It’s all of the above. It’s always been a useful folk devil when one was needed.

You win

The deal is written without any such provisions for restricting trade on either side.

That doesn’t preclude Trump inevitably throwing a shit fit when UK starts courting EU and China, but that remains to be seen

Ah I misread this

It started refunding deposits for the $16,000 extra battery pack.

You are correct. People make mistakes, not everything is “a narrative”.

“Thanks for all the $16k loans at 0% shmucks. We’ve kept the interest we made while rates have been up and now you can have it back while they’re dropping. Of course, your money is now worth less than it was when you gave it to us during high inflation. Suck it losers. Love, T E S L A”

EDIT: deposit was $150. Still shitty but not the same impact

EDIT 2: Or $2000? … tl;dr: shitty

Once upon a time they were the “good ads”. They had an unobtrusive but instantly recognisable ad-format that was reasonably tolerable and text-only. It was once they started showing sponsored search results that it became apparent they were willing to be subversive to get clicks.

Their whole image was built around user trust and the moment they had everyone hooked they 180ed.

Music artist

Hi, after seeing the couch I just want to say I’m not interested in purchasing it any more. I’m looking for a blue couch and that one is clearly brown. Thanks.

Very fair point about Tails, although I appreciated the joke about him being Sonic’s wingman and him reaffirming that they work as a team with different skills. Super wholesome way of saying that everyone is important. Also we got the plane scene which was the best nostalgia hit I’ve had in a while.

Let the hype train keep on rolling!!! 🚂

Me in this thread

Gorgeous. Is this stock on device?

Are you hyped for the fourth movie? I didn’t see the post credits until I watched it again yesterday with my daughter. I’d been pretty miffed that they gave us Shadow before they gave us Amy!

When you say you got rid of it, is it for sale? I’m in the market for a blue couch

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalization_of_Internet

The direction of travel is towards “internet” (lowercase), but pedants gonna pedant.

I swear I saw a Tom Scott video about this, but quite some time ago. Possibly same method but different insect…

X had a predecessor called W that ran on an operating system called V.

Can I have a go on your time machine?

without pulling out your phone, [doing phone stuff x10]

Ding ding ding.

Everyone is so focused on AR glasses having some killer use case that must justify it’s existence. The use case is simply not pulling a phone out of your pocket; not waiting for face ID, tapping your way to the necessary app, and so on.

Removing these micro inconveniences has always been Apple’s forte (even if a little stagnant in recent years), so it’s no surprise that they will continue to pursue the same.

You don’t have to strap the internet to someone’s face to distort their reality with it, as demonstrated by… Well, gestures broadly

Why is it when I miss a day of Daily Show it’s eviscerated from my feed entirely, but no matter how many Jordan Peterson thumbnails I hastily pass over, they still appear week in week out?

To date I’ve watched one JP video: Matt Dillahunty verbally tearing him a new asshole.

The right wing rabbit hole is real and, even if you’re explicitly against it, YouTube is like “if I can get him to watch just one …”, because they know they’ll have you watching videos like the guy from Clockwork Orange in no time. It’s disgusting.

Pro tip: never press “do not show me this” on right wing videos, just skip over them. That engagement causes the algorithm to mark you as emotionally triggered by politics and they’ll just shovel more of the same in your face. For them it’s just a roll of the dice, and the value of them flipping you is too high to avoid.