Glad they learned from the controller debacle and implemented a reservation system up front this time.

Price is higher than I was hoping for, but it makes sense with memory and storage costs being what they are.

Compared to the rest of the market and especially new EVs, this is a good price. That's not to say it's affordable, just that it's less expensive relative to pretty much every new car on the market in the US in the last several years.

And I don't call it rap music because it's not music.

Disliking something doesn't inherently exclude it from a category. Rap is a genre of music, what else could it possibly be? So are country and metal, even if many dislike them.

Hip hop comes from the projects in the Bronx neighborhood of New York City, where it coalesced from several different art forms developed in defiance of rampant poverty and oppression.

All these people do is write down a bunch of words and speak them.

Those people couldn't afford 'real' instruments and didn't have the musical education to take advantage of them anyway. Turntables became instruments in their hands because there were no other options. Rap itself draws a pretty straight line from poetry- infuse some more emotion and performance, and you get rap.

As the movement grew in popularity, the hip hop and rap genres were effectively stolen around the turn of the century by producers to sell to white people instead of allowing it to thrive in the black communities that created them in the first place. The lyrics changed from being about surviving and thriving in spite of The Man to focusing on exploiting women and doing drugs, in ignorance of the short but rich history behind the genre.

(I'm lounging in bed writing this on my phone, so no direct sources sorry. We talked about this in one of my high school classes eons ago, I might be able to dig up those files later if there's interest.)

In that sense, it's not all that different from the newer corporatized country that you spoke about, or even rock and roll. If you're going to mad about rap lyrics, be mad at the cultural theft and exploitation rather than discounting it wholesale just because you dislike the sound.

I've never understood why companies continue to send me junk mail even after I call them and ask to be removed from their mailing list, or that the person they're mailing hasn't lived at my address in years.

Like, what do they expect to happen- that I'll somehow become more inclined to purchase whatever they're selling instead of associating their brand name with a sense of frustration/annoyance?

BaaS (Bathrooms as a service) is unironically something I would consider paying for, especially when I'm travelling.

Yeesh, you must be fun at parties. Do you condescend to everyone you interact with, or only from behind the anonymity of the internet?

Try taking a deep breath and get less butthurt when your bad joke falls flat next time.

Hi Brenda,

I wanted to reach out regarding a small observation I made in your last email. In telling me how to spend 30 minute meal break and encouraging me to cut it short for the company's benefit, you violated US labor law.

Let's correct this behavior and try to be more mindful of that "our company is not above the law" spirit so we can keep your momentum going in the right direction. :-)

Eric

P. S. I will be retaining this communication in case this remains an issue. Thanks :-)

I love how Valve's strategy is basically just 'don't piss off the customers and occasionally do something super fucking cool', while everyone else in the space seems to be cutting off their nose to spite their face

Ah yes, Cortana and Copilot both suck, but surely third time's the charm. And when Scout is, inevitably, unpopular as well? We'll see what they call number four.

Today it took almost 30 seconds for the context menu to appear when I right clicked on a file in windows explorer. I mean ffs, if I wanted everything to be a browser, I'd use a chromebook.

(Inb4 "install linux", it's a work computer and I don't get a say in OS)

They should never have rolled out any of these AI features without this already implemented. I think it really speaks to their priorities that they rolled it out in this order.

By that logic, it's also a hostile activity to close the bathroom door when I'm taking a fat shit. Privacy isn't just for criminals.

Ads that pretend to be normal content are literally the fucking worst kind of ad and anyone who suggests implementing them should be dragged out back and shot.

Not surprised that stack exchange is doing this, given that they seem determined to drive away their entire userbase.

The bioengineered meat bit is honestly hilarious to me, it's clear this guy has no relation to actual production. 3D printed meat is nowhere near viable for the scale of production that Campbells operates at- it can't keep up with the sheer volume required and it is significantly more expensive than traditional meat production.

Dude's just gone off the deep end with right-wing conspiracy theories, which makes sense given the whole racist tirade and hating the poor.

Something I'll never understand about Google is that they don't seem to understand that killing every project that isn't instantly super profitable also kills consumer confidence.

I wouldn't even consider using a new Google thing for the first few years of its life since I fully expect it will be chopped sooner or later. Case in point: Killed by Google

In addition to what others have said, Peter Thiel's Founders Fund invested in Brave. You know, the Palantir guy who thinks Greta Thunberg is the antichrist? I'm not going within a country mile of anything his blood money touches when I can help it.

Anderson said he had weapons in his bag, and inside the bag was a barbecue fork and a pizza cutter, according to the criminal complaint.

I need to know what the pizza cutter was for

40% tip is absurd. 20 is standard in the US, I might do 25-30 for excellent service.

Also, it should be the employer's job to compensate her, not that of the customer

Apps on my phone have a one-strike rule: the moment they send me an ad or otherwise annoy me, notifications are disabled and I reevaluate whether I need that app installed in the first place.

Fucking slop images contributed less than nothing to the article.

/etc/init.d, uh, finds a way

Logged logs logging loggily

Go off, king. Great points. I can't bring myself to give a shit about anything this person has to say if they feel the need to interject Marvel quips into their own article.