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If anything, the job is 99% awarding contracts and 1% monthly progress meetings.

It is the biggest con since Tesla FSD. Countless pictures from the civil war in Syria are passed off as if they were from Gaza. Countless staged photos and videos. Countless articles repeating Hamas claims with pictures whose captions have nothing to do with what's actually in the picture. Every stupid thing someone said gets butchered to fit Hamas narrative. Your ridiculous Wikipedia article is no different, including that quote some "Israeli official" said a day or two after the October 7 attacks. Not only was he referring to Hamas, it didn't even happen. The amount of food that entered the Gaza Strip during the war is gargantuan[1].

Don't get me wrong, people are definitely suffering, but when there are so many lies, it's hard to tell what's true, and when you spend your entire life in bomb shelters and see your friends and family get murdered, it's even harder to care.

Look at the UN. You've got that Francesca Albanese woman, who's supposed to be an "expert on human rights". Even she spread the obvious lie that "Israel killed more journalists in Gaza than both world wars combined", a ludicrous claim anybody with half a brain knows is ludicrous. Nobody knows how many journalists died in the two world wars (nobody knows how many died in Gaza while we're at it), and even her source for that claim says so ("No one knows how many reporters have been killed doing their jobs... Available counts are fragmentary and deaths of non-Western journalists, especially prior to the 1990s, are largely undocumented.").

But she spread the lie anyway, and the media helped her spread it more. Why? Why would an intelligent UN official spread such a lie? Why was the Wikipedia article about Zionism edited to say that "Zionists wanted to create a Jewish state in Palestine with as much land, as many Jews, and as few Palestinian Arabs as possible", with the only "sources" cited for that insane, false claim being anti-Israel texts from the past decade only?

Not everything about the war is a lie, but much of it is.

[1] https://gaza-aid-data.gov.il/mainhome/

> Said home was forcefully taken though.

Prove it.

People are vandalizing Jewish restaurants, synagogues and monuments; terrorizing Jewish people and students; and murdering random Jewish grandmothers on the streets to affect political change?

Please.

So am I. The number of people repeating a lie doesn't make it true.

That has to be true first.

If you say so

Murdering 30,000 innocent people in three days of protests is indeed not in the ballpark of killing 30,000 militants in two years of a war, you're absolutely right.

> made life really much harder than it needed to be

If only you had read the manual...

Seriously though, of course I wasn't advocating for rudeness, and trust me, I remember how rude some people were back then in tech-related boards, this was not a unique Perl thing. I'm advocating for pointing people to the sources of information they're looking for.

> You've made my shitlist

Well then I hope it's posted somewhere I can refer to at will so that I don't have to ask you on a message board like a noob.

I disagree, at least when it comes to the web (of those days). What's the point of rewriting what's already well- and accurately-written in the docs? What better job are the people on that message board going to do with regards to such a small, specific syntax feature? The point of those "communities" wasn't to answer questions like "what is this variable?" but rather to have actual discussions on the language, such as how to structure applications, design patterns, projects, etc. Imagine trying to build an online community for this purpose, only to spend your days answering the most basic questions possible that were already explained many times before.

Eventually, a website more tailored to such questions was created - Stack Overflow - and there things were very different than in subject-specific communities: there was no "community", there were no discussions, just a big mess of questions. It had a purpose and it served it well. Now it's dying too because of LLMs, but I digress.

Now, in a different scenario, say a colleague asking you that question at work, a direct answer is warranted, but without letting the colleague know that this information and a lot more is a just a few keypresses away would be a wasted opportunity, and not particularly a good way to help that colleague progress.

You can only spoon feed people so much. At a certain point relying on other people to just give you the answer every time you don't know something is lazy. It's like you have no respect for their time.

Call the NHTSA and tell them to cancel the recall then.

> to be the fall guy

People keep saying that, but what did she take the fall for?

> i hate this idea

lol

> 3rd country

lol

> benefit cool idea

lol

How can we not know it? It's every second sentence out of every Tesla fanboy's keyboard. Thankfully, people wised up to the scam and it's no longer the case.

It's Musk, not Trump. Musk can do no wrong in the eyes of 20 year old programmers who believe a tablet on wheels is going to make them rich one day.

I thought it was obvious I was being facetious.

Yes. I wrote about this on my blog six months ago [1].

CloudFlare has positioned itself as the doorman of the Internet, deciding who gets to visit shitty websites written by AIs and who doesn't. Every time I try to visit a website and get blocked by this company and its unnecessary services, I congratulate myself for avoiding yet another terrible website and move on with my life.

[1] https://ido50.net/content/what-chafes-my-groin-9.html

Has your phone tried to kill you yet?

> Clearly some people care about that. I'm legitimately curious why.

Because it hurts the feelings of Tesla owners who not only own at least one Tesla vehicle, they also own at least one $TSLA share and they think it's some conspiracy to destroy their share value.

It's called a "secondary"[1] and it's extremely common. It's how both investors and founders make millions on startups long before an acquisition or IPO, often before the startups are profitable.

As for my take on VCs in general, of course I don't have any actual data to support my rant, it's purely anecdotal based of my personal experiences and should be treated as such.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private-equity_secondary_mar...

VCs want founders who are willing to play the game and can do it well: lying to (potential) customers, making insane promises, presenting fake demos as if they were real products and using fancy accounting tricks to make the business look profitable, when in fact it is bleeding their money, all so that they can easily find _other_ investors to bail them out. VCs have perfected legal Ponzi schemes.

I have no problem with your impression of Fat Mike, but your only example is flawed. He never actually serve urine to anyone. https://archive.completemusicupdate.com/article/no-one-drank...

You probably know better than me, but in those 6 weeks I drove in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and I charged a lot, in many different stations. Many did not accept a credit card:

In Scotland, many chargers only accepted some specialty charging card that foreigners can't buy.

Many stations claimed they do accept credit cards, but when I got there, card payments were conveniently "disabled at this time".

Apps that did take credit card _all_ refused to work with non-British billing addresses. The only app I got to work was ChargePoint, and I only succeeded in that after many trails and errors, looking for ways to trick it into thinking I was British and getting it to successfully charge my card (which eventually I did). And they do not charge your card per session, they randomly bill your card based on usage predictions. They still haven't returned me the 75 pounds they stole from me on the last day of my rental, because they figured I was surely going to need them soon.

And again, no receipts anywhere.

All in all, it was an awful experience.

EDIT: I only now notice that I wrote _most_ stations only link with your credit card. That's most probably an exaggeration, I suppose that was just the impression I ended with. All in all, I wasted exorbitant amounts of time on that trip purely on charging. Quite a few stations also failed on me, now that I'm ranting. In Northern Ireland, chargers often could not be used because there was no cell reception so I couldn't use the app, and cards were not accepted. One charger abruptly terminated my session mid-charge and made a scary noise and refused to work again. Turns out the charger stopped because _it itself_ lost Internet connection.

I see, as far as I know that is not possible with Tesla rental in the UK (where my experience was). This is nice, but does it work with non-Superchargers? I wouldn't want to be tied down to one provider on vacation. Superchargers are rare in some countries.

1. You're talking about Tesla ownership, not rental.

2. You still need a very specific payment source, even if it's not physically on you at the time of purchase. If you're a foreigner, this may be literally impossible for you. Many places only work by linking with your local bank account. Tourists do not have local bank accounts.

A thousand times this. Hertz dumped a Polestar on me on a 6 week trip in Britain and it was absolutely ridiculous. No cash option anywhere. Most charging stations didn't even accept a credit card, and those that did required installing a badly written app that only works 20% of the time. Most apps/chargers only link your bank account, and I'm a fucking tourist, I don't have a bank account. And to top it all off, absolutely no charger anywhere gives out receipts, so I couldn't present the receipts/invoices for tax purposes.

They can't, literally. There is no register.

Welcome to the future. Here in Israel, I have seen multiple instances over the years of either the McDonald's ordering panels being down, the McDonald's website being down, or both. When the panels are down, only the website/app can be used to order food. When both are down, no food can be ordered, and you'll see the employees standing idly in the kitchen, twiddling their thumbs, unable to do anything.

I took the sleeper from London to Edinburgh (and back) with my father in 2017 because of this website as well. It is clearly a labor of love.

I use nitter a lot now that most links on the Internet are to tweets. It provides an experience vastly superior to that of actual Twitter. It takes Twitter from an unreadable cesspool to a readable cesspool.