Yep, the fire code is how you know the story is wrong.

Tesla stock is only up a cumulative 6% from the peak it achieved exactly 4 years ago. That is not even close to keeping up with inflation - 18% over the same time period. So if just getting attention from a market flop is a strategy for driving up the share price, I guess it isn't working very well.

1. Wresting was on TV long before video games. 2. Brothers and cousins were hitting each other slingshots and rocks long before TV was invented. 3. Your anecdotal evidence does not "discount" everyone else. It only reflects your ego that you think that it does.

Yes because wrestling never existed before video games. . . oh wait it did.

What is this obsession with pedophilia? I'm really getting rather suspicious of MAGA. I suspect your average Catholic priest or Southern Baptist youth pastor thinks about nude children less than most MAGA individuals.

Like many things in the cloud, the flexibility was probably they could add/remove more machines easily with no long term commitment. The problem with cloud has always been at some point, the cost of leasing is greater than building on premises as the number of machines/data/bandwidth reached a certain threshold.

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Only if saving money was the only goal and nothing else. In this case, not being able to develop iOS apps using Windows or Linux is a significant obstacle over any cost savings.

Then you haven't been paying attention. Since the Mac Mini launched many, many companies have used them as servers. The main reason is they offer high performance per watt in a small package. The demand is high enough that companies offer custom racks for Mac Minis for higher density in cabinets.

What SPECIFICALLY do you haul that you presume to speak for all users who "haul things"?

Four door vehicles including Suburbans (whose "bed" is internal) are popular with businesses for many good reasons. They haul a three-person crew plus their personal items, have room for cargo (which a short bed crew cab equivalent does with extra clearance for outsize items) and make excellent towing vehicles.

There are many ways to roll one's own work truck besides single cab long beds. (I've one of those, too.) Short beds do not exclude long cargo else I'd not use mine for that (I've multiple trucks in various flavors). Accessories like lift gates work well on either (and on vans and box trucks) and in the case of liftgates extend the bed when travelling with the gate down.

Is it so terribly difficult to understand buyers who already have those choices buy what we do?

And why is it a questionable decision? Currently, the M series chips are the best in performance per watt and can beat Ryzen chips in some benchmarks. For Grab, since they need Macs for iOS development, what alternative do you propose?

BEV proponents don't care about people who use trucks as trucks or why that used market requires ICE.

They don't use liftgates (I find it odd more truck buyers don't install them but attribute that to ignorance of how very useful they are) so hauling the weight of same plus cargo and often towed loads is not their concern. I quite like mine which is a major back saver.

Their sole agenda is forcing you to obey them. That's typical and a major reason people who would not otherwise vote right wing consider they've no other way to defend themselves.

Selling new trucks requires sufficient demand from the USED market to make new trucks a wise economic choice.

If you read the story, the main reason they are going away from a cloud based solution was cost. As the number of Macs increased over 200, they found that buying their own hardware was cheaper. The major change for Grab is they own the Mac hardware now instead of renting it.

Due to demand, companies have designed racks to hold lots of Mac Minis in server room cabinets.

In this story, Grab is replacing 200 Mac Mini servers they are renting on the cloud with 200+ Mac Mini servers they have on premsises:

Obviously Grab does not think Mac Mini servers as "the worst idea ever".

Maybe you should read the histories of 19th century real life Gangs of New York

The Bible has depicted violence for millenia. The Iliad by Homer. Books by depict violence since the 1700s. It appears that basis of your arguments is recency bias.

Same here but I renovated my houses and built my workshops.

I can retain my paid-for gassers for another 50 years (in the case of my '75 F350) or another ~26 years (F150s and one 5.3 Silverado) at trivial cost because they are designed to be repairable and are not vendor locked by electronic feature bloat.

Early 2000 LS drivetrain trucks and vans already fetch high prices because later years are so intensely mechanic-hostile. (Mechanic of many decades here.)

Driving used trucks let me easily pay off my homes and acreage then retire early. Buying even one new truck would have delayed my financial freedom by years.

When Slashdot was a techie site more viewers understood such things.