Where are my engines Jeff?!!!

Ooops, force of habit, nevermind....

There was plenty of interest in the beginning**, and the electric truck market really doesn't have good competition for a given price point. The problems were:

1) The price shot up heavily
2) The stats and capabilities went down
3) Musk went hard-right, and rightly or wrongly the Cybertruck became seen as a symbol of being MAGA.

These things together pushed away ~90% of prospective buyers. Combined with the fact that the Cybertruck's production line was unique, as well as being a generation back, and it made it hard for Tesla to justify owning it.

** - Including from me. Beyond the stats-for-the-price point as introduced, I liked the engineering behind the design. If you want to make it rugged, that implies a thick skin. So make it an exoskeleton to bear the internal loads. Want to maximize strength while minimizing the mass? Resist torsional loads with a braced cantilever design (the triangular rear). Which, with a retracting tonneau, creates a very long, gradual rear taper, allowing detached air (from the angles necessitated by an exoskeleton) ample time to retract and minimizing the drawn wake. On and on - from an engineering perspective, there was a lot of great stuff that appealed to me. But little of that ended up staying. The final design hangs the (thinner) exterior metal onto a frame just as dead mass. The big raft of changes led to mass growth, cost growth, and range decline (despite advancing battery tech and pricing). And of course, I'm not super eager for Elon to end up with any of my money these days. Another family member had also been interested, and also cancelled.

Given the age of floppy discs, we can imagine how many times that plan got phased right out of the budget.

Shits so damn old we don’t even confuse GenUSB with Save buttons anymore.

(glances at objects in rear view mirror warning label)

https://youtu.be/ErR5Uz0axOI

Technically, the race is..well..ah, let’s just say some are still struggling to get it up.

(*) Micheal Bay fans, are quite fired up about it.

Neither is this problem.

Odd how those fucking almonds weren’t ever the next water crisis..

Oh, we keep it in mind alright.

History makes it rather hard forget about the aforementioned loopholes Greed N.Corruption lobbied for, in order to ensure victims are legally compelled to “forget” about their wrongdoings.

Precedent, ensures the answer to criminal court is the same, regardless of the amount of harm.

Well, at least we’ll know what the “or else” marketing tactics will smell like when Soylent Green hits the shelves.

”Better than starving, right? Hey, you said Universal Basic Income. You never clarified the currency.”

Red 40. Blue 1. Yellow 5. You don’t exactly look at the American food color palette and think ”ooh, organic”.

FDA has been finger-painting food approvals by the numbers for decades now. Perhaps now we can get real about that shit now.

No. Urine isn’t really supposed to be the same color as Mountain Dew sporting the latest Nuclear Zombie Piss flavor-hue.

Prior to pivoting to AI and opening eligibility to non-students looking to scale their startups, the Imagine Cup was all about student developers. At the 2014 Imagine Cup finals, Microsoft President Brad Smith opened up the awards ceremony saying, "It's a great pleasure just to recognize and honor such amazing student innovators from around the world." Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, one of the three Imagine Cup judges, boasted, "We are the original student developer company." Helping judge the student developers was Code.org (rebranded as CodeAI in June) co-founder and CEO Hadi Partovi, who spoke of his nonprofit's Microsoft-backed mission to "get students around the world to learn computer programming" with the Hour of Code (since replaced by the Microsoft and OpenAI-supported Hour of AI). Also judging was Reddit's Erik Martin, who jumped on the Imagine-Cup-is-all-about-student-developers-bandwagon, pointing out that "Reddit is also a student startup."

"Camelot!"

"Camelot!"

"Camelot!"


"It's just generated content ."

Maybe. I first read the headline as if the Vietnamese jails were the ones doing the pirating.

Has this dude even tried to use the Internet without ad blockers recently?

I had to check something online on someone else's computer a while back. If that were my daily experience, I'd quit the Internet. People "don't mind" - my ass. People either block ads or don't know how to block ads. That's the two groups. The group "doesn't mind" only exists in that person's head. And I bet he isn't in that group himself.

Being legally compelled to pay out $7.5 billion, with a sticky note on every check that reads "did not admit liability”, is some crazy work.

Imagine if Luigi Mangione got every criminal charge dismissed, because he gave a $100 charitable donation. To the NRA.

Netflix lost its marketing subtlety when it started listing obscure movies in their Top 10 mostest watched list.

Did 950 million people roll over on the remote while fucking yesterday to ensure that straight-to-VHS hit from 1985 gets its views dripping with RT integrity?

There are 10% of us who want that.

The other 90%, turn into blithering idiots the moment the internet goes down. They don’t merely want Google to tell them the answer..