White Van Man

Former @Amazon Delivery Associate seeks to improve conditions for last mile delivery drivers. Swipe to Finish "Rollocking good read" at

[White Van Man @WhiteVanMan2021]

@Rainmaker1973 Why don't they produce synthetic coal for steam trains while they're at it? Do they really think the petrol internal combustion engine is going to be a viable mass-market transportation power source in 2040 at the current rate of EV adoption and technological improvement?

[Tom Blomfield @t_blom]

I just bought a Tesla Model Y

Full Self Driving is one of the most impressive pieces of technology I’ve ever experienced.

I now wish I’d got it a year ago.

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@CyberTshr @Tesla @Tesla_AI @elonmusk @aelluswamy @edgecase411 @wholemars Amazing!

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@DavidMoss @NevrEnoughX Yeahhh, a streak means something different in the UK…

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@anon_opin They were between the dining room and the kitchen.

Dining rooms are no longer used because the dining table is covered with papers and laptops. Everyone "just eats" in the kitchen. In their pyjamas.

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@anon_opin It just means that they stick to the iron, especially if you regularly iron on the “Linen” setting. 😡

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@DavidMoss must have an arse of iron.

If I drove half that distance, I would have bum grapes the size of golf balls.

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@ukboomers It would look better if you painted in the parking spaces and numbered them. Less chance of arguments then.

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@CliveWardauthor I thought they were named "Turdises", because they teleport from place to place on the exercise area.

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@sebbonny @SomeUKTeslaGuy BTW, are you on HW4? Again, important for context.

(HW3 owner here)

[White Van Man @WhiteVanMan2021]

@sebbonny @SomeUKTeslaGuy Good man. We appreciate you taking one for the team. Do keep us updated! 🙂

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@MrRoyC @TheDoorRestorer I feel your pain!

😢

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@RealDanODowd @RealDawnProject I have not nearly enough $TSLA

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@CARN0N Absolutely true. Yet it would be so easy to have a little LED light in there to illuminate the charge port - just an outline around the outside of where you need to plug in.

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@TheCinesthetic Vangelis

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I very much hope this story is true!

[VisionaryVoid @VisionaryVoid]

The Only Dog Ever Officially Enlisted in the Royal Navy.

In 1939, a Great Dane named Nuisance had a problem. He loved riding the trains between Simon's Town and Cape Town, South Africa, escorting drunk sailors back to base. The state railway company didn't love him back, they threatened to have him put down unless someone paid his fares.

The Royal Navy's solution was breathtaking in its bureaucratic elegance: they enlisted him. On August 25, 1939, Able Seaman Just Nuisance, surname Nuisance, first name Just, trade listed as "Bonecrusher," religion as "Scrounger", became the only dog in history officially enrolled in the Royal Navy. As enlisted personnel, he was entitled to free rail travel. Problem solved.

His service record reads like a sitcom. He was charged with sleeping in the Petty Officers' dormitory and sentenced to "deprivation of bones for seven days." He went AWOL repeatedly, refused to leave pubs at closing time, lost his collar, and, in his most serious infractions, killed the mascots of two Royal Navy warships, HMS Shropshire and HMS Redoubt. He never once went to sea.

He died on April 1, 1944, his seventh birthday, after being put to sleep due to a paralytic condition called thrombosis. The Royal Navy buried him with full military honours, a firing party, a bugler sounding the Last Post, and a Union Jack draped over his grave on the slopes above Simon's Town. His bronze statue still watches over the harbour today.

They gave a dog a rank, a salary, and a disciplinary record just to get him a free train ticket. Peak military logic.

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@Jacob697941 So no insurance?

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Numpty on the No 11 bus thinks that UK electricity comes from coal and so electric cars aren’t a good idea. 🙄

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@Jacob697941 Calling bs on your figures. Insurance, servicing, tyres, oil and filter changes on a hot hatch with a fair mileage on it for £300 a year? Your neighbours must love you.

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@Jacob697941 How many ICE cars have you had that do 0-60 in 4.9s, have no oil changes, no brake pad changes, can seat 5 adults and their luggage and cost 1.75p per mile to run? Smooth, refined, life saving ADAS and integral AI. Try one.

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@Jacob697941 You seem to be under the impression that we can keep on burning stuff for ever. But EVs have been great for me, way better than any ICE car I’ve ever had.