VW really seemed to want to clean house with that. I’ve an ID.3 1st and honestly it’s possibly the best car I’ve ever owned (and I’ve had VWs, BMW, Alfa, Ford, International Harvester (I’m old) and that EV is really great for the money.

You mean management, right?

Because we’re werewolves, not swearwolves!

“Hey, hey… don’t be mean; we don’t have to be mean; remember, no matter where you go, there you are.”

Thanks for this. China keeps trying to wipe away this event by having any image deleted. It needs to be reposted and seen often.

Come to @apple_enthusiast here and watch the haters play. I wish it were just reddit.

It’s that time for the West Wing Gail-Peters Projection Map scene

Sometimes I miss DAK - I had their bread maker and gave it to my Dad when I moved overseas, and it made excellent - if round - loafs.

History suggests they’re Republicans.

Not to berate you, but your response is as if this is something new for your generation. We all go through this shit unless we’re insulated from it by daddy’s money or power.

Is it worth your mental energy to fight for change? I’d say it is - over time, it’s the only thing that has worked. Letting it slip for someone else to fix is exactly what screws us over, generation to generation.

Hang in there - we’re all in this together. As I said before, fight the good fight.

Okay, so let’s blame boomers for it, shall we then?

Would it have been better for you in the 60s, with the Cold War? 50s during the Red Scare? Hope you’re not a writer…

How about the 40s, with WWII? 30s & 20s, with the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl? Maybe the teens - nah, WWI. How about the poverty, plague conditions (a la Sinclair Lewis) and the diseases of the early Industrial Revolution? No? Okay - how about the agrarian 1800s, but then there’s slavery and civil war… and on, and on throughout history.

I hate to say it, but comparatively we’re in a Golden Age - and it is decaying. We celebrate billionaires like they’re rock stars and re-elect politicians who do nothing for the working man (and woman), but instead go on fake crusades that serve no-one but their self interests. Wokism, the rights of eggs, guns before people, and today no divorce if you’re pregnant - it’s like the Red Scare all over again, and anyone who doesn’t align with it is an “Enemy of the People” - except it’s the actual people that suffer.

It’s not a Generation - every generation gets dumped into the shit the previous one made - it’s the Politics. When some politicians take one half of us and then point at the other half and say “they’re why you suffer”, it’s a lie. We fight amongst ourselves so they can prosper.

Fight, by all means, but fight for better representation and make sure they stick to the promises they make. And not just representation in our politicians but also in work. Unions can and have been a force of good for the average worker - support them so your one voice can make a difference.

Fight the good fights. Don’t waste your time fighting each other for scraps, for lies, for someone’s else’s power.

The “why worry what I can’t control” is the under-40 part, but to be honest I initially considered under-30.

But by 40 you’d more likely than not have or care about children, and then you’d be worrying more about the the world you leave for them. Since they’re always copying you, you’d be more aware that every action has consequences, and that includes cynicism (especially since, by 40, you’re more likely to accept the idea that you don’t know everything).

Maybe by then it’d be in your self-interest to make the world better even by little increments instead of wearing sarcasm like a cloak of invisibility.

Spoken like a true person under 40

Best reason ever to be rid of TikTok.

I remember when it was more than advertisements…

That’s my experience here with /technology…god forbid you like your Apple product - everyone there seems dedicated to shitting on your likes, and by extension, you.

Perhaps - but that bluing is not whats on the truck, hence my comment about rust. And this was never mentioned by Tesla, which is another concern.

Anyway, let’s revisit this in 6 months and see how the “patina” is working out.

This was inane from the start and calling rust a “patina”…

I swear, if this doesn’t certify them as a cult, I don’t know what will.

Problem is you have to buy the damn car first in order to read the manual.

Had an old on and off girlfriend - fantastic body, great sex, mad as a box of minions. Not a healthy relationship and 1.5 years later going nowhere. When she’d call, the iPhone would ring with Alan Parsons Project:

Don’t answer me

Don’t break the silence, don’t let me win

Don’t answer me

Stay on your island, don’t let me in

Run away and hide from everyone

Worked a treat.