It’s not surprising given the battery swap tax credit shenanigans they pulled.

> which you can software unlock in the future if you wanted to

You originated the language, came up with the term “soccer”—shortened from association football—then made fun of Americans for having the audacity to use that term, and all the while continue to air Soccer AM and Soccer Saturday programs? Excuse me, programmes.

> Every bite of the all-new MASHUPS combines the delicious apple and cinnamon flavor of Apple Jacks

For most Americans the correct answer is, “How ever much range it takes to not have to change my habits, because god forbid I get inconvenienced by having to learn to do something different.”

Before dinner service, Remy specifically called out that any rats that handled food directly had to walk on two legs. Rewatching the scene, it appeared that only three rats touched any food with their hind legs, specifically the rats grating hunks of cheese by riding them down the grating like a sled. It’s possible…

None of this matters because while the Unicode Consortium is in charge of defining what an emoji means—in words—the actual visual design that you see on day to day basis is left up to the implementers, i.e., Google, Apple, et al.

Because hubris/Dunning-Kruger effect. “We’ve been wildly successful at making computers and portable electronics, and cars these days are just computers on wheels; how hard could it be?”

$7,500-8,500 in 1985 would be equivalent to $18,500-21,000 in today’s money.

I wonder why commercial fleets don’t make use of battery swapping. Even fast charging would take far longer, and is deleterious to battery lifespan.

It’s their order, they haven’t paid for it yet, they don’t have a right to anything unless the kitchen agrees to accept the order.

I don’t give a damn about how you choose to eat your food as it’s going into your digestive tract and not mine, but: While said customer has the right to ask for the product to be prepared as they wish, chefs have the right to refuse to provide said product until such time as “people who want their steaks well-done”…

And the manager didn’t do anything? That’s worth at least a lifetime ban and a call to the cops.

The likely source of the images:

Funny how some folks love them some free market until some company inconveniences them by choosing not to do business with them.

First, you do know that Facial recognition as used by iOS is not a retinal scam

Additionally, they are using a laser to the eye

Every automaker in history who has come out with a splashy press release about its cool new semi-autonomous tech product certainly has.

It was also alleged that Tesla’s swap station was a scheme to take advantage of tax credits offered for the number of vehicles theoretically capable of battery swapping, without regard to actual swap capability. When the regulation was fixed, so did any desire to keep the lone swap station running.

People buy bigger cars out of concern of other people buying bigger cars. Congratulations on perpetuating the cycle.