If the energy star rating is not there, manufacturers have no incentive to try to qualify. Likely it is cheaper to cut corners that make appliances less efficient. So, they’ll do that and consumers won’t have a way to easily know that they did. We may see the 1985-tier fridge energy use again.

If you gave me a Model Y for free, I’d take it to the junkyard and have it crushed, just to make sure no one drives that shit.

As much as it’s fun to say fuck you I told you so, you catch more flies with honey. We need to make it easy to leave the cult and not make people double down just because they feel ashamed or feel like they have to defend something. The goal, while enticing, is not to rub people’s nose in the shit they admittedly helped create. The goal should be to get rid of this motherfucker and reverse everything he’s done.

I think I bought a few things off Chewy, but good to know never again. I can also feel great about not shopping at GameStop.

The problem is actually old “liberal” hippies who refused to allow development of new housing for decades. NIMBYs as they’re called. I’d say the hippies are mostly gone, but the refusal to build housing remains. Go to any other major city in the country and there are usually cranes everywhere. Not in California. Tech bros did bid up the limited housing supply for awhile, but now that prices are easily $3-5 million, they’re even getting priced out unless they were a founder that got an exit or just lucked into joining a company at the right time – NVidia for instance.

NATO would have to defend Greenland.

I think that was his strategy too, but he went way overboard – full nazi even. I think he also took too many drugs and lost control.

I suspect Americans may forget, but maybe not Europeans given that him and Trump insulted their national pride. Same with Canadians.

I do hope Americans never forgive and never forget on this one.

What baffles is how completely overbought the stock is and how it refuses to collapse. There must be some big whales propping him up.

Meh, Steam Deck library is enormous and has most of the games I want to play. Switch will have maybe 1-3 games I would actually play at this stage, mostly being Zelda. But, the rest will be available on Steam Deck. As much as I like Nintendo, their formula of releasing a new console and then releasing a new refresh title to each one of their IPs is a little stale. Mario Kart is Mario Kart. I guess the point is they hook a new generation of kids with each console release, but if you’ve been around too long, the shine wears off. So, I’m left needing to decide whether I want to buy a console to play just a few games. The answer is increasingly no or, at best, maybe in a few years when I can pick it up cheap. I feel the same way about PS5. There isn’t a single title on there that I want and can’t play on PC. GTA 6 will be the only maybe. I might be too impatient to wait til the PC release.

Hey, maybe the world needs some people that lay low until they can have the most impact. I don’t agree with the guy on most things, but I respect that he did the right thing here when he was under a ton of pressure to the opposite.

Its basically impossible to avoid too. Anything you buy comes packaged in plastic for the most part.

This

Learn from history and America. No half measures. If you’re going to label them extremists, you also have to break them.

I was going to buy a Tesla in 2021, the only reason I didn’t was I needed a car immediately and they had a several month waiting list. If it had been available, I would’ve taken it. Even test drove one. Now, I will never buy a Tesla. I would rather have a Rivian anyway.

It’s $1.5M near me

The left needs to deal with red states more aggressively

WW3 heating up

Elissa, stop running your mouth and do it yourself if you have a better idea.

Were the charges dropped or she is out on bail?

1 day. Got hired as a host for a restaurant. Did one training shift and then got violently ill. I called out the next day. It was also around the holidays and I was planning to go home to visit family. I told them I wouldn’t be available for a week or so. They never scheduled me again and didn’t pay me for the training shift. They also never even shared a salary with me until I called and demanded that they tell me the pay. Ultimately, dodged a bullet. I was looking for a real job with a salary and this was just going to hold me over. Ended up landing something that paid way more a few weeks later.