Uhhh... are you suggesting someone put nine thousand of their hard-earned bucks in the hands of a QAnonite? I mean, poor Pulsar, I get that, but no one should be funnelling money their way.

Well, it appears that Facebook is now acting the same as Twitter, which is fine, I got used to having to click the avatar every time I open a new kinja link. Google, for some reason, no longer loops back to the login window and just returns an error message ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The photo is so good, I noticed the obvious mistake and didn’t even care.

This right here. Twitter affected news reporting in a subtle but very serious way, in that it turned trending subjects into “the” news, which gave lots of unimportant subjects a disproportionate amount of coverage. I think we’re still underestimating how much Trump’s success in the 2016 election was due to the…

Holy shit, that Elliott Gould/Grover magazine cover is amazing.

I never once logged out intentionally. I got logged out a few times over the years and then like a year ago I found myself permanently locked out for a while when Facebook login stopped working for me. When it came back on Chrome only, I went and added Google and Twitter login, and for a while Twitter login worked…

I don’t know if anyone else experiences this, but kinja login has been broken for over a year for me, and the only option that works - sort of - is the Twitter login. Granted, I get logged out as soon as I leave the page I was in, but I can actually click the empty avatar in the page that just loaded and my account…

This is a very important point no one seems interested in discussing: this recession is 100% being manufactured - on the back of a pandemic and with the extra help from the invasion of Ukraine, sure, but manufactured nonetheless. Energy prices aren’t going up to make up for losses or disruption in operations, they’re…

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 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…

I try not to kink-shame, I seriously do. However,