Even a solid portion of Cybertruck owners hate him now. They blew like $100,000 and got nothing but recalls and teen girls laughing at them at every third stoplight. There’s some sort of forum they all post in and I’ve seen dozens of schadenfreude screenshots of them complaining.

Full disclosure: I have a Tesla battery on my house. I didn’t choose it; the solar install company did. The the brand wasn’t even toxic yet but I covered up the logo with WWOZ (our local, non-profit radio station) stickers. I’m not paying to be some company’s billboard.

They have not felt the effects of the tariffs. None of us have, really. The supply chain shock hasn’t even started in earnest yet. Container ship traffic to west coast ports was up until recently as companies rushed to get stocked up but now, all the ones from China are being rerouted to other markets.

Even if Trump made a trade deal with China tomorrow, there’s going to be shortages of a lot of a lot of things later this year. That would just be like COVID. Container ships take time to cross the Pacific Ocean. And even if companies wanted to onshore production, that takes time. Building a factory takes years; even retrofitting an existing one takes time.

Just today, I read that Subaru is going to produce fewer cars in the U.S. and more in Japan to avoid raising prices in Canada and elsewhere. There’s just going to be layoffs and production moving overseas.

Paying the Apple tax is a known part of the deal. It’s not always worth it for an individual but it is nice having an Apple Store in every major city (at least in the U.S.). I got my mom a MacBook because she lives 45 minutes away and I was sick of being her tech support for an operating system I don’t use regularly.

I got my stepdad a Chromebook last year when he asked me to fix his laptop. I said sure and then it was this giant 32 bit antique running Windows Vista. I was just like, “I would rather buy a Chromebook than connect this thing to my WiFi network.”

I use all the operating systems, by the way. I have Arch on my Steam Deck, I guess. More of a Fedora man myself but to each their own. I ain’t judging.

Only to rearm and write down their heroic tales. They’ll be back.

That seems stupid and I don’t even mean in a public policy way. It’s stupid in that way too but I mean individuals, companies, and maybe even a few governments are willing to take a bullet for Wikipedia. There’s people who wear cloaks and call other people “Mere Mortal” who are passionate about Wikipedia.

Magenta. Get on my level.

I forgot about Dre but I was fairly comprehensive.

In fairness, I poisoned one food item in every music executive’s house as punishment for them being thieves.

I built a really cool stool once. Both kinds, actually.

You’ve clearly never been treated to a polygraph by me. It’s a sensual polygraph experience and baby girl, you’ll be telling me everything like the orca I tend to at the San Antonio SeaWorld.

I got lectured about not using the sarcasm tag the other day. So, /completely serious

/s

Can you catch grapes in your mouth? We need more details on the rules.

I stopped eating them when I caused COVID so this is excellent news.

How do you coax rabbits to breed more? Put 2 in a stadium with lots of food and you’ll have 2^16 in a few months.

I admit I didn’t watch the video — I’ve trained YouTube’s algorithm well at this point and don’t want Tesla content — but what the fuck is a predictive odometer? The tires roll a certain distance. We’ve had odometers for like 75 years.

That “journalism works” is a bold statement while Jeff Bezos is dismantling the Washington Post and the New York Times has become a word game and recipe site that does reporting on the side.

I’m glad I’m too old to use Slack but for video games. I’d rather eat a bowl of hair than have more notifications.

If I were a judge, him using “I’m not trying to be…” would be all the evidence I’d need to prove he’s an American citizen. They must think I’m Boo Boo the Fool if they deport that man.

How hard did he slam them?

It’s probably not the undergrad curriculum so much as the professors they hire. But the Antonin Scalia School of Law is one sign.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2023/05/01/how-george-masons-law-school-became-conservative-center

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/30/us/supreme-court-scalia-law-school.html

The Mercutus Center

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercatus_Center

Some “professors” who are being paid despite not actually teaching there:

George Mason has been a right wing school for awhile. They started with economics and found it to be a way to compete with DC schools (that are normal academic institutions) and UVA (one of the best schools in the world) and now it’s just a marketing thing.

Not saying anyone should shut it down. The quote “science advances one funeral at a time” is not always wrong. But usually, it advances by the hard, seemingly uninteresting work of hundreds of people.