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- Comment on New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds 14 hours ago:
Tesla doesn’t do any of that, nor crash testing
- Comment on Is the AI Conveyor Belt of Capital About to Stop? 17 hours ago:
The powerbrokers have gotten into fashion trends, they absolutely do shit like this.
- Comment on Is the AI Conveyor Belt of Capital About to Stop? 17 hours ago:
What if we turned off all the poor people’s power nation-wide, would that be enough?
- Comment on Caw caw 21 hours ago:
If you let your toenails go past a point, they’re just going to stay that way, your toe adapts to the shape and it’s never going to look like a young person’s toe. Hell my 2nd toenail is shaped like a tent for some goddamn reason. On both feet. Whatever. The days of foot fetishists coming at me are over 😂
- Comment on A roundabout 22 hours ago:
My state is installing them everywhere despite people not knowing how to drive (only state in the union without compulsory driver’s ed). So it’s very common to enter a roundabout and have another car go the wrong way, because they wanted to go left.
I just sit with my horn depressed until they back up. Sometimes it takes a while.
- Comment on A roundabout 22 hours ago:
Eh, put that bumper back on, bit of clay bar, it’s as good as new.
- Comment on Commercials seem to be normalizing an unhealthy work-balance more. 2 days ago:
“Got the flu? Pissing out your ass? Take some fucking DayQuil™ you lazy whore, get back to work.”
- Comment on Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models 2 days ago:
“Every company has a test environment. Some companies have production environments.”
- Comment on ‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app 3 days ago:
Spotify’s personalized stations kept me hooked for years but it was surprising how fast I got used to creating stations based on individual songs or artists in Apple Music, and eventually I do think I’m go back to having a music collection again, but it’s going to take time out of my week to collect and organize music again… in my 40s time is no easy feat
- Comment on Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models 3 days ago:
Ah goddamn it.
- Comment on Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models 3 days ago:
The Slate EV is supposed to come in mid-$20k range. Doesn’t even come with a stereo, you get your own that fits in the space, or just zip tie a Bluetooth speaker somewhere. Refreshingly utilitarian, I think things should be modular.
- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 4 days ago:
And the pro tech nerds who told everyone to use local-only, non proprietary smart devices so they can still have a secure, ad-free smarthome laugh as we walk through the house without ever touching light switches.
- Comment on wax on 5 days ago:
It’s bees all the way down
- Comment on I c it! 5 days ago:
You can make a hole with your fingers and see the patterns of very bright lights above you, stadium lights etc. It’s just a vertical camera obscura. I remember the 90s solar partial eclipse really well because I was riding home from school, the leaves and even the spokes on my bike projected moons everywhere, it was completely magical.
- Comment on Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica 5 days ago:
Nest bricked my security system (after magically installing Assistant on it [oh by the way it has an undocumented microphone]), at least they gave you $100… in gift cards to the fucking google store. Logitech isn’t even that smart.
- Comment on Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica 5 days ago:
Blaming consumers for the behavior of corporations is a fallacy of capitalism… consumers act in their best interests, not necessary in everyone’s best interests, so we all suffer if everyone does that.
- Comment on Sorry, guys, it's just not happening 6 days ago:
So I’m getting our nonprofit ready for Pride, which is in October here.
One of my board member’s sister apparently makes the best “cream pies” ever, and they wanted to know if we could fundraise on them.
Of course we can’t sell them without a food handling license, so we’d have to give them away.
Which is how “Queer Men Give Out Free Creampies to The First 50 People” came to be.
- Comment on Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago 6 days ago:
Homer Simpson shooting TV to turn it off.gif
- Comment on soda 1 week ago:
Office workers are off so service industry jobs are fully staffed. I’ve never seen a gas station closed for labor day.
- Comment on Senate report says AI will take 97M US jobs in the next 10 years, but those numbers come from ChatGPT 1 week ago:
Not if the IP is purchased by another company leaving the original saddled with the debt, or spun off so the parent company can rebuy it thusly, or the government bails them out, or buys it to be the State AI too, or a bunch of other scenarios in this dark new world ahead.
- Comment on Senate report says AI will take 97M US jobs in the next 10 years, but those numbers come from ChatGPT 1 week ago:
I drove Amazon Flex during Covid, having an AI as your boss is deeply and perpetually unsettling but ultimately doable! Just do what the push notification tells you to do. If you want to say something to your boss, use the feedback form on the corporate website. So simple.
- Comment on Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored... 1 week ago:
THEY WANT TO TRANS YOUR DOORBELL
- Comment on Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored... 1 week ago:
The UK has a CCTV facial recognition system that’s quite massive, we’ve resisted such programs for the most part (a few cities have them but they’re not linked together).
So it’s not like Europe is free of this.
Here most of our camera systems are for our own use only, not for the government, with this giant exception.
- Comment on This should be true 1 week ago:
It’s fun that instead of figuring our shit out and funding the government together, we just developed regulations around shutdowns.
- Comment on THEY'RE EVOLVING 1 week ago:
Or even grosser melt them with a wet rag :(
- Comment on THEY'RE EVOLVING 1 week ago:
Full of spiders.
I hate cleaning these up because they’re fucking spider piñatas. Yeah the spiders are dead by then, but just, fucking eww.
So there are 2 on my porch that desperately need to be cleaned up, anyone?
- Comment on U.S. solar will pass wind in 2025 and leave coal in the dust soon after 1 week ago:
See, you can build coal plants in poor/black areas, so you don’t have to see the pollution, nor your kids have to get cancer like those silly poors. And then you don’t have to put up with woke shit like windmills. Sigh.
- Comment on Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet 2 weeks ago:
I suggested drawing in chalk on the street outside of the governor’s mansion, to protest the GIANT chalk Christ she had commissioned across the driveway to celebrate Easter one year.
- Comment on They're coming. 2 weeks ago:
I moved to Armadillo territory 10 years ago and sadly I’ve never seen one alive, only roadkill confirming their presence. The tarantula are the same way. We’re just not in the places they frolic most of the time, and if we are, they hide.
- Comment on This Plastic Mr. Fantastic 2 weeks ago:
It’s because we allow property and the homes that sit on it to be a speculative market. We encourage it. The only way for property values to be high, well, it’s a supply and demand thing. If you glut the market with anything, you drive prices down. And people whose entire retirement is built on that won’t be having it, let alone the conglomerate owners…
China is trying to steer into the opposite with laws against it. Not sure how well that’s working, but they can acknowledge the issue at least.