It’s what you get when you put at least half a dozen traditional festivities, customs and good old commercialisation and put them in the blender.

Just celebrating Yule or the Winter Solstice.

And some just define “research” as clicking the next video in the recommendation list, a list carefully crafted by an algorithm to keep people engaged by feeding more of the same.

Hydrogen cars and trains.

Musk often operated using the “better forgiveness than permission” policy

Big difference between having a conversation and having a media company distributing propaganda.

Sounds like the USA elections

Satan: we don’t torture people with thorns and nails here. That’s the other guy’s department. Same for locusts, killing firstborn, you get the idea.

The limits are only your imagination.

Yes and no

The Telco can say between what antennas you are. In urban areas with lots of antennas that’s still pretty accurate to almost say what building. Especially with 5G the number of antennas and accuracy go upto in some cases centimeter/inch accuracy so better than GPS. That last case would be in a mall with small antenna in each corridor.

In rural areas with data switched off that’s more like somewhere in that square mile, way worse than GPS.

Except Tesla’s uncle had brain damage and doesn’t really learn from the situation so will go it again, and had clones of him driving thousands of other cars.

Turns out there are after market mods for that. Spoiler, other front, flame paint job

It’s not personal, it’s just business.

That’s my brother. When the boss asks to do overtime he opens a spreadsheet that calculates what every hour of overtime actually puts in the bank account. It’s surprisingly low. Then he asks the boss to make it worth his time.

set me achievable targets properly recompensed

In my brother’s place they changed the end of year bonus. It’s no longer on an individual level but as a group. And the targets van change at any time. Who are they trying to fool.

I think myself, I’ll probably get the “you’re indispensable but they’re isn’t any budget for a raise” this year

I just say it’ll be done by Wednesday and next time act like a professional and give some time.

Some other guy I know will get it done, book a crazy amount of overtime, mail the thing and stay home from that overtime until Thursday.

And one other guy would just call the manager at weird hours the entire weekend asking for classifications.

I know some anarchistic people, okay.

That thing’s front and back are exactly the same. It saves on fabrication costs to use the same part but it gives a weird look.

not as fun as Reddit used to be

Reddit isn’t as fun as Reddit used to be either

Citroën Ami is available. Closer to $8000 and technically a quadricycle. All bare minimum to make it street legal.

Meanwhile in Romania there is a measles epidemic because less people vaccinate their children.

Everybody forgot that chatGPT-2 was just a bullshitting machine. Version 3 to the surprise of the developers very useful to many people while they just made a highly trained bullshitting machine.

For a lot of producers, that’s not even true for ICE cars anymore. More safety features and emission regulations make them more expensive to produce relative to larger cars.