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  • Isekai is just Fish Out of Water on steroids which itself is just a variant on the Hero's Journey monomyth.

    Isekai are popular because people like to explore what if scenarios just in general. The Isekai setup is just a convenient plot device, that's all.

  • My wife has played me some of the songs. The music is fine, if boring, but the lyrics... Amateurish would be the the kindest word I could use. I know pop musicians aren't known for deep meaningful lyricism but Beyonce sounds like a middle schooler that did her poetry assignment the night before it was due. It's honestly atrocious.

    Even the covers are kinda bad too, at least to me. Your mileage may vary on those. At least the guitar on Jolene is pretty good.

  • I think you're incorrect. They, in partnership with Panasonic, make a ton of cells at their Nevada gigafactory. They have five more gigafactories where they make other components like motors, batteries, photovoltaic cells, etc...

    I also think "easily" is pulling a lot of weight in your sentence there. Scaling up battery pack production to hit manufacturing goals in the next 10 or so years is going to be difficult for anyone attempting it.

    All that said, fuck Musk I wish he'd take a ride to Mars already.

  • In fairness, tesla is not just a car company. Batteries and solar are a significant and growing part of their business.

    Their plan was always to popularize evs and then sell batteries to Ford, Chevy, and all the others.

  • This is the only step. If trump is elected he and his cronies will remove, up to and including outright murder, all of his enemies. The only judges and "representatives" left will be ones scared enough or craven enough to do whatever Trump and his masters want. There will be no democracy after Trump if elected.

  • Make that a sample size of two. I wanted a tesla as soon as my current car gives out but I won't go anywhere near them now because of Musk. I know there's no ethical consumption under capitalism but giving money to Musk is a bridge too far for me.

    I still hope SpaceX succeeds despite him though.

  • Don't forget that the republican party has shrunk just in raw numbers. Covid deaths and people switching parties after jan 6 means even if 100% of Republicans voted Trump in 2024 it'd be a smaller number than if 100% of Republicans voted Trump in 2020.

  • Sacred implies supernaturality. Since that isn't actually a thing, nothing is sacred. It's as valid for one person to say they think something is not sacred as it is for someone to say they think it is.

    At the end of the day, the argument should be that it is unique and should be preserved because of its uniqueness. That's a much more palatable and understandable position to take.

  • Less than Jake sold a shirt with one of the poison album covers on it but with their name instead. I remember lots of bands doing similar shirts at the time. I had more than a few butt rock lovers try to get a conversation going about how cece demille was so awesome before I even realized what the shirt was mocking.

  • What part of this do you not understand? They don't care about down ballot races because they intend to install a dictatorship. You think Putin gives a shit how much funding down ballot candidates get? Fuck no. They just install whoever they want or have sham elections.