Take up paragliding. Highly recommend (unless you have an addictive personality, social commitments, other hobbies, etc).

Roughly the situation I’m in. I inherited an older model S when my dad passed away last year, and it’s old enough that it has free charging for life. So free car plus free charging (and less than 30k miles on it) equals “hard to pass up.” That said, their customer service has been consistently very terrible (have had it in twice plus a home visit to fix the charge port door not opening - ridiculous especially for such an essential piece of the vehicle), lots of very annoying little issues due to bad software and hardware engineering, and other expensive issues that cropped up due to poor product design and engineering (touchscreen got bubbles in it and had to be replaced - apparently they selected some laptop-type screen to use which can’t tolerate the heat that’s typically reached in a car sitting outside). Would never buy one and have even with the free charging, am still considering selling it to get away from the brand (let alone all of the whacko issues with the CEO).

The very clear point made here that should have shut all this noise down in the first place is that WPE is not obligated in any way to contribute back to Automattic (private biz) or the WordPress foundation (non profit). Complete shakedown by Matt that should be making all of us think very carefully about the future of the Wordpress platform as a whole. If one guy that runs a private business that also happens to be tied to a nonprofit that runs a widely used platform (yes, that does sound like a mess) decides that he’s not getting his way regarding your business that makes money off of the ecosystem (there are thousands), then he can throw a fit and shake them down too.

The platform isn’t perfect and has its warts, but it does fill a need that works for a lot of use cases. There’s a reason why so much of the web is using it. This drama has been making me give serious thought to completely abandoning the platform and recommending to everyone else that they do the same though.

Ooh - apostrophe gore in the title.

I appreciate the precision AND pedantry of your response. Great, concise explanation of exactly what that term means.

Who is your daddy, and what does he do.

Does that variant have the big guns that shoot the 5G mind control beams?

Gottttteeeeeeem

Hi honey, here’s Despacito…

Well the wing’s not supposed to fall off. Maybe it was flying outside the environment?

You’ll rue the day you crossed me, Trebek.

Well, the tire’s not supposed to fall off.

I don’t think cheeseburgers are kosher.

Have read Snow Crash more than once, but hadn’t heard of that New Yorker article. A+++. Loved that he had to put a quarter in everything.

The article said it well - why do we consider a slight decline in population of any country right now a horrible thing? The planet needs it.

Downvote to hell is the answer here.

Why are we still posting screencaptures of stuff from Twitter/not-X/Twitter?