Pizza's not even that hard to make at home. The dough takes a bit of practice but once done a couple of times it's dead easy. There are also really good pre-made and/or frozen pizza crusts you can buy if you don't want to put the work in, then the rest is just spread the marinara, sprinkle cheese and add whatever else you want to it before throwing it in the oven for a few minutes. I can go from zero to burning the roof of my mouth in 30 minutes.

Genuinely the Mach-E is not a terrible EV; it's decidedly average in every metric but it's not bad. I drove one for a couple of weeks on a business trip and it was fine (yes, I drive an EV normally too).

Thing is they completely fucked the marketing on the thing. Calling it a Mustang was ALWAYS going to be a terrible decision because that name alone comes with a metric ton of legacy baggage that the car didn't need. That and the Mach-E name is just awkward as hell and sounds weird to the average consumer. If they really wanted to use a legacy name that doesn't have all the baggage what about the Fairlane? Yeah, there are some who wouldn't like it but it's an easy-sounding name that would've fit quite well and those people who would complain about the nameplate would all be over 60 by now if not over 70 (last Fairlane was produced in 1970). Or heck, the Mainline, Falcon... or hell just own the electric thing and just call the damn thing the Ford Thunderbolt (a sub-model of the Fairlane in fairness).

Or I don't know... maybe make something new up? They pay people to do this shit, I'm amazed they fucked it up so bad.

I'm reminded of all the BMW cars I've previously owned where it was often said "If there's no oil under it, there's no oil in it"...

I grabbed a Lenovo Tab P12 back in May and so far it's been a great companion device for traveling and basic tasks. I got the version bundled with the stylus and the keyboard cover for I think about $350 US.

The only real "issue" is that the stylus being Bluetooth needs to be charged as well but unlike the higher end models of Lenovo Ideapad, it doesn't charge when attached to the back of the tablet. So I have to remember to periodically charge it or it just doesn't work. I don't use the stylus a ton but it is nice for signing documents and the like, or taking notes.

Having said all that, it's been great. I've taken a number of trips and road trips with it and the keyboard is usable for basic email work, the screen is fabulous and the performance is awesome. Somewhat slow to boot from complete power off but the only time it gets shutdown completely is when the battery's dead which hasn't happened very often to me. Most of the time it's ready to go in moments.

Even as much as I love my Polestar 2, I disagree. The simple fact is that Android Automotive (what you used in Volvo) is an operating system that can be locked down by the vendor installing it. GM will almost certainly use Android Automotive but with a locked down app store so that only their apps can get installed... the ones they monetize.

Plus, there's the fact that a car's lifespan should exceed that of a cellphone. This is exactly a problem we're hitting with our Polestar 2's (and Volvo XC40's which are based on the same platform); the CPU is just too old and slow to support newer and better features, and in fact was probably borderline for the apps already released at launch. The CPU in the car isn't easily upgraded (though they are doing an upgrade for the Polestar 3 but that's a completely different computer and car) but you can upgrade your phone whenever and use Android Auto / Carplay with the latest and greatest apps at "full power".

I use Android Auto daily in my Polestar. The only thing I use the integrated system for any more is navigation on long trips due to the integration with the charging. However, with the recent addition of live integration with ABRP on my phone even this might go by the wayside.

This is why you remove it from the heat completely the very moment it starts bubbling.

Also don't press the coffee into the funnel, rather just fill with gravity to the top and then gently brush off any excess with your finger.

I have a Polestar 2... about 4500lbs. My first factory set of tires lasted 30K miles, but got replaced because I got a lag bolt through one of the tires AND the rim right at actually 32K miles, and since it was about to go into winter in the Midwest I felt it safest to have matched wear across all four tires.

I now have over 70K miles on my car and while I'm looking at the tires thinking it might be time soon for some new tires it's more because again it's about to go into winter in the Midwest and I prefer to have good rubber when the snow falls. All-season performance tires, I do NOT drive like a granny and I have the performance software upgrade so I do occasionally enjoy doing the 4 second 0-60 launches for fun.

The weight difference issue is also super overblown. Note that while my car is around 4500lbs, a directly competing car at the same time with similar performance and overall practicality was the Audi RS5 Sportback (2022 model year) which has a listed weight of 4000lbs. So there's a 500lb difference but it's important too to note that car weights are listed as empty weights. 15 gallons of fuel weighs 90lbs, 8 quarts of oil add another 15lbs and so on. The difference in weight is pretty small when you look at directly competing ICE. Yes, there's definitely an issue of tire wear because of the power the cars put down, but I've driven powerful cars since long before I drove an EV and they are all in the 3.5-4.5 second range and had tire wear similar enough that I don't seriously believe it's a factor.

Thank you for making the perilous journey from 2005 in order to make this comment. We here in 2025 appreciate it greatly.

HBO is the brand to save - not Max. Admit it was a bad idea, own the mistake, and just be HBO.

If an OpenAI fork/release of Chromium allows adblockers and was something more like Brave but with deep ChatGPT integration, they might have something...

Klendathu are just dialing in their aim...

I grew up down the street from her house. Went to the first Chuck E Cheese's across the street often.

Civilization didn't collapse due to her house. It wasn't even the first revision of her house (IIRC got leveled in the great SF earthquake) There's a lot of people that look at the Victorian adornments of her house as a sign we had civilization. Compared to the Soviet Bloc style housing we have going in today that has surrounded it, the Winchester house now looks out of place.

All kind of sad really. Town and Country was a beautiful shopping center. The trailer park next door provided low income housing, and the Styufy dome theatres looked straight out of a moonbase. Nothing is allowed to have exposed wood beams or rounded edges anymore.

Today I was looking at an AI Asian woman on Facebook. She had a whole page setup of her in various outfits, and I am not kidding I was having a difficult time discerning if she was real or fake. It wasn't until I went to her profile and saw all the videos was I able to tell the difference. Even here, I'm using a "She" pronoun, when it should be an "IT" pronoun, because it is not human.

No joke though, the realism and attractiveness was just.. off the scale. I'm not one of those guys into Waifu anime, hug body pillows, etc. I'm married, got kids, I'm older and I've been in tech a long time. I removed myself from my emotions for a minute to examine what was happening, and I closed the page.

If AI visually can do this to me, a guy with a 138 IQ that has been on this site forever, can usually discern if these things are real or fake, imagine what happens when these things are talking to people of lower IQ, coupled with realtime voice chat and response, programmed to understand your likes and interactions on facebook, to get you the perfect group of attractive friends, that treat you like the center of the universe.

Or worse yet, overlayed on the actual people you interact with on a daily basis. Like "Mudd's Women" from Star Trek TOS or Pike in "The Cage" Slapping on some Meta Quest glasses so everyone you meet and interact with is attractive... for only $99.99 a month.

Zuck isn't stupid, the population is. People will be throwing money at this if he gets it right.

Seriously; I mean I understand people's desire to understand a thing that affected all our lives so significantly, but I seriously just don't understand why the source of the virus really matters. Whether it leaked from the lab or jumped from a bat in a market, the Covid that affected our lives and continues to affect our lives isn't the same virus. It mutates, has mutated and is now a distinctly different virus than it was when it first arrived. Even if some lab in Wuhan has a sample of the original virus in a freezer it's unlikely that virus would be useful except as an historical footnote.

So again, why exactly do we need to know this and why should any of us care?