teejay

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teejay ,

Have you watched any of the presidential debates in the last decade or two? How is this even a question at this point?

I won't watch any more debates until they do this.

teejay ,

Nice. A completely toothless group of people performing a pointless and inconsequential exercise to determine whether someone everyone knows is unethical is, in fact, also unethical for doing this other thing.

teejay ,

-Idiots arguing against student loan forgiveness.

"First fix the issue that impacts ME (loan forgiveness), then later fix the root cause that impacts literally everyone (high tuition). And shit on anyone who doesn't prioritize my loan forgiveness first! Because I signed a legally-binding contract, spent the money, but now don't feel like I should have to pay it back under the terms I agreed to! Fuck all the students who get loans after me, those who are paying them back as per their loan agreements, and those who chose not to go to college because they knew they couldn't afford the loans. Amirite? Me me me!"

-idiots pretending their selfish cries about getting their loans forgiven equates to liberalism

Loan forgiveness is an important step, but it's not the first or even the most important step. It's very telling where your priories are (and how fake your politics are) if you make forgiving your student loans the first and loudest piece of the actual problem.

teejay ,

Source? And don't link to a Ford article...

teejay ,

Let's go boys! Time to drop trou, get out your wallet, and pre-order the super platinum edition with a hilarious camo, useless rifle, and the day-1 DLC included.

teejay , (edited )

I’m not defending the police here, but

Oh boy, here we go.

could this man have had a heart attack due to the presence of drugs or alcohol in his system, combined with the fact that his heart rate was elevated by resisting arrest

Totally. He could have also died from a brain aneurysm, aliens, a very advanced case of SIDS, or a witch's curse. Or, you know, maybe he died from the whole not being able to breathe thing that was actually happening.

He does not appear to be in good physical condition. I see that his stomach looks a little distended and he sort of waddles as he took steps around the bar area.

He didn't look like he was in great shape? Only fitness buffs and marathon runners with no booze in their systems get to live though being cuffed? Tf is wrong with you.

teejay ,

Loan forgiveness without making education affordable going forward doesn’t solve the problem. It’s pulling up the ladder.

You’re 100% correct. But be careful, these folks don’t take kindly to shining a light on their hypocrisy. They signed their names to a legally-binding contract, spent the money, but now don’t like paying it back under the terms they agreed to.

College tuition is far too high. But without fixing the root cause, tuition loan forgiveness does nothing for everyone before and after, and it actually makes the whole problem worse.

teejay ,

Friend, I’ve read this three times and still have no idea wtf you’re trying to say.

teejay ,

It wasn’t. Fisker’s shitty response is what made it an even bigger deal.

teejay ,

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teejay ,

Why would he even bother with all of the red tape and process to pass laws? He would just issue imperial edicts executive orders to do whatever he wanted. Laws have never meant shit to him. And why would they? He breaks them with impunity and never faces any real consequences. If he has an unfriendly congress, he’ll ignore them.

Fewer people are using Elon Musk’s X as the platform struggles to attract and keep users, according to analysts ( www.nbcnews.com )

Data from two research firms and figures published by Musk and X suggest a deteriorating situation for X by some metrics. Musk has marketed it as the world’s “town square,” but in number of users it continues to lag far behind social media rivals that focus on video, such as Instagram and TikTok....

teejay ,

Same. It loads the page where the tweet would be, then it seems like 2 popups cover it up, both about logging in. I immediately no longer care about viewing what I wanted to see, and close the window.

teejay ,

I’m with you, but I can’t imagine any other outcome than an increasingly large group of sexually-frustrated men taking this out on women / men / animals around them. Particularly as other porn sites follow suit.

What’s worse, I imagine this is either by design or a very welcome byproduct. In other words, one step closer to y’all qaeda.

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During a presentation by an executive with Google’s Israel branch on Monday, a Google Cloud engineer stood up and shouted, “I refuse to build technology that powers genocide or surveillance.” They were later fired.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/8/24094687/google-israel-project-nimbus-employee-fired

@news

teejay , (edited )

… Says the random internet keyboard warrior using technology and infrastructure thought-up, designed, and built by thousands or even millions of engineers over hundreds of years.

teejay ,

No it doesn’t. It’s not even close. In terms of the worst genocides in history by death toll, the U.S. doesn’t even make the top 10 list. Same with a more general list of anthropogenic disasters by death toll.

Leave that hurr durr US is big bad amirite shit on reddit.

teejay ,

Do you… Think that list is authoritative?

Do you… want to provide more authoritative sources? Or even just start with one? So far you’ve cited zero.

Remember, your original assertion was “the US is still the king of genocide.” Assuming your vague phrase of “king of genocide” means total number of people killed, then show an authoritative source that proves it, then we can talk.

teejay ,

Death to America

That’s a wrap, friend. I called you out on this right at the beginning. There’s no point in further discussion.

Ford rethinks EV strategy, is working on a smaller, cheaper EV platform ( arstechnica.com )

For the last two years, a small “skunkworks” at the Ford Motor Company has been working on a low-cost electric vehicle platform, according to Ford CEO Jim Farley. Farley revealed the existence of this new platform during the automaker’s quarterly financial results call with investors on Tuesday evening. The company is...

teejay ,

They made one for a couple of years (2017 - 2019 ish), I owned one. It was a compliance vehicle, I think it might have only been sold in California. Mine had 115 mi of range, which came from a battery pack they wedged in the trunk which reduced storage space and made the front wheel drive car very rear heavy and get no traction off the line. I had to learn how to accelerate from a stop without spinning the tires. It was loud in the cabin (road noise), super quick in traffic, had really shitty and laggy infotainment, using the heater obliterated the range by about 35%, and had a top speed of I think 75 mph. I did like the remote start and scheduled start, though. You could program a schedule when you’d get in your car, and it would have the cabin pre heated or cooled to your temp, music playing, etc. That felt fancy to me.

I love the focus hatchback platform, but they need to completely start over with that car on their new ev platform for it to be viable.

teejay ,

He’s super smart. I’ve always thought that an idea he has for a comic starts as part of a funny and/or interesting conversation he was having with friends or colleagues. Then later he remembers some of them and makes comics out of them.

That’s how I imagine it, anyway.

teejay ,

Is that a Bill Hicks reference in the wild? Nice.

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