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Cake day: June 8th, 2023

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  • Nowadays? Yeah y’all missed the bus. The time to do something about this was several years ago, when Tesla’s atrocious build quality was becoming publicly apparent and Musk was inserting himself into every news story in the worst ways possible.

    “Pedo guy” comment in 2018 was the first major wake up call to most people who weren’t paying attention.

    Acquisition of Twitter in 2022, and the major fuckery involved with that, should have rung the bell for anyone left behind.

    At either of those times you still could have sold a Tesla to a Maga chud and still come out on top. Now you’re just stuck holding a bag. And my concern for said bag holders is relatively minor because people who really can’t afford a car are still driving 20 year old Hondas and Toyotas and Buicks. If you bought a Tesla new (and yes, it was bought new, because a used market did not exist at the time) you have car money. Buy an $8k beater, used, like the rest of us do.






  • My dad used to play some Mortal Kombat with me. Until one time, it was in my early teens, 13 or 14 maybe, I had been playing a lot of it recently and was just whooping his ass. Like 8-0 streak kind of ass beating. So he bet me $20 I couldn’t do it blindfolded.

    Well I did, I lost one round but won two to get the match purely off of sound cues and blind luck, and he paid me $20 and then never played a video game with me ever again.





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    10 days ago

    Facebook isn’t there because it now comes pre-installed on nearly every phone in existence, and is often baked so hard into the core OS that it’s impossible to remove without flashing a custom ROM. If you’re lucky you might be able to disable Meta slop without bricking core functions of the phone. Removal is usually impossible.



  • I have a Galaxy Z Fold 2 and it’s my favorite phone I’ve ever owned by a mile. I bought it secondhand (refurbished) in 2022, two years after it came out, and have been using it for three years myself.

    There’s sort of a crease down the center of the folding screen that you can see if you’re looking for it specifically, but if you’re looking at the phone head-on like you usually would be and aren’t trying to pay attention to the crease, it fades right out of awareness.

    I bought this phone with the intention of reading books on it, and playing some games that are otherwise more tablet-friendly (Slay The Spire for instance) and it’s by far the best mobile reading and gaming experience I’ve ever had with a phone.

    If I wanted to I could have the screen replaced to remove the crease but it doesn’t bother me enough to pay for that. I’ve folded this phone open and closed probably a minimum of two dozen times per day every single day for the past 3 years and I’ve never had to replace a part yet. When I bought the thing I expected it to be usable for about 1-2 years and then need repair or replacement, but we’re now cooking on the third year of daily use and it still looks as good as it did in year 1.

    This very post was made on that phone and was folded and reopened twice in the process as I did other things.


  • It’s fine if and only if you have these infrastructure and regulations in place. It’s good if and only if the above plus also being a union job.

    The people trying to drive this industry up again are attempting to do so while removing regulations and crippling or killing unions. The factory jobs won’t be “fine” when you’re paid a dollar an hour and have a new 13 year old coworker every week because the previous one got himself killed at work.