We need a new rule for Lifehacker and its ilk: If a writer recommends a bad/fraudulent/scam service, they’re responsible for refunding any and all money their readers spent because of their recommendation.

The whole premise here is flawed, given that the best case scenario for news outlets in the US is that they’re owned by narcissistic billionaires, who see themselves as modern Rockefellers.

The ones owned by hedge funds are far, far worse. And since they balance the books by further layoffs and cutting into the actual…

We’ll soon be witnesses of another digital divide: Those reading real news and the rest in the blissful sleep of confirmation bias tended to by rogue AIs.

That’s kind of my point. We do have these strict standards for other forms of research and testing. It’s not like they don’t exist anywhere in the system. Why not enforce them or adapt them for research like “FSD”?

Consent of the public has never been needed in vehicle testing on public roads (it’s not even required for fully autonomous vehicles). I have seen plenty of prototype vehicles (both of regular and autonomous) and they certainly never asked the neighborhood nor informed them.

Maybe none of them should be allowed to do this kind of thing. Oh, and if another company was caught doing this it would also be considered newsworthy.

Not just beta testing on their customers - on the public at large!

They are definitely going to lose their blue check for this one.  

Good “both sides” bullshit.

Kudos to Handelsblatt for having the courage to print this story given Tesla’s “hardcore” legal team.

Tesla notoriously covers legitimate warranty claims only if the customer signs an NDA not to divulge the cars defects, as a goodwill repair. They also cook their books using this method. They were bound to get caught with their fraudulent business practices.

Anyone can request security video. Seems a bunch of entertainment attorneys would have more to do than weigh in on something that happened 3,000 miles away and doesn’t involve them.

The modern world is full of scenarios where it is perfectly OK to hate on both sides of a dispute.  For example, if it weren’t so serious I’d be getting my dumpster sized popcorn bucket ready for Trump v De Santis.

Why does every other celebrity who has legal accusations against them, especially violent ones, get called out on this site, while Ezra Miller gets the “football player” treatment, with vague statements of “legal actions”? Ezra Miller was accused of strangling a woman, assaulting bar customers, harassing a 12 year old…

With that hair. 

In this case it’s because they obviously want people to look everywhere except at Miller. I’m half surprised they didn’t change the name to Batman 3 And the Flash.

Saw a rumor that there would be a Christopher Reeve cameo. Someone asked why they would drag him into this, and a reply said, ‘It’s not like he would walk in by himself, would he?’

That ending was more of a “fuck you” to the network than anything. Hell, the whole last season was an extended raised middle finger to NBC for cancelling the series.

How, how, HOW could you compile a list of worst TV series finales and not include the last episode of the hospital drama St. Elsewhere, in which the entire show is revealed to be the fantasy of an autistic boy staring at a snow globe?   Jen Lennon must be too young to remember a show that ended in 1988, but her senior…