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Of course they don’t. Someone being blackout drunk at Waffle House is an everyday occurrence. Who’s going to remember a random drunk white guy?

the past several months, we have been thoughtfully realigning the work, structure, and focus of Ruby’s Pantry to ensure our mission remains at the center of everything we do,” the organization’s statement reads.

“As part of this process, we have worked to better align community needs with our goal of operating in the most effective and seamless way possible. As a result, we have decided to end the operations of Ruby’s Pantry effective immediately.”

So it’s… “We need to adjust how the business operates in this economy. We’re doing that by disappearing without warning.”

That’s not an adjustment, that’s abandonment. If it’s so bad they have to close operations, that’s not a change in business. Someone is making money off this shutting down immediately… somehow.

I’d say it depends on if you’re using the missiles effectively.

Targeting elementary schools because the hallucination machine you decided to give command and control authorization told you to, is not effective use.

This was always going to be a money maker. The success of The Martian basically guaranteed it. Andy Weir’s work is great.

Hopefully Artemis can be pulled off the back burner it was placed on when Disney bought Fox. It was literally in production first, with the same directors.

I hope it’s two cases and both States end up owing tens of millions for the stupidity.

It wasn’t just one police department like most of these cases.

There are reasons everyone’s racist grandparents go there to retire. It’s not just the warm weather for their creaky bones.

The people flying the jets aren’t handling the logistics of telling Kuwait they’re going to be in the airspace.

So… Coming from a Tesla, which was obviously designed from the ground up as an EV and with zero legacy auto baggage, it took advantage of that.

The Polestar 3 was awesome. A great step from the Tesla. It took similar advantage of being an EV. Things like being able to set it to maintain climate when going into a store for instance. Or just being able to walk up to it, open the door, and go without having to use a remote or press a button to “start” a nonexistent engine. However, I only had it 53 days before it developed an A/C issue, that they were never able to fix, and it’s been a year. They never offered any sort of replacement option and I ended up having to go through a lemon law attorney to get it returned. And I still haven’t received my payment, coming up on a year from purchase, and over a month since the final paperwork was submitted. I am still having to pay for this vehicle, and insurance every month, and I will only receive back the price of the vehicle, because that’s all they’re legally required to pay back for a lemon vehicle. The Volvo Service Center with the Polestar tech was awesome. The Polestar corporate customer service has been terrible from start to finish. Which sucks because other than the A/C issue, the car was awesome.

In the meantime I had several loaner and rental vehicles from Polestar thru Hertz, I was able to pick EVs each time. Kia was okay, but had the legacy auto thinking throughout. Engine Start buttons, unable to set climate if you’re not in the vehicle, etc. It was sclear they just removed the gas engine and plopped in the electric stuff without any additional thought about what they could do differently. The wireless charger also was terrible.

Mercedes was terrible all around. They don’t even have Traffic Aware Cruise Control as standard apparently. That’s an extra purchase, which of course Hertz didn’t do. So it was 40 year old dumb cruise control only. Along with the same Engine start buttons, etc.

In October as the EV credits were disappearing thanks to Trump, I decided to get a replacement for the Polestar that would eventually be returned. Ended up going with the Honda Prologue simply because all my vehicles prior to the Tesla were Hondas, the test drive was okay, and I was only planning on a 3 year lease anyway to give other manufacturers a chance have actual competition because right now, they’re is very little competition for real EVs. The Prologue is bad. It’s not a Honda. At all. It’s a GM vehicle through and through, no Honda DNA at all. The key is a GM key with the round spot for the GM logo, but the Honda H glued in its place. Hell, it has On* for fucks sake, it’s not a Honda. It has an engine Start button. It can’t maintain climate without being on. The phone app works only 75% of the time to start climate remotely. There is no phone key option. The keycard on my Elite trim… Functionally useless. It’s not a proximity keycard, or has to be held to the door to unlock, and will not automatically unlock when you walk away. You have to use the regular keyfob for that. Even then, you also have to press a button on the handle to unlock the car when you get in, even if you have the key fob in range, that just allows the button the unlock the door. It is a perfect example of how the legacy automakers can’t even seem to imagine what an EV allows them to do beyond just being a different drivetrain. There is also an annoying wind noise from the front driver window area near the side mirror that nearly everyone complains about online. The dealership checked the seals and tried to gaslight me that it’s normal and only noticeable because you don’t have the noise of the engine, bullshit. There’s a badly designed seal, or badly designed mirror shape causing excessive noise, but nothing they would do anything about so it’s just there at any speed above 35mph.

It’s not a bad vehicle to drive, and if you are coming from a regular gas car bone of this would likely be out of place or even noticed. But for someone coming from an actual EV since 2018, it’s an extremely pathetic attempt at an EV. The fact someone at Honda even greenlit it as an option, is a disappointment to the entire brand. It is a Chevy Blazer with a Honda T-shirt on it.

Once this lease is up, I’ll be headed to something like a Lucid or Rivian. I had test driven a lucid back in September and wanted to go that way, but could not handle having to pay for both the Lucid and the Polestar at the same time. So I’ll stick with the disappointing Prologue for the lease period, and go to an actual EV brand, unless something fundamental changes with the legacy auto manufacturers. But without the threat of competing with Chinese EVs here in the US, they’re never going to get better, they don’t have to. Even if we were to double the price of the Chinese EVs, what you get with them is way beyond the US makers and it’s worth it every single time. Just take a look at the convenience and technology they have included on their entry level vehicles for comparison.

Does it though? This isn’t even approaching being out of the ordinary for this administration.

Everything they do is implemented in the most incompetent fashion, because everyone running this now has no relevant experience for what they’re supposed to be running. They all come through the fascism media news machine and Trump puts them in charge of something as a reward for being a yes man.

The headline isn’t even accurate apparently. All the new articles out about this today with more info say that it wasn’t even US forces, it was Ecuador with the support of US hardware.

The incident reportedly took place in the remote village of San Martín in northern Ecuador. According to the newspaper’s sources, US forces did not directly participate in the operation but provided a helicopter that transported Ecuadorian soldiers to the site on March 3.

The farm’s owner and local residents deny claims that the site was used to store weapons, NYT writes. According to locals, the strike was part of a broader multi-day operation by Ecuadorian forces, who earlier that week burned two abandoned houses nearby and later dropped bombs on another building.

They do. But if the US doesn’t communicate, like they didn’t here, then that information won’t be accurate.

450km (280 miles) with a 10 minute charge time is enough fine for 90% of use cases, including most consumer travel.

As it is even with longer charging times currently, all it takes is reframing your thinking and planning a tiny bit when travelling. The cars all plan this out for you anyway when you use the navigation. You don’t need to charge fully every time, you just need enough to make the next leg of the trip, and they charge faster at lower percentages.

From personal experience, most of the time that’s only a 15 or 20 minute pit stop. If you’re actually doing what you should for your health, stretching, use the restroom, getting snacks, etc. that’s a timeframe you’re probably already going to be close to anyway when stopping, especially if you’re travelling with others.

Also looking at the article closer… it seems to be that these numbers are with a 45kWh battery pack. Many current vehicles with similar ranges use a pack nearly double the size. My old 2018 Tesla Model 3 LR had a 75kWh pack and was rated for 310 miles. My old 2025 Polestar 3 had a 111kWh capacity and rating of 315 miles. My current 2025 Honda Prologue has an 85kWh pack and is rated for 280 miles.

None of these vehicles ever felt like I had limited range when traveling long distances, and I never felt like I was sitting around waiting for a charge for very long on trips since most of that downtime I was doing other things while it charged since you don’t have to stand there as it fills.

If we extrapolate the 450kWh numbers out to a 90kWh pack you’re at 900km or 560 miles. Obviously it’s not linear, since there’s the added weight to consider, but that’s way more than most people need or even currently have in their gas cars.

Furious.

Paramount is taking a minority but vocal online response as gospel, like they have for all new trek.

The 90s era shows there was no social media. All it’s done is give “influencers” with minority opinions that peddle anger to make ad revenue from YouTube and Twitter, an outsized voice for corporations to listen to. The same types of people that seem to have opinions totally anathema to the Trek ethos in general. The anti-Woke brigade coming along as if Trek doing the same thing it always has is somehow new and different.

For the modern trek shows, that seems to be the only group that Paramount listens to, probably because it requires absolutely no effort. They can have ChatGPT or Grok consolidate those opinions easily.

It probably doesn’t help that clear public fascists were just allowed to purchase Paramount. And Trek’s ideas are directly counter to how they want the world to work.

The trafficking is part of the purpose. Nice flow of bodies for the pedophilia machine.

Of course, but Columbus was pivotal in the massacre of millions of native people. Of course the Trump team wants a statue of him.

the rest were bad dragon dildos

I’ve seen other posts of people buying those specifically to fuck with TSA like that. Such a good idea.

So… He must have been using shipboard wifi. I can’t imagine they’re allowing private satellite internet solutions, and phone signals aren’t going to cover very far from shore.

Why would they not block things like Strava at the network level?

This isn’t just an OpSec failure by the sailor, but from whatever team handles shipboard communications as a whole.

How‽ You used Unity for the first game! Why would expect a difference for the second?

That doesn’t necessarily mean anything. The owners care more about the news type aspects of these purchases, not the entertainment side.

Look at all the vocal MAGA Trek “fans” that seem to completely ignore the history of the franchise when trying to say it’s gone Woke and similar shit. Just because the owners are fascists that doesn’t mean the showrunners will be forced to avoid tackling topics indirectly. That’s what Trek has always done, sometimes less indirectly than others.