Thing is, people leave and decide after a day or two they’re comfortable hanging out with Nazis, so they go back to the Nazi bar.

I genuinely think worse—far worse—of anybody with a Xhitter account, to the point of presuming that they can’t be trusted with anybody non-male and non-white. There are consequences, in the end, to supporting fascism, no matter what excuses people contrive.

The links left me more confused, not less.

Huh. TIL that Proudhon was a Marxist.

/s ← In case it wasn’t abundantly clear.

Don’t confuse anarcho-capitalism with anarchism. The former are disguised fascists. The latter are not.

Obligatory Link: Property Is Theft

This is something that can be addressed with owners, but what about passengers? Should they be carrying one around?

How 'bout Tesla just makes fucking mechanical door handles again?

You should not have to watch a video or read a manual to open a freaking car door.

👆 That right there.

The fuck are people supposed to do who don’t even own the car?

👆👆 And that even more so.

We have literally centuries of knowledge of human-machine interaction. We know what works and what doesn’t. We know the importance of getting this right from watching what would be a literal lake of blood if put into one location before us. And one of those things that works is making sure the emergency tools are very obvious and in our faces. The rear door instructions for the Model Y alone are a horror show for anybody who has ever been in a crisis before. And then on top of that not all Model Ys have such a latch anyway.

Everything about Tesla’s doors are horrific.

1. Not all Teslas have mechanical latches on all doors. Specifically some Model Ys don’t have them on the rear doors, apparently. (This is addressed in the article.) ¹

2. The mechanical latches have often been panned on the safety front because they’re inobviously located and operated. Point 4 addresses this further, but look at the instructions for the rear door in the Model Y in particular.¹ This is complex and confusing without panic and adrenaline. (This too was addressed in the article.)

3. Not everybody knows about the mechanical latches. While one could argue that the driver should know their vehicle, what makes you think the passengers are going to know this, especially given the poor placement of the latches. Especially given just how convoluted the rear door releases are. (This was also addressed in the article.)

4. When people are in mortal danger, figuring out complicated things, or remembering obscure things like where the manual release latches are, is not going to happen. If the control to open the door isn’t open, obvious, and in your face, you will not remember it unless you’ve been specifically trained to have this in your immediate-recall memory. That’s why pilots of aircraft spend so much time drilling the same thing over and over again. Or people in militaries. Or people in emergency services like fire departments. (This was addressed in the article as well.)

¹ From https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/modely/en_us/GUID-AAD769C7-88A3-4695-987E-0E00025F64E0.html “Not all Model Y vehicles are equipped with a manual release for the rear doors.”

Technically speaking you’d have to say they did war crimes by modern standards.

A lot of what you describe wasn’t actually criminal at the time, see. It was called “war”.

Doesn’t make it any less horrific, mind.

I think it’s more like TEH BLOKKCHAYNE. It has no viable use cases so grifters are throwing it against the wall in the hope that somewhere, someone will pick it up and give them the money they need to escape the inevitable collapse that is coming.

I hate you so much right now.

“Set” to flee.

The best time to leave X for being a Nazi bar was at least a year ago.

The second best time to leave X for being a Nazi bar is right now.

And they’re “set”. Implying future.

So … you’re comfortable with fascists in your bar?

Congrats! You’ve got a fascist bar!

I mean, you do you and all that shit, but you’ll find that over time all you’re going to get is fascists as normal people bail out on you.

Ah, yes. Pandering. A sign of true quality in a human being.

An old saying that Dads are likely to have heard is “an elephant never forgets”. So “I have the memory of an elephant” is saying “I never forget.”

Unless you’re making a Dad joke.

In which case it means “I remember seeing an elephant once”.

It’s the usual business mindset.

Businesses never have the budget to, say, maintain their fleet of cars properly. But they have ten times the money to replace cars that broke down.

Yep.

Better greenwashing: actually do green things.

Even if AI turns out to be a hype cycle, getting a lot of clean energy could make it worth the hassle.

It won’t.

Want to get to clean energy? Get a government with the guts to tell oil companies and car companies to get fucked.

And while they’re at it they can tell the purveyors of Grand Theft Autocorrect to get fucked as well.

Perplexity is a front-end to several Grand Theft Autocorrect engines and it primes itself with searches as well, it seems, to the point of linking what it says to search results, but it seems also to have VERY narrow blinders in its processing so that you can ask for something that is flatly impossible and it will not notice it.

I asked for a holiday in Jasper. And it seems to have laser-focused on just that without any general information on Jasper so it missed information it potentially had at hand to build me a (decent, even!) suggested holiday. And the evidence that it has the information potentially at hand is just mentioning the Jasper fire suddenly changes its tune correctly.

What. A. Surprise.

Algorithms fed by content primarily created by western white men tend to produce content that reflects the biases of western white men.

No, let’s go a step farther because it doesn’t have a lot of content from, say, impoverished white men. So western white men of the middle class on up.

No, let’s go a step farther because much of that content actually comes from techies or wannabe techies. So western white men of the middle class on up with a leaning toward interests in technology.

So the technology that advises people to use glue to keep toppings on pizza should be used to pick targets in warfare?

This cannot possibly go wrong. Ever.