And if we had a simple popular vote for president, majority could not be terrorized by minority cult, because they would have veto power over insane legislation. But y’know… “if my grandma had wheels she’d be a bicycle.”

I thought the same thing before the 2020 election. Was hopeful, but frankly only a crushing blowout would prove beyond any doubts that “we’ve learned”. It didn’t happen.

I think most people, by far, don’t know how to use (or want to pay for) a VPN. What they’ll do is use one of the other porn sites. There are probably dozens! And it will push sites to operate outside of US and ignore our dumb state laws.

I don’t mean to give all credit to Tesla, for the success of BYD. But let’s not pretend that many Chinese companies haven’t earned the reputation for (or even specialized in) “quickly learning” and “producing similar work” from competitors. Tesla still entered the country enthusiastically (sold hard-fought knowledge for short term gain), and are already losing their grip. Best of luck to anyone creating affordable EVs.

I didn’t realize China had already copied Tesla’s product. Absolute lol at M*** for heavily manufacturing there (not just parts, but everything). Copy, paste, rename… BYD.

They’re stupid.

This is why we can’t have nice things, apparently. Weaponized stupidity, at this point. I’m still unclear as to the origins of the brain damage, though. Seems much worse in rural areas.

Thanks for this. Strangely I don’t think I had heard from Noel Casler, despite his interesting history with T**** and many others.

They actually enjoy being illogical, because it frustrates their “enemies”… sane people trying to make educated, thoughtful, rational arguments. Their arguments are equal to someone just making fart noises. Idiocracy is here.

They nuke if you cancel for a few months. There are so many services, I only want maybe 1-2 at a time, and honestly need zero, could just use Plex. (If you forget you’re sub’d, they will never nuke or let you know.)

I cancelled (again) because… let me think. Apparently they nuke your account if you don’t use it for, say, 6-9 months (nice). All ratings, history, watchlist, etc: Fuck you, gone. Could not disable ads, AKA autoplay previews. Quality of content massively decreasing. Cost increasing (and never any deals). Mediocrity hit them hard years ago.

Technically, not wrong. It’s worth noting that Cybertruck is shockingly different from Von Holzhausen’s previous work, which all share sleek, modern designs and principles (dare I say critically-acclaimed, beautiful). I think it’s obvious there was heavy “outside influence” for the truck (as emphasized), and the timing also lines up with Musk’s growing (untreated, public) mental illnesses.

It’s one of the biggest pieces of evidence (besides X…) of Musk’s growing mental illness and bubble of sycophants. I’m sure many very respected people in the field told him this would be a Very Bad Idea. I doubt any still work at Tesla. They should’ve had the first EV truck to market, now they’re left only with this abomination.

“Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.” Aced it. Genius IQ. Etc.

Exactly. I think an aftermarket VESA mount is pretty much required these days for modern TVs, that’s the bad news. The good news is that there are plenty of options (center base, wall, swivel, etc), some very affordable, and they should last for multiple TV generations (check VESA pattern, weight limits).

But I get that these tiny, wide feet can be mind boggling at first, since TVs all used to have center stands for decades. Finally, TVs got too large, the cost savings and stability from two tiny feet won out over the alternative of the large, heavy single center base.

He was given $500M from daddy. And blew it all by the time his casinos failed (according to daughter). That’s when he really shifted to criminality, from fraudulent loans to highly suspect foreign “artful deals”.

It’s a disaster that nobody took the reality show clown seriously enough to investigate, until forced to after he accidentally won the presidency (and lost the protection) and started a fascist cult. One of the dumbest and most obvious high-profile criminals in history, very slowly facing justice at 80 years old (…unless he wins again).

Yes. It’s tragic that so many humans are this gullible, even without learning about politics, to not notice obvious patterns, and accept that they’re being manipulated. And then, when an actual threat emerges, not even being able to recognize it.

They can’t contain their hate, and must take it out on someone. The most convenient political target. And to think, Iran was as peaceful as ever just a few years ago under the nuclear agreement, but US GOP (and Israel) could not accept it. Now Iran is blatantly helping Hamas and Putin terrorists, with no hope of diplomatic relations. I’m sure this will end well.

This is the future of air travel! An airship revolution! Just need a few million dollars from daddy “investors”. Silicon Valley is full of these absurd schemes and games for bored billionaires.

I’m daily using uBlock Origin (with Firefox) on Windows, and ReVanced on Android, and have experienced zero indications that Google is at war with ad blockers. These two are fucking fantastic and highly recommended. I don’t expect it to last forever, but bravo to these devs and contributors.

I’m also using Nova Launcher (on Pixel 6A), received Android 14 update, haven’t had any problems. Or frankly noticed many differences at all, which makes me hope they spent the year squashing bugs? Right, Google? …