There was a day, not too long ago, where I’d seriously considered buying a Tesla. And I nearly did.
As of today, I for one will never buy a single Tesla product - not a car, not a truck, not a battery, not a robot, whatever - for as long as I live.
And no decision from Tesla leadership will change my mind at this point. Fuck them.
Even if that makes me a crazy old man 30-40 years from now when all this is in the past. Never means never.
That’s where the jobs are.
Not much for good paying work in podunk towns.
I didn’t know it was considered a tankie instance when I signed up, and I’m not a tankie, fwiw.
If you’re not aware, Palantir is named after the scrying tools used by the bad guys in The Lord of The Rings.
Peter Thiel is an evil nerd.
All my neighbors are MAGA
We should never allow MAGA a single moment’s peace then.
Yeah, but these kids spend the majority of their time on phones and tablets, not PCs, and many of ’em don’t even really know what a “file” or “folder” is. Everything just does its cloud save thing.
Yes, the future is here and it fucking sucks.
As a chronic procrastinator, I ain’t doing shit.
They kicked us off of Reddit, dude.
I have a salaried job where I have some flexibility with my schedule.
I’d given myself a “four day workweek” a few times before, on the down low, just because I had life stuff to attend to, so I needed an extra day - a weekday - to attend to it, but I didn’t want to take PTO for it, if I could get the same amount of work done in that time.
I would intend to work 4 10 hour days. That was my plan.
But, realistically, they would be 9 hour days on Monday, and 8 hour days by Thursday.
So really, I was more or less just taking an extra day off.
Y’know what? Those were, by far, my most productive weeks I’ve ever had!
I can’t explain it. But I always get more done when I work 4 days than when I work 5.
Maybe it’s because I hustle better when I know I have a smaller window in which to work. Or maybe I work better when I have a “3 day weekend” to look forward to (even if I’m not relaxing or doing fun stuff on those days).
I don’t know. But it 100% works.
So I do this as much as I can “get away” with now. It’s not slacking, because it makes me better at my job. It’s the opposite of slacking, more like optimization. But it wouldn’t necessarily be seen that way by my employer.
Yes, we are very fucked
I dunno, man.
All I know is that open-mindedness is far less common than I’d once assumed.
And there are those people who aren’t actually interested in truth, but are instead interested in “winning,” because they see every conversation as a power struggle, with a winner and a loser (and as such, language is merely a tool to be wielded for gaining and maintaining social power, not actually finding out things for their own sake). Part of that game can include pretending to be curious and interested in truth, because of the positive image that can project for them.
When those of us who are actually curious about the world interact with one of these types, it can be quite a confusing and frustrating experience if we don’t know what we’re dealing with.
Same! This is 100% on my radar now.
No stereo is a bit spartan, but definitely a move in the right direction regardless. I want one.
I overlocked my Pentium 133 to 150.
I was such a badass.
Anon has never heard of lamps, either.
Cool, I’m done with Perplexity.
I’m (barely) old enough to remember when cable television was touted and sold as “ad free.”
I’m also old enough to remember when satellite radio was touted and sold as “as free.”
Never believe them. Enshittification is inevitable, and planned.