Yeah that reads bad in retrospect, not trying to call Kia out explicitly, just broadly stating that car companies in general need to take a step back and look at WHY Tesla was so popular. The whole thing boils down to a counterculture movement against cat culturep. It’s the ultimate “my car is a tool / function over form” vehicle for commuters. It’s why the Y outsold the Camry. Hell, I’m shopping around FOR a Kia at the moment 😆, probably why their name was top of my head.

They keep trying to make tesla-like cars for people who don’t value function-over-form and it sours the general sentiment on them. Tesla made waves with th bS because it appealed to function-over-form gearheads, who don’t give a shit what’s under the hood as long as its fast.

I think Kia is the leader in the “electric for regular people” with be a close second, but they have those subscription shenanigans they’re doing so, fuckem.

All VW, Kia, etc have to do to beat Tesla is not be enshitification obsessed piles of shit and they just fucking can’t… it’s frustrating.

Land Sealion.

I mean Trainforce1 is right there, but Landforce1 sounds good too

Slimeless, legless, housed.

Houseplant?

I imagine if baptisms stacked, you could pile on a gazillion of them like ablative armor against incoming sin.

It’s actually much easier to teach someone with zero experience to shoot than it is someone who learned wrong.

I’ve been through an NRA (I know) rifle course and it actually is a well thought out presentation of the materials that can get a zero experience shooter hitting 10 shots in a 3" circle from 50ft standing with a .22 rifle in a weekend. I’ve seen it!

That said, finding such a class, interacting with people, paying with money, etc. isn’t for everyone, so I present the open source, some assemy required version:

https://socialistra.org/edu/

Also, find your dominant eye and don’t fight using that hand to shoot, even if it’s not the one you normally use.

https://www.allaboutvision.com/eye-care/eye-tests/dominant-eye-test/

Jobs wasn’t ignorant of his situation. He had the best doctors in the world telling him exactly what he needed to do . He decided to ignore them because he thought he was right and they were wrong.

Steve Jobs killed himself. The gun was his hubris and the trigger was the universe telling him no.

Excellent plating can do wonders.

I would imagine someone would still need to actually sue the Internet Archive for this to be a problem for them. The vast majority probably won’t care, and they’ll likely just have to deal with whatever the equivalent of a DMCA takedown notice is for them.

Absolute cancer of a meat bag probably thinks he just invented taxes.

They could move to a voluntary model in the worst case, they don’t profit from it. Institute a “robots.txt” style protocol for signalling opt-in intent to volunteer for scraping by the archive.

IPAIIPAAPA

You used to be able to set a web site as a background on windows XP.

I used that to terrible effect

I remember people groaning in the CS lab in college when they realized they hadn’t locked their machine before walking away for just long enough to let someone install sl.

“The root password is password, don’t let your dreams be memes little guy, good luck.”

Remember: 2019 to Now is historical times.

White Blaze (Byakuen), the white tiger from Ronin Warriors (might be a little before your time)