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- Comment on The inside story of Elon Musk’s mass firings of Tesla Supercharger staff 2 hours ago:
I’ve really been waiting for gas stations to jump in on this. Tying it to vehicle manufacturers just doesn’t make that much sense to me, not nearly as much sense as using the companies whose mission is already to deliver energy to vehicles. You need a tiny fraction of the infra for electric charging that you need to supply gas. Shell or Chevron could EASILY ink deals with, say, Starbucks, to put one or two chargers in every Starbucks parking lot in the country and just sit back and laugh as the money rolls in. And yet, they just keep pushing for exclusively fossil fuels.
- Comment on The inside story of Elon Musk’s mass firings of Tesla Supercharger staff 3 hours ago:
AFAICT, the charger network is a huge part of Tesla’s value proposition. Laying off the entire 500 person team like this is going to be a massive, massive disruption no matter what anyone says, you can’t just patch it with [checks notes] an entirely different team. It’s going to take that new team months to get up to date, put out fires, find their bearings, etc. and by that point, issues are already snowballing. The rapport and contacts is also going to be enormous; basically shit canning all of the company’s industry/logistics ambassadors is what, in any other light, would be called a disaster. This is going to be a clusterfuck, and that’s before any competitors interested in starting their own charger network start scooping these newly available specialists up.
It’s incredible to see this man still idolized, even by bosses and other execs, as he tanks not just one but two household name businesses AT THE SAME TIME.
- Comment on Parrot and the word "No" 6 days ago:
That’s hella cool. I remember talking as far back as the 90s that dolphins might actually have a meaningful language, but I thought those hypotheses just ran into dead ends.
- Comment on Parrot and the word "No" 6 days ago:
IMO, this is one of the better arguments for parrots having some of the most human-like intelligence in the animal world outside of primates. Having had both toddlers and parrots, they do exhibit a lot of similarities in behavior patterns, and I could swear my kids have done exactly what this person describes their bird doing.
- Comment on 2x2 lumber at Home Depot is now 1.28x1.28. Nominal size is supposed to be 1.5 1 week ago:
And lies, don’t forget the lies
- Comment on Has anyone here noticed how reddit has gotten more racist against Indians in the last few months 1 week ago:
Dude, you don’t deserve to be criticized for being a Jew, but you absolutely deserve a tomato for supporting a genocidal ethnostate.
- Comment on Whoops 4 weeks ago:
Millennial here, too. Phillips screws have been made of fucking cobwebs and wet tissue as far as I remember too.
- Comment on Whoops 4 weeks ago:
My dad was a boomer, he insisted that Phillips heads didn’t used to strip out this bad and it’s just that everyone switched to making shit cheap screws out of shit cheap material. He also lived to see the enshittification of appliances from something you buy once in your life to something you buy every five years (at least, according to the warranty) with a nifty galifty payment plan. Walking into home Depot instantly radicalized him.
- Comment on Person Infected With Bird Flu in Texas After Contact With Cattle 1 month ago:
Ahhh, shit, here we go again
- Comment on Anon has a power fantasy 1 month ago:
I have giant hummingbird mounts in my game, but guess what? They need nectar from giant flowers, or just barrels full of sugar water, and/or they sometimes pick fights with giant insects in order to try and eat them. (Fun fact, hummingbirds eat small insects IRL) They’re dead useful and loads of fun, but it exacts it’s price.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Yeah. I’m in favor of universal healthcare, but at this point I think it’d be more likely that California wraps up High Speed Rail construction next year. I have no idea why so many people are so willing to defend our completely broken-ass system; dealing with the insurance company is arguably worse than dealing with the DMV. At least you know the DMV aren’t trying to fuck you to pay for a new mega yacht, they’re just fucking you because those are the rules.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Yeah, all the insurers are pushing for vertical integration of pharmacies and using their mail order pharmacy. Check out Dr.Glaucomflecken on Youtube, he does short, witty, educational dives into this bullshit. We tried using the mail order pharmacy for my kids’ ADHD meds and it was fucking terrible. Federal law prohibits filling refills until we’re out or very nearly out, and they have one distribution center on the opposite coast from us, and they’re having standard shipping to ship these meds. You do the math on that one.
Like much of big corporate America, they want the fat payouts without putting in the legwork to actually make a better product that people will choose on their own, so they just hamper competition and make shit worse for everyone to make line go up a little faster.
- Comment on Google Just Quietly Changed Its Search Results For "Bloodbath Definition" And We Have The Screenshots – Right Journalism 1 month ago:
- Comment on In 2022, only 2.61% of illegals who were caught were deported. 1 month ago:
Spoiler alert: because it’s about having a pool of artificially cheap labor with no rights produced via oppression. That’s why we’ll never actually seriously deport, and why all the laws around it only ever punish the immigrants themselves. Enabling shitty bosses to land people in jail because they had the gall to ask for one too many water breaks is the entire point. And our government spends insane amounts of money propping up this exploitation, making all of us poorer because the people it benefits donate to the right campaigns.
- Comment on In 2022, only 2.61% of illegals who were caught were deported. 1 month ago:
Because the whole political panic over immigration has always ever been about oppressing people, not about actually keeping folks out. That’s why only non-solutions are ever proposed, that’s why even the Trump era policies were more about punishing people than anything. It’s about oppression, always has been, always will be.
- Comment on Plastic tea bags 2 months ago:
There’s one study I’m aware of that has tires as being responsible for up to 40% of oceanic microplastics
- Comment on Plastic tea bags 2 months ago:
I’ve actually had good luck at a local Indian market. Also, places that are specifically tea retailers or online markets will be more likely to have it.
- Comment on Plastic tea bags 2 months ago:
Plastic tea bags are really disappointing. It’s not enough that plastic is everywhere thanks to tire dust, I have to drink it, too? Cool.
At home, I use loose leaf and a metal strainer. Makes less waste, and there’s no plastic.
- Comment on Neo-Nazi podcasters sent to prison on terror charges for targeting Prince Harry and his young son 4 months ago:
Get rotated, idiots
- Comment on A lesson in Input Validation 4 months ago:
My God, it’s shrexcellent.
Seriously, though, it’s 2023 and big corporates are still out here with no input validation?
- Comment on Here's your horoscope. 4 months ago:
I’ve never believed in horoscopes until just now, when I read the Scorpio section.
- Comment on When the pizza party is too expensive, you go with the EncourageMint 6 months ago:
“And if you work this hard next year, I’ll get another Ferrari.”
- Comment on When the pizza party is too expensive, you go with the EncourageMint 6 months ago:
I never really got this point of view. It seems like possibly the shallowest take you can have about a successful company, imo, besides blaming all success on the CEO. The sales people wouldn’t have anything to sell without the people making the goods or service to be sold, and they’d soon be out of a job anyway if the goods and services being produced were no good. The people making the goods and services wouldn’t have any work to do without the sales people actually moving product. The CEO is necessary, too, but it would seem to me that the importance any given worker has can be qualified by asking how bad it would be if that entire team disappeared overnight. If the c-suite up and vanished overnight, you probably wouldn’t notice for a while, and the business could coast for a bit (not too long) without sales, but it’d be just about instant bedlam if the people at the action layer of the business, the ones who actually provide the service or create the goods the company sells, all vanished.
- Comment on Shell Using Fortnite, TikTok, etc. to Convince Kids Fossil Fuels Are Cool 7 months ago:
Incredible.
“Hey, marketing?”
“Yeah, boss?”
“Kids are kinda upset that our product is destroying the planet they have to live on, what should we do?”
“Well, we could pivot our business model, make big investments in protecting the environment, and show consumers we care about the future.”
“Yeah, no, I meant like on YouTube. What should we do on YouTube?”
- Comment on Government’s own research contradicts Sunak’s 20mph claim 7 months ago:
Typical L from English politicians trying to make England into an even less fun version of the US.
Freedom bro here. You guys, don’t buy it. I know shit sucks over there, but taking on shitty US policy like privatized healthcare, car centric infrastructure / urban design, and privatization of public goods is only going to make it worse. We’re (USA) going to be unfucking the damage from these policies for a long, long time, and the same people that have spent decades extracting all the wealth they could out of the US’ middle class with these policies are fucking desperate to do it elsewhere. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, just say no to these fucks.
- Comment on New cars are great... 7 months ago:
This but motorcycles for me. Cars with the windows down are a limp substitute for hitting the bottom of a hill in a fall or spring morning on a motorbike.
- Comment on New cars are great... 7 months ago:
I hate it as a driver. I would love to walk or bike more, but I’m far enough from anywhere I want to go that it doesn’t make any practical sense to. I strongly dislike driving everywhere, and I wish our pedestrian and bike infrastructure (and public transit) didn’t suck so bad. I wouldn’t mind using the bicycle gutter, if I had one, but I’d be very nervous to let my kids use it, because I don’t trust the magic paint strip.
- Comment on New cars are great... 7 months ago:
I LOVE HAVING CAR DEPENDENCY. I LOVE PAYING FOR LESS EFFICIENT TRANSPORT AND ALL OF MY OWN MAINTENANCE AND FOR THE PRIVILEGE OF HAVING MY DATA SOLD. I SPEND EVERY MOMENT NOT DRIVING WISHING I COULD BE BEHIND THE WHEEL AND DOING NOTHING ELSE BUT FOCUSING ON DRIVING WHILE ON MY WAY TO [CONSUME] AND MAKE DATA FOR [BRAND]. PLEASE, NO PUBLIC TRANSIT, I LIKE MY FREEDOM THANKS.
- Comment on And now Bezos is trying to inserts ads everywhere 7 months ago:
Tbh, the worst part is when you pay for it and still get ads anyway. Feels like double dipping, but it’s obviously going to happen because wall street doesn’t like when line only goes up a little.
- Comment on 31-year-old teacher quit her job. Now she works at Costco—and boosted her income by 50%: ‘I've never been happier' (these are not feel good stories, this is sad) 7 months ago:
Yeah, you got me