Playing possum doesn’t work.

What, participating in one genocide isn’t enough for Trump? Now he has to join Bonesaw’s one against the Yemenis too?

I’ll bring feathers if you have a bucket of tar and a brush.

And when is Germany going to shut down AfD?

And who’s discussing dismantling the Heritage Foundation? They’re an an obvious Russian front group.

If markets were rational, CEO compensation would never have grown so high, and there’d be no billionaires either.

Suddenly, there are more Yellow Brick Road murals everywhere.

They’re not letting a good crisis go to waste.

We’ve seen what Vance is, in that meeting with Trump and Zelenskyy.

I want him delivered hogtied, with an apple in his mouth. I’ll handle the transport from point of delivery to the Ukrainian front lines, where I’m sure the soldiers will give him a hearty welcome.

Dumping all that water from the reservoirs did nothing but sabotaging California’s ability to make it through the dry season. Not a drop of it went to fire-fighting. Trump is a wrecker and a liar.

It’s the top-down nature of the eugenics movement that made it so morally repugnant. “We decide who’s fit to have kids.”

It was a common view, especially among progressives, from the late 1890s to the start of WW2. The temperance movement embraced eugenics, so did the family-planning movement, and through it, early feminism.

Old man here as well. I follow the doctrine of non-repudiation: I did a lot of stupid things when I was young. But I own them and don’t hate my former self for doing them. Mind you, I didn’t hurt anyone (except emotionally, and not intentionally) and wasn’t a criminal. If that were different, maybe I’d have to process it differently.

Leaf’s tech was a joke for a long time.

It was more to do with hubris. Scaling up production of anything as complex as a car is going to result in quality issues unless your production engineers are world-class. Tesla thought they were smarter than the carmakers, and learned early in the process that that was bullshit. Then Musk came in and relied on hype rather than engineering to move units.

The Roadsters were well-made. That was when production volumes were low and Musk hadn’t bought the company yet.

It’s single-party state capitalism, so the enshittification is already neck-deep.

Agreed, No AI that I can’t turn off. No AI that can’t be turned off without disabling critical functionality.

If I buy a toaster, a fridge or a washing machine, I don’t need it to have an internet connection or an OS, let alone AI. The only thing it needs an OS for is to collect data on me that can be sold to aggregators. That should be illegal, and if I can’t disable it, I won’t buy the gadget.

Curated experiences are the reason we’re in the shit right now.

But yeah, maybe boutique curated exepriences will somehow be qualitatively different, and not just finer market segmentation.