aesthelete @ aesthelete @lemmy.world

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WTF is with these dumb bitches and fucking doll quotes? Do they have a secret Nazi dollhouse they play with?

Trump loved Tesler, but to Trump love is a fickle thing.

Yeah I have a hang-up on Chevy because I owned two Cavaliers and they were terrible.

I have thought about it though, the Chevy Bolts look pretty similar to a Fit.

I'm was also considering going with one of the Hyundais if Honda can't get their act together.

I also don't think I want a truck.

I didn't know the headlight thing was one of their innovations. Yet another thing I can blame them for because driving in front of one of them at night is like a mild form of torture.

I honestly don't want innovation at all in my car personally. If Honda could make another edition of the electric Fit I would buy it immediately and drive it until it collapsed into dust.

Everything that was on the market before tesla was a facimilie of a thousand other cars before it.

Dude, every one of their generic sedan looking business fleet cars look so bleh that they make a mid-90s Dodge Neon look like mind-blowing body design.

The only thing they've produced in the last ten years that's even markedly different from the competition is the cybertruck, and that's only different in a bad way.

The "innovations" they brought to market are almost all shit I would never need nor want save the EV part of it. I cannot imagine ever wanting to drive a thing in which much of the control and all of the gauges are on a permanently mounted, great value iPad.

They are saying the resale value on these things is going through the floor, and honestly that's good because that's what they are worth.

It's the saddest kind of funny that you need to meet a multitude more requirements to be a truck driver than to be president.

If you look at what many consider to be the golden age of American corporations after the second world war, the notion of a "company man" was a celebrated one, and companies bragged about how they treated their employees. In that era, unlike today's, shedding employees was not seen as an achievement but rather either a necessary evil, or a sign that the company was going down the tubes.

Over time and with complacency, we've ceded the territory on these things. We can say that is inevitable under capitalism that this happens if it makes you happy, but either way at one point it was a major part of the stated purpose of corporations to employ people and help them live productive lives.

Edit: I agree that what you currently have with corporations are resource devouring, profit-pursuing, psychopathic immortal monsters, but none of those things, philosophically speaking, justifies their existence as legal entities.

The platonic ideal of a corporation that owns everything, builds everything, controls everything, and employs nobody will never be fully realized, because the people it is harming will eventually rise to destroy it, or die trying.

It's true that Intel probably shouldn't be handing out UBI, but if companies want to promote how much they don't need people's labor anymore, then that should be taken into consideration in policy making.

Somewhere along the line we lost one of the basic things underpinning our current economic structure -- that corporations are supposedly better at allocating, distributing, and utilizing resources than a centrally planned economy with a governmental overlord. It sure sounds to me like Intel and other companies that are handing out pink slips for every bit of thing they automate cannot find anything to do with the human resources they've got.

To put it more simply, corporations aren't allowed to exist purely because they "make money". One of their primary functions is to employ people.

That's the US though. We voted for this. I understand not wanting to be hostile to some individual citizens or whatever, but this is who we are as a country. The days of Trump being an aberration are long behind us.

We succeeded -- against long odds and with more than a few scrapes and bruises -- at getting rid of this creep five years ago and then pretty overwhelmingly voted to put him back in.

I really wish people would've remembered how close to ruin we came on January 6th, and remembered all of the lies, incompetence, and malice of 2017-2020 but they seemingly forgot about all of it and put his fucking ignorant ass back in there.

I thought it was something akin to a miracle that we got him out of that office the first time. Nobody else seems to have shared that belief.

His tattoo artist is incredible getting those perfect "Marijuana" "Smile" "Cross" and "Skull" annotations below each knuckle tattoo! /s

Yep, the editor was attempting to annotate their interpretation of the tattoos onto the photograph. I doubt that the thought that someone would be stupid enough to interpret the annotation as part of the original image ever entered their mind.

But we're talking about a real fucking idiot here with Trump.

Look man I get it, you bought a Tesla and/or hold Tesla stock. But Tesla's value is only explainable as a meme stock, and Musk is the only one keeping it in that category.

It wouldn't shock me at all if the stock finally fell through the floor if they ousted Musk.

The board and the shareholders agree about this btw, they just gave Musk an unbelievably large pay package last June.

Hey it's the MAGA version of let them eat cake.

What I find funny about this discussion is that the board is denying the reports that they're even trying to replace him. People want to redeem this company based upon rumors of myths of games of telephone that they might have thought about making a good decision once.

It wasn't just altered or photoshopped. It was annotated. He literally was saying an annotated image wasn't annotated.

Are you calling for people to eat milksteaks boiled over hard?

Why do you want a redemption arc for this overvalued company so bad? You holding a bag?

Yeah, why post on lemmy? Is there no path to redemption for Reddit? 😂

I suspect many more Americans may actually start to feel feelings about Trump when they can't participate in the great American pastime of buying more shit.

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