It's just high, high volume. You swing at every pitch and you're statistically bound to eventually hit some home runs. The CIA is always up to some shit.
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I've really been waiting for gas stations to jump in on this. Tying it to vehicle manufacturers just doesn't make that much sense to me, not nearly as much sense as using the companies whose mission is already to deliver energy to vehicles. You need a tiny fraction of the infra for electric charging that you need to supply gas. Shell or Chevron could EASILY ink deals with, say, Starbucks, to put one or two chargers in every Starbucks parking lot in the country and just sit back and laugh as the money rolls in. And yet, they just keep pushing for exclusively fossil fuels.
AFAICT, the charger network is a huge part of Tesla's value proposition. Laying off the entire 500 person team like this is going to be a massive, massive disruption no matter what anyone says, you can't just patch it with [checks notes] an entirely different team. It's going to take that new team months to get up to date, put out fires, find their bearings, etc. and by that point, issues are already snowballing. The rapport and contacts problem is also going to be enormous; basically shit canning all of the company's industry/logistics ambassadors is what, in any other light, would be called a disaster. This is going to be a clusterfuck, and that's before any competitors interested in starting their own charger network start scooping these newly available specialists up.
It's incredible to see this man still idolized, even by bosses and other execs, as he tanks not just one but two household name businesses AT THE SAME TIME.
When I'm in a worst takes competition and my opponents are Lindsey Graham and Dmitrey Medvedev
That's hella cool. I remember talk as far back as the 90s that dolphins might actually have a meaningful language, but I thought those hypotheses just ran into dead ends.
IMO, this is one of the better arguments for parrots having some of the most human-like intelligence in the animal world outside of primates. Having had both toddlers and parrots, they do exhibit a lot of similarities in behavior patterns, and I could swear my kids have done exactly what this person describes their bird doing.
Israel, the state, tries to conflate the two in order to have an impenetrable shield against all scrutiny.
"Jesus Christ, Israel, why are you playing soccer with dead babies?!"
"Excuse me? What, do you hate Jews or something? What, are you some kind of Nazi?"
Millennial here, too. Phillips screws have been made of fucking cobwebs and wet tissue as far as I remember too.
My dad was a boomer, he insisted that Phillips heads didn't used to strip out this bad and it's just that everyone switched to making shit cheap screws out of shit cheap material. He also lived to see the enshittification of appliances from something you buy once in your life to something you buy every five years (at least, according to the warranty) with a nifty galifty payment plan. Walking into home Depot instantly radicalized him.
A really good point I heard is: this was likely a state actor attack, so how many others just like this are out there, undiscovered?
I've met this bird. It only prioritizes issues as urgent; when interacted with, it'll say "yes, this is part of MVP"
It's a regional dialect, that's what he calls genocide.