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RIP Overton Window, we hardly knew ye

Republicans have been trying to ban video games for decades

American servicemembers, most likely

I think they definitely could, you just won’t get one from Tesla because that doesn’t match their brand image.

The Slate trucks seemed like something that was pursuing this idea.

You may be correct. Unfortunately all I can find are statistics about electric cars vs gas car fires. It is a known fact however that several Model S EV’s have caught fire while just sitting there parked, I haven’t heard of that from any other manufacturer but I haven’t heard all news there is to hear.

It’s not actually that over the top, Tesla beats the Ford Pinto in percentage of fire-based deaths, a car most well known for catching fire.

control and/or cut it’s data connection to Tesla

To my knowledge you can’t, at least without a level of rewriting the car’s code that you’ll effectively be writing the whole car from scratch. Just buy a different brand, literally any other brand of electric car.

Since it’s used, I’m not giving Musk any money,

The moment you need any replacement parts you’re giving Musk money. Tesla does not provide repair parts to repair shops. I work at a repair shop, ask me how I know. If you call them and request a part they will tell you to bring the car to them and then hang up on you, so, hope your car never needs maintenance because it isn’t getting any outside of a Tesla shop.

Even if we could get parts we still refuse service on Teslas at my shop because they’re such a liability risk.

Well this particular guy was entrapped and arrested on false pretenses. He didn’t know ICE was at the door.

Otherwise, though, yeah agreed. If masked assailants come to my home with no badge and no warrant they are going to be considered home invaders and will be treated accordingly. Identify yourself or you will be shot.

Because they’re still literally not doing their jobs.

As an example, let’s say I flip burgers for a living. You come in to my restaurant and order a cheeseburger. I then proceed to slap a hunk of raw ground beef and a slice of cheese down right on the counter in front of you. That’ll be $8.50, pay up.

You aren’t going to say “that’s progress!” you’re going to say “that’s not a fucking cheeseburger”.

Same here. Yeah, it is progress forward from the literal nothing that they were doing before. It still is not satisfactory progress that satisfies the basic job requirements of their chosen career.

On our left hand we have a party who, while generally spineless in the face of opposition, at least understands the general principles of governance and has an interest in continuing the lifespan of the country.

On our right hand we have a party aggressively campaigning that they should be allowed to shoot you in the face. Yes, you, personally.

I hope you have the day you vote for.

Good man.

Boy I hope you really, really enjoy debilitating security holes if you’re using GPT to write your backend JS

Yeah… it was. Like, beat for beat almost exactly. I don’t get your point.

I didn’t watch the second one. The first one was real pretty, but I couldn’t get over how transparently the story was just copying Pocahontas.

Most art is inspired by other art but most good artists have the presence of mind to at least obfuscate it a little bit.

https://www.cookingforengineers.com/

My friend (who is an engineer) pointed me at this a few years ago and I’ve been pleased with it.

Potato potato, they’re both land boats built like a three legged rhinoceros with the worst front sight lines I’ve ever seen.

Nah, you’re correct.

The translation is left as an exercise for the reader :)

The name was originally chosen for nerd cred (for anyone who recognizes it - Atra esterní ono thelduin. Mor’ranr lifa unin hjarta onr. Un atra du evarínya ono varda.) but I later realized that it’s also great because it’s an actual word from an actual story and 99% of search engine results for my name are going to bring up that story and its wiki. It’s an extra layer of pseudo-anonymity that I enjoy.

The avatar was just cause it’s funny, I use this one all over the place.

Narrator: He was.

I remember a couple forums had a “thank” feature or something similar that would show, with your username, your approval for a post without having to make an additional post about it. No downvotes though, you had to speak up to be a hater. I think that was a fine middle ground.

I don’t think he ever had much of a chance to be anything else, given who he was raised by.