For many of those years it was the only electric pickup truck being advertised. And also, yes people do like the Tesla name. Musk and growing competition has done a ton to tank the reputation lately, but until just a couple years ago Tesla was far and away the best and most advanced electric car, and depending on your criteria the most advanced/best car period. Perception shifts slowly outside of well-informed groups, and the Musk hate is really only affecting well-informed left wing groups right now, so a lot of libertarian Musk fanboys are still fully on the Tesla train

In all three cases, he can do it as long as Congress gives him that power. In this case it’s unlikely Congress will push back on banning Russian software, in the other two the republicans have promised to block any executive effort

One could make the case that it is a patriotic duty to divert money from fascists that would otherwise go to fascist causes

All these dumb companies chasing the wrong high margin class imo. Tesla did it right, start with the sports car: the EV powertrain plays well to its strengths, their big advantageous use case isn’t 600 mile road trips, and they don’t need to tow. Starting with the mom-mobiles and dad’s pavement princess puts you on the worst footing by needing obnoxiously large amounts of the most expensive component, needing to meet road trip or towing standards, and catering to a market that by definition has other big spending priorities, e.g. their kids or whatever they want to tow. If Ford’s first electric mustang had been a cobra equivalent rather than a sportier electric escape I suspect they would have had a much better time.

In addition to what Blisterex said, the open-source hardware ethos is very similar to the Linux open-source software ethos, so it attracts a similar crowd

UK mpg are different than US mpg, it looks like 1 mpg US is ~1.2 mpg UK

Because companies mostly don’t want the degree to prove skill sets, which is why they don’t generally ask for transcripts, just that you have a degree in a somewhat related field. The value of a bachelor’s degree to a company is that it proves the applicant is capable of undertaking a ~4 year commitment, achieving a tangible result, and that they pass a threshold competence at navigating beaurocracies and interacting with other humans. The specific skills/experience the company wants are much better assessed using prior experience, interviews, assessments, etc.

It is definitely an arms race between better bots and better anti-bot, but part of that paradigm is that it gets more expensive to participate in the race the faster it gets. If valve applied the acceleration even a little bit, the number of bots would at least temporarily be reduced, which would make the player experience astronomically better. No bots whatsoever is unreasonable, but most pubs being 50% bots or more means they can effectively vote-ban anyone and is untenable

Just sounds like the first episode of community with less context and more soapboxing

Aldi in the US always gives me the option at checkout to pay later, I’ve never explored it to find out the fine print

Oh ho ho, where have you been that you think they’ll hold their own side to this standard?

Funny thing is they aren’t even GMOs, they’re hybrids between tetraploid and diploid watermelon cultivars. You could do it yourself in your backyard if you can find tetraploid seed for sale, or make it yourself with colchicine

https://freesewing.org/ has somewhat limited patterns but they’re flexible and a really cool project!

Is this AI written? I’m pretty sure The Thief Lord doesn’t have a mysterious disease amywhere

A bit of a long shot but is it maybe one of The Seven Fabulous Wonders series by Katherine Roberts, maybe the Colossus Crisis?

I thought they were all side-lit? Which is functionally the same imo but technically different

You should be able to, but US non-car infrastructure is so abysmal that there’s a strong chance you can’t safely unfortunately

Hell a roof rack on my 20 year old 3 series and a ton of rope has moved sofas, plywood and pallets, and one memorable trip 5 bikes

What’s your alternative? Unless there’s a successful January 6th equivalent the options are humoring the system and making progress as best you can or reject the system and maybe engage in resultless protests while letting fascists take over the system. At that point your options become be a fascist or die.

I’m a huge Martha Wells fan but I actually find Murderbot to be one of her weaker series. Granted I only read the first two, but I just couldn’t get into it and enjoy it like I have with her other works