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I'm glad for them.

they don't make electric vehicles. they make human sized battery powered over engineered poorly designed toys that were somehow street legal.

I'll believe it when I see it.

no.

next question.

honest answer: a 45 year project to delegitimize the media by routinely calling them "liberal", so much so that the major media reflexively frames every issue with a pro republican bias, goes soft on republicans in interviews, harder on democrats that was sped up with the introduction of fox news in 1998 and their "fair and balanced" tagline even though they were blatantly pro republican.

now you throw in all of these conservative propaganda online media distribution networks and actual true believers who bought into the "democrats are traitors and the enemy who deserve to be shot" rhetoric started by newton leroy gingrich and sprayed across the country by rush limbaugh having prominent positions in elected office and this is how you devolve into a despotic idiocracy run by a weak autocrat calling himself strong and protected by the truly evil people who are actually running things.

tldr the conservatives scared the media into being pro gop just so they wouldn't be labeled as liberal even though conservatives call them liberal anyway.

is there anything android auto compatible?

i think when they rebranded as alphabet, they repealed that corporate philosophy.

i would much rather have a chinese ev with that long range battery tech and framework than an american car company's ev option not including tesla which i don't even consider a car company. they're a shit tech company that makes shit cars shittily.

remember when it wad said that obama couldn't get visibly angry and shouty, even when those reactions would be appropriate and deserved? it was because the image of the angry black man would have been pure oxygen to the racist and both sides blame game fire. and it looks like the same thing is happening here with some people thinking being "chummy" with trump at carter's funeral was some sort of acceptance message. it wasn't. in fact i think the same don't appear to be the angry black man rules apply here. it's not that obama didn't show trump the back of his head when they were close, it's that obama couldn't because then the story wouldn't be about the funeral. it would be about obama being rude to the president-elect, and trump would use that to claim even more victim status.

you can still hate someone and what they stand for and still be polite in a very public setting. this was a total non-story that corporate vichy media was trying to use to stir up controversy (which drives up clicks and views) which failed miserably. any outlet trying to revive said issue needs to be looked at skeptically for their reasons why it was doing so.

i know absolutely nothing about investing. so this is a lay take:

before today i would invest in these ai big tech companies because ai is the next big thing, and there's no other real competition around and any coming up might be ready in 3 or 4 years maybe.

after today's news, why would i waste my money investing in companies that are building wasteful, energy consuming, and most importantly proprietary components when there's a new generative ai that is just as good, if not better, than what's available now, that runs on far cheaper components that is totally open sourced? i'm better off taking that money i was going to use to invest in big tech and putting it towards hiring some programmers to take the completely open sourced ai and modifying it to better suit my specific needs.

well when the major conservative media "news" outlet sells CONSTANT FEAR and FEAR THE BLACK AND BROWN AND GAY AND EVERYONE NOT CONSERVATIVE IS ANTIFA 25/8 and the other legitimate news outlets are deathly afraid for some reason of losing ratings to that propaganda outlet that they parrot the exact same thing but with tamer language (which also kinda de-legitimatizes them to be honest), you get that kind of thing.

also what doesn't help, is the constant blowout coverage of mass shootings that the neworks do (which also strangely are committed by white male conservatives) which also fuels the narrative of rampant violent crime.

my view on it lies in two seperate buckets:

1. if the thing being pirated is vastly overpriced for its function i don't see it as immoral
2. if the thing being pirated is no longer available or was never made available for private ownership, ie only able to be streamed and only available on said service so long as the host streamer still has rights to do so, it isn't immoral.

and just to be clear, i don't see piracy as inherently evil or anticapitalistic. there have been several books and apps that i pirated that i liked and converted to an actual buyer to get more books in the series or get updates to the program.

Saturday's People's March in Washington DC drew smaller numbers than its predecessors.

Organisers had expected 50,000 people. About 5,000 turned up.

and here's the entire problem right here expressed in 2 sentences with the entire liberal political movement.

the organizers are much more interested in optics than DOING THE FUCKING WORK TO GET LIBERALS IN OFFICE. these assholes right here are the ones that think just showing up is what matters. they think that not being objectively cruel just to be cruel is the only reason to vote for democrats.

you can take this protest and $2 and maybe you can get a drink at a fast food place for all the good it's going to do the country the next 4 years. instead of marching, chanting, and holding signs the protest organizers would have been a whole lot fucking better off taking the time to organize a toothless white guilt relieving performance act and used it to organize and coordinate local aid societies that will be directly affected by the trump administration.