You seem to forget, as the slashdot ideologues will certainly remind you, that "hating Elon and everything he does" is likewise the 'fad of the day'.

The Sahara has turned a lush green wildland 230 times in the last 8 million years, as recently as 9000 years ago.

I 1000% guarantee you, if there were leftists then, they absolutely INSISTED this was humans' fault.

https://theconversation.com/th...

Hint: The warming effect of each molecule of CO2 decreases significantly (logarithmically) as its concentration increases. This is scientific fact. There was no "runaway greenhouse effect" on earth even when CO2 was MULTIPLES of where it is today.

The cybertruck is pure shit. It is the least reliable Tesla by a wide margin

Maybe so, or maybe that's a subjective assertion. Tesla went full-on experimental with the CT, and I think the drive-by-wire steering and 48V system are pretty cool.

Tesla was recently named the least reliable vehicle in America.

I wasn't sure about this, so I had to look it up.

The first two results seem to place them somewhere in the middle. Anecdotally, I'm on my second Model 3, (sold my 2020 and bought a 2025) and they're the best damned cars I've ever owned (aside from the fucking ridiculous capacitive turn signal buttons on the 2025).

The f150 is also the most popular vehicle on the planet.

That doesn't mean it's good. I drove a Tremor for a short while (not my own), and it was the crappiest truck I've ever used. Backup cam and sensors that don't work; flimsy bed; rough idle

The Silverado EV is a far superior product. The Rivian is also far superior to the Lighning. Honestly, so is the Cybertruck. All three took the approach of engineering a new vehicle, from the ground up. The Lightning is basically an F-150 conversion, and it's a piece of garbage.

For years they adamantly insisted they didn't need to upgrade their room making and navigation tech while Asian companies hungrily iterated improvements.
When other companies integrated vacuum AND mopping tech, Roomba refused because they'd rather try to sell you 2x separate $200 devices.

This is simply a case where an early leader got it's head so far up it's own ass it didn't realize it was being left behind. Or rather, it saw all the signs and insisted they were wrong.

Oh well. Evolution requires death of the unfit.

"Polar bears are still sadly expected to go extinct this century," with two-thirds of the population gone by 2050," says the lead researcher on a new study from the University of East Anglia in Britain.

Well.
As recently as 2018 widespread studies showed that only 3 of 20 wild population groups were decreasing, and the overall number of polar bears was increasing steadily.

Now the propaganda engines have gotten going, the litany is "well we didn't know the data very precisely before so we were guessing, making it appear that populations were growing when they weren't"

Funny how data is only considered precise when it validates that the sky is falling.

There are two polar possibilities (ofc there are gradations between, for the pedants) :

94% of the time Trump is wrong and the Supreme Court is simply ruling on ideological grounds to support him
Or
This is a signal of vastly out of control lawfare, where legions of well funded legal teams cherry pick activist ideological judges to give them the rulings they want, which then fail when finally tested against strict rules of constitutionality

Personally I'd say leftists are just pissed that their usual passing lane is blocked - using the courts when they can't get legislation passed has been their (rather reliably successful) tactic for 50 years.

It is also true that something that's nice and convenient isn't a necessity, either.

I fully agree that it's nice.
I fully agree that it's convenient.
It requires a fair amount of self-discipline; there are some employees that can handle that, and some that cannot.

Ideally, a company would evaluate you on your performance & productivity, not where you're sitting.

It's still not "a necessity" that's bullshit hyperbole.

Scratch a liberal and you always, always find an absolute fascist.

We MUST contribute to the greater good, you say? There is no opt-out? Or else what?

And we all know who gets to decide what is the greater good, right?
Certainly not that ridiculous "democracy" that would vote against electric cars.

... How working in an office was the standard for centuries but somehow in the last 5 years has become a necessity.

The entire place is a swampy echo chamber.

Paid for by taxpayer dollars. Oh, and the public funding drives.
(which of these is "the most important" depends on who's begging in front of whom) ...oh and $2.5 million per state? So a flat $125 mill annually?

"The commission's decision to drop PBS membership is a blow to Arkansans who will lose free, over the air access to quality PBS programming they know and love,"
IT'S CLEARLY NOT FREE.

Please link to the post you made Feb 6 2023 when Blinken decreed the use of Calibri for also-stupid reasons.

Because calling this a wasteful bother and not that just means you're in ignorable tendentious hypocrite.

Thanks for playing.

"use their personal card for work travel and then file paperwork for reimbursement"
Oh no, you mean like 80% of businesses do?

THE HORROR that someone is actually checking this shit off and signing for it.

Oh, and then the person themselves gets the rewards for their travel which is pretty awesome, instead of the organization using some GSG9's ff miles so Hegseth can pinch the stewardii in first class.

Tell me you don't do actual work without outright saying it.

The kind of people who are wanting/trying/thinking about killing excel are, in my view the same people who believe the same thing about email, and think you can do useful ongoing work communication on teams or other shit-chat platforms.