That’s mostly fueled by cheap fuel (heh) .

Toyota really started to take off in the 70s when oil got bit more expensive.

It is sorta funny watching Americans pay gas prices that many parts of the world actually already paid.

For a ton of people it is theater.

ICE isn’t showing up in their neighborhood or at their work place. Their only experience with that shit is on the news or tiktok and it’s in a state they don’t live in and have never been to.

They actually love brown people. They want their cheap labor and this stuff keeps people afraid and makes them keep their head down. It has the added benefit that they get to parade it around to their electorate like ‘something is being done’

It’s theater to keep poor white people in fly over states from realizing that the people in power are the ones selling them out and have been the entire time.

I knew exactly who it would be.

25 or 30 years ago he was in a bit of hot water for flashing people because he was wearing a kilt without anything under it while performing. That’s probably all it took for the LLM to go down the garden path.

He’s a bit of a character.

She isn’t even a Republican voter (unless she is American some how)

I mean aside from the touch pads (which I don’t use since I’m a PC gamer I don’t really see how it’s loads better than the wired Xbox controller I already have.

Honestly, unless you were already in the market for a controller I don’t really see the appeal.

The problem with brutalism is they are playing with space and light that can look beautiful but looks like shit the minute humans actually live in them.

Your big concrete box is cool but where do I put the fucking laser printer.

To each their own but ours didn’t really require more than an hour a month at most. It’s not running on cutting Edge hardware but chugs along pretty dependably. The back ups probably take the most time but even then ansible does most of the work and we bump the omnibus version once a month in off hours without issue.

It’s reliability was already not super great before the vibe coding hit.

It’s mostly caused by them trying to migrate complicated legacy systems to azure. This type of work is already fraught with danger.

The vibe code just supercharges an already risky endeavor. The LLM code could be perfectly correct but the more dynamic a complicated system the more difficult it becomes to judge side effects of any one change.

The speed of change also means that experts in particular areas of the code base may find their mental model of the system to be out of date and incorrect faster than ever before. This is course also leads to the increased chance of mistakes or unintended side effects.

They were already allowed to spy on non US citizens as much as they pleased.

The 5 eyes just made it super easy to ask someone else to acquire some data on US citizens and put it in a database that they conveniently had access.

Now, since the most of the country likes to gargle Trump’s balls on the off chance he might hurt some non whites they don’t even need the plausible deniability.

Osama really did fuck the US up.

I mean it was kinda like that but boy did 9 11 really supercharge it.

I thought I would grow out of that edgy take but what can I say, it stuck.

That’s what I call most religious people.

I mean there are tons of options in that space so if it’s an issue that is sorta on your business to have evaluated their dependency.

We work on an internal gitlab instance that has had 100 percent up time for like 2 years. It doesn’t even have to be gitlab, there’s gitea and like 10 other options.

I personally think that the industry has moved so far in the direction of cloud and saas that it’s lost a lot of valuable skills and made them dependent on too much externally.

Canada.

As someone else mentioned the current government is trying to make things worse so we can have American style hearth care.

Primary care can be hit or miss. For my own GP I have to travel a bit back to my home town to see them because it’s a bit painful to find a new one where I’m at now. It also might take a day or two to get an appointment.

It is far from perfect but I’m incredibly doubtful that private health care would improve anything at all. I just don’t think the incentives align that could allow for it at all.

Which is a ridiculous premise of you think about it for even a moment.

It’s a Friday he’s just messing with the markets and waiting for Taco Tuesday

No one buys a 90k pickup. They get a 90k pickup for 120k and 256 bi monthly payments.

The courts will say he isn’t but you need to give them 2 years to do it. Then he’ll make a tiny change and get two more years.