They just tell him what Putin would like to happen. No leverage necessary. Trump admires dictators, it’s clear he wants their approval.

Here is everyone’s nearly daily reminder that there is a difference between antisemitism and antizionism.

Criticizing the Israeli government and its leaders is not the same as criticising all Jewish people.

The Zionists want to conflate these things so they can hide in plain sight and have people that aren’t paying attention defend their war crimes.

Never underestimate political apathy.

Looks like Canada gets an Ivy league teaching staff for basically nothing.

If there is anything even this Supreme Court is consistent with, it is maintaining their power.

who may not even be able to afford a smartphone, or even Internet access.

I agree generally… However, at least currently until this fascist takeover gets to it, those same individuals would qualify for service through the Lifeline Program (Obama phones).

https://www.fcc.gov/general/lifeline-program-low-income-consumers

The digital requirement is a negative for everyone on general, but that specific reason doesn’t really apply with other current social support programs in place covering that scenario as well.

Nothing lost. McDonald’s lost sight of their place in the fast food wars.

They mistakenly started to believe they could charge the same as places like Five Guys while still producing the same crap product. They forgot the reason they got so big was because they were cheap, not because they were a better option.

A few years ago I would have said there was no fucking way the situation as reported happened. That this side of the story is clearly being hyperbolic and making some stuff up to make it sound worse than it was for the lawsuit.

But given recent events with ICE and CBP… This now seems entirely plausible, which is a ridiculous situation for the country to be in.

An it is United after all. They have a corporate history that definitely lends itself to this being a reasonable story from them.

The board is filled with family and close friends. They’ll protect him as long as possible.

They’ve also completely stop using the self-driving after some scary swerves

A reminder here since people get the two confused all the time, and don’t understand just how little Autopilot does. Full Self Driving and Autopilot are and always have been different things. They do not use the same software stack. Autopilot hasnt really been updated since FSD started being tested outside Tesla employees, so 5+ years now. 95%+ of Tesla vehicles do not have FSD, but nearly all of them have Autopilot.

Autopilot is just Traffic Aware Cruise Control and Automatic Lane Keeping. AP is not smart, and never has been, it does not make driving decisions, it just tries to keep you in the lines and a minimum distance from cars in front of you at a set speed. There are a shit ton of vehicles on the road that do this now, spanning all the way from luxury brands down to a plain old Honda, and they have for years.

Clearly it’s because they stopped him to verify he was a Nazi. When it became obvious he wasn’t, everything else is the natural response of the ICE immune system of course. Purging anything non-Bald Eagle Screeching Aryan.

A reminder that for the McDonald’s claim, she only wanted her medical bills covered, it was McDonald’s that refused a much smaller claim of some tens of thousands and instead insisted on taking it to court. Plus they had been advised numerous times previously from customers about burns due to their decision to maintain the temp of their brewed coffee so high for so long after it was made, solely to minimize profit loss. They were scraping pennies and ignoring customer warnings.

“Starbucks offered $30m to settle but wanted confidentiality. We said we would settle for $30m without confidentiality and only if Starbucks agreed to publicly apologize and promise to change policy to prevent this from happening again,”

Starbucks offered the guy $30M with a confidentiality agreement. They were already clearly thinking it warranted an amount in that region, which would only be if they thought they could be liable for even more.

That McDonald’s case is going to fuck them up. It’s clear precedent for a largely similar case. The extreme publicity around it also means Starbucks can’t claim ignorance of the danger of hot coffee via the drive thru as any sort of defense.

Tesla used to famously not have commissioned sales. It’s one of the reasons the buying process was so much better than a dealership honestly, no pressure to buy, and they had absolutely no control of the pricing or need to inflate a sale.

At one point they received general bonuses based on overall deliveries, but not on a per-vehicle basis that they interacted with.

Before I bought my Model 3, the “sales” person literally just took me on a test drive, then showed me the standard Tesla.com website to configure what I was looking for. And based on my experience in retail sales myself at the time, they clearly were there to advise and had no ball in the court when it came to whether I bought it through them, or even if I bought one at all.

Not sure if that changed in the last 5 years or so, but I doubt it switched to that type of system since that would mean Tesla having to implement an entire process to handle commissioned sales when they clearly would prefer people just buy them online.

If I remember right, TSMC requires their highest capability fabs to be in Taiwan, anything international must be less capable.

Harbor Freight is awesome, but as with everything else, you should know what you’re buying, and know what you actually need.

Most people don’t need to pay a premium for something they’ll use just once, or maybe a handful of times, and never touch again.

For most people, they don’t really know what they need, so buy Harbor Freight the first time, if you use so much it breaks, then buy a quality replacement, because you proved you actually need it.

The problem is that the Executive Branch is the one that enforces laws, and they have the authority to ignore laws they don’t want to enforce. Discretion is a fundamental part of law enforcement, it is why you can get a warning for speeding instead of a ticket every time, their discretion ability wasn’t codified. That is why generally federal law enforcement like the FBI operates independently even though they’re under the Executive, so they can enforce laws and judicial decisions without interference. Interfering should trigger check and balances from the Legislative branch, and impeachment.

The system was never designed with the possibility of a takeover of all three branches simultaneously as a possibility. That just wasn’t a thing they thought was likely to happen. But the system was also designed at a time when only white landowners could vote, and part of their societal expectation was to be educated, critical thinkers that were up to date, and active with politics. So those voting actually knew what was going on, and were educated to look at the various outcomes, even with media bias of the time.

As we’ve expanded voting rights, we never adjusted the system to account for uneducated voters or an increase in propaganda and outright lying from media outlets in any way. On top of that we’ve artificially limited the expansion of the House of Representatives so it no longer operates as designed. It was designed to represent the people via population, but the limit of 435 means that instead of it being representative of population, there are members representing a couple hundred thousand people and members representing millions, yet they have the same single vote. The House has become a pseudo-Senate, and is no longer capable of doing its job correctly because of it.

They are learning, but the versions launched are never the current version at launch time, they are all older models. As changes are made those changes go into the next one being built, not the ones currently under construction already, unless it’s an easy retrofit, like when they were changing the tile layouts.

And even those retrofitted changes may not be adequate depending on the cause. When dealing with lost vehicles you also have limited forensic evidence to use to determine root causes. Cameras don’t see everything sensors don’t log every aspect. And fixes you thought were adequate, may not actually be enough. That’s why they iterate and try again in the real world, instead of just simulating everything and hoping it works at launch for 10x the cost. These issues sometimes taking multiple tries to fix are an expected parts of the process.

At least Elon doesn’t actually run things at SpaceX, despite what he might say in public. Gwynne Shit well actually runs the company, and is likely the reason it’s actually pretty on track and hasn’t gone the way of Tesla.

Starship is not like any other rocket currently being made, and it’s being built in an iterative process, unlike the legacy rocket manufacturers, and even most new companies. This design process is intended to make changes and break things at every step, in the real world. Then make changes to try and fix those problems, and test it again. And not every step will fix previous issues. They’re building multiple Boosters and Starships simultaneously, and none of the ones being launched are the newest version at this point of development. They’re all older models by the time they fly.

Avoid populated areas, and fly low. The exact same techniques that they’ve been using for decades. Radar is dumb, it sends back a return when it bounces off objects, but you can’t tell what it is returning, that’s why planes have transponders to supplement more info. If you just don’t do that and fly low it will get filtered out with the terrain most of the time.