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Okay, got my guilty laugh of the day out of the way. Thanks.

Sew the fucking sock, Shinji.

This. Aviation has had an incredible safety record over the last 10+ years. That we’ve had multiple accidents, even minor ones, over the last several months is a huge departure from modern industry standards, and is quite concerning for the future of the aviation industry.

Hwat?

How could you possibly interpret it in any other way?

“I said to them, was there any sign of love?” Trump said, recounting his conversation with released hostages.

“Did the, Hamas, show any signs of like, help? Or liking you? Did they wink? Did they give you a piece of bread extra? Did they give you a meal on the side? … Like, you know, what happened in Germany?” Trump said, absurdly comparing the hostages’ situation to the Holocaust, which murdered six million Jews.

“People would try and help people that were in unbelievable distress,” the president went on, suggesting that the Nazis were known for their generosity.

You can’t make this level of stupidity up.

Also, I suppose one way to get cars off the roads is to leave them in such severe disrepair that nobody can drive.

Is this like an idiotic Luigi copycat? He hates big pharma, so he goes and kills a pharmacist? Like at least have the chutzpah to go for a big fish.

Considering Google’s track record on simplifying UIs by taking away features, I’ll take my chances, and only update for severe threats.

Sadly software updates have turned in to an enshitification vector.

Is there a transcript?

It’s a really really odd story. The article says that the accident was a minor crash, and that her vehicle sustained A$2000 worth of damage.

There’s no way getting hit buy a bus going 110Kph doesn’t total your vehicle. And if it was just a glancing blow, how do you go into renal failure from what’s basically a fender bender? Severe whiplash maybe?

Perhaps it’s just my armchair traffic injury analysis that’s way off base, but it just seems to me like there’s more to this story.

It’s wild. I’ve lost relatives to this nonsense and I don’t even live in the US.

I’m currently fighting it with some friend’s family members that aren’t complete lost causes yet, but it seems to take a disproportionate amount of effort to disarm the programming, and then they just go back and their algorithms which are happy to spoon feed them more view confirming nonsense to regurgitate.

That’s not correct though. Just like most people don’t want a car that’ll spontaneously combust, they also don’t want a car that will be likely to be vandalised. I’m not saying it’s justified, but continued vandalism does lower the utility value of the vehicle and dissuades future purchases of would be buyers.

Shocking. You shitcan the infosec practices and human resources you’ve built up for decades, and then wonder why your new seive doesn’t make a good bucket.

We’ve got some absolute geniuses running things here.

I kinda thought that’s what they were getting at, that there are other brands that deserved scorn just as badly, and we generally don’t take out our frustrations on the owners.

people need to take a step back and look at who they are hurting with this and how realistic it is to expect people to just get rid of their car.

I think after reading @[email protected] 's perspective, I’m certainly a bit more sympathetic. I guess I had a picture in my head about the economic status of the typical Tesla owner that they could probably afford to absorb the loss if they could afford the thing in the first place. I forgot we live in a world where you can finance everything, even your take-out, and that even luxury car owners might be living paycheque to paycheque.

That, and that there are probably quite a few people who got one for environmental reasons who don’t deserve to be hurt for what was most likely an innocent mistake.

Here’s the thing, if you own a Tesla, it’s already been depreciated through elon’s actions. You just haven’t realised (in the accounting sense) the loss yet.

The fact is that they are being targeted, so selling now is a method of hedging your losses. The other option is to gamble that you won’t be targeted.

I’m just about to make some scrambled tofu. It hits similar macros, flavour and texture to scrambled eggs:

• 1-2 tbsp cooking oil
• One onion, sliced
• Generous pinch of black salt (kalak nama) or just whatever cooking salt you use
• 2-3 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 lb medium-firm tofu
• 0.5 tsp tumeric
• 1 tsp ground cumin
• 1 tsp Italian spice, or thyme, or both
• 0.5 tsp chipotle powder, or other spicy capsicum powder
• 1-2 tsp nutritional yeast (optional)
• 1 tsp soy sauce
• 1 scallion to garnish

1. Cook the onion for a few minutes in the a skillet or large pan, then add the garlic and cook until starting to brown.
2. Crumble in the tofu, add the spices and cook on medium for ~10 mins, scraping off the pan bottom and flipping occasionally.
3. Deglaze with soy sauce and/or water. Serve (on toast) topped with scallions.

Notes:

• Most Western people probably don’t have kalak nama, but it really gives a nice sulphurous eggy flavour. Worth getting some if you like that and intended to make this regularly. It’ll also keep forever.
• if you prep the scallion before you start cooking, toss the whites in with the garlic, and save the green for garnish. I don’t because it saves time to prep the scallion during step 2
• you can go with a less firm or more firm tofu depending on how you like your scramble

I’m kinda conflicted about this. On the one hand, selling a car takes time and energy, and might not necessarily be feasible to do in just a few months, especially since the market for em is going to SUCK. On the other hand, if you continue to drive a car from a company owned by a literal Nazi once you know, then… well I don’t feel too bad for you.

As curious as I was about my own ancestry, this is exactly why I never did it myself. Not that it matters, though. If any of your close relatives do it they’ll have a near match for you as well.

The report, which crunched the numbers for all 50 states, is based on Pew Research’s definition of middle class: two-thirds to double the median household income.

This kinda strikes me as a bit of a disingenuous definition. Being middle class always struck me as having a moderate amount of disposable income after all regular life expenses.

If you’re living in an expensive part of your state, you could well be above that 66% of median state income mark, but still be quite impoverished.