Those 40% either never heard of this or already dismissed it as fabricated. These people don’t see the same news as you.

Yeah, basically. Speeds up new installations, less duplicate downloads. Not interesting at all if you’re updating regularly, which most people are.

Please don’t post that without a trigger warning. Some of us are IE6 survivors.

The nice thing with plants is they don’t run away when you try to kill them with a pointy stick.

WA just publishes that for everyone to see. It’s wild that they do that.

That guy had worked for ICE for 10 years, should be enough to work some stuff out on his own.

They will, but only the ones who already believed that. Doubt there’s going to be a net change in either direction in our lifetime.

Also infuriating, so you’re going to be pissed off and more likely to click the link without thinking.

Also triggering to anyone upset by ICE murdering people in the streets. I’ve never been scammed, but the idea of my emails automatically announcing support for the gestapo stirred up some feelings in me.

… which is why it’s an excellent phishing email, hats off to them. I’d be way more likely to rush to the link in this case than if I received a standard “your account is being locked” phish.

Nobody runs AWS in their data center, but lots of people have a humongous and ancient oracle database or two running. Oracle Linux was forked from RHEL in the mid 2000s for this use-case.

I never had any interest in it because it didn’t make sense to run Oracle Linux for the DB and some other distro on everything else, so we went with a more mainstream enterprise distro we could use for everything.

After they acquired Ksplice and ruined it for everyone else they have a better value proposition for it, since now they’re the only ones who can patch kernel vulnerabilities without rebooting.

I’m pretty sure you can run Oracle Linux on bare metal? But it only makes sense if you plan to run Oracle software on it (they only support enterprise distros like Oracle Linux, RHEL, or SLES) or want to use Ksplice to patch the kernel without rebooting.

I’m not making excuses, I’m trying to explain the behavior. Understanding the reason for the behavior is step 1 in changing the behavior.

There is some reason which is resulting in Norwegians still buying Teslas. Similar countries, like Sweden, are not buying Teslas. What’s different in Norway? It’s very obviously not that they’re all uninformed, and it’s not that they’re all fascist. There has to be some other reasons which result in Norwegians choosing to give money to Elon.

Not everything is black and white. I don’t want to give money to Nestlé, but I also need to eat. I think Intuit is a terrible company, but TurboTax is also the most feasible way for me to do my taxes, so I hold my nose and give money to them. There’s nuance to everything. I’m curious what’s tipping the scales for Tesla specifically in Norway and not other places, and wondering how that might be changed.

While this is an issue everywhere, America dials it up to 11 by making you deal with all sorts of overcomplicated nonsense.

Healthcare in the US:

• Annual Prep: Open enrollment
  • Figure out what HMO, PPO and HDCP means, and what it means to you (which one is better depends on both your needs, your job, and also your spouse’s job, so good luck coasting on knowledge from last year)
  • Figure out what to do with HSA and/or the various FSAs, requires mapping out what you’re expecting to happen with your health, childcare and elderly care that year
• If your chest hurts and you’re worried:
  • Go to the ER (not urgent care, they’ll forward you to the ER even if you seem fine)
  • Get lots of unnecessary care (like three EKGs, a chest X-ray and some blood work) before they conclude you’re just stressed from living in America
  • Receive five different bills several weeks later
  • Keep those in mind for another week or two until your health insurance sends their version of events
  • Receive the explanation of benefits, which does not match the bills
  • Call both the provider and your insurance a few times to figure out what’s going on, because of course you have to mediate between them (they don’t talk to each other)
  • After thinking about these bills every day for about three months, you can finally pay them and be done with it

Healthcare in Norway:

• Annual Prep: None
• If your chest hurts and you’re worried:
  • Get a same-day emergency appointment at your doctor or call an ambulance, depending on how worried you are
  • They listen to you with a stethoscope and maybe do an EKG, conclude you’re fine
  • You pay your copay on the way out, and never think about it again

That depends entirely on the partner. Mine increases the todo list more than they alleviate it, but now I’m doing fun activities I wouldn’t even have known about on my own.

It’s way cheaper and easier to not have to source the buttons. The bean counters saw Tesla get away with doing it on the touchscreen, so they figured they’d get away with it, too.

“A nice Sunday out for the polycule”

Of course tax incentives apply to all EVs. I don’t think my point is coming quite across here. These aren’t the tax incentives you’re likely used to.

In the US, tax incentives for EVs amount to you getting a $3k or something like that discount on your electric car. Electric cars are more expensive to manufacture, so the incentive roughly cancels this out, so people who wanted to buy an electric car can afford to do so instead of buying a comparable ICE vehicle for roughly the same price.

This is not how Norwegian tax incentives for EVs work. Norway has a tax on combustion engines. The bigger the engine, the higher the tax. EVs do not have combustion engines, so this tax does not apply to them. The result of this tax structure was that ten years ago, a Tesla Model S was the price of a VW Golf in Norway. That was while people still bought Golfs. It’s hard to compare now because everyone buys EVs.

In every country there are assholes. Some vehicles appeal more to assholes. While there certainly are assholes driving a Prius, you’re more likely to see them in a Hellcat, an F1 Raptor or some huge diesel truck. If you wanted to buy one of those in Norway, you’d have to sell one of your mansions. If you don’t want to sell a mansion, or don’t have multiple mansion money, you buy a Tesla Model S or X. In most other countries assholes drive a variety of cars. The asshole market in Norway is 100% dominated by Tesla, and assholes don’t mind that Elon is a nazi.

If you want to compare with other countries, you’d get more meaningful results if you took another country’s data, substituted all performance ICE cars with Teslas, and then compared the results.

This isn’t the only reason. I listed a bunch of other contributing factors in my original comment. I forgot to mention the extensive Tesla supercharger network in Norway, but that probably also plays a role. I’m pretty sure other vehicles can also use those chargers, but it’s probably less convenient.

Free speech absolutistm is only for slurs, was that ever unclear?

Next quarterly report: “Usage of Copilot has increased 500,000% in the last quarter”

He’s resting his hand on his foot, because having two hover-hands in a photo looks awkward, and he doesn’t have any pockets.