I would call that a wagon. There are foldable wagons, but finding a good quality, heavy duty one will be difficult. Also the collapsible ones are usually fabric, and if you need better support, you’ll probably need to add a plywood floor or more to it.

It would have been too advanced for him to think of the phone in the first place at that point.

We’ve dealt with terminal Alzheimer’s in my family and it’s crazy that the only viable death is starvation/dehydration even in a care facility on hospice.

One week would have been a huge relief compared to the years of wasting, basically forced eating, and decline that we had to witness with my MIL. She couldn’t even smile for the last year and a half or more. We need end of life laws and to respect DNR paperwork much more proactively.

4 dealerships total were involved, so 1200 was probably the lesser of the 4.

It’s basically an electric Isetta. I’m pretty sure the “boot” is all battery and motor, but I could be wrong.

I think the previous commenter was also implying that since the Soviet system collapsed it was also not going to work.

Also what about the scarcity of resources that still plagued the Soviet Union when it collapsed (and seems to have been a big factor)? There were an awful lot of bread lines and defectors for an optimal system.

I have no delusions that capitalism is the solution either, especially as automation takes the power of labor away (what little is left anyway after the political weakening it’s gone through since the 80s). I firmly believe some form of socially conscious democracy is absolutely going to be necessary for humanity thrive and survive it’s own past actions (poverty, wealth inequality, environmental neglect, etc.). But that means surviving late-stage capitalism and not falling into a massive war that ends in a subdivision of ideologies like the last 2 world wars.

Thanks, I watched this in college when it was first on TV and it was a trip.

Is this a courage the cowardly dog reference?

I miss shitty_watercolor. This AI slop just isn’t as effective.

It’s also got Chinese tires on it rather than the Goodyear or Pirellis that were designed for the truck.

I saw what happened to the heavy vehicles with Chinese tires that the Russians were using in their stupid invasion.

Kinda high potential for an own-goal though. As a Canadian adjacent dude, I’m picking hockey stick. I have an old carbon one that’s light, strong, and keeps assholes at 2x arms length.

Makerbot after the Stratasys buyout.

There were a bunch of companies that tried right after the FDM patents expired in 2009. Most of them were completely forgotten or ignored because they were closed source (and more importantly closed material) companies and never got very far off the starting blocks.

Bamboo learned from them and decided to pull the rug out after getting a foothold with finally selling decent prebuilt hardware for less than a fortune (see Ultimaker before buying out MakerBot at least).