Prescribing some weird qualifications of acceptability is... weird.

Truck people who use trucks as trucks, not the city folk who use them like a status icon, want a truck because of its utility

Here's my cherry picked class of valid subject to support my opinion.

Ignoring that the Cybertruck was rejected by "truck people" because it was uniquely strange (versus electric trucks broadly) & "that city folk who use them like a status icon" probably make up the overwhelming majority of truck sales, there's still more to consider.

Most fleet trucks are basic ass 2WD long beds. Real "truck people" don't look for off road capabilities and real off roaders are choosing SUVs over trucks every time. Your hypothetical farmer on dirt roads is probably outnumbered by municipal services and contractors just wanting to throw a miter saw in the bed and pull up to a driveway 1:100.

But EV trucks were rejected by the markets. Why?

• A lack of downward pressure - continued fossil fuel subsidies and almost total lack of government pressure for fleets to switch or for new buyers to choose electric.

• Poor economic conditions at launch - combined with the above, EV trucks launched well after EV cars, at a higher price point than ICE trucks, and at a time when most consumers were cash-strapped. With both options available, very few were able to afford the theoretically cheaper-to-run EV truck.

• Culture wars & confused marketing - you touched on this but gave it too much emphasis IMO. EV trucks just got brought in to generic culture war garbage. The people who like EVs unfairly don't like trucks; the people who like trucks unfairly don't like electric drivetrains. Ford and GM blth made cars they din't knlw how to sell. The Cybertruck was incidentally the one truck to get past this, just not in a way I think most of us would find agreeable.

Literal fearwanking but this sounds pretty cool to me if it actually happened. Humanity is a blight. Nuke the whole world, just don't do it for the wrong reasons (petty appeal-to-god racism).

Wide width is just a sizing thing, not a specific type of shoe. Most major brands have E sizes, just maybe not in every style

Best of luck!

I've been flamed on here enough times to know better but damn if they weren't a guilty pleasure for me. Only a company with hundreds of billions in undeserved and unearned capital could put something like that into full production and it was the single speck of shared taste I found myself having with Elon Musk.

Have you tried wide width shoes? These are usually going to be sized something like "10EE" (Size 10 length, 2 increments wider). Standard width shoes are "10D," narrow are like "10C." This might help you in your search, I've really got no recommendations for that exact sole + waterproof otherwise. Maybe New Balance and SnoSeal?

He should be strung up from the roof of a supercharge station and beaten with sticks

President, Governor... maybe a halfway decent area rug?

Yurpppp, this was always just the easy out but private equity & VC tapped out months ago. Anthropic and OpenAI were both planning on Fall IPOs and still weren't able to secure the valuation in time.

Mississippi doesnt actually have a method for recounting elections. Ballots are destroyed immediately after they're counted. Whatever is determined is the only outcome, this is also why tallying takes so long

It's literally just California

The real question is: What can you point to that has shown his age with respect to cognition or position on current-events?

Pretty much everything he's ever said about the AI bubble. He's either drunk the fearmonger Kool Aid or some awful staffers. Either way, he's dropped the ball entirely, up to going on stage with Steve Fucking Bannon to talk about a sci-fi concept that has nothing to do with LLM tech or the real stakes of the bubble. It's been an awful show of face for him.

Jobud seeking jobud