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  • Assuming it was fraudulent of course.

    From the info I saw posted a few days after this whole something started with actual info... The same situation could also be explained by Tesla not submitting claims as they come, instead submitting them as a group after there were comments about the funding starting to end, therefore putting a deadline on submissions. Which would also make sense. Large companies paying and submitting claims for things in bulk on longer cycles like quarterly is very common.

    I haven't specifically looked up more info recently though, so there may be new stuff that came out that slipped through my feed.

  • They already added a subscription.

    Up front cost cannot cover the ongoing API costs they must be paying for Google Maps. So either this has to be free and just a front end for the same shit, or they'll still end up net negative.

  • who may not even be able to afford a smartphone, or even Internet access.

    I agree generally... However, at least currently until this fascist takeover gets to it, those same individuals would qualify for service through the Lifeline Program (Obama phones).

    https://www.fcc.gov/general/lifeline-program-low-income-consumers

    The digital requirement is a negative for everyone on general, but that specific reason doesn't really apply with other current social support programs in place covering that scenario as well.

  • That's handled largely by the lack of ability to take time off. And then there's wage stagnation. It not only means increased company profits, but on the national scale it helps ensure any people do not make enough money to build up any savings.

    They've created a very effective system where most don't have the paid time off from work, can't afford to call in, and also don't have the savings to afford the time to find a new job.

  • Actual 90% of Americans: I'm busy trying to survive daily life working essentially paycheck to paycheck, maybe working two or three jobs and a side gig to make ends meet, commuting over an hour each way to work, being overly stressed from work, having to pay for some of the most expensive healthcare on the planet even with work provided insurance, and never able to afford to take a real vacation or even time to sit back and look at anything not directly part of my daily struggles to survive in current society. When I do look around, half of politics is telling me I'm lazy and the other half is talking about things that don't affect my daily struggles.

    Meanwhile both of the groups say the other is lying all the time and I don't have the time or energy to look into it before I have to get to bed so I can get up and do it all over again tomorrow. And in the morning, my car breaks down again, and repairing it wipes out the little savings I did manage to have for a while. Now I'm worried that I might be fired because I am late to work again because of car trouble and lack of good public transit options.


    Our society has been manufactured over the last 100 years to get people to the point we don't have the free time or enough money to effectively see what's happening and fight back without having to completely destroy our lives in the process.

  • Elon was a dipshit in 2018 yes... So are 90% of CEOs, and 100% of modern "Republicans". Most just aren't as publicly vocal because they don't make themselves the face of their brands. The Republican party hasn't actually supported their stated viewpoints in decades, and few members of the general public have noticed. They just take what they're told and allowed the shift.

    Being a dipshit is different from actively supporting a fascist takeover of the government. Regardless of what you might want to claim, there is a shift there. You're an idiot if you can't see the public shift in the last few years. He may always have been this way,but he wasn't as vocally and publicly supportive of it. It used to just be shit takes on events for publicity, not the active lead of the country's destruction.

  • Mumblings originally in 2017, job openings at the studio in 2018, officially announced in 2020. October 2022 Andrew Walsh, a senior writer from the Horizon Forbidden West team joined the Fable team. June of 2023 had an in-game trailer.

    To be honest, that seems to be a reasonable timeframe, especially given the pandemic in the middle, if you aren't following the "rush it out the door ASAP, fix it after release, if you ever do" approach.

  • So you're saying to load this shell second.

  • Nothing lost. McDonald's lost sight of their place in the fast food wars.

    They mistakenly started to believe they could charge the same as places like Five Guys while still producing the same crap product. They forgot the reason they got so big was because they were cheap, not because they were a better option.

  • To be fair, that's because the US Democrats would be right wing nearly everywhere else on the world. There has been a shit ton of propaganda infrastructure built over the last 60+ years to shift the US spectrum so dramatically to the point a third of the country supports overt fascism while claiming it's the opposite.

  • And/or destabilizing the country's economy and political power worldwide so our enemies like Russia can do whatever they want without the US interfering. The complete destruction of US soft power via things like USAID and the blatant attempts to destroy any collaboration with our allies seems to point more in that direction.

  • A few years ago I would have said there was no fucking way the situation as reported happened. That this side of the story is clearly being hyperbolic and making some stuff up to make it sound worse than it was for the lawsuit.

    But given recent events with ICE and CBP... This now seems entirely plausible, which is a ridiculous situation for the country to be in.

    An it is United after all. They have a corporate history that definitely lends itself to this being a reasonable story from them.

  • Almost half the war on terror is fighting regions we used to provide weapons to.

  • You mean the same as most previous Tesla attacks historically have been before this year's events?

  • The board is filled with family and close friends. They'll protect him as long as possible.

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  • Depends on the judge. There are corrupt ones.

    The most easily identified by whether they support the current administration in any way.

  • Of course they do, but the issue is that too much of Trump's control over their base is from his cult of personality (somehow), not the plan itself. They don't know how to replace that. Yet.

  • They've also completely stop using the self-driving after some scary swerves

    A reminder here since people get the two confused all the time, and don't understand just how little Autopilot does. Full Self Driving and Autopilot are and always have been different things. They do not use the same software stack. Autopilot hasnt really been updated since FSD started being tested outside Tesla employees, so 5+ years now. 95%+ of Tesla vehicles do not have FSD, but nearly all of them have Autopilot.

    Autopilot is just Traffic Aware Cruise Control and Automatic Lane Keeping. AP is not smart, and never has been, it does not make driving decisions, it just tries to keep you in the lines and a minimum distance from cars in front of you at a set speed. There are a shit ton of vehicles on the road that do this now, spanning all the way from luxury brands down to a plain old Honda, and they have for years.

  • If you never bought products from a company run by an insufferable moron, you would be forced to buy directly from your neighbors for everything in your life. And even then there's always an insufferable moron nearby.