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The Jackal would be jealous, his minivan didn't look nearly that hot.

Especially when those closed-minded anus-licking morons don't realize that pretty much any change is opportunity for profit, they just have to follow the market shift and become leaders in the appropriate industries of the future.

Not trying to sound "yay capitalism 4eva" but seriously, the whole beauty of (properly regulated) capitalism is, "holy shit a new thing, lets go make billions!" Instead, they bury their heads, and everyone else's, in the sand, and miss out on opportunity while they kill everyone.

But hey, change is scary to their tiny brains and they can't comprehend, so oh well...

Surprised they are only now complaining that it resembles warehouse work, they were shitty to work for as a software engineer before "AI". Can't imagine what hellscape they are now.

There are definitely beneficial tax/benefit implications to failing businesses in certain situations. (Similar to how if you suck at stocks, you get perks.) Not out of the realm of possibilities. Given that his early life had successes, it could very well be that he learned failure is more profitable. Given the silver spoon in his mouth, less possible he learned, rather than existed and bumbled into it. Either way, not someone to put a lot of stock in. When you're bootstrapped with a certain amount of money, as long as your accountants keep you from being an abject fool, you'll never be poor a day in your life. Like, if most Americans had somewhere around $5 million invested conservatively, (don't trust this number, random deep memory grab that may be in error, and based on current money in the last decade) they could live on the dividends (money generated) while never touching the nest egg, and live a normal comfortable life without working for the rest of their lives.

Failing a business is only profitable because of abuse of laws. Laws can be changed, and should be. Success should always be the goal.

There's legitimately an entire genre of CEO that exists in the USA just to go into a company and purposely destroy it, and collect a golden parachute exit payout, for example. Shouldn't ever exist.

Is it funny or sad that I know all this, yet I work my ass off to survive?

Far from safe and riddled with defects. The cheap door handle design alone to skimp on the cost of a few latches making them death traps, coupled with the laminate glass on every window so you can't break out is ludicrous. Skipping out on lidar or radar to rely solely on optical safety sensors is babytown frolics, when proven multi-sensor designs that can actually see better than humans already exist.

They also don't locate the brake lines in proper locations, causing them to prematurely rust out and break, but who cares about being able to stop, right?

It is hilarious watching the glitchy car UI constantly misidentify objects as it drives by them, though.

Who cares about a phone app? They are supposed to be a thing you drive.

Cars designed via broken software design principles is the dumbest thing ever.

Hope you are able to get something safer once you realize how terrible they are, before it hurts or kills you.

Also, don't acknowledge the organization as real. They were created in 2003 when the Federal government decided to take away all our rights, tap all our communications illegally, all to save us from dangerous shoes, and 5 ounces of shampoo at airport scanners.

ICE was borne of evil, and is evil. They all deserve a complicated life and zero respect, at a minimum.

(Fun fact: TSA was created in 2001 for similar reasons.)

On the other hand, since the Federal government is no longer adhering to the rule of law, nobody should care to.

Respect one's state and local laws, if they are fair, and one feels like it. Otherwise? Fuck it all.

On the front end, you can put lipstick on that pig.

On the back end, it has to work and there's nowhere to apply lipstick.

OTOH, it seems there is a trend in modern dev practices that it's acceptable for a service to terminate frequently, as long as it respawns, which finally made me figure out all the sci-fi tropes where a ship's systems aren't responding. It's because too many are crashing in concert. But mostly terrifying that this practice would ever be considered practical.

Check out OpenHAB. They already have containers available right on their downloads page.

It's so easy to parse what they say if you use 1984 rules. Reverse everything.

"Democrats are cheating the vote!" => "We are"

"Democrats are trafficking children and drinking their blood!" => "We are"

"Democrats are letting gangs into the country!" => "We are"

As a consumer, I'm almost glad. China was abusing that loophole to firehose so much half-assed garbage into the country. There were entire business models around people buying items from China and then reselling them on Amazon at 4x+ markup.

Reality is, once the grifters refocus, the same half-assed garbage will keep coming, it'll just come in bulk, cost more, and still be junk, and still be cheaper than if it were to be manufactured in the USA.

Parsing commas is hard, right? No, not really.

• young
• poor
• women