the us will be a true shithole in about a decade.

Will be?

I haven’t had any interest in visiting the place since Bush was president.

It’s all part of the “move fast and break things” development process.

It’s not even limited by country. There are far too many places in well resourced countries that don’t have access to good (or any) libraries.

The account’s discovery raises questions on just how many bots are operating on X, including those run by foreign adversaries

Far more than you imagine.

Must be a country specific thing.

Import a bunch of those cheap Chinese EVs and lots of people will buy them

Or start building affordable EVs here.

Back in the 70s when Toyota, Datsun, Honda etc started eating the big 3’s lunch on affordable fuel efficient vehicles, they responded with smaller cars of their own.

If they’re not willing to respond to market demand and competition, do they even deserve to stay in business?

Isn’t that what the “free market” they claim to love enforces?

For me, the last time I was in the market for a replacement vehicle, the 2 biggest factors were availability and price.

The dealers had zero stock (except maybe a rare fully optioned ridiculously priced example of the top of the line model), and I was not in a position to wait 2+ months for a factory order of a car that I couldn’t even test drive.

Literally never seen one of those outside of movies.

It’s hard to see how they still manage to have much money after all the grifters have been picking their pockets.

Of course. Why wouldn’t a con artist go after a group that has already self-selected for gullibility?

It’s scamming on easy mode

Aren’t fluorescent bulbs the ones that flicker?

Yes, but so do cheap LEDs (or more specifically LEDs with poorly designed drivers/power supplies)

I work with a few who prefer the office over work from home.

It does allow for a more clean break between work and non-work mindset.

I find it helps maintain a more healthy work-life balance.

Plus, I work on hardware, so it’s not like I can do that remotely most of the time anyway.

You’re talking specifically about software based IT jobs.

Those of us who deal with the hardware have always been and will always be on-site and hands on.

The menu is 6 foot across, above the counter where you order, glowing, with pictures of each item and number next to it

And changing pages while you’re trying to parse the cacophony of choices and options.

I think an automated battery swap system would work best for OTR trucking.

Yes, that and other commercial vehicles that put on a lot of miles in a day, every day.

That may be fine for regular customers, but what about the rest of us who don’t have the menu memorized?

Wasn’t Jesus supposed to be like, a pacifist?

Sometimes he was. (Matthew 5:9)

Other times he was “if you don’t have a sword, sell your clothes to buy a sword” (Luke 22:36-38)

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That’s the “great” thing about the Bible, its got enough cobtradictions that you can make it support pretty much anything you want it to.

Matthew 6:5-6 is always a good choice

You could see just what you wanted to see.

That’s not my experience. I never wanted to see rightwing conspiracy crap, but I wasn’t able to avoid it crowding my feed until I avoided Twitter entirely.

foreign money hoping to tank a liberal platform.

Since when was twitter a “liberal platform”?

The rightwingnuts have been running rampant over there for as long as I can remember.