Distros decided a long time ago that they'd rather play with the cluster that is GNOME than KDE, not for technical reasons because KDE has always been a well designed and implemented desktop, they chose GNOME over licensing FUDD and the fearmongering that Qt wasn't open source enough.

Distros like Debian barely do more than bundle the KDE packages that KDE releases. They've got more important things to do like make up Yet Another GNOME because there's something that wasn't addressed by the 20 other versions.

Next they'll bill us to come to their warehouse and process the returns. Gotta work every angle if you're gonna chase that shareholder profit dragon.

I bought a 3D printer from Amazon once, spent $800 on it. I got a box filled with obviously used parts and no packing material. This was entirely on Amazon and their policy of being a storefront for 3rd parties, not the fact that I wanted a 3D printer.

You better believe I made them take it back, at their cost. Maybe be less of a corporate shill and realize the customer wanting their actual advertised product delivered undamaged is not unreasonable. The corporation should have insurance covering their sales in case of a return if it's so problematic.

Wow, a zombie poster.

Okay, first voter fraud is very very small. Pennsylvania, over 30 years and 32 elections had 39 cases of voter fraud. So it doesn't take many cases to become the majority of the cases. I don't have metrics on the last election but I do know for fact that many Republicans were burning or otherwise destroying ballot boxes and posting videos of themselves stealing and filling out other people's mail in ballots. I also know that after 4 years of screaming about mass voter fraud Republicans got real quiet after the election.

I also know that facts never matter to Republicans unless they're being used against them, in which case they're lies, or the other guy does it too, or some other deflection. So if you want facts, ask 4Chan or the Kremlin, I'm not your research department and I don't have to prove anything.

Because voter ID requirements have traditionally been used to disenfranchise American citizens, not illegal undocumented workers. Just like purging the voter polls magically shrinks the Democrat voters. Same as jerrymandering. It's all games by the party in power to attack the other side's voter base. Far more Republicans commit voter fraud, especially in this election, going on social media bragging about stealing mail in ballots and filling them out for Trump. Do you honestly think that's going to get looked at closely now?

SpaceX doesn't need the government you say? Fine, they can pay back the $15 billion in government contracts and $1 billion in starlink subsidies they've received then.

SpaceX very much needs government contracts and subsidies to keep operating, and let's not forget the government could turn around tomorrow and declare all space launches must go through NASA if they wanted, and SpaceX would be screwed.

Yeah sure, you budget for a project that is being changed daily as new materials/designs/requirements are set out and we'll watch you swing on that gibbet because it's impossible. Just for testing, how many full size vehicles are you willing to destroy in testing to be sure it all works, gotta budget for every single one of those. Oh no, we still don't know what's causing this failure but we already spent our testing budget, oh well...

You left out the part where Elon gets $46 Billion as a "bonus" while cutting his staff and hiring clueless contractors to build a POS truck that amputates fingers. The kind of behavior that's driving Boeing under and led to all their current woes. No corporation today cares for anything other than short term profit at any cost.

Do unions get attached to government projects, sure, and where do you think they spend the money they earn? It's not in China, if you need a clue. Personally I'd rather someone with some experience who's happy with their job build the big items rather than a high school grad on their first job with no benefits, no paid overtime and 12 hour days already working on their exit strategy before they''ve even finished training, because they KNOW they're being screwed.

You're putting a lot of faith into an unproven idea there. First of all, let's look at Tesla as a whole, their cars are the epitome of over-promise under-deliver. They STILL can't figure out how weather seals work on models that have been in production for several years.

They want absolute control over every piece of their cars, from the sale to the maintenance and the warranty. They want payments up front for sight unseen 2nd hand vehicles where you have to trust that they won't ship you something worse than you had.

Finally, Tesla can't even successfully pull off a high end product like the Cybertruck and hasn't refreshed their model S in 10 years, they simply don't have the capacity to make a sub $30,000 car.

You left out the fact outside of large cities, most locations refuse to fund public transport in the first place and any government program is perceived as some form of communist oppression or tyranny.

They Cybercab, same amount of random crashing, not a damn thing you can do about it since there's no manual controls. The Future!

Inductive charging! We're losing a lot of capital building chargers so we're gonna have the government build it out for us. The Future!

Can we all please stop referring to people who use AI tools as artists? If your work is wholly AI generated and you added nothing but some prompts, you are not Da Vinci. I don't know if you should even be considered as equal to someone who colors inbetween the lines of a diner menu with those free crayons.

Oh look, it's an entitled boomer. Never seen that before. No sir.

Shouldn't you be outside measuring the neighbors grass height so the HOA can put a lien on their house or something? I bet they have kids too, the little bastards, wanting to play outside and make all that noise. Serve them right to have their house seized. Oh, I don't think you have enough cameras and spotlights pointed at their house either. Better fix that.

Unless they are in front of a customer, why are you worried about what someone is wearing? They're working, not showing off the latest fashions to their coworkers.

You're the kind of person who would fire Einstein for not combing his hair.