nat_turner_overdrive [he/him] @ nat_turner_overdrive @hexbear.net

From the river to the sea, and death to israel of course

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r/cars and other car "enthusiast" subs have been pretty anti-Tesla for quite some time, because Teslas aren't really anything approaching a "driver's car". They go fast in a straight line but have terrible feedback and handling.

Cosmetic build quality issues aside, they require practically zero maintenance (tires and windshield fluid) and there are less moving parts to break. So far they've proven to be very reliable.

This applies to all electric cars, this isn't exclusive to Tesla. And other electric cars don't have panel gaps.

Driver feedback is subjective and I find your claim straight-up obtuse in meaning. I quite enjoy windy roads and the smoothness of the EV drivetrain.

The Tesla drives like an appliance, particularly in comparison to what are often considered "driver's cars". Nothing wrong with it, but don't expect car enthusiasts to like it.

The UX of my Tesla is practically-perfectly responsive and most of what you want to do has either physical or voice controls.

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voice controls

Physical buttons are superior, and have been for decades. Voice controls and touchscreens are decisions made on a budget basis, not a UX basis, because they are objectively worse. It's corner-cutting, not improvement.

Autopilot is good bordering great but still needs work. FSD is indeed a pipe dream with the current fleet.

Are you calling Musk a liar?!? FSD has been coming "next year" for like six years now!!!

I'm sorry, there's no positive here on the yoke thing. Literally anybody who isn't a 14 year old who has never driven a car before should understand a yoke is a shitty, stupid thing to replace a wheel with. That mistake didn't require putting the shit on the market and then going "oh wow I guess this much worse thing isn't better after all, huh". Like, seriously, the dumbest motherfuckers must have been involved in that decision from start to finish.

I'm saying that anybody who thinks "declining birth rates" merits writing articles or making social media posts, they're likely also racists.

To be honest, I can't see anybody who isn't way too worried about phenotypes and skull shapes genuinely caring about birthrates, regardless of what else they write.

I think it's supremacists projecting their WHITE REPLACEMENT fears onto others

The nice thing about Linux is you can pick a DE that apes whatever OS you're used to so the transition from Windows or Mac to desktop Linux can be very painless.

My mom is in her 70s, never has been techy, and has been using Linux as her daily driver for a solid eight years now. I have to do less troubleshooting for her now that she's on Linux than I ever did when she used Windows. "You have to use the command line" is an extremely outdated criticism of desktop Linux.

DO NOT try to fight mitch mcconell on the astral plane. he is TOO STRONG

I think there are two factions who want the war to continue - the fascists in Ukraine, and the fascists in NATO. The NATO fascists exert their pressure with the IMF, personal visits by Bojo and the rest of the peanut gallery, and I assume promises for future support or protection to Zelensky himself. The Ukraine fascists exert their power by assassinations, and probably pose the most direct threat to Zelensky or anyone else in the Ukraine government who might make the "mistake" of trying to preserve lives by suing for peace. I would imagine part of the incentive to keep the war going is promises by the NATO fascists to provide safe haven for Zelensky when things fall apart. I would also imagine those promises don't seem very comforting to Zelensky since he certainly got similar promises from the NATO fascists that NATO would fully back and support Ukraine, and that's turned out to be a slow trickle of outdated, inappropriate hardware and admonitions that the slavic brainpan can't comprehend the advanced european NATO tactics.

'civilized' West

Leaving aside the difference between "far right presence in the Russian military" and "explicit, patch-wearing, self-identifying neo nazis directly in leadership positions all over the Ukrainian state and military", this is the point I am making. Whether there are right wingers in militaries isn't even worth discussing - the answer is yes. Russia doesn't have nazi units, they don't have nazis in charge, they haven't been doing pogroms for eight years, and to try to equate that with Ukraine is just outright wrong.

You should check out parenti he has a quote about this:

During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime's atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn't go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.

You're just going to assume anything Putin or Russia says is wrong and bad. There's no logic or rationality in your worldview - you have decided Putin is a Bad Man and will for any new information into this preconceived notion.

We've got every photo of Ukrainian troops as evidence they're largely Nazis. We've even got public statements by Ukrainian senior leadership about exterminating Russians and sympathizers in any territory they recapture. What's your proof the same is true about Russian troops or leadership? As far as I'm aware, this "Wagner are Nazis" theory comes from one single picture of the shit bag who used to be in charge of Wagner but isn't any longer.

edit: while I'm thinking about it - what is your obsession with Putin? Do you understand that the war is popular in Russia? That Putin is more popular now than he was before the war? That a very common sentiment in Russian elected government and the citizenry is that the war hasn't been prosecuted hard enough? If Putin were couped by Russians the war would almost certainly get kicked into high gear and the Russians would start honestly trying to capture all of Ukraine. This great man theory obsession with Putin himself is just off the mark.

Adding Finlandia for another good vodka option

Footmen don't call the shots, unlike in Ukraine.

Russians lost millions of live to whom? And who was engaging in eight years of pogroms and direct attacks on civilians in the Donbass? It's almost like exactly because of the history of Nazism as it relates to Russia, modern neo-Nazis doing ethnic cleansing on their borders might be of some concern to the Russians.

I can't tell you how often in my line of work I have to deal with small business tyrants who do not understand the basics of the industry they're in, who think I will just teach them all of those things or directly replace the employee(s) they fired or who quit. It's really eye-opening about the intelligence and competency of business owners and executives.