A mother and wife lost because the hospital wanted to skimp out on the diagnostic that might have saved her.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

… And private healthcare is highly incentivized to cause you to not be able to access that inexpensive ounce of prevention, so that you are forced to pay exorbitantly for the pound of cure.

This is what you get when you let the profit motive run the health care sector.

It is a giant, ghoullish, money extraction machine, because ‘shareholder value.’

Everthing is backwards, bizzaro world… on purpose.

It is working as intended.

It is intended to make money.

I don’t disagree with you that they could have better publicized it.

I think the project got massively more popular more rapidly than the devs expected… and coder type people are rarely also PR type people at the same time.

Khajit has bathroom…

… if you have coin.

I think you mean thats the price they’d need to sell at for Tesla/Musk to cover production costs, cover the sunk costs of already made capital investments (Mexico Gigafactory, etc), cover the ongoing costs of ‘Full Self Drive’ development, cover the debt of the company, cover a significant chunk of Musk’s personal debt from his leveraged buyout of Twitter (he had to finance that), and/or also some actual profit margin, go toward future stock buybacks, etc etc…

The article says, and cites, that there are over 10k unsold CyberTrucks.

10k * 80k = 800m

80k being the MSRP for the base model.

(In the case of Tesla, they own and directly operate their own dealerships, unlike most other car dealerships which are owned independently… thus the MSRP just literally is the only price you can buy them at. Tesla also makes you sign contracts when you buy a CyberTruck that more or less make it legally near impossible to resell your purchased CT second hand.)

MSRP != Cost to Produce.

If that were the case… basically all companies that sell physical things… would be Non Profits.

If you have access to Tesla’s internal accounting and finance numbers that can actually show a CyberTruck’s actual cost to produce, not only would I personally love to see that, but so would the government of Canada, I suspect, as they are currently investigating Tesla for essentially accounting fraud.

https://www.carscoops.com/2025/03/canada-freezes-teslas-43m-ev-rebate-after-suspicious-sales-surge-bans-future-subsidies/

If something can’t actually sell at MSRP…

… analagously, if a house sits on market for 6, 9, 12 months, and can’t sell at a too high price…

Then the person trying to sell the thing has not recieved any real countable money; the price is likely wildly unrealistic.

Fedi-Overflow?

Stackiverse?

My head canon is that Satoshi Nakamoto…

… is Hideo Kojima.

Anyway, Satoshi is the pseudonym used on the original… white paper, design doc, whatever it was, for Bitcoin. There’s no doubt about that, I was there back before even Mt. Gox became a bitcoin exchange, on the forums discussing it.

I thought it was a neat idea, at the time… and then I realized 95% of the discussions on that forum were about ‘the ethics of fully informed ponzi schemes’ and such, very little devoted to actual technical development… realized this was probably a bad omen.

How is a legacoin different from … just being a fancy NFT?

An all inuclusive, total body mind soul detox cleanse, vacation get-away trip.

Yeah wow great.

What a goddamn headline.

Oh no its fine you see, flying through an actively radioactive cloud/plume is uh… uh, maybe, technically allowable, therefore perfectly safe =D

Holy dear lord this species is actively Great Filtering itself in realtime, what an era to be alive in.

Two clowns walk into a bar at the same time, trying to fit through the doorway simultaneously.

Clown 1: Look at this clown!

Clown 2: honks nose, spritizes Clown 1 with water from lapel flower, silently does dramatic crying face emote/pantomime

Camera pans to all the bar patrons

… They are all clowns.

… do they skill make wallpaper glue out of potato based starches?

Sorry I’m late!

… What? You don’t just eat them outta the can?

I’d call that optimistic, but plausible.

If Trump just goes full Hitler’s last days ala Downfall, everyone will just keep awkwardly and dangerously screaming at each other when not in front of him, untill he finally just actually croaks.

You got it.

Its time to stop acting like all game devs are somehow totally free of responsibility from all this.

I say this as a person who at least used to personally know game devs, mod devs, and I have been modding (as in making the mods) games since the mid 00’s.

Yes, of course management is shitheads.

But there are many game devs who don’t whore themselves out to corpos they know will do this dumb shit.

There are many indie or AA or other devs who build games that are a little bit less graphically fancy, but run 3x as fast.

Go right now and play Titanfall 2, built on a fork of the Portal 2 Source Engine variant, and tell me that any modern, comparable game really looks like it is so much more impressive it needs all the horsepower and cost that goes into getting it to run at the same resolution and framerate.

If people wanna know more about the technicals of how optimization in games is largely a lost art now, go check Threat Interactive on youtube, that guy does an amazing job breaking this stuff down.

Pretty much, yep.

The only ‘domestic manufacturing’ we really have left, that has any real export appeal … is…

Military equipment and commercial jet aircraft.

… And both of those are now far, far less appealing as imports, when combined with Boeing’s last decade of fuckups, Trump’s absurd belligerence against former allies, and oh right, all of those are absurdly complex supply chains that are definitely reliant on imports from people we’ve just pissed off at at least critical point.

We… could have done the Green New Deal and tried to kickstart a massive solar and wind and such backed mfg boom, that could have had some export potential.

We could have done CHIPS and tried to bring at least a good amount of domestic chip fab to our own shores… probably not as great export potential, but it is a legitimate national security concern NOW, as well as just generally a reasonable plan due to how many things are ‘smart’ now…

But nope, none of that.

Nope we’ve got our auto industry, which is a fucking dumpster fire… and pharmaceuticals… which is a turbomega dumpster fire because ‘who could have thought health care could be so complicated.’

… Like, I am no fan of neoliberal capitalism, but Trump and his fucking idiot troupe are apparently actually so stupid they don’t even know what ‘neoliberal capitalism’ even is, what those words mean.

… It is literally impossible for any remaining small farmers at this point, and even the corpo ones … you can’t just fucking unplant a field, grow everything everywhere… so much of our farming exports were feedstock exports to other countries that now all hate us… food is gonna like triple in price within 6 months.

This is gonna be an American Holodomor if someone doesn’t strangle everyone in this administration.

Washington is seeking to reduce its $295bn goods trade deficit with Beijing and persuade China to renounce what the US says is a mercantilist economic model and contribute more to global consumption. Beijing has pushed back against what it sees as external interference and wants Washington to lower tariffs and clarify what it wants China to buy more of.

What the US is doing is explicitly, unarguably, an idiotic 1800s style Mercantalist model.

(It is idiotic because we have basically no relevant or competetive domestic manufacturing, but we are acting as if …we do.)

Not what the Chinese are doing.

This is literally not arguable, unless you have John Fetterman level brain damage, or know literally nothing about economics nor any relevant recent/current data about the economies of the US and China.

Trump needs to be fucking euthanized.

Time to ride off into that sunset, otherwise we are all gonna fucking starve.

Yeah, ‘aerial battle’ would have been the term I used, but hey since when are journalists supposed to know what words mean?

I suppose it is technically possible there could have been some actual close range dog fighting in this giant battle, lots of jets involved still have actual guns, as well as less long ranged and less accurate missiles…

On the other hand:

Holy fuck.

125 aircraft engaged in essentially one gigantic battle?

That is totally unprecedented in the modern era.

So, uh, anyway… Pakistan and India both have nukes, and as best I can tell, both have threatened to use them is things escalate… so… uh… yeah…

https://www.reuters.com/world/india/pakistan-says-three-air-bases-targeted-by-indian-missiles-2025-05-10/

Apparently there is a cease fire, apparently Trump is taking credit for it, apparently it has already been violated?

I am watching India Today’s livestream and they are currently saying Pakistan has and is currently still violating the ceasefire, and I have little doubt the Indians are as well.

EDIT: Former Indian Secretary MEA is basically saying Trump’s ‘ceasefire’ is complete bullshit, that India and Pakistan reached their own ceasefire, and though it seems like its falling apart, the other point here is that neither Pakistan nor India are paying any attention to Trump, they have no idea what he is talking about, they have not agreed to anything mediated by the US.

Omae wa mou shindeiru.

EDIT: Wow, my internet dropped or something as I was posting this, duplicated a few times, and my clipboard has now just lost the text I tried to copy paste out of it… derp.

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