I was a teenager and still a virgin when I first watched the Sopranos. Uncle June taught me that a real man eats pussy no matter what.

Really, to be a true man, you should only be having gay sex. Women are too feminine and bring you down by proxy.

The true end game is for us poors to all die off and then there’s a lot less need for production, and fewer mouths to feed.

It’s all moving towards that.

Automation, once the population is too small to cover the jobs.

Maybe that IS the end goal. Get old people working so wages get fucked for everyone and the corporate overlords can increase their profit margins from a measly 99% to 99.9% or whatever

The U.S. won’t stop Musk from faking sales to make it look better than it is

Q3 2025: Americans buy over 900 million cybertrucks.

Holy shit everyone was right and he doesn’t understand how tariffs work

They put the 2.2 ecotec in several Opel models and the 2.4 in a select few I believe.

A sluggish 2.4 engine isn’t a performance engine. If anything, it’s ideal for fuel economy in those bigger cars because you’re not tempted to rev it that much. It’s got some more low end torque, but it’s not fun to redline.

The best highway fuel economy I’ve gotten out of a gasoline engine was a 3.5 V6. You never needed to rev it over 2000 in regular usage and honestly 3000 rpm was plenty for overtaking. It had plenty of top end power too but you never needed it, so the pedal only got full usage when overtaking someone in a 3.0 diesel Audi or BMW and they couldn’t handle an old Chrysler passing them, but my young reckless ass also wasn’t going to back off obviously.

I mean they used the ecotec engines in plenty of Opel, Saab, Vauxhall and Holden models too. Those are all non US market cars. Except maybe Saab which might have been sold in the US in addition to Europe.

I understand some of it tbh. Not the cars. A car is one and done, you manufacture it and you don’t NEED to spend much more after the fact to keep the happy new owner happy. There’s no way servers cost as much to run as they want for their cloud services (e.g remote start via app, unlock via app, etc). Sure there are R&D costs and they’re pretty big, but those usually end when a model comes out, so you can divide it by total cars sold to get how much it is per one car. Before Tesla, cars didn’t really get software updates unless there were major issues.

But I’m starting to understand why the software industry adopted the service model. Having worked for multiple companies doing B2B SaaS… The customers just keep asking for new things. Does a meal planning app need to be a subscription service? Probably not. But anything that keeps on adding new features costs a lot of money. Software engineers aren’t cheap.

Of course my view may be skewed because it’s B2B, not software anyone would just download off an app store or website. At my different jobs we’ve had billion dollar companies come and say “we love what you’re doing, we want to keep using it, but you have to do X, Y and Z or our workflow just won’t work and we can’t use it efficiently”.

Also in the world of consumer facing software, nobody wants a big upfront payment, but people are more willing to stomach a small monthly subscription. We could do away with proprietary software altogether, but oftentimes what happens with open source software is that due to lack of funding, devs don’t have enough time to work on things, and they lag behind proprietary offerings. Large software suites like Adobe Premiere are never “finished” and thus neither are the open source alternatives. But Adobe has a ton more engineering resources to throw at improving their product than most open source projects.

TL;DR: Software engineering is expensive. People working open source projects are often doing it in their spare time after the work that actually pays their bills. If you want free and open source software to be competitive to paid subscription software, you gotta set up recurring donations and convince other people to do the same. At least it’ll be forkable, voluntary and democratic, unlike with proprietary software companies.

And the other commentary who’s paid for 10 years with no decrease - what in the actual fuck???

Not to justify, just explain: That person likely only ever paid the bare minimum to cover interest. It’s like when you have a credit card. You can make interest-only payments, or you can pay more to start clearing the actual debt.

There are SO many property owners who could not keep their house with a 5% increase on their house loan

But it’s not a 5 percent increase, it’s a five percentage point increase on the interest.

I’ll take a loan calculator with typical Estonian values for an apartment, not a detached house, bought before the Ukraine war with the standard margin + euribor interest scheme.

250k @ 15% down, 30 years, 1.7% base interest + 6 months euribor. Euribor was 0, so we input that into the calculator. Monthly payment is 754 euros. About the same as rent for a decent 3 bedroom apartment, so not a bad deal, right? At least you get to keep it at the end of the 30 years, plus Euribor has been 0% for like a decade, it’s never going to go up. Well, now Putin attacked Ukraine and it triggers raised interests because they’ve already been too low and inflation has been too high. Over the course of the next ~2 years, Euribor goes up to 4%. Now your interest has gone from 1.7% to 5.7% annually, with the euribor part being updated every 6 months. And the payment? 754 euros monthly to 1233 euros monthly. If you’re making 2500 euros neto, 754 euros for a mortgage isn’t a bad deal, but 1233 euros as the prices on absolutely everything is going up 2-3x? Suddenly it’s a lot less affordable, at least if you have a family and such. For a single person it would still be doable.

How is DocuSign supposed to be a signature anyway? It’s not your handwriting, and there’s no cryptographic proof either.

Check out e-signatures like we do them in Estonia. The document has a cryptographic signature belonging to the person who signed it, with a date. Change the file in the container and the signature is no longer valid. It makes physical signatures pretty much obsolete because it’s easy to use and WAY easier to prove that the signature is not fake.

There are issues of course - someone who knows your PIN2 could steal your device and sign something before you can get the certificate revoked. You do need to keep your PINs secure.

You know, they say this Musk guy is such a smart businessman, but I personally have NEVER lost $148 billion, much less in the span of two months.

Matt LeBlanc is a huge car nut and could be a good fit for some car show, but no set of TG hosts had the chemistry of Clarkson, May and Hammond.

I’m gonna have to agree with you here.

There’s a better special tax carve out: Don’t require tax for the primary residence. The owner MUST be registered as living at that address. Not a family member. The owner.

Okay if you have family you can have a few more homes, but realistically, if you own 10 or 20 homes, how many people can you REALLY trust to have full ownership of them instead of you? You’re going to have to start paying tax at some point.

Every 3 years due to forced upgrades or just old style deprecation over 3 years.

iPads don’t deprecate in 3 years, nor require forced upgrades. They get nowhere near as much support as a regular Linux laptop (which is what schools SHOULD be using) and even less than Windows laptops pre-11, but if they’re being replaced every 3 years, that’s just policy, not an actual need. Currently the oldest supported iPad is going to hit 8 years since release in a month. The newest unsupported one is going to hit 9 in a month. So yes there’s forced upgrades, but that’s in like 8 years.

I work as a software engineer and most companies have had a minimum 3 year lifetime policy for company laptops. Reasoning being, after 3 years there’s a higher chance of failure, and there have been enough advancements in hardware that upgrading might save SOME dev time. If it fails before 3 years, you get a new one. If you want to keep it longer, you can keep it. But if you want a new one, it should be 3 years old first. I don’t get why school iPads need to be replaced this often, but I reckon there might be a lot more wear and tear and THAT could be the reason for a 3 year replacement policy. It’s simpler than just replacing individual units every now and then.

I don’t think any other country wants him either, except maybe Russia.

However, he IS a big space enthusiast. Maybe there should be not one, but two Teslas floating in space?

They also don’t wanna pay money. People who know Cobol want to be paid money in exchange for their services.

It’s one of the categories of humor. You can also be funny by timing, reference earlier works or common knowledge, etc. Best jokes combine multiple things. In this case, exaggeration and reference to common knowledge (DiCaprio likes em young)

They do which is why I wouldn’t recommend it.