Yah, I had to laugh at that statement. I think the media folks go out of their way to find the punchable-face pics too as all of them seem to fit that bill.
I mean, Jobs was a notorious asshole by basically all non-consumer accounts. If modern social media were 10-15 years older, he would totally have been raving batshit insane stuff. And, if the unverifiable “company stories” my buddy at Apple has shared are true… it would have been fucked.
But that gets to the crux of it. It is more or less “the Tom Cruise problem” as it were. Tom is a notoriously batshit insane cultist with a LOT of ties to people being “disappeared” and abused. He is also a RIDICULOUSLY good actor with an agent who knows how to get him the best films. So most of us try to not think about how evil he is as we cheer for Ethan Hunt or whatever.
And, for all my dislike of Apple products, they are quality (except the fucking mouse).
teslas are very much not “quality” by car standards and most of their branding is built on the cult of personality alone.
Funny that you mention the fructose as Jobs died from treating his cancer “…with a vegan diet, acupuncture, herbs, bowel cleansings, and other remedies that he found online. At one point, he even reached out to a psychic.”
I think it’s more about how those types of buyers view the manufacturers reliability long term. The man is unhinged and has proven with Twitter that if given the chance he will willingly fuck over users. Imagine giving a bully the ability to limit your driving range or disabling your vehicle on a whim because he decides he doesn’t like you or what your local govt says.
Not saying he would do it but he has proven repeatedly to be unstable enough to believe he could escape punishment for doing it.
Really emphasizes how vital “right to repair” is. If a Tesla didn’t have proprietary software and centralized control over its cars it wouldn’t matter how irrational Musk was. But Tesla owners have to trust Tesla to maintain both the hardware and software in their cars, which means buying a Tesla is a long-term commited relationship with that company. And same with Ford, GMC, every car company whose software is a black box - if you can’t repair your own vehicle, you have to trust the management of the car company won’t screw you over for fun and profit.
I read that someone had upgraded their P60 to a P90 by getting a new battery, all official and from Tesla and months later they updated his firmware and locked out the extra 30Kwh because it wasn’t the stock battery.
It’s shit like that that keeps me from owning anything Elon related.
So the employee was odious, refusing to participate in a parade with her union, and went on social media to harass others in doing the same- because the parade/protest was sponsored by planned parent hood against trump (edit, sorry for the typo)
She got fired for the harassment and is claiming religious discrimination.
So scummed up trump appointee of a judge ordered the lawyers to take “religious liberty training” training from the same people that are going after mefipristone.
am I the only one wondering if this isn’t a money laundering scheme? Judge takes bribes, sends people for bullshit training, these people pay for it. Rinse, repeat.
do they not see the irony of going on about religious liberty while actively imposing their religion on others?
Iirc there are a few Texan judges that are notoriously corrupt in how they judge patent troll lawsuits, so it wouldn’t surprise me if this judge really was getting bribes
I’m not a communist, but communism (or any other ideology) can potentially be a good thing and still implemented in terrible ways. If you want to argue against communism, fine, but “look how they implemented it in this country” is not a good argument.
That is the BEST argument. That shows it can’t be implemented in a real world environment. You have a locked down country where they can do ANYTHING they want and even in that closed environment where they control essentially all variables it fails and fails spectacularly.
Climate crisis, fascism, imperialism, wars to uphold the system, healthcare, trafficking. More food produced to last 1,5 earth’s need still people going hungry, opiate crisis and on and on and on. Enjoy your popcorn you useless piece of shitlib
LOL Literally every one of those things have little-or-nothing to do with capitalism, but you just decided to throw everything out there thinking you actually accomplished something.
Probably the most hilarious one is you having the gall to mention that people are going hungry, and yet communist’s posterchild, North Korea, had some massive famines because the yield from communist farms was shit. It was so bad, that the eViL CaPiTaLiSts in the US actually gave them food aid to save their people.
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