TheRealKuni

what he did for electric vehicles with Tesla cannot be understated

I think you meant to say “cannot be overstated.” “Cannot be understated” means the opposite of the point you’re trying to make.

He definitely lit a fire under the asses of the traditional automakers, no doubt. But then he consistently threw away every advantage his company had, one after another.

Had they developed a normal-ass pickup truck they could’ve beaten the Lightning F-150 to market. But no, because Musk wanted to make a car as stupid and ill-advised as the DeLorean DMC-12 it resembles, design time took so long that by the time the thing hit the streets it wasn’t what truck owners wanted or what Tesla owners wanted. There was already an EV version of the best-selling pickup truck in the world. And he had, by that point, thoroughly torched his image among the people most likely to buy his cars.

Tesla definitely accelerated the development of EV models and infrastructure, but I personally think it’s easy to overstate Elon’s impact.

It was remarkable how much fake Weird Al music there was. Someone maintained a helpful “Not Al” list.

Lol as opposed to… Any other type of meat? I don’t think any meat where they are raised to be shot in the head in an assembly line is “cruelty free”

The world isn’t black and white, there are spectra. I’m not saying meat isn’t cruel, just that some forms of meat are more cruel than others.

FWIW, I’m neither vegan nor vegetarian, but I have made an effort to reduce my meat consumption.

Foie gras makes me sad. It’s usually cruel, produced by force-feeding animals. There are ways to make it humanely but they are rarely carried out.

But damn is it good. I don’t eat it anymore, but I have had it a couple of times and loved it.

He wouldn’t have died had he worn the “damn collar” as he called it. The HANS device likely would’ve saved his life, as I understand it, but he was too “old school” for driver safety. 🙄

Recognized it instantly. I played too much of that game.

Shit, even Apple lets you reprogram the Action Button, insofar as you can program anything on iOS (which isn’t nothing, Shortcuts scripting can be pretty detailed).

Apple did. Some of the M4 iPads were bricked by the initial iPadOS 18 rollout back in September.

Dont forget, people interbred with other hominid species also, like Neandertals.

Homo neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens fucking is more akin to dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) and coyotes (Canis latrans) fucking, not dogs and humans.