I assume they are all running for the public exit because they are losing money faster than they can raise it and don’t have any reliable business models to which they can transition in the near term. If they can’t become profitable, the next best thing is to go public while the hype is hot and to cash out ASAP.

It makes about as much sense as growing a bunch of corn with heavy fertilization just to ferment it to ethanol. Which is to say, not at all.

The only thing I bought after being advertised on a podcast was a Cleverhood jacket/poncho thing, and I have zero regrets, it’s a great rain jacket. But I had seen other people use them so it wasn’t a complete ad-based purchase.

Ecosia and Qwant are trying to change that, but it’s an uphill fight.

https://www.eu-searchperspective.com/

Ha, my first reaction to this title was “What, is the other half sailing the seven seas for shows?”

Considering that every Cybertruck ever produced has been recalled, it’s fair to point out that it has been a short, troubled history for this platform.

Also, 173 units is a devastating indictment, probably the wildest part of the article.

Until they stop offering it for free, after making you get dependent on their service. The Google Photos playbook.

If the reporting is accurate, your data is still sent to Google’s servers for processing. This doesn’t appear to improve privacy, it’s more like an extension of the user surveillance business model that Google has pursued in the past decade.

I was in a small town in Maine that did that informally, there were a handful of shops and a ban at one store was applied everywhere. They all had signs warning about the policy. It was apparently very effective.

I had some okay experiences with Spirit, but they “rescheduled” a flight one time by 13 hours that was essentially a cancelation, and I swore never to use them again for any trip that mattered. Between “ceasing operations” and a taxpayer-funded half-billion dollar bail-out, I choose ceasing operations.

so if you shoplifted in a Nottingham Tesco’s, be prepared to be banned from Sainsbury’s in Swansea

This got a genuine chuckle from me, I love a bit of good writing in the wild!

Exactly right. Written for an audience of one—and not the judge. Essentially pseudo-legal bootlicking.

I’m still convinced these statements will age like milk.

A built-in ad blocker is easily the least problematic announcement coming out of Mozilla in the last year.

Waiting for the next Two Corinthians soundbite.

You’re almost certainly right, they will be fired if they disobey the would-be autocrat. That’s basically what happened in Nixon’s “Saturday Night Massacre” when he wanted to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox. Attorney General Elliot Richadson refused and resigned immediately. So too did Deputy AG William Ruckelshaus. Then loyal fascism supporter Robert Bork did as instructed, and the story of the resignations became bigger than the firing of Cox, leading to the impeachment proceedings and a new special prosecutor.

I don’t really disagree with you, the system needs significant reform, and losing good career professionals is bad for everyone. But it’s worth it to fight like hell at every stage, it slows them down and sometimes the opposition shifts public sentiment.

These defeats in court are good—necessary, even—but the protestors are still being prosecuted, put in jail, subjected to cash bond requirements and required to hire defense counsel. Yes, the Trump Admin loses a lot, but it doesn’t have to win every case to chill and deter opposition. The power imbalance is still a huge threat when a would-be autocrat can bring the full force of the federal government to bear on individual citizens. I want to see more AUSAs declining to prosecute at all, they have independent obligations as officers of the court to follow the constitution.

How much did it cost them, what’s the going rate right now?

… . and Tesla stock is somehow STILL over-valued.