It was a luxury brand, in the sense that owning one was a status symbol. Bleeding edge tech is expected to have some issues, even (or especially) when it’s expensive. Reliability was never the selling point, showing it off was. The problem is EVs have become mundane, so Tesla needs to compete on things like build…

When it comes to policy, there isn’t much difference between fiscal conservatives and MAGA fascists. They both believe the quiet part, MAGA just says it out loud.

Did build quality decline, or are people less tolerant of it now that Tesla is no longer a startup / no longer cool because of Elon trashing the brand?

Tesla doesn’t sell good cars. They sell cool cars that are status symbols. Elon killed the cool factor when he went full fascist. Now that the cars are no longer cool, they’re just overpriced cars with bad build quality.

Conservativism is a morally bankrupt ideology. Whatever you think about Musk’s politics applies equally to yourself.

It doesn’t. That’s why Tesla lags way behind their competition in the field of self-driving cars, because they’re all using lidar.

Waymo has been operating at level 4 for years, and the jump from 3 to 4 is much more important than the jump from 4 to 5. At 3, the human is always responsible for the car, and must be ready at any time to take over driving. Level 4 is the first level where the computer is responsible for the entire operation of the…

Really? This is the natural end state of the economic system he advocated for.

That was NYPD. They were butthurt that people were protesting against police brutality. Not only did the city continue just fine without them, crime went down.

Three more words: defective by design.

In other words, they made poor decisions when designing the truck, and now it doesn’t function well in real world situations like washing it.

If you fire all of the bad cops, then there won’t be any left.

I don’t have one of these low poly rust buckets, and I’m not sure how you got confused about that.

That was a joke for 80s kids.

I interpreted “don’t wash it in the sun” similar to “don’t feed it after midnight”: it doesn’t make any sense, but failure to obey the rules will turn it into a Gremlin.

You sound like someone who has never been to a free state.

Without the taxpayers you’d also be paying double digits per gallon for gas, so if you want to make an equal comparison, you need to drop ALL subsidies.

Not only that, but it’s been 10 cents per brick for 30 or 40 years. Adjusted for inflation, legos have never been cheaper.

I was referring to the two Tactics Ogre remakes: 2010 for PSP, and 2022 multiplatform. As far as I know the last new game in the series was on GBA.

Not online media. All media has always been this stupid.