We live in an age of wonderfully empowered idiots. Yay computers.

Don't you have some street corner to be ranting on?

well yes, my point is its easier to award merit - and appreciate - a film that tries despite limited resources and fails to be great vs a company like disney that has all the resources in the world

despite being not being a great film, per se, AV Club seemed to very much appreciate it's DIY ethos and laudable handicraft

https://www.avclub.com/iron-lu...

yes, the US is investing in being awesome by legislating having to repeat "I'm awesome" as often as possible, making saying "I'm not awesome" come with real consequences

let's see how it works out

it's not like there won't be another one

You're willing to bet your billions that the "another one" will be within a time frame that wouldn't make it a money losing choice?

You and rightwingnutjob should get a room. You can both tug it to the fantasy of the government surveilling it's own people.

The "editors" obviously do not care. It's not as if their indifference to quality has not been repeatedly pointed out for many years.

They could and should be replaced by an AI sorting reader submissions. They don't add any value unless flagrant display of indifference has value.

Slashdot's owners clearly don't care or have any idea what to do with the site.

The remaining nerds would find it newsworthy, and you'd know what to leave unsaid.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Mecha...

covers issues fairly well. Modern vehicles are driving (pun inevitable!) many techs from the industry due to excessive complexity.

The best way to avoid modern hypercomplex vehicles raping your wallet is lease, don't own, so you can hand it back and let it destroy someone else's wallet.

I believe OP is skeptical that the decision to post reputational harm was fully agentic, or whether it was prompted to do so at the behest of whoever is hosting the agent.

I do that on the roof of my 2018 Elantra hatchback, just need two 2x4s notched over some crossbars, then strap your sheet goods to it. Granted the roof can only be loaded with two sheets but it's got me through some full bathroom renos.

They're cheap AF. After some performative smashing, Amazon backed down, and now you can buy a new one (+1 bonus point for consumerism!)

The system works, people!

The idea of exporting Western European democracy to cultures
it does not fit was bipartisan, but reducing the odds of nuclear war by giving the CCP economic skin in the game was an improvement over decades of nuclear standoff.

Nixons and millions of other Americans key error was imagining US businesses were capable of patriotism.

Democracy ensured idiocracy so here we are. I can't blame the rich for taking advantage of thoroughly unappealing bipedal bovines.

It is as its "editors" prefer.