Maybe that, itself, is me projecting.
The effect is certainly more pronounced in those who lack empathy. Which conservatives often proudly do. Lacking empathy prevents you from seeing the world through other people’s point of view … which often leaves you unable to properly understand others.
They choose to believe in things they know aren’t true, and they call it faith.
And that’s how they think everyone else comes to their own conclusions about reality as well. They think we’re taking the existence of homosexuality on faith, which is why they think they’re making some kind of point when they say they don’t believe in that.
I’m not pulling it, I’m just licking it! Stop your nagging, I could use some help over here.
Also, copyrights should expire in a more reasonable timeframe. Probably something around 10-20 years. (Rather than our current US absurdity of ‘Entire life of the creator +70 years’.)
But, also, there needs to be some accommodation for collaborative works, especially large-scale collaborative works with dozens or hundreds of creators contributing. (Like a big-budget movie or video game.) Trying to navigate copyright issues on something like that with only individual copyrights would be a nightmare. You need some mechanism to support group ownership of a copyright, including a way for the group to delegate certain rights and responsibilities to one individual who represents the group’s interests.
I do, however, think that only the group who actually worked on the project should be able to own that copyright. They could license it to companies for distribution, but ownership of the copyright should always remain with the creators who directly worked on it. No copyright should ever be owned by any corporation at all or by any person who didn’t contribute to the project.
And a money lover.
Bro, we can all tell. We’ve just been too polite to say anything.
Get some help. Destroy a throw pillow. Shit on the entryway carpet. Do chihuahua things. Get off the internet.
That’s not really far off from what Slate themselves are offering.
One of the sound system options is literally just a bluetooth speaker box that you attach to the bottom of the dashboard.
The big thing is the (supposed) mid-$20k base price. Exact pricing hasn’t been announced yet (and seems likely to increase, what with tariffs and unpredictable AI-based electronic component shortages). But if they actually do manage to bring a small, practical electric truck to market for, say, $27,000 and they can actually produce them at scale so there isn’t a years-long waiting list to get one…
Well, that will be a big deal, I think.
And, yeah. Doesn’t seem like it will be spyware on wheels, since it doesn’t even come with an infotainment system. You’re meant to mount your own phone or tablet to the dash instead. Those, of course, have their own spyware issues. But you could always just not do that if you’re worried about your privacy – you’d have no nav and no music, but also no spyware. Or just use an old tablet that doesn’t have an internet connection or something.
There is no ethical consumption under capitalism.
If you want to drive a car at all, you’re going to end up supporting some huge corporation. And pretty much all huge corporations are at least somewhat friendly towards fascism.
(When an open source car project that anyone can build and make parts for gets off the ground, let me know. I’ll be the first in line. Until then…)
Would you rather have 1 of option A or 1000 of option B?
Kind of depends on what your specific goals are, but 1000 to 1 odds tend to tilt things in option B’s favor.
I take it you never played to the end of Below Zero, huh?
I’m super-jealous of your back baskets. I want them.
(Can’t wait for things to be warm enough to bicycle again around here.)
That’s not Alan.
This is Alan:
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From what I’ve heard, Amazon is a major investor, but not the majority owner.
I may not have heard the full story, though.
You should look into the Slate electric trucks.
Small electric trucks/SUVs that are intended to be very cheap and barebones stock, but also very modular and very upgradeable, so you add the features you want. Including it being pretty much a given that you’re going to wrap it in the colors of your choice.
They’re not on the market yet, but I have high hopes.
If any baby in the history of the world ever actually deserved it, though…
Ew, this is disgusting!
Can you imagine buying a Nestle product? Gross!
Well, my fifty cent chromebook doesn’t have a touch screen, so I wouldn’t know.
But I’m using Graphite OS on it, a lightweight Linux variant with a specially tailored kernel to work on old Chromebook hardware, including drivers for all the weird stuff. Everything it has works, even the little special feature buttons and stuff. No longer an actively maintained project, unfortunately, but it works well enough for now. I’d love to see someone revive it with support for more modern Linux kernels. (Unfortunately, I can’t update the kernel without losing some of the special modifications that make it work more efficiently on a chromebook and include chromebook-specific hardware drivers.)
I guess the other main limitation is that the thing’s only internal storage is a whopping 16GB. But Graphite and all the apps I need still fit with ~8GB to spare. And it has an SD card slot, so I can easily add external storage.
You know what? I eagerly await the rise of a new religion where ChatGPT is worshiped as a god.
(Who am I kidding? Most corporate execs are already praying at that altar.)