It’s pretty well known that Kotaku’s been imploding due to corporate pressure and more than a few ex writers have gone public about exactly this. This is just the first time someone’s been so up-front about it on the site itself.

Surprise. Per his resume available on line, he already retired. This is his post-retirement gig.

au contraire..hes probably making 6 figures. A lot of cops make a fuck ton of money. They are not “working class” at all. 

I will totally give up my ride to feed my addiction. My addiction to sucking oxygen, I got hooked on breathing at an early age and I am not ready to give it up for anything. Certainly not for a lump of metal, no matter how savage the car market is right now.

Good advice and bad advice pay the same when your business model doesn’t require return customers. 

With many fleets aiming for 2030/2035 as 100% EV, and some states and many foreign countries outright banning new ICE vehicles after those dates, it’s asinine that USPS even considered that a vehicle with a 20 year life (aka at least a decade after the bans) to be ICE.

It is insane that we think $3 billion over 20 years for a service as essential the Postal System is somehow a lot of spending.

While the USPS will no doubt get shit on for the extra cost of going electric, creating a large fleet of electric vehicles like this would actually drive a more wholesale community infrastructure updates making adoption of electric vehicles faster and easier for the public in years to come.

... and if you’re in a line of 36 pay-it-forwards, nobody except the last guy is getting anything for free. You’re just paying for a different order than your own. That’s not charity. But then I don’t understand the whole Starbucks culture. Sure, I’ll drink their mocha once in awhile, but no over-roasted, overpriced an…

Whenever we talk about these co-morbidities, could we also point out that the majority of Americans have these co-morbidities? The majority of US Adults are overweight (which is a co-morbidity for COVID), 48% have some form of cardiovascular disease, 10% have diabetes, 15% have lung issues, etc.

Thank god they didn’t know my friend Brandon was in the car.

Sure, everyone seems to choose the same vendors but there’s nothing preventing Joe from spinning up an instance of nginx or apache and hosting their own. Or hosting on azure, or hosting on a VPS not hosted with any of the cloud providers.

Web3 is supposed to be a decentralized version of the internet...

I think the best thing to blame is the social media system that continues to allow this kind of stuff. Its almost like they don’t care to moderate anything due to profits or something. And their best customers are their most active trolls. 

Elon Musk, who also owns Tesla. Do you also whine when they talk about airplanes, boats, etc?

Name checks out.

These are, uhh, all things that effect peoples’ ability to purchase, maintain, and otherwise drive their automobiles. These topics fall well within the sphere of automotive journalism, especially on an automotive site that publishes like a modern 24-hour news service.

The dispatcher is in fact acting as a agent for Amazon, so the story and headline are completely valid.

There was a similar case several years ago. A truck driver was holed up in his truck on waiting out road conditions. It dropped to -14 and falling with no way to keep his cab warm. He decided to book it to somewhere warm and come back in the morning. The trucking company fired him.