I, for one, am completely satisfied to witness the slow demise of one of my least favorite brands. 

The self driving cars their stock price is predicated upon are still decades away, and everyone with their stock is a sucker.

The driver was also spotted:

If you look up ”all hat and no cattle” in your handy “Texas Phrasebook for Yankees and Other Furriners”, all you’ll see is a picture of this truck.

Counterpoint - if you’re renting for work, definitely prepay for the tank. I’m already busy with work travel, the last thing I need is to find a gas station when I’m ready to leave.

Hear! Hear!

Counterpoint: I watched this turd a while back expecting it to at least be interesting . Even if you could make yourself suspend all disbelief and just think of it as a dystopian anti capitalist fantasy, it was beyond dumb.

This.

US consumers: haven’t had a meaningful raise in decades.

My urologist name is Seymour Weiner

Hells, yes!

Counterpoint: it’s only “mandatory and weighted” when they grow older because the schools make it that. If I recall the studies I’ve seen correctly (admittedly only abstracts and articles like this), they say that older children benefit from learning how to do longer projects outside of class, but otherwise math…

If you are friends or even worse, dating someone who refuses to acknowledge your thoughts, the only answer is you shouldn’t be friends or dating this person. you don’t have to be friends with everyone, not everyone has to like you. Cut out negativity in your life. Even if it’s family.

As is often the case, a brilliant idea failed by crappy implementation :-(

Came to say this, my first MP3 player was one of these, possibly a different brand. I don’t remember it quitting to soon though. It was one of the first that came out and found it quite nifty at the time.

Run to the hills! Run for your liiiiiife!

My favorite implementation of this idea was the Digisette, a truly execrable piece of early-2000s technology that housed a screenless MP3 player in a cassette body & purported to be controllable by the deck’s controls.

This is an easy one.

Corporations don’t give a shit about you, and you can be certain that if you give a two year verbal commitment, the company will not hesitate to cut you loose after one year if it’s in their benefit to do so.