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lake worth monster! Caddo has the Caddo Critter and San Antonio has the Donkeylady.

Honestly that's the best possible name for it.

This history of the opinion pieces is an interesting one. I just wanted to point those two facts out to anyone who may have missed that in the headline.

More info if you're interested:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/03/insider/opinion-op-ed-explainer.html

The Opinion section operates editorially independently from the rest of the newspaper. It is the section’s unique mission both to be the voice of The Times, and to challenge it. The Op-Ed pages were born, in part, because of the closing of New York’s top conservative newspaper, The New York Herald Tribune. They were created to be opposite the editorial pages — and not just physically.

“The purpose of the Op. Ed. page is neither to reinforce nor to counterbalance The Times’s own editorial position,” the introduction to the newly created opinion pages stated in 1970. “The objective is rather to afford greater opportunity for exploration of issues and presentation of new insights and new ideas by writers and thinkers who have no institutional connection with The Times and whose views will very frequently be completely divergent from our own.”

Just to highlight that last bit: The opinions are frequently chosen to be completely divergent from those held by the NYT staff.

All his experience and education was "free" in the context of his experiment. He didn't start that experiment with zero experience, and he did start it with zero debt.There are plenty of smart, motivated, people who have to give up on their actual life dreams to take care of sick family members, not just on their latest vanity project like this asshat.

Well, it's an opinion piece, and a guest writing it, so there's that.

the font is a psy op

I kinda get it. Some people are imagining a Nespresso commercial from the 90's, all cozy and comfy.

I, a person who once shared an office with someone who thought air popping popcorn at their desk was a socially acceptable thing to do, can imagine a Sam Kinnison-esque vibe to the "AHHHHs".

JavaScript: :wide eyed and smiling: Sure why not! You're the boss!

Python: Sighing and downing half a bottle of Advil: Sure. Why not, you're the boss.

The scripting language formerly known as Java.

It's weird because it's not even about the killing. It's a good thing for kids to understand animals die for the meat they eat! The real issue is the violence of it. The absolute overreaction of it. Maybe the guy has severe gull PTSD and he snapped, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt, but a person in control of themselves shouldn't be this violent.

Shes got a smidge of a Battle Angel Alita thing going on, but that ain't all that bad.

Always has been. He's just trying to make his own gas station bathroom version of the extant MLM with his face all over it.

If it was GM or Chrysler, I would also assume the stupid decision to glue a flat piece of metal to another flat piece of metal that people are going to stomp on was because glue is cheap.

This, unfortunately, is a Musk run company, so the real reason was likely hubris. Someone's over engineered solution getting axed for cost is the least likely reason. It's more likely that the man child in charge (or a hand picked manchildlett crony) thought welding / mechanical fasteners were beneath them and that the glue was actually a sufficient and elegant solution to maintain clean design or some other form over function reason.

Grandpa can turn cruise control on in any 20 year old car and take a nap, but everyone's fine with that. Meanwhile Tesla issues a software update to marginally improve their camera and torque based driver monitoring system that can literally tell if you're not looking at the road, and everyone loses their minds.

JD power is paid for those 'reports' by the auto companies.

Toyota blatantly disregarded complaints about unintended acceleration but they're still considered great cars. https://www.autosafety.org/major-recalls-toyota-sudden-acceleration/

I get the Musk hate, but honestly his attachment to the company is probably the worst part of Tesla.

The high end Tesla's have the stupid doorhandles. The low end (Y and 3) have manual door handles, they're just recessed so you have to press the thick part in to present the handle. In practice it's a non issue unless things that are slightly different stun lock you into inaction.

The subscription thing is overblown in my opinion.

Autopilot is the big one where it matters. You get TACC and Auto steer on freeways for free.

Navigation on autopilot, auto Lane change, auto park, summoning the car and moving the car through the app are all locked behind an Enhanced Autopilot option you can buy.

FSD unlocks austosteer on city streets and auto stoping/going at stop signs and traffic lights. You can buy it outright or rent it on a month to month basis, and switch between the three modes at will.

Most non-autopilot features are free but require internet, so you can either pay Tesla ~$9 a month for unlimited car data, or connect your car to wifi (hotspot while driving).

I think only careoke, live traffic / satellite view on maps, and remotely interfacing with the car (viewing the car cameras through the app, etc) actually require a subscription to premium connectivity, but I'm not 100% sure those don't work over WiFi.

oh, there's also a one-time performance package you can buy if you want to destroy your tires even faster than normal.

And I won't defend the goofy Cybertruck (I would drive one of it had launched for at the promised price and range), but how does that existing count as a mark against owning an EV, or even a Tesla?

Ironically the errors a Tesla throws are very detailed, and tell you exactly what's wrong. GM's error messages are literally an incomprehensible glyph that, when backlit, might mean there's a problem.

I'm not saying I want to see an all-GOP cast do a live action reenactment of Lord of the Flies, but can trump be piggy? He even gets to do a speech!

Fuck, you reminded me that Trump was so bad he made Bush2 look good.

For any youngins out there:

https://youtu.be/TxNprnas7i8?feature=shared

Al-Zaidi said Bush's "bloodless and soulless smile" and his joking banter provoked him. I don't know what accomplishments he was talking about. The accomplishments I could see were the more than 1 million martyrs and a sea of blood. There are more than 5 million Iraqi orphans because of the occupation.... More than a million widows and more than 3 million displaced because of the occupation." al-Zaidi said.

The world hated Bush2. This journalist snapped out of rage and bush is telling jokes because he doesn't understand the cultural context surrounding the insult of someone throwing unclean shoes at you.