If the criticism and harassment is coming from verified constituents, then no, they should not be allowed to block them.

If it’s harassment coming from random idiots online, then obviously yes.

If they get a letter in the mail from some moron with a return address in Texas, I would not expect their office to mail a response. If the same moron was in their riding? Yeah, they get an answer.

I think it’s trash because it starts with the “story” being “someone said this outrageous thing on a podcast”. Then the “both sides” counter argument is from actual medical professionals and people who have a clue.

Typically, journalism frames an issue and then covers some counterpoints to give some nuance. This time, they (bewilderingly) accept conspiracy theory nonsense as their story (when it shouldn’t have been written in the first place), then the sanity comes in as though it’s a counter point.

Waddaya mean “or”?

Polite: “Thanks.”

Less polite: “Thank you for your feedback.”

My fave: “UNSUBSCRIBE”

14.1 would be ideal.

He’s still mad at the cat actor that played Spot, because it was such a consistent asshole on the set.

But please also repost this to /c/lemmyshitpost with this original title!

It’s tied to company stock performance. He’s only getting a trillion if he brings Tesla to like an 8 trillion dollar valuation, which seems pretty unlikely given his weird behaviour, their broken PR, and their weird valuation for years. Oh, and the competition heating up in the EV sector.

But to answer the question asked: those people who could go on strike have a few shares or options in TSLA, so if Elon hits that insane target, they all stand to make millions themselves.

That, and they knowingly and willingly work for a nazi that doesn’t care about them. I don’t think there’s anything he could say or do that would make them rethink their career path.

I first saw this each time Bush was elected. So many people vowed to move to Canada if that bastard got elected.

Then the bastard got elected. And Canada reported like a tiny spike in traffic to their immigration information website. I think actual applications were up a statistically insignificant amount.

I guess it’s like the difference between filing for bankruptcy and Declaring It, Michael.

Ultra low speed limit signs always make me laugh.

My car has an analog speedometer and the first number is 20. The best speed they’re going to get from me, especially driving up a ramp in stop-and-go traffic is “less than 20”.

I used to live in an apartment building where they just posted a speed limit sign that said “DEAD SLOW”. My friend got a complaint letter from strata that he was speeding. He replied that “dead slow is a nautical term meaning a ship must travel in such a way that they don’t lose the ability to steer. I was not operating a boat and my ability to steer was never in question.” They gave him a “warning” and said the actual speed limit is 10; though that wasn’t on any sign nor ever written anywhere.

Wandering the desert?

Nay, vibe travelling.

They didn’t release their methods, so I can’t be sure that most of those aren’t just frustrated users telling the LLM to go kill itself.

Replaced by AI, ironically.

This feels very adjacent to “we don’t do this because it was easy. We did it because we thought it would be easy.”

Why does Doug have to do anything? Donny is an autocrat, right? Can’t he just phone the American broadcaster airing the ads and demand they stop airing it.

Big Strong Men shouldn’t just go crying on their pet social network when another country is being mean. They should be Big enough and Strong enough to deal with it themselves.

I feel like admitting that would have led to him getting a bullet in the head.

The machines obviously aren’t interested in reconnecting him - they grow humans by the thousand in their facilities. Like you’re not going to hike for a day to pick up lost carrot when you have them growing in your garden.

The only way the machines would consider reconnecting him would be as part of a deal for something significantly more valuable than one human. If Morpheus is on the table? Sure, now that’s worth it. Which isn’t to say they wouldn’t have betrayed and killed him once they had Morpheus anyway. Our only assurance that they would honour an agreement is a throwaway line from the Architect at the end of Reloaded.

And if there’s no going back, what does a terrified resistance do when one of their fighters starts talking about joining the enemy? He’s too dangerous - he’s gotta go.

I always think of this when someone tells me to water my plants regularly and not always let them dry out and subsequently overwater the shit out of them to compensate.

No, motherfucker, we live in uncertain times.

I see way too many EV owners online being very blase about cheap third party adapters they grab off Amazon or the like. For the amount of current coursing through these things, people should probably stop and think for a second what corners were cut in the one they bought for half the price of recognized brands.

That game is too memorable. I tried replaying it a while back after not touching it in 15 years.

Five minutes in and nope, this whole story is seared into my long term memory and there’s nothing fresh yet.

I’ll try again when I’m 80.

This happened on my car after an oil change (not at Canadian Tire) and they did the same thing. Zap straps to reattach the bottom (plastic in my case) because the old bolts had rusted through. They never mentioned to me either, but fortunately I still had 4/6 original bolts still in place.

I get that an oil change customer doesn’t want to hear “uhhhh we found some broke shit that’s going to cost extra to fix”, but it’s not an acceptable alternative to half ass a shitty fix and not tell anyone. It’s like opening up the walls in your home for the first time and discovering the insanely lazy job a plumber or electrician hid behind a wall.