So if the tip is sticking out for airflow, how does it handle a flash flood?

I feel like you just made something up so you don’t have to like EVs.

1. The fact that this is your takeaway from my messages (in addition to your general tone) just shows you are trying to push a self-righteous agenda without properly identifying who are your allies and opponents. I abhor ICEs and would have bought an EV by now if not for the scummy companies producing them, and the fact that I basically do not drive anymore so switching my relatively unused car out for any replacement vehicle does not make sense. I’d sooner just sell the car and wash my hands of them entirely.

What a weird outlook you have.

2. Not likely subscription services and the car manufacturers tracking me is not “weird” it’s well justified. I don’t like my insurance company tracking me either which is why I heavily restrict the permissions their app has (and use a second phone for it). ICE and EV manufacturers have immense overlap and I’ve yet to hear of one that actually respects their customers and doesn’t turn their products into drivable spyware.

I don’t even have a way to rebut it.

3. Perhaps you should quit the contrarian behavior since you’re not putting in the effort to be one. You’ve already demonstrated you aren’t putting in the effort to read my messages by openly misidentifying me as an EV hater.

Subscriptions to use any part of my car and even more tracking than my ICE car are part of the product, and that sucks. I beg to differ on me being wrong, on those two counts specifically.

No matter what the stability, reliability, and safety are, the two things I mentioned are each sufficient grounds to not buy pretty much any of the modern cars, EV or ICE.

I’m not buying an EV not because of lack of infrastructure or lack of interest, but because the product sucks.

I’m not buying a gas car either for the same product sucking reason, and an active desire to never purchase a gas car again.

I have only had one charging cable “break” (the cable sheath separated from the plug sheath, it was still usable and had no exposed wires since they all had their own additional sheath) since I stopped using Apple/Samsung phones as my daily driver.

I think the issue is crappy cables that are then super expensive so that they can continue milking you for every penny you are worth.

TF? (aka fuck’em) That seems like the USD price is probably going to rise too then. USD 9.99 right now for me and that’s AUD 15.41.

AUD 33 would be more than doubling it for me, just like Disney more than doubled my barely used subscription (I instantly cancelled that).

One Piece is going to have real live action now methinks.

Quite frankly it didn’t put enough restrictions on the various “national security” agencies, and so while it may help to stem the tide of irresponsible usage by many of the lesser-impact agencies, it doesn’t do the same for the agencies that we know will be the worst offenders (and have been the worst offenders).

Except Standard Oil has been broken up 13 years earlier and 1924 was smack in the middle of Prohibition and the illegal transportation of alcohol was called bootlegging. Both the breakup of Standard Oil and the alcohol ban are written down in legal documents, so we can confirm their existence wasn’t sensationalized.

Bootlegging would be the only part that could have been sensationalized, but I see how people drink today and I don’t think thousands of years of human behavior with alcohol was sensationalized, leading me to a conclusion that we as a society wouldn’t just give up alcohol for a decade, bootlegging was almost certainly not sensationalized.

If the contemporary context wasn’t the above, I might have agreed with the implication of sensationalization. Due to that contemporary context however it doesn’t read like that.

The base piece of software for your computer being tied to a subscription is unacceptable, period.

Subscriptions are already too heavily pushed and for the most part are just being used to eek more money out of people.

I’m sure this subscription will also get mixed with the ads systems they are bolting into Windows and that stuff is already unacceptable.

Microsoft is treating the market as cattle to farm money, their behavior quite frankly has strayed into morally reprehensible. “Cooling jets” is not necessary, breaking up Microsoft is.

Skull joke? 😂

The trivialization doesn’t negate the point though, and LLMs aren’t intelligence.

The AI consumed all of that content and I would bet that not a single of the people who created the content were compensated, but the AI strictly on those people to produce anything coherent.

I would argue that yes, generative artificial stupidity doesn’t meet the minimum bar of original thought necessary to create a standard copyrightable work unless every input has consent to be used, and laundering content through multiple generations of an LLM or through multiple distinct LLMs should not impact the need for consent.

Without full consent, it’s just a massive loophole for those with money to exploit the hard work of the masses who generated all of the actual content.

The ban is on campus networks, but the reactions I’m reading are acting like this is a ban on the campus itself.

It’s not censorship (or fascism), just like if they blocked PornHub it wouldn’t be censorship (or fascism).

And no, blocking PornHub on a university campus where the vast, vast majority of connected users are 18+ isn’t justifiable unless it was under the grounds of security.

Bad idea, this looks like Stockholm syndrome to me.

Reddit has already shown they will screw everyone over, and no amount of blowback so far has gotten them to change course.

Leave (and optionally try to give Reddit as much hell as possible on the way out). That’s the only answer now.

I don’t think there is any redemption either, even if u/spez is removed. He’s not the first bad head of the company, if anything the company has never had any good heads.