Same and corduroy is a very close third. Though for me it’s velvet, microfiber, cord.

I like this one more

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1897:_Self_Driving

I just assumed it was to increase token use and create a windfall for Anthropic

Rich people and people in charge (see: police, their kids, even local politicians) don’t have to follow rules, especially rules they wrote. They think that their motives are always justified/pure/exceptional, and so the rules don’t need to apply to them.

Sure me too, but the boomer I know who fall for this are too cooked to comment about them. They only consume, not participate.

Are we sure all these boomers leaving comments aren’t also bots on Facebook?

They might be there to get the thirst traps traction to get out on all the old creeper’s algorithms in the first place.

They can fuck all our pensions up for good and starve us. That’s what it took to start the French Revolution, this time it’s gonna be global though.

Recover? No they buy low and double their take (or 100x or whatever the ratio is at this point).

We’re doing trillionaires now don’t forget. Even though Elon might not be anymore, there will be others unless we get our act together.

Or erode all trust in imagery so when something real and terrible comes out no one believes it.

Yeah I don’t think that is the real license plate typeface. I think that might be a font called Sauerkraut that is a riff on the official one.

Actually the tops of the C and G are different, but you’d have to be looking for it. Plater readers could probably still be fooled.

Expanding “in the footprint” would mean adding more operations to the existing property, not taking more property. Unless that’s a typo

The closest I know of is some VWs and Hondas allow certain click patterns to do things like roll down all the windows or open sunroofs maybe.

Accords and Passats I think maybe Jettas have done it for decades.

Same for remote start. Which my 10 y/o Subaru does with a fob and as long as I set the heat to the right settings before getting out, works a treat on subzero mornings.

These selective colleges aren’t about education, they’re about getting you into a club with the other assholes that likely cheated their way through business school and got jobs the same way.

Same with private high schools in the us. They aren’t teaching kids to read, math or think, they’re teaching them that being born rich means you get to be in charge of the plebs (which includes the professors and instructors at these institutions).

The inertia would be tricky, but maybe with some sensors and strong motors it could be done.

I used to teach tech making to students in a program and we did all kinds of little projects with microcontrollers and basic electronics, but also laser cutters and early 3D printing (pre makerbot). Almost 20 years ago now, so most of the documentation is lost to time.

Arduinos are fun to play with though, there’s lots of examples and libraries out there, and the clone market means you can get them in 5 packs for only a few dollars. Motor controller boards, all kinds of sensor breakouts and tiny servos are also cheap as chips these days.

You could spend the rest of your free time on that too!

My parents were planning to build a cabin around a Russian stove (massive stone chimney with beds and a ton of thermal mass) for overnight heat, but ended up in an RV instead when their retirement coincided with the housing collapse.

I’ve actually done both those things in real life believe it or not. But for the solar tracking I went lazy and used a pair of photoresistors and some canned PID code with a little tuning for my motor.

And I fix lawnmowers for most of my neighborhood.

It’s suggestions like these that make me glad I don’t have a gaming rig.

The solar panels have to be kept cool too though, moving electrons through the panels is generating heat before it even gets to a processor and without air, cooling them will require radiators of their own.

Supporting the election of rightwing oil sponsored Nazis that will cancel the subsidies on your vehicles is another way to lose profits.

I’m starting to wonder if Tesla doesn’t actually want to sell cars, and would rather rent rides like uber though, just like the rest of the late stage capitalist hellhole is trying to do.