OwlHamster

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago

I've owned a Tesla and I'd say your wrong about pretty much everything here.

The whole point of buying an EV is that it stops polluting after it's been manufactured (ignoring tires) and specifically that you stop polluting your local environment, making it out like used gas powered cars are just as good as used EVs is disingenuous at best.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

People don't know how to participate in a democracy, it's ridiculous.

If millions upon millions of people in your country want to vote far right, you're not going to get Bernie, you have to compromise. You pick the one that has the most likelihood of pulling your country in the direction you want, because the alternative is that you don't get anything at all. You can't be entitled, because you have to share your country with 350 million other people. Fucking compromise or get fascism.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

At least it still has the same low effort comments as Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

That is an insane take to me. Elon Musk is Nazi scum and the Tesla has issues, but the infotainment system is the best you can get in any car and the main reason I haven't been able to get rid of it, ignoring the fact that literally every other non Chinese EV in the same price range in my country is objectively worse specced.

Having an extremely responsive map with satellite imagery that boots up instantly is already better than every other car out there, but it also has built-in dashcam and livestream functionality for all 4 cameras, which is a bitch to install in other cars, and it's already saved me a bunch of times.

Android Auto just plain sucks ass, disconnects constantly and a lot of newer models still require a wired connection.

Also worth noting you're not paying for the infotainment, you're paying for the cellular connection, with whatever local cellular company they are working with. In my case it's cheaper than getting a data plan directly from the cellular company and my old Hyundai didn't even have that option in my country.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's not foolishly phrased. The limits of the consequences are implicit by using "freedom of speech". It feels more like you are just foolishly interpreting the statement. The statement doesn't even pertain to the article in the post.

I've only ever seen it being used correctly to point out that speech having social consequences does not mean you don't have freedom of speech. If someone says "oh woe is me, why can't I say the n word anymore", I don't think going into a 30 minute tirade about the intricacies of freedom of speech is going to work out for you.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

Let me help you out there.

The consequences in this statement will exclude stuff like imprisonment or illegal actions, as it would otherwise not constitute free speech. What is meant by consequences in that statement is social consequences, like being ignored, being "cancelled" or maybe being called names, like bigot.

For some reason people like to lament that "you aren't allowed to say this bigoted thing anymore". This statement rightly points out that you are, but people are also allowed to call you an asshole for doing it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

It's blatantly obvious what they are doing. I have a 10 year old company Twitter account I don't use anymore, and at some point they put suggested tweets in my notifications, which would usually be related to my industry because of the accounts I follow. Now it's a constant barrage of Elon and Andrew Tate tweets... In my notifications... It's being forced down my throat, and I haven't engaged or even seen their content at any point in time.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

That feels a bit disingenuous. The record labels were already thoroughly fucking over musicians.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You're going to use that "You're going to use that "is not better served in another way" clause to wiggle out of anything I might suggest, but okay." clause to wiggle out of anything they might suggest, but okay.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

She lost by 2 mill votes, Biden won with 7 mill in 2020, and she got more votes than Trump in 2020. I wouldn't say he beat her badly. It sucks nevertheless.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Fuck that. If they want to put "AI" crap in all their products, they should have to deal with the same stupid bullshit we have to deal with when interacting with it. They made the chatbot and put it there, they should have to live with being "SLAMMED" in the media when it says stupid shit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

https://www.propublica.org/article/nevaeh-crain-death-texas-abortion-ban-emtala

"Fails and Crain believed abortion was morally wrong. The teen could only support it in the context of rape or life-threatening illness, she used to tell her mother. They didn’t care whether the government banned it, just how their Christian faith guided their own actions."

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