Meanwhile, outlets are basically only in mansions owned by the super wealthy. /s

That said, I think something like a truck will benefit from the name of a well regarded truck manufacturer behind it. Companies are a lot more likely to make the jump to EV if it’s promoted by someone they see as stable and trustworthy, and while Musk checks the right boxes for prestige car owners, he's going to be a…

Questionable is steaming BS and you know it. They have a positive impactover ICE, and it’s not even close. Every study not funded by shell or Exon agrees. Sure it could be even better, but that’s not the relivant comparison.

To be, well, perhaps too kind to VW but still... their strategy ostensibly includes setting up in a space no one has really jumped on. Of course, I consider ev announcements to be essentially vaperware until launch, but I can’t help but be a little excited about the EV relaunch of the classic bus, even if I wouldn’t…

That said, I expect their CUV to tank. That market is pretty saturated, unless they can offer a cost lower than or a range higher than anyone else. A lot of people take the model x as the car to beat but then squarely don’t beat it and don’t consider that the x isn’t exactly selling out. If it has 6 or more seats for…

CUV is just the new hatchback, and I mean that quite literally. Sedans are dead because they serve no purpose that isn’t better served by another vehicle, either a smaller compact (which Japan has cornered) or a CUV, which Japan hasn’t quite cornered... or some completely different vehicle.

Now now. Correlation is not causation. I mean this is clearly causation, but in general...

Why pay for services that can be provided for free?

*Yore

Oops, misread. Nothing to see here.

Actually there is an answer. Being far right (and yeah far left too) involves a willingness to accept “truth” without much evidence. That results in more acceptance of truly strange lies to go with the flimsy political lies that they build sort of a faith around. Both sides have a persecution complex, but with…

Captain Marvel would be banned for so many reasons...

You forgot bespoke.

Yup. There is like an Aristotle quote or something about “kids these days”. Whenever someone starts in on “the youth” I figure they either never really learned (or thought about) history or have a pretty poor memory, or figure no one else learned history. Like a lot of accusatory statements it says more about the…

Yeah, of all the “gig” or “sharing” economy products, Air BnB always seemed the most sketchy and ripe for abuse to me. I’m sure there is plenty of very legit use, but it always seemed a little too high risk both to list and to rent.

Right, because standing up to people doing actually wrong things is terrible. We shouldn’t call out con artists, thieves, or vandals whether they work door to door or as international kleptocrats and we certainly shouldn’t expose them to the rule of law.

Probably thing that sits at the maximum of “most likely” and “most worrying” in proportion is something like Amazon or the police using this data to train AI, and having that data end up racist, classist, or whatever (garbage in garbage out).

In Seattle (not on this list, but Amazon HQ, so...) the neighbors app gets a good number of “police action reported at ...” or some variation. Also, probably about 1/3 are actual crime reports, another 1/3 are suspicious activity (actually, like people looking in windows and walking away, going through obviously…

No, because worse than being sued, costomers would stop being customers. That’s much more dangerous to Amazon.

Also a Ring user, in Seattle (where there is a serious petty crime problem). Honestly, if you don’t want to be surveiled by your Ring, just disconnect it from your wifi. But also, we all have Ring cameras precisely to discourage or prevent crime, and whether we are all in on carte blanche access to police access to…