The performance goals are hilariously unattainable. It’s almost like the board was making fun of Musk and he’s so narcissistic he honestly thinks he can pull all that off.

Somebody clue me in on Typescript. I’m somewhat familiar with scripting, PowerShell guy here.

Travel the back country highways of Alabama and you’ll see it is like that. Alabama has improved drastically in the last 10-years, but the wealth gap is right there in plain view.

Trailer, trailer, trailer, beautiful home, trailer, 2 beautiful homes, trailer, trailer, on and on.

Before Trump went off on Obama and immigrants he was the East Coast Liberal™ these people loathed. I could maybe see younger folks being fooled, but FFS, did no one know what Trump was like in the 80s and 90s?! He was America’s laughing stock. The man released Trump, The Board Game and the entire country laughed our ass off.

Bloom Country, easily the finest snapshot of 80s America, ended in 1989 with Trump buying out the comic strip and firing all the characters, so unseriousness and ludicrous all we could do was laugh.

Anyway, if anyone wants to know what America was really like in the 80s, Bloom Country is readily available online. And here we are with the air traffic controllers, AGAIN!

Lived in some truly shitty houses. One was condemned the minute I moved out and we had had to cut glass and put windows in when we got there. But it was more or less in one piece.

Lived in a trailer for 5 years before getting this Habitat home. God. Damn. Hated it. It was in fair condition to begin with, but everything just fell apart. Damn near burned down one night when the HVAC electrical started burning through the insulation. All that and yet we had a great landlord!

Nothing is standard vs. a regular house, everything is harder to repair, and ironically costs more to repair. I’d do it again if I lost this house though. Wouldn’t take an apartment, no way.

I’d live in a shack in the woods before an apartment. What an awful way to spend one’s only chance at life.

My fucking god how ludicrous. How the hell are they struggling to find undocumented people?!

Wife had a booth at the outdoor flea market while I wandered around. ICE could seal the exits and round up 200 Hispanics, on a rainy Sunday afternoon, easy. I’d bet on most of that particular crowd not having green cards. Hell, they could nail my wife, not like she carries her fucking card around everywhere.

For context, this was in Pensacola, FL, not exactly a gargantuan metro area. Also, not too many Hispanics around here. (Wasn’t any until workers came to bail us out of Hurricane Ivan.)

ICE has demonstrated that nothing is out of bounds and they have near absolute power. So why not just waltz in and scour a simple flea market?

Oh! Because we’re in a red state and we’re all fucking armed. Funny how they’re only targeting blue states with the most restrictive gun laws in the nation. Strange that.

Same goes for Texas. Went for a funeral 15-years ago near Austin. I was astonished at the number of Hispanic folks and beautiful women with solid black hair. “All y’all got Mexican blood?!” And I’m saying that as a white guy who had just moved from Chicagoland! (Kinda like the mirror version of all the Swedish and German blondes in Kansas. And the hot redheads in Arkansas, for whatever reason.)

Want Hispanics? Why not raid Texas? Oh, maybe it’s all the armed white rednecks married to brown women. Problematic that.

More serious answer: This is plain corruption. Somebody’s getting a piece of the pie. No reason to involve bounty hunters.

*dog door

I could not have dropped a worse word to make that story nonsensical. :(

*dog door

That’s your state. Just looked and registration fees and tags are all over the place.

Texas used to, maybe still does. You made me try to look it up and couldn’t find a simple source. Plenty of states use MRSP or some measure of the vehicle’s value.

Back in the day (Tulsa, OK) my friend had a 2-ton dump truck with antique tags (over 25-yo), paid $20. Meanwhile, someone buying a super-light Corvette was paying $650. (early 90s money)

I say go on weight, maybe some factoring of value. Registration fees are paying for roads, if your monster vehicle is doing more damage, you pay more.

C’mon! I’m in the South and never saw some shit like that. Spent 6-months loading cars at Lowe’s, not one elderly person in a monster truck. Old dude’s like me stick to “normal” pickups like my 2004 F150.

Fucking with a coworker back in the day who drove a monster SUV with zero need. I don’t noramlly make judgement on that but I knew the family well. Her husband had a nice truck and their one kid was adult and moved out.

“I drive it because it’s safer.”

“So you’re happy to kill someone in a tiny car like mine, as long as you’re OK?”

<stares motherfuckerly>

“Aren’t you Christian? What do you figure Jesus would say about that?”

“Get out of my office Shalafi.”

🤷🏻

Then boil the soup leftovers into stock and freeze it!

Goth Pennywise! Yes please!

Would you rather one spend $230 on a little piece of shit like this or a new pair of tires? Bit relative isn’t it?

You are reading way too much into my comment. I just thought it would be a more interesting experiment if the guy had put a tiny bit of effort into making it look at least plausibly real.

Maybe he made it awful on purpose? 🤷🏻

Missed that line! Thanks!

I deploy it through PowerShell.

It’s a whopping 6 pages and mostly double-spaced and more white space. And lemmy upvotes these cynical comments without a shred of investigation.

I’m reading it as making data centers harder to block, now I’m not so sure. Your take?