Not really. Our kids are bailing out of it too.

Just the other day I was at Christmas party by friends with two boys - 17 and 15. We spent the afternoon playing Teken 3 on a PS1 simulator, playing music and discussing Minecraft visual enhancement mods. The last thing these kids saw and greatly enjoyed was Shingeki-no Kyojin.

They quit on cinema after seeing the old Indiana Jones films with dad, and then seeing the last abomination of that franchise.

Myself, I just celebrated the 10th anniversary of my boycott, which began on 25th December 2015. Having just seen the Force awakens, I walked out of the cinema and said "never again". And that is from someone with almost 1000 DVD's and Blue-ray's in my collection! I have spent many thousands on these people over the years. I have tracked rare movies and paid 30-40 euros 20 years ago for a single film! I can watch and enjoy the masterpieces of cinema from Fritz Lang to David Fincher (the last quality director, IMO, and he is in his 60-ies).

So what about "you are not the target audience" remark? How can I listen to music that is 400 years old and enjoy movies made decades before I was born? Are all modern people degenerated mentally so the "creators" are following suit? Of course not! Oh, the fun I had introducing Millennials and Zoomers to old movies! They love them!

And you all know what is the real reason behind that downfall. Politics, propaganda, and social engineering. They try to change the culture, morality and history of the Western world ala 1984. And people rejected it, slowly at first, and masse now. Speaking of 1984, you don't need to look any further than the "re-make" of Animal farm, just recently shat out by the abominable morons that are left in that industry (everyone else has been cancelled) to see my point.

his followers often hurt and do worse things, when sent in a direction from their leader.

d's dont do that, but r's do. that's the whole reason why congress is frozen solid. they all want to LIVE and not have to pay 10x for security when the leader says 'this person should be taught a lesson'. in so many words.

its not that they have or dont have backbone; but when thugs are sent to kill you, the notion of free speech is meaningless.

this is the key. his followers are killers. his ice gang are losers who cant get any other job and just love to bash heads.

its ALL about violence. I understand them being afraid.

but its their fucking fault for empowering him in the first place!

ob disc: I used to work for nio usa.

batt swap is a great idea and its been done well. tesla tried it for a very short while and gave up. too bad.

one use case not always mentioned: you run out of juice and you are too far from a charging station or maybe you are in a hurry or just dont mind paying the convenience fee for a local drive-up swap. yes, they can do that. you can be on your way with a 'full tank' in very short order. no idea how common it is; usually you drive to one of the swap garages and it guides you in, you stay in your car the whole time, robots lower the old batt and raise up the new one.

the kinks are worked out.

dont bash on this cause its china. it IS and will continue to be a good idea.

china pulled it off since it was NOT adverse to ev's. in fact, they see ev's as their future, so the gov was eager to install all the infra they could.

during the very early T days, we still, as a country (usa) were going full speed ahead. car companies were doing well and we, the workers, did well.

then, the presidency changed and all went to hell after that. he picked his gas buddies over ev tech and the country is now suffering for it.

I'm 99% batt swap will never hit consumer cars in the US. monied interests dont want it. they know its their demise. their argument of '30 minute fillups' goes away with this. and you buy the car sans batt and so you always have a rental batt. you get used to it. upside: you never have a long-term battery that gets bad and bad. all swap batts are maintained so that no one gets a truly bad batt.

when you read the comments, you can see who has an open mind and who is a paid shill for a certain viewpoint.

Apparently, the whole thing is an overture by OpenAI to have a discussion with the Alexa team on how to successfully monetize ChatGPT.

Nonsense. Meat is the healthiest food on the planet.

If you factor the emissions associates with treating and "curing" metabolic conditions, the loss of productivity, sick-leaves, early deaths and so on brought up by overeating carbs and unsaturated fats, the opposite picture emerges. The anti-meat nonsense is pure ideology, greed and global politics combined. The opposite of the truth.

If you value the environment and like to minimize our impact on it, eat meat.

70 percent of the land mass of the planet is covered by grass. The only thing you can do with it, without intensive farming, requiring massive amounts of fossil fuesl, fertilizers and so on......is grazing animals. So, when you cut down the forests to plant palm trees to get palm oil to adulterate milk products with the claim that that makes it healthier (!?!?!?!) with it and make people sick and then you blame it on animal husbandry, you are so full of it that it leaks through your ears. I can give thousands of such examples.

I recall reading that if you have a meeting with more than seven people, you are probably having an ineffective meeting. I am regularly forced to attend meetings with 20-30 people. It's always the same 3-4 people who speak, everyone else remains silent.

I think about the many thousands of man-hours wasted during these meetings throughout the year, and the salary that costs, when I hear a PHB stating that new hardware, software, training, or personnel just aren't in the budget.

That's your Baghdad Bob cope for Russia utterly dominating AFU on the battlefield? At least it's a change from the other NAFO bots claiming Russia is about to lose because (checks notes) Ukraine managed to disable a single oil tanker.

LOL so you only had to go back over a couple hundred years to find a single example of Russia "winning" without American help.

No you dumb fuck. That was just the biggest war you had zero involvement in. Russia has won most of their wars without your dumbass, like when they took 9% of Finland.

russia needs to rely on nuclear weapons or nobody will take it the lest bit seriously.

They've been utterly dominating your dumbfucked ass with conventional weapons.

russia was utterly dependent on America and the allies for WW2.

Utterly dumbfucked Nazi bullshit. Americans like Truman were quite explicit in wanting Germany to slug it out with the Soviets until both sides lost. You only got in the war when Soviets were in danger of saving Europe not just from Nazis but from capitalism.

The BlueAnon dumbfucker is dumbfucked. Vast majority of protestors were entirely peaceful. Not one firearm taken inside Capitol. 1/6 is just Birtherism for shitlibs, a braindead conspiracy theory for braindead shitheads.

The video is the source, dumbfuck not Tucker Carlson. Your defense is to shove your head up your ass so you don't see whats right in front of your nose?

the hunger by the 1% to remove as much humanity from the workplace is sickening.

they fully know they are destroying the middle and lower classes (even more than they already have).

they, like the R party, just dont care. they think they are rich and insulated enough. they never cared what their own people need. the 'let them eat cake' time has come back again, but even worse.

there will be no thought to social systems needed to support the unemployed (which will be many of us, given enough time).

I'm glad I'm retiring soon. I would not want to compete in a job market that bosses think can be done by computer, alone.

and I would not want to be the 'prompt meister' to try to coax answers from the machines that make sense.

some see a great future with AI. I see nothing but doom and gloom. the greed factor is strong in humans and the class disparity will cause rioting and civil wars.

maybe not wars. the US has created a special police force that is above the law, so any uprisings will EASILY be dealt with. they thought about that. ICE is not just for foreigners. its a general purpose police force answerable only to 1 person.

people, please show me I'm wrong. but all signs point to a very bad future for 95% of the 'thinks for a living' workforce.

Laughing at your incompetent mendacity in Napolean, who also got his ass kicked by Russia, also without your help. You barely did anying in WWII; Russia did over 80% of the work of beating the Nazis, show some respect.

Even with Trump's help, russia will lose this one too.

Nothing can beat Russia short of nuclear weapons, but then the whole planet is dead you dumb fuck.

Election wasn't delayed and people went home in a couple of hours. It was a Boomer parade, not a coup - which is what many of them were literally charged with, illegal parading Only person killed was a protestor shot by a cop for no reason. You're a million megatons of incompetent BlueAnon bullshit.

1/6 was no more an insurrection than 9/8 was you dumb fuck.

Nothing fucking happened, BlueAnon clown.

So he was there.

Who said he wasn't?

It's on video, loser McCarthyite sucker of Satan's cock.