I am hoping to get another full year out of it. Anything more than that will be bonus time IMO.
Neither vehicle will make it to our driverless future.
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@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
n statement of it being the case. In order to avoid the spin, I HAD to reword it as being a third party opinion. I added no spi
We just replaced my wife's 2007 with a new 2018. That one might make it to be replaced by driverless. Mine is a 2011, almost no chance it will not be replaced before driverless take over.
My wife's is a 2012 with only 45,000 miles. It will make it years yet.
Mine is a 2010 with 191,000 miles. I am hoping to get another full year out of it. Anything more than that will be bonus time IMO.
Neither vehicle will make it to our driverless future.
I drive a lot, but you're crushing me. 2011, 140K on it right now. 3 trips to Chicago in the next 6 months, and at least one trip to Denver next year. The plan is to keep it for 2-3 more years while we pay off the wife's new SUV.
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@obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
We bought two new cars in 2015. Although we got a good deal and a bit less than MSRP, I won't make that mistake ever again.
Why would the above lead to the below?
@obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I will never buy newer than 5 or so years.
This is just stupid. Like everything else, vehicles are improved (mostly) every year. Better parts, better design, etc. The cars I grew up with in the 80's were never designed to last 200,000 miles or more. Of course a few did, but those were outliers.
Today's cars are absolutely capable of 200,000 miles or more when properly maintained with the recommended maintenance and inspections from the manufacturer.
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My 2001 has a bit less than 108,000 miles. Drive it every day.
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@momurda said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
My 2001 has a bit less than 108,000 miles. Drive it every day.
For what? a mile?
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Currently drive a 2010 Chevy Impala with about 232k miles. It'll make it probably to next summer.
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@dashrender 3.5 each way to work, occasional road trips.
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@momurda said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dashrender 3.5 each way to work, occasional road trips.
My daily commute is 10 miles each way. Plus I go out for lunch at least 3 days a week, likely 15 miles round trip. But I've driven my car as far north as Bismark, ND (Duluth MN same'ish latitude), as far east as Orlando, FL, as far south as Kansas City, MO, and west to Denver. Many of the listed places a dozen plus times since 2011.
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I have a 2014 Ford Flex that has made multiple trips to Florida. I think we're just hitting 80k miles.
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@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
We bought two new cars in 2015. Although we got a good deal and a bit less than MSRP, I won't make that mistake ever again.
Why would the above lead to the below?
@obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I will never buy newer than 5 or so years.
This is just stupid. Like everything else, vehicles are improved (mostly) every year. Better parts, better design, etc. The cars I grew up with in the 80's were never designed to last 200,000 miles or more. Of course a few did, but those were outliers.
Today's cars are absolutely capable of 200,000 miles or more when properly maintained with the recommended maintenance and inspections from the manufacturer.
Because in 2015, if we had bought a 2010-2011 or something instead, we'd have been able to get what we really wanted for the same price. A 4-5 year old SUV for the same price as a brand new car.
It's only been 3 years now and the value of the cars we bought are WAY less. One car has 30k miles on it, the other is less than 20k. And still, if we bought the same cars today, we'd be paying almost half for the same thing, still like-new condition.
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Just got rid of my 2004 Galant with 138,000 miles. Now I'm driving a 2013 VW Sportswagon with 72,800 miles.
