The Space Nazi sold ~70,000 trucks in roughly 3 years, after building out a production line to build 125K/year.

They had tons of hi-visibility production problems because of all the dipshit decisions they made; I seriously doubt the full retail cost of 70K of those even grossed the development costs, let alone came close to breaking even overall.

It was the Crystal Pepsi of vehicles. Battlefield Earth in truck form.

Please show where this "open border policy" was articulated by anyone in the Biden admin. I'll wait while you ask your pet robot.

In this universe, Biden attempted to pass comprehensive immigration reform that was actually a bit harsher than Republicans were asking for. Republicans tanked it anyway, paving the way for people like to to continue to lie about it.

Defunding the police

Whining about kids protesting is just weak-ass bullshit. When you're done whining about a fucking protest chant, take a moment to notice Republicans were the ones attacking cops. They've destroyed the DOJ and the FBI and pardoned the thugs that beat cops on Jan 6.

If you're going to respond, start by naming elected (D)s with power to do so calling for that, or don't fucking running your flaps. You know who I saw calling to defund the police? Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Come back and try again when you're visiting consensual reality.

And MITMProxy is here to help you do it.

here.

Microsoft, of course, refuses to use his excellent free work.

His fix has issues as well, but he kept the pain on the implementation side as best he could.

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When they locked out anonymous access to old.reddit.com, I moved on.

I use Kagi, and that's when I demoted Reddit results so they don't junk things up.

Dude seems to have a very high opinion of the value of his website. We'll see if he's right, but the last 30 years are littered with also-rans who came to the same conclusion.

from an economy-of-scale and efficient-use-of-resources perspective, centralization makes sense.

This assumes that my interests are perfectly aligned with Sammyboy's.

But they aren't, and his proposal is no different than that any other greedbag who wants to own your future.

Allow me to counteroffer: Sam, fuck off to an island somewhere and scan crab eyeballs or something. We'll give LLMs their due attention, pat yourself on the head. Somewhere far away from humanity.

Thief steals from money launderer, and nothing of value was lost.

Equating ICE thugs shooting people in the back of the head with protecting kids is really low-rent gaslighting, but I guess I shouldn't expect a competent propagandist around here.

Be careful what you ask for. You just might get it.

Fuck your bullshit. You know as well as I do that will all happen anyway.

Access never should have been restricted in the first place - civil servant rosters should generally always be public.

And now it is.

This is a super handy list I expect will inform future hiring decisions in many parts of the private sector. It has internal AD group data attached, which should help with identifying job function. Nobody wants to hire dangerous thugs except cop shops and gangs (but I repeat myself).

I work for a company that successfully went fully remote, so I didn't experience much of what you're complaining about.

That said, you're lecturing the powerless in defense of a scam, and it is kinda gross.

There were literally months of articles and lawsuits predicting Oradance would have to make vicious labor cuts because generally (a) media consolidation plays like this always do, and specifically (b) this outfit is drowning in debt. This was as predictable as a Trump whine after a court loss. I can't tell if you're intentionally playing the fool to bang on your personal resentments or not, but Ellison isn't fooling anyone else.

And back on the WFH thing, if folks in your workplace abused things, that's a management problem. Lots of other outfits handle it just fine. We let two people go that I know of who couldn't hold it together without being in an office, early on (I think in 2021). And for several years we've been performing better than we were before[1].

If your army is fat and lazy, you replace the commander, not the grunts.

[1] To be clear, I'm not crediting WFH for all that. There are multiple reasons for our performance. But one big change we made when we went remote was instructions to hiring managers to find the best people they could and don't worry about where they are unless the job required it. And given that geographically we compete with Google and Facebook and the LLM vendors without being able to match pay, that mattered. We've picked up a lot of great talent over the last half decade, and most of it has stayed because management is also smart enough to understand the value of retaining people.

They're just thug gangs. What makes them weird is that they're government subsidized.

That means labor disputes with the government boss aren't resolved with a bullet, so you get collective action like that. (See also Dinkens & the NYPD.)

But it is a great time to clean house in that town! Get some professionals in quick, though - the former cops will figure out their extortion failed soon enough and need income, and they're not going to find anything honest that pays as well as being a badged thug.

Social media moving back to gas station bathrooms. And since there's no gas to buy, the threads are pretty sparse.

Russians are great folks, but never let them form a government.

If I amputate your mustache and affix it to myself, am I wearing a fake mustache?

It sounds like you're saying no. I disagree. If I were wearing a wig made of human hair, my hair is still fake, even if my fake hair is made of real hair.

So we have to account for multiple possibilities - the robot could be wearing a real fake mustache, a fake fake mustache, or perhaps one day we'll see them extrude their own.

Even worse, this is an initial hardware release from Apple. Apple does eventually keep their hardware updated for a fairly long time... on the third or fourth iteration. But the early versions tend to see only a couple of years of updates before Apple drops them.

You can see that with the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple TV: their original versions only received a couple of years of updates before Apple demanded people update to the newer ones. The original hardware in all of them was also severely underpowered compared to the versions released a few years later. And if you look back to the original iPod, this is hardly a new thing with Apple. When the iPod was first released, it was pretty lame. It only became popular once USB support was added several hardware iterations later.

Which means that the traditional device holds: don't buy revision 1 Apple hardware. Wait a few revisions until it appears to stabilize. Or don't buy it at all if they just drop it, like the original HomePod (note the new one is part of the "HomePod Mini" line) or Apple Vision. (Where's the non-Pro version, Apple? I'm assuming that was planned at one point.)