I like that the article consistently refers to Meta as what it is, an adtech giant that also runs social media platforms rather than the other way around.

Except for the Brother printer everyone has.

Hybrid is not electric, it’s not ICE either, that’s why it’s called Hybrid!

Hybrid means “both this and that”, not “neither this nor that”. I’m pretty sure kids learn that in elementary school, middle school at the very latest 🤦

You’re also wrong about the rest but I don’t care enough about your nonsense to go into further detail.

A Koeniggsegg handles much better and is well-built, though. It’s meant for the track and it does that well.

In contrast, a Tesla Model S is an unnecessarily quick and overpriced family car with a dubious safety record due in part to having the build quality of a Yugo.

I’m saying that there’s being open minded, which is a good thing, and then there’s wasting your time trying to talk sense into people blinded by hero worship/follower identify to the point of being unreachable and/or arguing in bad faith.

The latter is a bad thing that I’m trying to become better at avoiding but am doing right now with you and was doing before with Definitely Not A Fan Boy Nuh-uh.

Nope. The logic is that “I’m not a fan boy but” is usually as true as “I’m not a racist but”.

In both cases, what follows will usually be proof that everything before “but” was a lie.

Or to put it in yet another way: people who feel the need to assure others that they’re definitely not fan boys…are usually fan boys.

Me being right or wrong has nothing to do with it at all.

Tesla has exceeded safety test rankings beyond the vast majority of other manufacturers and has received numerous top accolades from very reputable safety sources.

Those were all in the beginning when they were new and trying to impress the world. To say standards have slipped since then is the understatement of the century.

Never trust a guy who says “I’m not a fan boy but” and then repeatedly brushes all criticism of what he’s pretending not to fanboy over as “echo chamber nonsense”. 😂

Especially not after him repeating PR talking points almost word for word for what would have been at least two paragraphs with better formatting 🙄

For example, below is the kind of welding that passes muster at Tesla. The Tesla quality assurance as instituted by Musk himself is “don’t. It makes the wait lists shrink more slowly”.

Would you feel safe accelerating 0-60 in under 4 seconds in two tons of badly assembled steel? I sure wouldn’t!

People have died because of the price gouging?

No, because of the bad build quality, obviously.

For some reason, “fast, shoddily built and weighs two metric tons” isn’t great for avoiding faults that sometimes lead to fatalities.

Maybe think for a second more before you start ranting about someone else being ridiculous 🙄

I disagree. It’s tantamount to fraud and you better believe people have died because of it.

Even ignoring bizarre stuff like this, it’s priced like a Jaguar and has the build quality of a Yugo. I say keep sharpening.

In other news, the sun rose this morning and will later set.

Missed opportunity, really. Add some collaboration with the British Broadcasting Company and you have “Virgin DP with BBC”. Smut seo heaven!

Exactly.

Yes, I’ve been taken prisoner by the concept that unnecessary censorship is a bad thing. Good deduction, Sherlock. 🙄

True. I was referring to the stereotypical grumpy old man, not any specific octogenarians, many of which are much cooler than you and I will ever be 😁

Holy strawmen, Batman! You’ve assembled an entire hay loft of them there, gramps!

At first I thought you were coming from a place of bias and baseless stereotyping but now I know for a fact that you are.

Get out of the way and let people younger than your apparent 80 years express themselves how they want to.

Look I’m not a prude or some kinda anti-sex freak but

proceeds to rattle off a bunch of prudish anti-sex talking points followed by “trust me, I have a degree” 🤦

usually without being arrested by the police

That’s the good part, though. Problematic drug use is a health problem and should be treated as such rather than a criminal and moral one.

And that’s not even mentioning what often happens when cops interact with members of any marginalized group…

Wow, that’s MUCH less revenue than you’d expect from a worldwide behemoth like the shithole formerly known as Twitter!