the us will be a true shithole in about a decade.

Will be?

I haven’t had any interest in visiting the place since Bush was president.

It’s all part of the “move fast and break things” development process.

Well when you outsource all your skilled jobs to other countries for a few decades, it shouldn’t be a surprise that they will move ahead of your country in the skills needed to compete against you.

That quest for extreme short term profits at the expense of your own long term sustainability/survivability has come back to bite you in the ass. Congratulations corporate America, you’ve played yourself.

It’s not even limited by country. There are far too many places in well resourced countries that don’t have access to good (or any) libraries.

The account’s discovery raises questions on just how many bots are operating on X, including those run by foreign adversaries

Far more than you imagine.

Import a bunch of those cheap Chinese EVs and lots of people will buy them

Or start building affordable EVs here.

Back in the 70s when Toyota, Datsun, Honda etc started eating the big 3’s lunch on affordable fuel efficient vehicles, they responded with smaller cars of their own.

If they’re not willing to respond to market demand and competition, do they even deserve to stay in business?

Isn’t that what the “free market” they claim to love enforces?

For me, the last time I was in the market for a replacement vehicle, the 2 biggest factors were availability and price.

The dealers had zero stock (except maybe a rare fully optioned ridiculously priced example of the top of the line model), and I was not in a position to wait 2+ months for a factory order of a car that I couldn’t even test drive.

Literally never seen one of those outside of movies.

what’s the alternative scenario here?

Parents could not upload pictures of their kids everywhere in a vain attempt to attract attention to themselves?

That would be good.

It’s hard to see how thwy still manage to have much money after all the grifters have been picking their pockets.

Of course. Why wouldn’t a con artist go after a group that has already self-selected for gullibility?

The menu is 6 foot across, above the counter where you order, glowing, with pictures of each item and number next to it

And changing pages while you’re trying to parse the cacophony of choices and options.

I think an automated battery swap system would work best for OTR trucking.

Yes, that and other commercial vehicles that put on a lot of miles in a day, every day.

That may be fine for regular customers, but what about the rest of us who don’t have the menu memorized?

If they do, that means they don’t take design seriously

The diploma mill MBAs that run the place don’t know (or care) what good design is.

They only know how to look at business costs as “cutting into our profit”.

Though now I realize you actually have to get referred by one of the other members in order to start posting

That is done with the intention of keeping the quality of content high.

I doubt they want to get flooded with low effort “let’s play” gamers or even lower effort AI voiceover stock footage crap.

You could see just what you wanted to see.

That’s not my experience. I never wanted to see rightwing conspiracy crap, but I wasn’t able to avoid it crowding my feed until I avoided Twitter entirely.

foreign money hoping to tank a liberal platform.

Since when was twitter a “liberal platform”?

The rightwingnuts have been running rampant over there for as long as I can remember.

i tought i heard somewhere about her being a fascist?

Without any background or context or evidence on that accusation, I am hesitant to accept “I thought I heard somewhere” .

Actual fascists and nazis have been projecting that accusation onto their opponents for a while now.

Assuming it works the way Google says it does,

There was a time when I trusted Google to be open and honest.

But that time is long in the past.