People are abandoning the concept of an EV. The price of gas is damn near irrelevant with the EV price tag premium. And even if I'm the responsible EV owner with a level-2 charger at home and never go below 70% on my battery charging nightly, I still risk getting stuck in an EV charging line for hours during any long trip or vacation I want to take because of every other EV dumbfuck owner draining themselves down to 3% and needing a level-3 charging station every other day because they treat their car battery like their phone battery.

The inconsiderate irresponsible EV owner, is still a considerable issue with EV ownership. Some people realize this before they're ranting yet again in the EV charging line, bitching about a type of car they should have never bought.

Hey Ford. Before we declare the month of May as the month we collectively agree to SHIT on EVs, how about you go ahead and say the quiet part out loud.

No, no. Don’t shove Eddie EV under the bus again.

Tell us how the REST of your sales are going.

THEN we can talk about how those EVs are “all” to blame, and not the insane MSRP and stealership markup greed on an asset that depreciates like fucking milk.

You want to fix new car sales? Get rid of stealerships and sell direct. Open up Right to Repair. Or die the fiscal death that should have happened in 2008. Shitting on EV isn’t going to fix or excuse the rest of your problem, which is the other 80% of your inventory currently rotting on sales lots.

The ignorant irony of being offended about corporate spyware while working for a company that specializes in profit building by abusing every legal spyware possible (aka their own app), is slap-able. But somewhat expected.

Mark acted that way and became Fuck-You rich as a result. That, is a GenMe magnet of opportunity at every attitude.

I’m betting during the boom of the gold rush there wasn’t any pickaxe vendor lagging behind in sales. Not even the biggest ones.

If the AI boom is in fact still a boom, then I’d still expect large returns.

Investors should enjoy that bubble while the gum of marketing holds on for dear life.

If your fiber service loop is coiled more than Eddie Van Halen’s guitar pickups, you should be working for Fender, not Verizon.

Medications became fashionable. When everyone is medicated, no one really sees a problem with medication. And may never again.

Social media became profitable. When everyone is a narcissist, no one really sees a problem with narcissism. And may never again.

(When they used to talk about the next generation bringing a “new” type of “normal”, I don’t think any historian ever thought that would ever boil down to simply dismissing what abnormal is, while pretending nothing bad will happen as a result.)

After the third medical professional in the same room within the same hour asked me about the medications I was on during my last physical, it dawned on me that my “none” answer from a person my age living in the Untied States of Pharmaceuticala was such an unbelievable outlier that I had to be asked thrice.

They all walked in and right up to the same terminal to ask the same question. The answer was right in front of them.

In disbelief and confused, I flatly asked the doctor asking. And they confirmed my theory. ”Sorry, it’s just..rare.”

Thanks, but I’ll probably just stick to what works, since I appear to be doing much better than those who started the trend of snappin’ zanny bars like they were Slim Jim’s. We have generational side effects being born from manufactured ones now. The long-term SSRI future, will not even be measured in brightness.

When you can find the liberal Democratic socialist who said ”no thanks, I’m fine with it” after being told their drywall needs to be ripped out for valid health reasons, then I’ll believe you have a point there, Baity McBullshitbaiter.

After watching quite a few videos of CyFy the Home Inspector enlighten America as to how the stench of home building quality hasn’t changed much since Chinese drywall was wafting over it, I have NO idea why anyone would consider them as qualified to build a data center.

They can barely remember to get sober enough to wire the stove up right.

Good luck with that, homebuyers.

Cigarettes used to be given to patents by sponsored doctors. Back when your roofing materials were still made out of asbestos. Butter wasn’t quite deadly enough, so we stole a molecule from plastic and invented margarine as the “better” alternative. For Big Pharmas sake. Then the Medical Industrial Complex caught on and went full HAM; HFCS replaced sugar. Preservatives and numbered dyes replaced natural ingredients. “Organic” became a legal term. “Healthy” bottled water came with forever chemicals from the damn bottle. And don’t forget about all those check-your-receipt-at-the-door store policies forcing you grab hold of that BPA-ladened paper and clutch it tightly, especially those ones stapled to the greasy McBag.

Forced upon people? No. Not really. Just gently marketed to. Because they fall for it.

Every time.

For many during the pandemic, those “doors” you innocently dismiss were labeled “life-sustaining employment”. Sure. We can pretend no one was “forced” to get COVID vaccines. We can also pretend Santa Claus is gonna bail out Spirit Air with frequent flier miles too.

Hollywood is in a real Catch-22 of their own making. Even the best plastic surgeons can't defeat Father Time from wearing down the most beautiful faces meant for the biggest silver screens. Faces that Hollywood themselves pushed for and demanded remain "flawless" for a narcissistic fan base trained on filtering life into nothing but flawless perfection as the "norm".

AI, is the natural solution for that plastic artificial problem.

Once the award is presented to GotchaBitchAI for the Fooled Every Human challenge, good luck separating those categories from an audience who doesn't care anymore.

Sadly, there's a good chance every AI actress will be perceived as somehow "better" than the IRL actress. Because she's already naked. Even when covering the history of dog-sledding. In Alaska.

I'd imagine for younger movie actresses, the definition of "stuff we can't do" might boil down to their penchant to degrade themselves. Since the OF competition is more than willing to completely replace them by any means necessary.

Not quite the same-same challenges in life. Can't remember a hobby of mine that came with a casting couch, thankfully.

Now you're the one being not so serious and sincere here. 1986 also gave us Platoon and Top Gun. Literal movies still being shown in theatres today. Not to mention a guy named Ferris taking the most infamous Day Off from school ever.

Let me know how many shitty sequels and thrice re-treaded storylines from the modern era will get re-released 30+ years from now, still putting butts in movie seats. Because that is what Holly-over-wood has reduced itself to.

No. On average, they didn't suck worse. Today's average release puts the bar on the floor and still trips and flops over it.

For those of you being so damned dismissive of the risk of AI "slop", imagine if we turned off all the e-mail spam filters and pop-up blockers on the planet.

Now imagine how terrifyingly influential the horrific wave of clickbait "slop" would be, shoved in front of a corruptly gullible audience whose FOMO and YOLO click-spending, is factored directly into GDP.

That is where we are today. In Free-AI land. Raw-dogging mind-fucking real. MKUltra jerking-off-furiously real. Pre-VPN. Pre-classified. Pre-payware. Pre-firewalled off from you peasants who don't know how to "use" it quite Greedily enough.

If we can justify spam filters, logic says we need to start thinking about dumbfuck filters feeding AI. Also known as AI feeding AI these days. At least kill that AIdoicracy feedback loop.

Is it the fact that they’re still alive despite every shred of medical evidence, or the fact they might actually do another “farewell” tour after thirty fucking years of farewell tours? Just curious as to where to count my carbon credits, assuming you’re not talking about the magazine who can’t publish a Best Guitarists of All Time list worth a shit.