• AI

• Increasing Productivity

Pick one.

Or if we are, at least enable the whole “hard work pays off” myth. Money makes the world go round, but we’ve made a system that’ll just grind you down if you really dedicate yourself to it.

Can’t imagine why that isn’t working out.

I don’t really have a problem with people who do actual organizing and activism not voting

I see a line often drawn between voting vs [anything else]. Why? Voting is the bare minimum, easiest, lowest effort you can put into influencing policy.

Organizing is running a marathon; voting is tying your shoes. If you’re going to put the time and energy into the hard stuff, why skip the easy stuff?

They’re not mutually exclusive. Do both if you can. But even if you can’t run the marathon, at least take the two seconds to tie your fucking shoes.

There’s also Langar’s Lines, which are a large factor in where your surgeon decides to cut!

The most simple explanation is usually correct

In most contexts, yes.

and never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity, lol.

The problem with that rule is most malicious people are well aware of it, making the appearance of stupidity a tool to free them from accountability. Look at politics - we (collectively) give Trump the village idiot pass, ogling at someone could be so stupid as to blunder their way into the absolute worst economic, tactical, social, etc outcome possible. He’s not an outlier in that behavior, and corporate reps / CEOs often do the same shit.

I don’t have the insider knowledge to say with certainty that any one instance is an example or not, but I definitely reject the whole ‘never attribute to malice’ spiel.

like they claim they did

Am skeptical.

They might just sincerely be stupid, but this all carries a strong scent of bullshit.

My money’s on a calculated PR move, with almost no investment made into it leading up to the action from Valve, culminating with a woe-is-me to stir up some community support.

Then we’ll all celebrate together.

Usually agreed, but July 5th I’ll be shopping for some discounted boomies.

They will be on stand by to celebrate a long overdue deposition when the day finally fucking comes.

Not that rare, considering they did the exact same thing already.

Kinda looks like they’re doing it on purpose so that the following apology gets them some free publicity and reputation for being honest… which is manipulative and shady.

Yes! Weight aside, it’s just more shit to break and need expensive repairs.

And I’m sure some people really like motorized trunks and stuff - if it’s in as a modular option, they can get it.

Win win.

…at the end of the day I guess I’m just a big fan of customizeability.

We’re still there, aunt Marge is just called Grok now.

‘Not a car guy’ here. I’m pushing 40 and my entire life idk if I’ve ever driven 90+mph. A car is a point A to B machine and nothing else, ideally without drawing the attention of law enforcement or playing chicken with a tree. Not being able to exceed 90mph is an absolute non-issue.

What is an issue is new cars, especially EVs, being loaded up with with unnecessarily fancy shit that I don’t care about, jacking the price up.

There are some a la carte features that are actually applicable to that point A to B: fuck yeah I want that sound system, I listen to music while traversing A-B. But that’s the cool part about a modular product like this, I can fork out for the comforts I actually give a shit about and go without everything else.

If my wishlist stacks up to an extra $10k then I’m probably better off with one of the dozens of other options that just have the fancy shit built in; but if I can get a basic-bitch EV + an an extra grand from the handful of things I actually want, then sign me up (…in like, 5-10 years once we have a good feel for the build quality of these things and can verify that Bezos’s dick isn’t stuck in the whole op).

It’s the perfect concept for ‘not car people’, which I’d wager is most people. It’s honestly bonkers that things like this haven’t been offered by leading car manufacturers for decades, but I’m sure there’s plenty of marketing strategy geared around “people will pay for loads of stupid shit in their EV if the only EVs on the market are packed with stupid shit!”.

If nothing else, it might prompt other manufacturers to hop on the bandwagon and offer an actual variety of minimalistic EVs.

Hence the market for gas!

AI Data Centres ‘Provide Markets’ For Gas

Not just gas, but glass bottles and rags, and cigarette lighters too!

If it has a stinger, doesn’t make me honey, and is at all aggressive toward humans, it’s kill on sight. Idc if it’s a pollinator or w/e - either the other pollinators can fill in the gap after its death/extinction, or the ecosystem collapses… which we’re speedrunning the latter anyway, so fuck it, we’re not going to make a significant impact on the global collapse of life by being a little extra aggressive to fuckers like wasps, mosquitos, etc.

Thought the headline said “GOP apologizes for emailing people Nazi symbols”… Only thing that stood out as odd was that they’d apologize: I mean, that’s their brand.

The antichrist.

Turn that gun around and go out with a historic bang involving as many of the people responsible for fucking our lives as possible.

End result will be the same for you; but much, much better for society!

I don’t get the whole soggy straw pseudo-controversy. While yes, the paper ones are awful, it skips over the much more obvious solution of: …just don’t use a fucking straw.

Lift cup. Open mouth. Play Interstellar docking scene music. Let gravity move the noms into the face-hole.

No straw needed.

Drink on the go from a disposable cup and don’t want it splashing around? Use the kind of lid they put on heated drinks, with the little elevated sippy hole.

Like, we had working straw substitutes well before the paper bullshit came along.

After the first “what?” following the initial wave of muffled gibberish, if whatever comes next isn’t louder, I just assume she’s talking to herself.

That assumption is never correct, but running in “what??” circles is fucking maddening. She knows the drill.