I say this as an American.

I hope tourism to USA plummets to nil or near 0 while orange man is in office. Have already seen a vast majority of conferences move their venues away from US. The few that have stayed in US had low participation/attendance.

This country only understands $$$, unfortunately. The people that voted for this idiocracy are very much likely the same people impacted negatively by orangutan administration policies.

Good thing I plan on driving mine until I die. There’s no point in trading in/upgrading with that low of an offer.

https://www.cybertruckownersclub.com/forum/threads/cybertruck-trade-ins-are-now-live.42355/#post-30580142

I would be surprised if an incel camino lasts 3-4 years of regular driving.

It’s a bit of extra work but worth it to setup in my opinion. Especially when dealing with multiple creditors.

I don’t see any issue with this - using Wallet to manually initiate payment. It’s not wrong or right. More of a matter of preference.

I prefer to limit access/storage of routing numbers/account numbers to very few people and entities as possible. And prefer to avoid risk of mistake on creditor end withdrawing more than agreed.

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I don’t know about you. But I have many other lines of credit (mortgage, multiple CCs, auto) and deal with many services (utilities) besides AC. Have even used bill pay to issue checks to apartment complexes and landlords.

Using my banks bill pay feature gives me a single view into outgoing debits to creditors/services.

Right - why not call it what it is? State is employing military against civilians.

State Sponsored Genocide.

apple these days is acting more and more like Microsoft with these shitty updates

There’s artificial intelligence, then there’s apple intelligence. Going to start calling dolt responses like this as “Apple Intelligence”

Maybe I can gaslight ChatGPT algos: “That’s such an apple intelligence response. Re-do X”

I like basic CarPlay and the ability to unlock the vehicle with just NFC (apple car key?).

This extra junk is more for the car manufacturers.

My increasing distrust for big tech has soured me on “deep integrations” like this. I feel this is just laying the foundation for subscription based cars.

• “Sorry, you have not paid for Apple CarPlay Ultra Plus Max, we are reducing your max speed to 50 mph (~80 km/h)”
• “To enable, AM radio for 12 hrs please authenticate on iPhone or use fingerpick on start button for iDNA authentication and 10% off!”
• “Sorry, to unlock back doors you must add Aston Martin Ultra Premium Accessibility. Alternatively, just shove passengers through front doors”
• “You are currently on the freemium plan with advertisements enabled. Prior to vehicle starting, you will be subjected to 30 minutes of tailored advertisements”
• “Credit card on file has expired. Car is disabled. Please contact Aston Martin + Apple support for further assistance.”
• “Oopsie woopsie, car cannot connect to telemetry system. Cannot operate vehicle while system is unable to connect to internet.”

Fediverse to replace stackoverflow would be something I am interested in.

In a few years, this guy will probably get picked up for human trafficking, CSAM, soliciting sex from minors or some other degenerate activity.

Anybody remember that shit stain from FL, Matt Gaetz?

In 2020, Gaetz was accused of child sex trafficking[a] and statutory rape. After an investigation, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) decided not to charge him. In December 2024, the House Ethics Committee released a report which found evidence that Gaetz paid for sex—including with a 17-year-old—and abused illegal drugs during his tenure in the U.S. House of Representatives. The committee report did not find sufficient evidence that he had not engaged in sex trafficking as defined in federal law.[2]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Gaetz

I am not optimistic. Elon and his brother own majority in the board.

This is all smoke and mirrors. Board opens search for a replacement. Go through the motions of finding a replacement. Delay. Delay. Delay.

Then on a particularly active news cycle, report search has failed, and it gets buried beneath the bullshit that Orangatuan administration did that week.

Is it really bitter if IPO is successful? Citron and other cofounders likely setup to get a massive payout when it IPOs.

Humam isn’t someone that will look after the company for many years. He is brought in to cook the books, and get it to an IPO.

Bro got replaced by some ex-Activision-Blizzard MBA zombie. Humam got 86’d/golden parachuted from Blizzard after only <2 years as “Vice Chairman”. Then a 1-2 yr gap.

Humam about to get another massive bag once labor force is cut, platform further enshittified, and corp books are sufficiently cooked/prepped for IPO.

Amazon really going hard on the bribes to get government cases dropped.

The next 4 years are going to be the Wild West in terms of big business regulation. If country survives the next 4 years, the next administration is going to be fighting an uphill battle to clean up this gigantic mess.

If we somehow have any allies at the end of this, I would be very surprised.

Hypocrisy is the platform of the modern GOP.

It’s clobbering time

Some gun owners look for any reason to use their gun. Smh.

Send these idiots off to fight a war. They will have all the chances to use their gun. most will probably be better off used as sandbags

The state of SCOTUS is abhorrent. We truly are on the verge of a second Civil War. The terrorists have successfully infiltrated all levels of government. And they are not the terrorists featured on your local Fixed News affiliate. It’s your neighbors and often times rural areas.

Democrats won the battle (ie, reclaiming presidency) but have lost the war.

Too many assholes in this country think they are the American Sniper.