I might be impressed by a truck that could haul a cooler, an empty plastic barrel, and a crate at once. But the lack of any tie-downs for those straps makes my point well for me. Thanks.

Look closer and read the dimensions. The Verge say “it can hold a sheet of plywood” in text but if you look at the dimensions, there isn’t 48” of space between the wheel wells, so it has to be propped up on them seesawing back and forth. And there is not 96” of length to support it, even with the tailgate down. At best you could limp home with one sheet rocking around, sticking out behind you. Forget transporting a stack.

It’s yet another urban toy truck that’s not equipped for actual utility.

He was believed. They didn’t care.

It’s not a truck to me if the bed can’t fit a sheet of plywood.

EDIT: which you will see it cannot if you look at the dimensions listed. Plywood is 48”x96”

When a company considers buying Chrome because it could help them extend the reach of their product, they are fucking drunk and need to go home. This would be like buying the state of Nevada so you could put up billboards all over Las Vegas.

At first I imagined the drone dragging its cable and that seemed terrible, but then I realized they’re carrying a spool and they let cable out as they go. That’s actually brilliant and absolutely could work. 12 miles of cable. Only thing is it adds weight so you can’t deliver as much explosive payload.

That makes a lot of sense.

Does Trump care about constructing justifications for his actions though? Seems like he enjoys shooting from the hip and, if ever in doubt, opts for strategies that will piss the most people off.

You are 654,863,108% correct!

I mean I hope it’s just you in there.

This really is a tremendous show of weakness… unless it’s a ploy somehow.

I once sat next to a couple on the plane and the young woman was showing her bf a video of Tate talking about how men should be stoic and never complain because no one wants to hear that pussy bullshit. She was saying things to him like “You know how you freak out and bitch at me? You should be like him.”

So yeah… there are women out there who like him. They like hardcore traditional gender roles, is probably the base of it, and want a man doing cliche man shit like Tate preaches. Some women are dealt a great hand by traditional standards: big tits, blond hair, nice face, and they would rather settle into being provided for than fuss with all that feminism stuff. It’s idiotic but people believe whatever’s in their interests. And surprise surprise, these women don’t want men to have emotional needs.

In the old days when you disappeared into a cult, you physically went to live with them and everything.

These days it’s “cult to go.” Good luck intervening and cutting off their link to the cult when the cult is speaking to them from their pocket.

Well done! As Martin Luther King Jr said:

“Love cannot drive out pedantry, only more pedantry can do that”

Oh shit.

I actually saw a headline yesterday about how the Pope “ghosted” JV Dunce. 😫👻

Yeah, he ALMOST restored the office of Pope to relevancy :D

When his draconian successor inevitably comes along, we can go back to ignoring the papacy again.

This kind of headline always makes it sound like AI is being used as judge, jury, and executioner. But it’s more likely that it’s part of narrowing the field or generating candidates.

I’m reminded of another headline recently about how AI is now going to be used at a nuclear reactor. Everyone assumed this meant that ChatGPT would henceforth operate the entire reactor including having the ability to cause meltdowns. It turned out to be that the employees were getting an AI powered document search for their office that would help them search regulatory and technical documents.

We need to remain skeptical of AI, but this hardon for Skynet everywhere is not actually helping with that. That’s more emotional catharsis, 2-minutes hate, than effective skepticism.

No one cares when you bought. You’re supposed to flood the used Tesla market to suppress new sales happening NOW.

I’ve heard a lot of excuses from Tesla drivers about how they can’t afford to stand for their ethics. It’s pathetic. How are we to believe this from anyone who could afford one in the first place?

Plot yourself on the historical spectrum of “what was I willing to give up for my ideals” and that brave moral stand about not having a car payment looks pretty fucking limp.

I have empathy for you. I’m just more concerns with your soul than your car payment.

They will definitely not appoint an even more progressive pope after him. He was “the progressive pope” for a time and now they will shift gears in the other direction for a time. The Catholic Church is not on some steady progressive march. Especially the way politics are going around the world, you can expect a very anti-woke pope next.

Social media is definitely a big thing, even if it’s not the only thing.

I believe it has two parts. The technology can personalize content and optimize for engagement, so it’s more addicting than traditional media could ever be.

And the jackasses making content have no accountability or editorial standards whatsoever. They churn out whatever clicks and they’re willing to lie, incite, and gaslight their way through it.

Combine the low content standards with the high addiction factor and you have a ticking time bomb. Or maybe it already went off and we’re just looking around at the crater left behind.