They tend to be scared to try new things, un-interested in being at work on time or even during standard hours, entitled, and have no interest in paying their dues, often expecting a salary that is more appropriate for someone with 10 years of experience. "I don't want to build stuff" I was told by a recent mechanical engineering grad. "I want to design stuff". Hey kid, you will be a far better engineer in the long run if you learn how to build stuff for a few years, especially if the parts are poorly designed. You will quickly learns what works and what doesn't.

'With remote work, people also spend more time in meetings that are worthless' Yeah, I've never spent any time attending worthless meetings in the office...

Years ago I worked for a company that made equipment for digital printing. No printers, just other pre-press equipment. A bean counter up the hierarchy figured out that inkjet ink cost $1,000 per litre retail. The company immediately started work on an industrial, wide format inkjet printer for banners and posters and such because the ink was so profitable. Go with a laser printer.

Meh. I'm Canadian and there's no way I'm buying a car built in the U.S. until the government shows us some respect again. If Canadians are at least partly to blame for the decrease in demand for American made EVs then so be it.

How does creating a company that sells over-engineered, over-built, heavily marketed ("Oh, it's a Dyson, they're the best") and over priced applicances (that still sell in the millions) a failure?

Funny how everything is "just 10 years away".

I have no issue with it taking a reasonable time. But this complaint is now decades old. They've had government handouts to provide better rural access based on fees for the entirety of the century so far IIRC or close enough.
And we've been paying the fees for that long. So if that money hasn't been used for what I paid for I want it back.

The problem with your scenario here is that in a lot of cases the farmer can't get the right part at all, and if they don't get that field taken care of by their really expensive machine within the next 3 days they lose the harvest.

Magnuson-Moss exists for a reason, and one of its functions protects manufacturers as they can deny claims if they can establish that duct tape and crazy glue broke the machine.

Deere's actions are to circumvent individuals rights to repair so they can control the repair chain to further pad their profits, nothing more.

No, the problem is Deere is engaging in activities to lock out people's ability to repair their own stuff, then not having the capacity to do it themselves. Circumventing Right to Repair is scummy on its own, but their unwillingness or inability to handle the service load they created has knock-on effects that are incredibly disruptive to food supply. And that's the kind of thing that drives farms out of business and can/does lead to food scarcity issues.

Not a business.

Then the games should be free. No more of this "fee-to-pay" nonsense.

(That we got called out)

Congrats on your mandatory "What was "The Southern Strategy"?" response.

Seriously, you look absolutely ridiculous making a comment like this that shows absolutely no awareness of the aims of political parties before the 60's and a concerted effort by Republicans starting in the 60's to gain and consolidate power by courting racist whites in the south.

Everyone's favorite incompetent grifters have been flooding Facebook with ads for the "new method", because this allows them to cut yet another step out of their bogus revenue stream, and probably because the last grift is hopefully finally dried up.

They're advocating using LLMs to "write" the books too, so you don't have to pay anyone at "all" (except them to "teach" you how to run this garbage scam) and to more effectively just absolutely flood the zone with shit.

> bought an Apple controller

No wireless. Less space than a Nomad.