The dumbass bought a thing that the strongest and most valuable thing it had to offer was brand recognition and immediately eliminated the branding.

No for sure. But people were treating it like it might be legitimate

I find no reputable sources reporting his death

It would benefit a social cause that is near and dear to his heart: making Mark Zuckerberg extremely wealthy

Bruh the more light we can shed on media literacy in this election year the better…

The settled on term is “alt country”, though a lot of country fans prefer to other modern mainstream radio country as “bro country” since alt country implies that alt country is a departure from traditional country despite being more of a return to classical roots than an intended presentation of departure from the norm. I often tell people if Johnny Cash or Dolly Parton were starting their careers today they’d definitively be put in the alt country bucket.

Which also gets me to an important point I wish more people would take into consideration: genre is a constructed element of music, largely stemming less from artistic movements and more from radio formats. The modern day music landscape has much less to do with artistic expression and much more to do with what advertisers thinks will sell tires, cheap beer, and fast food combo meals. Even deconstructed genres like hyperpop stem from the record industries need to assign everything to a specific radio format and artists wanting to put a spotlight on the commercialization of one of humanities oldest endeavors (song / dance).

Underemployment

I conceptually like them but I honestly find maintaining them too much work… If you can remember the frequent boilings they need, they make excellent coffee

100%, and I see SO MANY pissy high brow leftists working against their own best interests here on Lemmy. We need to show democrats that we have the voting power to stop the parade of neo liberals in big elections when the average democrat voter is social liberal (and the non-participant would be voters and third party voters are even more socially oriented than that)

Too many Democrats still think their copilot is a rational actor and not a coked out gorilla. Reaching across the aisle hasn’t been an option for at least a decade but the democrats want to just act like the coked out gorilla holding the other yoke is willing to go back to a pre-Reagan era of collaborative legislation. We need to vote the republican party out of relevance, and then vote the apologist democrats out if relevance to so we can get some actual election reform

They always seem to forget freedom of association is included in the first amendment, and that includes the right to tell Someone you don’t like them and don’t want to be around them

Nooo. This is a very narrow perspective on country. The original county artists were all on the margins and most of them fucking hated the jingoistic notions of America being great because being poor or black in America in the late 40s wasn’t a good time

Country is a complex and varied genre. For every garbage ass Kenny Chesney out there, there’s a Sam Gleeves, Dori Freeman, Shovels and Rope, or Dead South doing something interesting.

1. Its the top thing on the scale
2. Have you paid attention to who Donald Trump is and what he’s about? The aid to Isreal will increase, not decrease, under Trump. That’s why it’s ALSO on the scale for him

I’m specifically talking about the us. Its the only EV market I really track because it’s the only one I’d be buying in.

Want a Tesla 3? The Ford Mach-E is cheaper and has longer range, as is also the case for the KIA EV6 and Hyundai IONIQ 5 (all with better fit and finish than the Tesla).

Interested in the Tesla Model Y? The Cadillac LYRIC gets a little less range, but its very comparable.

The only one that actually is strong in its price category is the Model S and there I’d say the Mercedes Benz EQS SUV isn’t so far behind that I think you’d suffer from deep uncontrollable buyers remorse (not to mention quality control on a Merc is gonna be almost unmatched by ANY auto manufacturer)

The model x, while cheaper than the Lucid Motors Air, is no longer the all out range king. Its also MORE expensive per mile of range so I’d call it a wash. Again. All I’m saying is other vehicles offed better value propositions than Tesla, not that every Tesla offering is a bad car. If you want an EV these days it doesn’t need to be a Tesla unless you really want it to be a Tesla.

Finally. The cyber truck. What can I say about the cybertruck? A lot it turns out! Fuck that vehicle. What fucking coked out moron designed that thing and what do they think trucks are for? Rivian and Ford both already have vehicles out that beat Tesla to be first to market and both have actual beds designed for actual truck stuff. The cyber truck is just a rich person toy for people who want to have a truck because trucks make them feel big and powerful but have never looked into what a truck is

Search any of the following along with “Elon Musk”:

1. Transphobia
2. Abusive workplace
3. Scam
4. Libel/Slander
5. Alt right
6. Apharteid profiteer
7. Market manipulation
8. Replacement conspiracy
9. Broken contract

Not offensive. Just saying why it was presented this way. it’s pretty typical stuff. The argument can be made that amonymizing reporters only benefits capital holders. My current stance is undecided. Pragmatically, I think as long as we’re stuck with capitalism its better to present things like this but that doesn’t mean I feel great about it or like it

Journalists are never the story. The profession is completely designed around that their job is to present the story and when other people write about how the story was presented in that they need to mention the journalist, they’ll mention them by their news org, such as here where she is referred to as a PBS NewsHour presenter. Its not a slight, its just the best way we’ve found to reduce the number of Brian Williams and Matt Lauers we have in the world

Mate what? They’re saying They’re gonna get an EV since their current one is degrading. Just because someone isn’t getting Tesla doesn’t mean They’re getting an ICE. The fact is that there are other EVs now that offer better value propositions without all the baggage that comes with Tesla

Everyone’s up in arms because it doesn’t change the meaning at all. The point is its fucking impossible