Legally I'm a software engineer despite not having a degree in engineering or computer science.

Not much I can do about it. That's my job title and what I put down when I am told to provide accurate information to a government agency.

You may certainly petition the legislature of my state in order to force my employer to change their job titles. But it's out of my hands (I also do not care)

It's like the hover tank in Sargent Bilko. Not about being practical, just about if you can get the contract. Human nature is the same everywhere.

A brain enema would be preferred.

You've heard of ironwood surely? Then why not iron cheese?

Maybe I'm old or out of touch (or both) but for the life of me I cannot think of a reason for that number to be more than maybe 1% outside of some lazy programmers.

Why first? That's pretty stupid. Yeah, Google allows some shady shit, but NOTHING compared to what organized crime syndicates have done. Also, the scam ads are a small fraction of their revenue. I think it's safe to say they're an oversight...they're making billions of dollars advertising for MAJOR pharmaceuticals, for example...the thousands of dollars they're receiving for fake boner pill ads don't really compare to the money they're making on Cialis and its competitors. The casino may be robbing me, but I am not eager to get mugged at gunpoint by even more desperate criminals.

I'm disappointed, I expected to see the quack with his copy/pasta claiming that EVs cause more air pollution than gas cars by now.

I did not need that image...

Wow, the zip-bomb link is interesting. This is why I keep coming to /.

And I think it's safe to say they're going to lose sales. I don't think they'll lose all of them but I would expect to lose about half that quarter or about 12%. Worst case it could be as high as 15.

A normal company losing 15% of its sales would be dead meat. Wall Street would cut it up for parts.

But people bought into Tesla when it was so ridiculously overvalued that everybody is afraid of being the one who pulls the trigger. Nobody wants to get caught holding the bag when it eventually collapses.

Meanwhile Elon musk's last two pay packages are worth about $100 billion dollars. If you're wondering how he's going to get that money since those were stock deals he's going to dump the stock into pensions and 401ks. To put that into perspective it's more money than Tesla can make in 50 years with the subsidies...

It's not a question of when company is going to collapse it's just which of the big four are going to buy up the remains and who gets caught holding the bag. I am pretty certain it won't be Elon

After world war II Russia was a burnt-out husk and it never fully recovered. Putting a criminal in charge of the country was the final straw. Russia was never a threat and there was zero reason to have a cold war with them except to keep the military industrial complex going and to line the pockets of well connected defense contractors at the expense of the public at Large.

At this point with Russia not even able to subdue a nation of 20 million it's stupidly obvious they are no threat so we can't use them to go booga booga at voters.

So China is the next step. And China for their part is happy to use America as an external threat to keep their populace in line. Because we've always been at war with Eurasia.

We never fucking learn.

Who?

If by next year EV sales in the US haven't tanked, I'll be somewhat surprised - since Trump and his puppet-masters are actively trying to kill EVs for some reason.

Regardless, as I've mentioned before - my next car will be an EV, likely a Hyundai Ioniq 5 or 6. It's just a question of when I make the purchase. It's possible I'll change my mind on the make, although I can say for sure it will not be a Tesla.

Going beyond "a termite mound or a species of squirrel", we are now at the level of pond scum.

It's just crazy how much money was spend making that mediocre game. Something like 400 million.

You would think the CEO responsible for that disaster would be drummed out of the industry and never work again but I don't even think they bothered to fire him from Sony. I think it's pretty obvious that the fucker was trying to throw money to create a big franchise so that he could move up in the company. It must be nice to waste hundreds of millions of dollars through mismanagement to advance your career and then take absolutely no hit whatsoever.