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Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world – 793 points –
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It's pretty disgusting that here in 2024 they would still use outdated and inappropriate terms like horsepower and foot-pounds.

For some reason one of my calc classes in college used imperial instead of metric and it really highlighted the absurdity of it

Footpounding is a legitimate, if waning, practice.

not a single gay or young person on whatever team decided the name lmao

or maybe there were some, giggling in the background

We had a project once called Asset Analytics which the steering team decided to shorten to AssAnal. It lasted a couple of months until it was changed to metrics

I can barely imagine how funny that must have been

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Some of these names must be handed to the higher-ups with pure malicious intent, I love it

Not malitious - this is a case of chaotic good. If it's funny and harms noone, roll with it!

Sure, corporations love to run wild and fun with their marketing...

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It's called an XBus now. Yes it's not better.

But this is actually a pretty cool ev, the bed is swappable.

The day is saved, we found a totally not memable name for our vehicle.

Would possibly create some confusion in Denmark where the public inter-region busses are called X-Bus..

i don't know what bussy means and at this point I'm to afraid to ask.

"A calzone could also be called a pizzussy"

This is the funniest damn wiki entry I've ever seen.

...different uses of the suffix, such as the merging of "Margaret Thatcher" with "-ussy" to create the portmanteau Thatchussy.[2] Other examples include clussy (clown and pussy) and grussy (Grinch and pussy).[2]: 6 

Just 20 HP? I need something that is able to survive while I'm farming. At least give us 40 HP.

I think thats room for plenty members of parliament

Don't worry, older tractors used to have 25Hp. You'll be fine.

You speak like someone who never had a giant rat infestation in the cabbage patch not far from here

I prefer to constrain any rat infestations I have within my cellar thank you very much.

So how many people fit inside your ebussy?

20 Hit points for a car isn't much if we're going by traditional RPG metrics, but I suppose I'm not sure what the creators were using as a template when they made it.

Depends on how traditional you want to get. The original metric was the number of 14" shells something could survive. Given that, 20 seems pretty good for a car.

It's X-bus nor ebusses

x bus official website site

I found it's a nice concept, manually remplaçable battery, modulable, light and long autonomy

Is it really modular if it doesn't have lego compatible nubs

I was excited about it as well... in 2021. They're never going to build these and if/when they do, it will bomb hard. It has become way too expensive and there are cheaper real electric cars now. There isn't a market for these overpriced quads anymore. Only ones going to drive these are those with a death wish.

I hate EV torque ratings. They're not even remotely comparable to ICE vehicles.

The power ratings for the eBussy don't adhere to SAE-J2908, btw.

Please at least use SAE-J2908.

Where do they even measure this, is it at the wheels?

Exactly my point. You get it.

Either it’s max defensive and evasion, or it’s the glassiest glasscannon since power-trick Shuckle.

Ich liebe die e-Busse

I don't understand the joke... send help.

Couple of years ago the use of slang that consisted of making portmanteaus of the word "pussy" (using the suffix "-ussy", also word of the year 2022 IIRC) with other words rose. At first it was mostly for implying said thing was used as a pussy (thrussy: throat pussy, bussy: boy pussy) but then it evolved into a comedic way to refer to "hole of said thing" (chussy: hole in the chest as in pectum excavatum).

In this case, this vehicle is called eBussy because it's a tiny electric bus. But due to the slang, it can also be interpreted as "electronic boy pussy (as in a guy's anus, for gay sex)".

Torque is a stupid, meaningless figure in almost any situation, but particularly in a vehicle where there is a transmission involved.

Here's something tp calm your nerves, Talk The Torque, the best damn car review show on the Internet!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8627su-jKWo

Torque is a stupid, meaningless figure in almost any situation

Are you the one overtightening all the bolts in my shop??

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