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I'm not sure I'd want to be swapping my battery out like a propane tank. Not everyone would follow charging recommendations, etc.

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Maybe they will save money because they don't have to offer healthcare?

Tesla’s in its flop era (www.theverge.com)

When Tesla releases its first quarter earnings this afternoon, the company’s CEO Elon Musk will field the usual questions about new products, new factories, and progress toward its futuristic vision of self-driving cars and robot workers. But Musk will also face increasingly urgent questions about its current state of affairs...

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This probably is true for some people, which is why I hope he steps down.

Me, I'm waiting for the prices to come down (more than the recent price cuts) on the Model 3, or for a more affordable AWD EV with similar range to become available.

I order online from Amazon and Walmart too, it doesn't mean I agree with their CEOs, board, or business practices. The shit those companies get away with is arguably worse than Musk's right wing BS on X, with union busting and employees depending on benefits to survive.

If you're able to make a statement and buy something else, great! I support that. My requirements for a vehicle are: full EV, AWD, 300+ mile range, final cost under 40k. The access to supercharging also seems nearly essential, but I'm willing to explore my options if they meet the other requirements. I also never want to buy from a scumbag car dealer again. That really doesn't leave me any other options that I'm aware of.

If not, I guess I could stick it to Elon and just buy another ICE vehicle...

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It seems like it would be a good move to have him step down.

I'm not sure they will though, I think the board is probably still stuck in the mindset that their company is valued highly because of Musk.

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Cars and car companies suck. If I could lug all my sports shit around in an e-bike I would.

I imagine the conditions aren't great at all these "American" car plants which are conveniently located in Mexico for maximum abuse of labor.

I'm not saying you're wrong, there just needs to be alternatives in order for consumers to vote with their wallet on these issues.

For something like a car which is not optional for me, it's either an ICE from a scummy car dealer with a scummy company behind them that uses questionable labor practices, or an EV from a scummy car dealer with a scummy company behind them that uses questionable labor practices, or an EV from a company with a scummy CEO that uses questionable labor practices. At least with a Tesla you can cut out some of the scumbags? I'd be interested in Rivian too if I could afford one but they start at 70k.

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You seem to be missing the point. Show me a car company that's not screwing over the consumers and the workforce, and I'll buy from them. Not every consumer has the luxury of maximizing altruism with their car purchase. At least those supposedly untrained employees are US citizens getting paid a US wage. Do you honestly think that things are better at the Mexican plants?

Maybe Honda and Toyota or Subaru? But they've been too busy sucking off the oil industry with their hydrogen push, and now their EV offerings can't compete.

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Replies to a thread with lots of well-thought out comments with some BS and doesn't even elaborate.

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Yeah, this is my dilemma. I have heard positive things about Ford and GM in regards to them making it easier to skip the dealership, so that at least addresses the convenience factor. Another factor in wanting to avoid the dealership is that I don't trust their business model where they sell you a car that they want you to bring in regularly for maintenance. I'd rather buy from a company that doesn't see vehicle service as a revenue opportunity. Does that apply to Tesla? I'm not sure, but I know that's how the traditional dealership model works so it's hard to trust those companies.

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This is a good point, I'm more inclined to support a unionized company. Still... my understanding is that GM and Ford (and others) all circumvent unionization by manufacturing (to some extent) in Mexico. I guess it depends on the individual car. I'm supportive of Federal and State EV incentives that prioritize made in the US, unionized manufacturing.

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I use Slack for personal projects and Teams for work. I think both are fine. The main reason it made sense to use Teams at work was because there were a number of products in use by different teams. IT had Slack and the rest had Zoom. Zoom was raising their costs and we already had Teams as part of 0365. So it was either buy Slack licenses for the entire company or just get everyone on Teams. It was kind of a no-brainer and it was hard to come up with a convincing argument to pay for Slack for everyone other than "Microsoft bad".

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Yeah, it's not a terrible idea. Another idea is to send the message that the Republicans will continue to lose the popular vote by 10+ million votes if they don't start putting forth solutions to the real problems that Americans are concerned about.

Tarallo - selfhostable FOSS Trello alternative (feddit.it)

Hi! For the ones of you that use Trello, I made a simple to use and host alternative in PHP. It's not a complete alternative like other projects, and I mainly made it to be able to host it on free PHP web servers while having control over data/attachments. It also support a basic importer for Trello JSON exports....

OpenPassageways ,

It's been nearly 10 years since you needed to develop with C# on Windows.

New versions of .NET have been cross platform with a free IDE since 2016.

OpenPassageways ,

If they called it cleanup mode, or guest mode, it would be more accurate.

Use this when you are on a shared device so that you don't leave history or login sessions or mess with any sessions that the primary user has. That's it.

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I find it's easier to explain this to people as "Southern conservatives used to vote Democrat, now they vote Republican".

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If definitely seems dystopian, but hopefully this ends up helping some people who are quadriplegic.

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One of the defining characteristics of Southwest is that they ONLY fly 737s (Boeing). That and their focus on domestic flights helps them offer good rates and low/non-existent fees. I guess their maintenance only has to focus on one plane. However, it seems like they got caught up in Boeing's "737 MAX is the same plane" scam because they fly some of those too and I believe it affected their stock.

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I don't regret the $20 I spent on Dyson Sphere Program, spent more time enjoying that than I have playing most of my library of supposedly "finished" games.

OpenPassageways ,

I'd use Bank of America bill pay or something similar, they will print and mail your check.

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This is great for citizens!

I'm not sure they get bragging rights about a smooth site launch for a tax preparation application when most people don't even have their W2s yet...

We'll see whether this is another healthcare.gov when people actually try to use it, but this is a huge win for people who qualify.

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Eventually there will not be enough human workers creating training data for LLMS to hallucinate with, and they will just be training each other with more and more incorrect bullshit.

I do find GitHub CoPilot helpful to save typing, but last night it took me longer to track down the mistakes it made than if I had just did a combination of copy/paste + regex.

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There are some better ways to address this than what this post is advocating.

For example, why should a corporation buying a residential property be getting the same (or better) interest rate than an individual who intends to buy it and live in it?

Why should that corporation be able to deduct expenses that an individual could not if they were living there?

There are ways to give the individuals a leg up over the corporations in the market without something drastic like this that has no chance of happening.

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Republican voters don't care about liberal conspiracies like "historical data".

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At this point I'd be happy if they would just stop CUTTING the taxes for the rich. Somehow even with massive deficits, that continues to be one of the primary policy positions of the Republican party.

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