Remember when the slashdot effect was a thing that mattered?

I’ve been boycotting Amazon since 1999, so no I haven’t been paying attention.

Ah, so dark as in evil, not dark as in low light. I hadn’t heard of that, but going through the darkpatterns.org website is basically a laundry list of shit I hate.

I hate Amazon probably more than most people in the world and have been boycotting them since roughly 1999, but… “dark patterns???”

Nah, I have been in meetings with him before. While he was an asshole that I hated due to the way he treated my customer, he was really smart and spoke very lucidly and concisely. He had a vision and was doing everything he could to achieve it.

Nowadays it’s like he has no coherent vision and is just doing whatever wild shit comes to his head. I think when he went from “barely a billionaire who spent it all and nearly went bankrupt” to “holy shit printing billions” then all guardrails came off and he let himself go free.

Someone probably reminded Elon of the giant government grant he took to expand the supercharger network and that he could make the company liable for losing all that money.

Seriously, that’s really low rates. Healthcare and all that overhead is usually at least double of the actual salary.

It’s eco-conscious, not eco-friendly.

I didn’t say I got it over antenna. I said TV with commercials was for TV that came from the antenna.

I’m old enough to remember when cable didn’t have ads. I was really young, maybe 5ish, but even then it was confusing to me when they started adding commercials. That was for bad TV with the antenna. Then it was only HBO that didn’t have ads, but we couldn’t afford that until I was much older.

EDIT: I guess my memories of being 5 years old aren’t very accurate.