Two-wheel style car, or motorcycle? Sir, this is clearly a tomato pie.

Thanks for the link. Good read so far.

While we’re throwing out Qanon dissections, Gabriel Gatehouse’s The Coming Storm is a wild listen. I heard about it when he guest interviewed on Jon Stewart’s The Problem. The stuff he said there was so interesting that I checked out the podcast. Gabriel’s moved on from BBC now, but I’m eager for more of his reporting.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0bc3rjy

Edit: Oh and how could I forget: HBO’s Q Into the Storm is the best piece out there on this. They’re there interviewing Qanon while at the height of them kicking shit up.

It’s because it doesn’t make any sense on the surface. Why were people so angry? Why was the jovial jokey part of the internet being so serious and violent? It marked a shift of the internet being srs bzns to serious business.

If you grew up on 4chan and haven’t read It Came From Something Awful, I highly recommend it. It lays out how gamergate was the inflection point. It also makes the case that counter culture is now forever dead. Makes you feel pretty bad about things, actually. It feels pretty correct though.

Also, it’s an incredible anticonsumerism piece. If you ever feel like you can no longer fight the machine, this book tells you that you’re not alone.

That’s great, but I’m talking about people making car buying decisions today.

I’m saying that the prime is not twice the car of the hybrid because it has a wall plug. It’s the huge motors and huge battery. There’s a middle ground.

Two cars and a house? Not for my generation.

The primes are enticing, but not 20k more expensive enticing. The escape PHEV is near perfect (same beautiful transmission as Toyota) but is FWD only. You need to go up to the lincoln corsair grand touring to get AWD and then suddenly it’s 50k. wtf? Why will no one sell a sub 50k AWD PHEV?

Based on what? There has been no plan proposed by anyone to even start doing that. It’s not economical for commercial players to add that level of infrastructure.

Having an EV be an option is very much a privilege of having a secure SFDH.

Rebate scope was heavily reduced in the past month and suddenly there’s stories about EV and PHEV demand being lower? Horse shit. They’re just more expensive now.

They leaned their strategy pretty hard into mining when that was on the table. They for sure chase trends and alienate their base. Any way to juice near term profits and they will. It’s working out for them right now, so surely it will forever.

The converse is that SEO spam has become better at the game than google, despite google’s best efforts. It’s a less comfortable thought because how could a bunch of unorganized distributed actors out compete the one of the world’s richest company at their bread and butter game. The alternative is that one of the world’s richest companies gave up playing their bread and butter game.

>see headline

“Oh cool. What fun and inventive thing is Microsoft doing?”

>reads first line of article

“Oh it’s for AI. Gross.”

The economics aren’t there. A cellular chip and a subscription will not pay for the private conversations of a random house.

That’s 50x smaller than an EV battery. Being able to drive once every two months doesn’t seem practical.

Jeez and I feel like I’m tempting fate just by using a custom domain.

If there were better options then they would have been adopted.

If you’re asking because you don’t know how truly awful and scary AfD is: AfD is truly awful and the prospect of them gaining control is very scary. One of the world’s richest people can make things happen in politics.

If you’re asking because Musk supporting right wing politics is well known: yeah but see above. AfD is scary shit.

Rat Race is 45% and I don’t know why. Audience score is 64%.