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This was 100% the boat captain’s fault. I grew up in Vancouver and in the harbour. I have navigated power boats and sailboats through the harbour many many times. Read more

“He should have read his contract” is all the farther that sentence needs to go. The reason for reading them is to uncover the not-normal clauses; it’s the entire point of having contract lawyers look over contracts. Read more

I absolutely came here to say something similar.   Read more

The truck isn’t significantly bigger than most other trucks in the same category/class. No chance parking is a real issue. The guy probably realized he’s stuck with a shitty overpriced hunk of metal, and is trying to find a way out of that insane contract.  Read more

That to me is the way funnier part of this story. Is this man ordering a Cybertruck the direct cause of him separating from his wife? Probably not! Read more

I am going to assume that if he had bought an F150, that yes he may have been in the same situation and he would have sold it. The difference is that Ford is not going to fine him for doing so Read more

You’d like to think a guy with enough coin to buy a $100K truck would also be bright enough to find an apartment that has a big enough parking spot. Read more

Exactly. the article states the cybertruck is ‘nearly 8 ft wide’, but that is for the mirrors. The Cyber truck is 80" wide (as in 6 2/3 ft wide) , 95" with mirrors. Read more

Look I mean the cybertruck is big, but I suspect not bigger, or that much bigger than other full sized truck, so it’s likely that these parking spots are too small for any full sized truck. Read more

I wonder if his pending purchase of the CyberTruck had anything to do with his marital separation? Read more

However, the chances of a steering shaft breaking are far, far, far, faaaaaaaarrrr less than the chances of a steer-by-wire system malfunctioning. Read more

If only we knew the scourge of “content creators”, “influencers”, and “4Chan” that would come of it, we could have shut the whole damn thing down before it was too late. Read more

Frivolous destruction porn.  Meanwhile people are starving to death. Read more

How “strong” tungsten is, is completely irrelevant. I’m sure 45 pounds of anything dropped from that height onto that roof would’ve done the same thing. Read more

Doesn’t fit neatly into the single role of a traditional car or a boat. “Traditional” cars don’t float. “Traditional” boats don’t roll on roads. This does both. Definitely a non-binary vehicle. Read more

Very much appreciate the tongue-in-cheekiness of the post, Amber.