I feel like it’s boomer fuel, this AI. What actual use does it have, like it’s supposed to be changing my life, putting me out of a job, turning all of my hard work into nothing. Robots giving me handjobs and all of that. None of this is happening.

No, the only thing that is happening, is a bunch of late 50s and 60 year old executives running around at work like a bunch of robots. AI AI AI AI AI AI Beep Beep Boop AI AI AI AI AI AI

I just actually finished this book, not 10 minutes ago. My overarching TL;DR summary of it, in one sentence is this: For being an international lawyer, she’s pretty naive.

We all know Facebook is a morally bankrupt circus, that’s been well known for quite some time. The Social Network taught us that he’s a pretty selfish terrible person (plus a weirdo). That movie came out in like, what, 2010? If she thought she could single handedly change this, which she pretty clearly does, the conclusions already written that it’ll be a leopards ate my face moment.

I’m glad she shared her story, no it’s not fair, and I hope it’s brought her some peace. But I have to be honest that it was a slog getting through that book.

My last two PSUs have both been Corsair, absolutely without issue, and both are/were startlingly quiet. I have absolute faith the first one would still be ticking along just fine, if it wasn’t for newer GPUs that pretty much demand thermonuclear fusion levels of energy.

I mean this game is a banger, and the Williams’s contributions to gaming history is all time, but wtf is this and how is it an actual article?

It’s borderline unusable at this point. No one serious uses it.

A fool and their money is easily parted. Whoever paid out these kinds of dollars for equity, the rest of the street is lolz at them

Don’t disagree. Their direction as of late is confusing and seems pretty muddled. But that’s what happens when you have a sigma male at the forfront, who kneejerks their directions around like a toddler with ADD. They need to throw the morons and their board full of grifters overboard, and get back to it. There’s pretty clearly some smart people in that company, that is if they are still there, and probably not likely at this point.

Even before all of this, with that pay package. WTAF?

Apparently there’s quite the revolt brewing for their AGM. They probably can’t remove him before hand, because they need to turf the board here as well. It’s been a long time since we’ve seen something like this, arguably if even ever? It’s happened with lots of companies in the past, but not with one this high profile. At least that I can think of.

They are going down the toilet, because they are distracted. Look, they were the most reliable EV, and they were at the forefront of the EV revolution. They built the most robust and reliable charging network (one of the key reasons we went with Tesla over Hyundai or other options), and flipped the automotive retail marketplace on their head.

But they also unfortunately have their hard work and progress overshadowed by a complete narcissistic manchild of a CEO. Who somehow controls the company with only 17% of shares held, who has a corrupt and compromised board on his side that will cater to his every little whims. A CEO who gets distracted, first with this Cybertruck nonsense, then X, then SpaceX, who then derails all innovation and future development with everyone focused on this autopilot distraction, and now all this. If I was a shareholder, I’d be furious. As a customer, I’m not sure I can rely on them anymore (could I ever?), so my future purchasing decisions will be made with that in mind.

What goes up, must come down I guess. Sigh.

I’m absolutely sure this is going to suck. What a way to wreck a legendary franchise. These games were sooo good too. Shame on EA

It’s nice of you to assume that everyone is as rich as all these virtue signalling celebrities. Yes musk is a piece of shit, no I’m not buying another one until they torpedo his ass, yes autopilot is a scam. But I also happen to like the car, it suits our lifestyle the best, it has a five star safety rating and I’m not a Nazi just because I bought a certain kind of car a couple of years ago. Do what you want to the dealers, go after the corporate people, but leave the innocent consumers alone. None of us asked for this shit either.

So I had a 2070 in mine, and updated last year to a 4070ti. I’m not going to lie to you here, the difference hasn’t been earth shattering. I mean it’s obviously better, but if you are gaming in 1080p, you should still be good for a bit yet. Games are released so horrendously optimized anymore, it doesn’t matter if you have your own personal nuclear power plant powering a video card the size of Texas, it’s still going to suck.

What card do you currently use?

But it’s ENHANCED this time.

Now shut up and give us your money. We have shareholders to enrich, won’t anyone just think about the shareholders…

As a pirate, I refuse to read.

Just wanted to say arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, though.

Shiver me timbers!

That’s just it though. The top managers who make these decisions will probably be fine, half of them are probably at their desk this morning. It’s always everyone else that has to pay the price for their management missteps.

You’d think after 30+ years of this shit, they’d realize they are fighting a losing battle. Actually, you’d think they’d also figure out that they should stop being rapey and molesting everyone too, but alas here we are…

I just don’t have any animosity towards any of these people. Are they the ones acting like lunatics? No. So why hold them accountable for others poor behaviors? Especially in Vancouver, that’s holding people accountable for a foreign actors actions. It’s kind of lunacy when you think of it.

He’ll get taken care of, one way or another, I have no doubt on that. When people go to buy a car, I’m pretty sure a large portion of them are going to be pretty turned off by all of this, I know I am. I won’t be racing down to buy another one anytime soon. But I am not holding myself accountable and complicit for a purchase I made a year and a half ago. Especially when it wasn’t clear that Trump even had the Republican nomination until late summer 2024, and Elon didn’t endorse Trump until July 2024. We all knew he was a bit of a child, but I dont think Joe Consumer could have foreseen all of this at time of purchase, even with Cybertruck orders. So why hold these people to blame?

Society in large numbers is pretty weird, on both sides of the political spectrum. Donald Trump isn’t even the biggest evil that faces us either, it’s what empowers him, and that’s social media.

I still love my car, and enjoy driving it. I have nothing to do with the antics of their CEO, nor does it affect me in any way. It’s even in a foreign country (I’m Canadian). Would I race down and buy another one, not after this, no. But at the same time, I don’t look to the auto industry for the inspiration of ethical behavior. Look at VW and Diesel gate, not to mention they were started by the actual Nazis. When you see a beetle, that’s an actual swastzicar. BMW, Mercedes came from terrible people. Henry Ford was an actual piece of shit, heck Ford and GM each donated over a million to celebrate Trump’s inauguration, and could be seen to be just as complicit here. The former Chairman of Nissan had to be smuggled out of Japan in a coffin, just a few years ago, to escape criminal fraud charges. John Delorean himself got busted with a trunk full of cocaine in the 80s, trying to save his car company. Long long story short, don’t equate your consumer purchase choices with conspiring with lunatics. You’d pretty soon have nothing, as everyone from Amazon, to the social media companies, to your favourite entertainers, all act with an appalling lack of ethical conduct.

I desperately wanted one of those a couple years ago, but no dice. It was largely a paper launch in Canada. Still don’t see them very often either.