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‘I bought this before Elon went crazy’: These anti-Musk bumper stickers are Amazon bestsellers
  • So they bought whatever "this" is while Apartheid Manchild was still in the womb?

    The Manchild has never been a decent, normal human being. (The upbringing he received at the hands of his creepy father prevented that from being possible.) He was always what he is now. He just wasn't rich enough to not care if people found out.

  • When do you usually get Christmas presents you will give to your family and friends?
  • Back when I still did Christmas at all, I converted first to a religion that didn't have Christmas. It did have, however, a 4-5 day festival of approximately equal importance in the spring. I made sure all my family, friends, and colleagues know that I wouldn't be celebrating a Christian festival, but that I would be giving gifts in March. Then I'd look at what I got for Christmas and did some cynical calculations.

    For each person who gave me a gift, I decided if I wanted to lessen the relationship, keep the relationship as-is, or deepen the relationship. I'd then pick a gift of lesser, equal, or greater value (roughly speaking) and give that response gift in March. The only difference? I'd get them all for a song and a dance in the inevitable post-Christmas bankruptcy sales.

    So the best time to get Christmas presents is after Christmas. January and February is when businesses get very desperate (to the point of dissolution for many) and prices drop like concussed bees.

  • X-Odus: Charities and Campaigners to Abandon Musk's Twitter After Trump Endorsement
  • Thing is, people leave and decide after a day or two they're comfortable hanging out with Nazis, so they go back to the Nazi bar.

    I genuinely think worse—far worse—of anybody with a Xhitter account, to the point of presuming that they can't be trusted with anybody non-male and non-white. There are consequences, in the end, to supporting fascism, no matter what excuses people contrive.

  • Four Passengers Die in Burning Tesla After Electronic Doors Seemingly Won't Open
  • You should not have to watch a video or read a manual to open a freaking car door.

    👆 That right there.

    The fuck are people supposed to do who don’t even own the car?

    👆👆 And that even more so.

    We have literally centuries of knowledge of human-machine interaction. We know what works and what doesn't. We know the importance of getting this right from watching what would be a literal lake of blood if put into one location before us. And one of those things that works is making sure the emergency tools are very obvious and in our faces. The rear door instructions for the Model Y alone are a horror show for anybody who has ever been in a crisis before. And then on top of that not all Model Ys have such a latch anyway.

    Everything about Tesla's doors are horrific.

  • Four Passengers Die in Burning Tesla After Electronic Doors Seemingly Won't Open
    1. Not all Teslas have mechanical latches on all doors. Specifically some Model Ys don't have them on the rear doors, apparently. (This is addressed in the article.) ¹

    2. The mechanical latches have often been panned on the safety front because they're inobviously located and operated. Point 4 addresses this further, but look at the instructions for the rear door in the Model Y in particular.¹ This is complex and confusing without panic and adrenaline. (This too was addressed in the article.)

    3. Not everybody knows about the mechanical latches. While one could argue that the driver should know their vehicle, what makes you think the passengers are going to know this, especially given the poor placement of the latches. Especially given just how convoluted the rear door releases are. (This was also addressed in the article.)

    4. When people are in mortal danger, figuring out complicated things, or remembering obscure things like where the manual release latches are, is not going to happen. If the control to open the door isn't open, obvious, and in your face, you will not remember it unless you've been specifically trained to have this in your immediate-recall memory. That's why pilots of aircraft spend so much time drilling the same thing over and over again. Or people in militaries. Or people in emergency services like fire departments. (This was addressed in the article as well.)


    ¹ From https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/modely/en_us/GUID-AAD769C7-88A3-4695-987E-0E00025F64E0.html "Not all Model Y vehicles are equipped with a manual release for the rear doors."

  • Being loved or at least desired by someone must be nice
  • Because he is wrong. It's that simple, that stark.

    His misery comes from within and, worse, it defends itself from ending by insisting he can't be anything but miserable. He needs professional help, not the help of random people on the Internet.

  • Being loved or at least desired by someone must be nice
  • Joining with the other sex and reproduction is literally the main purpose of all living beings...

    This reductive view doesn't help you and, indeed, probably hurts your chances of getting what you so desperately want.

    Drop this focus on sex and, ironically, you'll have a better chance of having it. We can generally tell when a guy wants us only for orificial insertion; that's a bigger turn-off than almost anything.

    As others have said (that you didn't bother to respond to) work on yourself before you start working on getting others. And in your case I would strongly recommend getting professional evaluation for possible clinical depression before it literally kills you.

  • AI plans a vacation in Jasper for December, 2024
  • I think it's more like TEH BLOKKCHAYNE. It has no viable use cases so grifters are throwing it against the wall in the hope that somewhere, someone will pick it up and give them the money they need to escape the inevitable collapse that is coming.

  • JD Vance suggested the US's support for NATO could be pulled if Europe tries to regulate Elon Musk's X as free speech debate rumbles on
    www.businessinsider.com JD Vance suggested the US's support for NATO could be pulled if Europe tries to regulate Elon Musk's X as free speech debate rumbles on

    Vance said it was "insane that we would support a military alliance if that military alliance isn't going to be pro-free speech."

    JD Vance suggested the US's support for NATO could be pulled if Europe tries to regulate Elon Musk's X as free speech debate rumbles on

    It's time for the EU to grow up and give the USA its walking papers. I mean it's not as if the USA has been even remotely helpful as NATO countries face their greatest threat since the Soviet Union.

    Throughout all of its history the USA has been an unreliable ally. Whoever banks on US support loses in the long term as the fickle US electorate changes flips its lid every 4-8 years and drastically rewrites the script as to who is a friend and who is an enemy.

    And the script for the next four years says autocrats and other such assholes are the friends, and they're willing to throw the previous friends' bodies under the bus to prop up a failing business enterprise run by a crony.

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    AI plans a vacation in Jasper for December, 2024

    Somehow it missed the massive forest fire this summer that destroyed much of the park and the town ... until it was reminded.

    !

    Remind me why anybody takes this tech seriously?

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    What is the most bizarre or unusual name for "GM" that a game has ever used?

    For me it was "Hollyhock God" from Nobilis.

    Why do game designers do this? Does anybody, anywhere, actually use these weird terms while actually playing?

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