The stupid part is that Trump / Vance made themselves look like assholes. Zelensky was over to sign a deal and they threw him out for disagreeing with their dumb talking points. And far from making America “great”, I expect that Canada, Europe, UK, Australia, Japan, South Korea etc has collectively decided that they need to reduce their dependence on America while these malignant narcissists are in charge.
Tesla doesn’t have that excuse. The original Roadster, Model S and Model X all had fairly conventional controls. They deliberately undermined the safety of their vehicles over time by aggressively removing physical controls in the model 3 and Y and revamped S. It probably saved them a few bucks, but at the cost increased risk to human life. If they get penalized in safety tests for their penny pinching then so be it.
I think Euro NCAP ratings would have more teeth if it was mandatory for manufacturers of standard passenger vehicles to submit a reference model for testing. Voluntary testing doesn’t work since manufacturers would be averse to submit cars for testing if they thought they’d get a bad score. And while Euro NCAP does sometimes buy cars for testing, they don’t do it for every make and model.
And if the cheapest dogshit cars on the road (Kia Picantos, Dacia Sandero’s etc) can have buttons, dials, wipers and indicators then so should everything above it. Companies like Tesla remove controls to cheap out on having to make a part, but they attempt to pass this off as innovation when it puts people’s lives at risk.
A lot of people were fool enough to put money down for it. Preorders were massive, something like a million, and they were projecting a waiting list of years. But when it showed up for double the price, half the range, badly reviewed, widely ridiculed and a raft of extremely serious issues those preorders just evaporated. It went from a waiting list of years, to no list at all.
Since the article mentions Canada I can only assume issues trying to sell this wankpanzer have only gotten worse since Musk went full Nazi. Imagine being a Canadian and buying any Tesla let alone this one. Countries where this thing is legal should be seriously looking at their vehicle safety laws.
Good. It’s an ugly, expensive, unsafe vehicle that has no business existing. Oh and the CEO is a nazi cunt.
I don’t think it’s move fast and break shit, so much as it is not thinking things through. He’s a narcissist and he believes what he thinks no matter how unfiltered stupid it is and doesn’t respond well to criticism. Look how he fired all of the supercharger people. Obviously the managers there told him something he didn’t like and he responded like a pissy bitch. Then he had to rehire most of those people to undo the damage he himself had caused.
I was watching an interesting video by an ex-Tesla employee who basically confirmed what we all know - Musk is operationally incompetent and loves to showboat, firing people regardless of their value to the system, piling stress and additional work onto others. And does it even when there are process improvements that would yielded the same savings (or increase profits) and preserve jobs. That’s literally his own mode of operation - work people harder with the threat of firings.
And now he does the same BS with the federal government. People will die because of this.
The chances of America charging these parents is zero. And this poor kid is just a herald of of things to come - people dying of preventable, contagious diseases because morons and kooks think vaccines are some kind of left wing conspiracy.
I do feel sorry for Tesla owners - pre 2025. People bought Teslas in good faith believing this company was heralding green, emissions free vehicles. Which it more or less did. They weren’t expecting the CEO would out himself as a Nazi even if there were clues he was a terrible piece of shit. Being an asshole is one thing but Musk out-Henry Ford’ed Henry Ford.
So if you’re going to discriminate, target >= 2025 owners where this is common knowledge, not those before. That said, the Cybertruck is and was a fucking terrible vehicle and deserves criticism on its own awfulness outside of any political dimension.
I’m sure Ukraine does hate Musk because he’s a piece of shit who parrots Russian propaganda and sells Starlink terminals to the Russian military
You can see why Amazon’s efforts suck just by using it. That isn’t to say I defend Steam, or Epic, or GOG, or UPlay, or Origin, or Battle.net, or Microsoft Store because they all suck. They suck for existing as separate things that all do the same thing but each eating 500Mb of space on my computer.
The ideal situation would be a federated platform where everyone shares a single sign on, everyone shares the same update, backup & restore mechanisms, everyone can join the same lobbies and matchmaking. But that’s too sensible.
The less safe the better.
Prices in Ireland for 12 eggs are €3.75 for free range or €2.70 for barn
A quick visit to Twitter would make the answer abundantly clear - no
Maybe it will, but for the time being it hasn’t. The experience is so vastly better than Twitter, that it’s a no brainer to jump over. It also helps to have a decent competing platform that people like to suck users and influence away from the platform that Musk turned into a cesspit.
Bluesky is like Twitter but with about 1/10th the idiots, and no mechanism that the idiots can elevate their racist, moronic hot takes above other comments.
I certainly find it funny that Tesla’s waiting list went from five years down to zero. Even Tesla’s biggest fans who actually stumped money on this thing produced video after video griping about its price & brokenness.
But frankly it was kind of obvious from the get-go that it would be an expensive, uninsurable, lemony asshole death mobile. I wonder if the next time Tesla announces something and Musk spews lie after lie about it that people will start to cotton on that nothing he says can be taken at face value.
It’s definitely weird all right. Starts off like you’re riding Elliot’s bike into the sky and ends up like some hallucinatory trip to ET’s home world which is all neon and tie dye with bad animatronics, talking mushrooms and other weirdness.
Despite being trippy it’s actually a very nice ride to go on because the lines tend to be short and it’s blessedly well airconditioned with the line mimicking standing in a pine forest at night. I can’t see the Florida ride lasting much longer because it must be over 30 years old by this point. I think it’s only gone that long because that section of the park has been relatively static in terms of development.
I’ve been using it on and off since 1994. I still have a slackware dist on CD with the 1.1 kernel. I think Linux is great although I still prefer to use Windows, and Linux via WSL which is my optimal set up these days.
Sometimes when I’ve torrenting from a public wifi I’ll get a malicious .scr file - but since I torrent from an Android phone it can’t do anything to me.