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- Comment on Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs 11 hours ago:
These cars are passing EU safety tests which are generally more demanding than the USA.
They are definitely getting good, fast.
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 1 day ago:
…for now
- Comment on SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight 1 week ago:
It’s less that people are putting faith in Elon (sure, some fanatics might be), but it’s that everyone else is somehow even worse.
SpaceX is actually getting stuff to space, despite their prototypes blowing up. Hell, even if this Starship thing is a complete failure and never works, their existing rocket, the Falcon, is still far beyond any of the competition.
The SLS: $10 Billion to develop a ship that recycles old Space shuttle parts, then costs $2-3 Billion per launch, and maybe can only launch one every 2 years.
ULA Vulcan: currently years late, still finding problems, and even after all that gets worked out, it can maybe do 6 launches a year?
SpaceX: 1-2 launches per week.
- Comment on Hello, non-Americans, do you have any Chinese language classes in your education system? 2 weeks ago:
High school requires at least a second language class to graduate, I believe. Most people take French as it’s the “default” one that all schools offer, but my school also had Spanish, Mandarin, and Japanese, iirc. But that was decades ago.
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 3 weeks ago:
A good case makes phones much more comfortable to hold. Modern phones seem to be aiming for slipperiness and sharper corners because it looks “premium”
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 3 weeks ago:
How does she manage to destroy cases? Does she chew them or something? Are you sure your daughter isn’t a dog?
- Comment on Why Balcony Solar Panels Haven’t Taken Off in the US 5 weeks ago:
Safety standards? Sounds like anti-profit standards! Guess who DOGE is cutting next!
- Comment on Tesla odometer uses “predictive algorithms” to void warranty, lawsuit claims 2 months ago:
Yeah I’ll be honest, I surprised myself when I bought my EV and my odometer went up a whole lot faster than it used to
My previous car wasn’t easy on gas so I instinctively used it sparingly. With my EV I actually do drive a lot more and I’m volunteering to be the driver for group trips and stuff much more often…
- Comment on A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy 2 months ago:
Haha as if that will stop Trump
- Comment on Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are. 3 months ago:
Than half of LLM users? Probably
- Comment on The new 3B "fully open source" model from AMD 3 months ago:
Are you calling her fat?
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 3 months ago:
Because every time a manufacturer releases a small phone, nobody buys them.
- Comment on Designed by men, for men: Why sex with robots does not have appeal among women 3 months ago:
“natural” movement and the Uncanny Valley might be the next biggest hurdle actually.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 4 months ago:
He called a rescuer a pedophile for trying to rescue children…
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 4 months ago:
Americans wish the US became Canada’s 11th province
- Comment on Elon Musk-led group makes $97.4 billion bid for OpenAI, CEO refuses and offers to "buy Twitter for $9.74 billion" 4 months ago:
He’s best buds with the fascist-in-chief this time.
- Comment on Elon Musk-led group makes $97.4 billion bid for OpenAI, CEO refuses and offers to "buy Twitter for $9.74 billion" 4 months ago:
Would Twitter be any worse if 100% of the posts were AI generated?
- Comment on How Nissan and Honda's $60 billion merger talks collapsed. 4 months ago:
- Honda realized Nissan has nothing to offer them
- Comment on What is a metaphor you like in your language? 4 months ago:
I only just realized the pun inside “You can’t have your cake and eat it too.”
Most people complain that it’s a pointless idiom because if you possess a cake, you are likely able to eat it.
Having cake is another way of saying eating cake. It’s saying you can’t eat your cake and then eat your cake again.
- Comment on What is a metaphor you like in your language? 4 months ago:
It implies we are here to do something more productive than fucking spiders
- Comment on Steam Winter Sale Featured Deep Discounts - any recommendations? 5 months ago:
But the DLC is 10x that
- Comment on How long do you think we'll keep seeing "formerly Twitter"? 7 months ago:
X is just a vague term though. It’s also often used as a placeholder for unknown or variable things. So the “formerly Twitter” is going to stick for quite a while.
It’s like naming a product “The Thing”. Anyone who talks about it will always have to clarify what Thing they are talking about basically forever.
- Comment on The Magic Keyboard and Mouse now use USB-C! 7 months ago:
Nope. If your other finger is still resting on the mouse, it fucks up and can’t tell the difference between left and right click. It’s a 50/50 gamble unless you lift your fingers off beforehand.
Yes, I did use the mouse before, and I was wondering why the fuck the thing kept right clicking when I left clicked and left clicking when I right clicked. Only after googling did it reveal that it misinterprets shit if both fingers are resting on the mouse.
What kind of fucking mouse requires googling to click?
YoU’rE HolDiNG iT wrONg
- Comment on What is the argument for making poor/working class folks shoulder the burden of taxes? 7 months ago:
Rich people want to get richer. Rich people can afford to bribe/wine and dine/trade favors with the select few who actually write the law.
That is all.
- Comment on Is there ever a situation where a doctor can legally refuse to render aid to someone? 7 months ago:
That line is bullshit anyway, otherwise the entire field of surgery wouldn’t exist.
- Comment on The Magic Keyboard and Mouse now use USB-C! 7 months ago:
Not without lifting your fingers off the mouse every time.
- Comment on The Magic Keyboard and Mouse now use USB-C! 7 months ago:
It’s garbage to begin with. You can’t right click with both fingers resting on the mouse. Shit design through and through, it’s equally functional right side up or upside down.
- Comment on Healthiest way to charge Lithium Ion 7 months ago:
The main issue with wireless is heat, at any charging speed it produces more heat than wired charging equivalent. With that said, if your room/charging spot is well ventilated and the ambient temperature isn’t too warm to begin with, it could be negligible.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO's pay rises 63% to $79m, despite devastating year for layoffs: 2550 jobs lost in 2024 7 months ago:
If they were software engineers, they saved $200,000+ per person laid off
That’s how he makes dem big bux
- Comment on Denuvo respond to their rep for tanking games - "I'm a gamer myself, and therefore I know what I'm talking about" 7 months ago:
Hello, fellow kids