Exactly. I find it unfathomable that people actually believe anyone becomes a billionaire without a lot of questionable stuff. There’s also a matter of provenance; if you come from old money that can be traced back to horrifying stuff like slave trade, colonial exploitation and shit like that, what you do is just…

How people ever kept falling for the “business genius” narrative in recent times is beyond my comprehension. It’s been years since the mask slipped and he became very transparent as a dumb asshole born with a silver an emerald spoon in his mouth who spends his days desperately seeking attention on Twitter, and quite…

I kinda feared this whole twitter acquisition deal could go horribly sideways, but it’s turning out kind of unintentionally awesome. Thanks Elon!

Really shows you how being passionate about the content you create is important. I always thought he sucked as a talk shown host, not really funny or good at doing interviews, and ever since he’s been doing a show about what he loves, my opinion of his communication skills changed quite a bit. He’s engaging, he knows…

Well, like I said, some are finally accepting that they have to raise wages and benefits in order to retain a workforce that’ll allow them to stay competitive. Others resist the idea and are still in denial, and latter are basically losing their workforce to the former.

Because many businesses don’t realise their employees have options and insist in underpaying and mistreating them. The vast majority of people who quit jobs do it because they have something else lined up or they know they’ll find one easily (and businesses in desperate need for workers to keep up with demand have…

Hat tip to skeffles for the wonderful choice. A few weeks ago the cheapest Avantime ever popped up in my local used car market. If I had €4500 burning a hole in my pocket I would’ve gone for it. Seemed very clean too, but I’m sure there had to be some kind of problem the seller didn’t mention because that’s almost 1/3…

I mean, you just summed it up incredibly well in a very simple paragraph. At its core this is nothing new; the real difference is that the tools are widely available and the dream seems much more attainable nowadays. In a sense this is a good thing because that allows talented people to become noticed more easily,…

The CEO of formerly state-owned Portuguese oil company Galp came out a couple of weeks ago defending the decision of our “socialist” government to backtrack on a windfall profits tax, explaining that their record profits throughout the first three quarters of 2022 weren’t a windfall, since they were actually below…

Endless and harmless. Literally no bad thing can come from the expectancy of eternal economic growth. And it’s also the only way for money to trickle down to the lower classes.

The whole story is such a shame... But in the end it’s clear that they really did not want this tech out in the wild without their supervision (maybe they figured they could have an upper hand once the ball started rolling for EVs if they managed to keep the tech under wraps?), and weren’t even too sure how it would…

The one I said was in the Peterson is this one, my mistake. It’s in the Smithsonian. A few years ago I read that this one had some drivetrain components removed and couldn’t run under its own power, but Wikipedia says it’s intact, so I don’t know what to make of it (the references in the wiki article certainly don’t…

Nice, I ended up going down the rabbit hole a bit and it appears that GM did save at least a few unmolested ones. Couldn’t find any info on any of them getting to private hands, but there’s a few users mentioning the one you saw is not a replica; not sure if that means that it’s an original, unmolested EV1, or an…

With the original drivetrain? They did save a few bodies that were donated to museums and other institutions, and I think the one in the Petersen actually has part of the drivetrain (don’t quote me on this though), but supposedly no full vehicle was allowed to survive outside of GM’s warehouses. I want to believe they…

There was at least another car sold under the GM brand: the Portuguese-built GM Amigo, which isn’t an exclusive design - they called it the BTV, or Basic Transportation Vehicle, and it was meant as a cheap design to be licensed for production in under-developed countries - but in other places where they made this…

If that’s your “only reality” maybe therapy is the only thing that will help.

Do you realise how obnoxiously stupid you come across, Grey Profile I Shouldn’t Even Be Replying To? The fact that covid preys on people’s health weaknesses is exactly why we should be doing everything to prevent its spread. Like taking the demonstrably safe and effective vaccines available (which sadly can’t be taken…