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Comment PEBKAC (Score 1) 81

I repeat my call for legal liability for companies that sell products or services with errors, including security vulnerabilities.

Sure. Right after we start the mandatory IT competency test for every new employee that validates the problem isn’t still manifesting in the form of the iPad Generation of touchscreen mouth-breathers who thoroughly enjoy defending their uncensored right to click on every-fucking-thing shoved in front of their face no matter how senseless it is.

No software vulnerability has managed to defeat THE security vulnerability in the workplace. Not one.

Comment Re:Now say the quiet part. Loudly. (Score -1) 213

There’s not much I agree with you about, but I agree with your assessment here: US OEMs including Ford are locked into a structurally idiotic GTM that is going to end in disaster. Relying on high margin pricey products sold through third parties who don’t have your best interests at heart as the US walks into an oil supply shock and accompanying economic contraction feels like commercial suicide to me

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.

Comment Now say the quiet part. Loudly. (Score 3, Insightful) 213

Ford's sales of electrified vehicles — including hybrids and all-electric models — dropped 31% from April 2025

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.

Comment Re:What did they expect? (Score 4, Insightful) 92

Theyre working for a company founded by a thieving sociopath that treats its users as monetisable assets. Why did they think theyd get special treatment when push came to shove?

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.

Comment Reading between the lines. (Score 1) 47

When you're the giant of the industry, as NVidia is, you can't keep increasing by triple digits every year. If you're smaller, those bigger percentages are easier to achieve, even if the absolute numbers aren't as big.

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.

Comment Re:The lab-rat audience. (Score 1) 75

Crazy amount of psychopaths downvoting this. I guess mind-altering drugs are real.

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.)

Comment Re:The lab-rat audience. (Score 1) 75

You might do better with Xanax than psilocybin.

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.

Comment Re:Wait, THAT industry?!? (Score 1) 162

"the stench of home building quality hasn’t changed much since Chinese drywall was wafting over it..."

No discussion can't be improved without adding some right-wing bigotry, eh?

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.

Comment Wait, THAT industry?!? (Score 1) 162

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.

Comment The lab-rat audience. (Score 1, Insightful) 75

Isn't it quite uncommon that substances are forced into people?

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.

There's a whole debate about the vaccines but I am not aware of anyone being forced to be vaccinated. It's just that some doors close if you don't get vaccinated.

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.

Comment Re:Why? If it's slop? (Score 1) 50

If everything AI produces is crap or slop content, why would you need to ban it from receiving awards? I see this as a tacit admission that Hollywood is worried about the quality being good or eventually better than humans, in certain situations.

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.

The real solution would be a AI categories.

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.

Comment Re:Using AI actors or writing is a misuse of the t (Score 1) 50

"We need AI to do stuff we can't do" I am letting AI do that... for stuff that I personally can't do. I've had AI design logos, make short clips, draw cartoons, create avatars for online use, write and perform music. I can't draw, sing or perform for crap, and since this is all for various hobbies, I can't afford the humans who can do all that either.

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.

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