What generation?

Those things aren’t bad in the woods, it’s in town where it becomes torturous. It’s like the sounds are made specifically to be reverberated by wood housing, amplifying the sounds to 270,000 dbl.

Careful, this doesn’t work when entering/leaving a city. I’ve done it dozens of times in my town because there’s 3 fucking stop lights on the highway, yes highway, on the edge of town going 45-55 over a stretch of about 3/4 of a mile. There’s more as you get further in town and the highway just becomes a regular road for a couple miles but by then you’re in traffic and not as easily distracted.

~50 years from the start. That’s quite slow. What you’re seeing is the terminus, not the whole picture.

I really shouldve started playing _____. Closes X, boots ____ Dang, I was gonna check something on X…

I’m this way for my scheduled appointments. For the store I’ll just get an idea in my head that I need groceries and I’ll just get up and go to the store wandering around looking at stuff and building meals off of whatever I grab. But then I get to work almost an hour early and just play on my phone for 45 minutes.

Shit, I’ll give you a handjob for a horse. But not these guys.

Kids would work FAR better in deciding right from wrong than these people. They’re actively evil.

There is no wrong answer when it comes to horrifying art.

It’s 2025. We’re doing gunmetal or titanium only.

With that sharp ridge of plastic at the meeting points, called flash, because they didn’t bother to clean it up before moving it down the line.

They remind me of FUUUUUUCK!

That wouldn’t anger anybody. Left or right.

I’d give 20-1 odds that it’s a Chinese-made print on petroleum-based material, and highly unlikely to be canvas. So it would make beautiful art as it burns and drips.

Edit: picture this- this building with this banner at night. The banner in flames at a rightward angle. At the bottom of the banner where it’s burning, the cheaply made plastic based banner melts as fast as it burns. Dripping, black molten plastic stalactites feed tiny black plastic stalagmites below. Freedom and law are seen in burn barrels behind the building.

That’s not worth nearly as much as the intelligence they’ll gain from bugs.

Amplitude modulation?

None of that surprises me. The cyber truck is a flop so it makes sense to “inventory adjust” a week for them. And you can likely expect that trend to continue. Nice of them to give time off for their workers to enjoy the spring weather, right? 😉

The model Y just got a facelift, though. And whenever that happens, there are hiccups. That being said, you would think production would be going full bore for it from generated excitement from the refresh.They could have found a flaw that stopped production while they fix the issue, or it could be that the excitement that they expected isn’t there. Knowing Tesla, it’s likely both.

I’d prefer a khakistocracy.

I’ve done it before. When we were working 64 hour weeks? Fuck yeah I’m taking that time off. It also said they could use PTO. The thing is, everywhere I’ve ever worked, there was never just “one week” of it off. It’s like one week every 4-6 weeks as it’s slowing down. Hell, I’m on one now. It’s basically to avoid layoffs and losing experienced workers.

Also, when you get a week off like that, it’s considered a layoff. So you can apply for unemployment for that time. If you keep calling in and reporting your working hours during the time that you’re back, you don’t have to refile for the next time it happens. Which will happen again in a couple weeks/months. The weird thing to me is that this is being reported on. It happens all the time, it could be for inventory adjustment, or because they’re having problems procuring parts due to tariffs. Or retooling/maintenance.

My point is, this doesn’t mean a whole lot as of yet. If it happens several more times over the coming months, then that means something. Especially since the stock isn’t going down like it was.

Ironic, because the character baraka in the Mortal Kombat universe has bone blades coming out of his forearms.