So many purchases of non-physical items are a revocable license. There's a good chance they didn't use LaTex to create their court filing documents because that software too probably comes with a revocable license to use, not own.

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Most A.I. junk videos are easy to spot handily.. and if you don't manage to notice, just go to the comments. There'll be someone calling it out for being fake.

Oh my god, dude, how much are the gas companies paying you?

You run into the same things with gas cars. Oh, I'll just pop into the gas station on the way to work. If it's open when I'm driving to work. If it's not busy. If the pumps aren't down. If you don't mind standing there in the weather pumping for five minutes. If you don't mind the gas stench. If you remembered your wallet. If if if.

If you're not running gas, your stove is probably 240, your dryer is probably 240, and if you have central AC, it's probably running 240.

But there isn't a market for 'forever' devices. Like it or not, the consumers have spoken.

And besides, how do you have 'forever' tech when tech advances so quickly?

There is, in fact, a difference between equipment designed to be regularly maintained, and equipment designed to be sealed once and never touched again.

You are 100% correct that the Earth will continue to, as you say, 'do it's thing.'

The problem is, 'it's thing' might include 'no longer being habitable by humans,' and that's going to be a bit of an inconvenience for us.

I've been in a movie theatre maybe twice in the past decade. Spending (god knows how much now) on tickets, only to have to watch thirty minutes of adverts before the actual movie starts, and not having any control of what rude people show up to the theatre fiddling with their cell phones the whole time is no longer fun. After 9/11 and the endless wars and corruption that came from it, both movies and TV became a lot darker. I miss the days when the only actual presidential scandal was a blow job. Things were much lighter then. Hollywood should not get all the blame for it. Society changed. America is the only place where a show like "Breaking Bad" could make sense. Nowhere else are people losing their life savings over medical debt. No wonder we lost our sense of humor.

If you look at what company owns LinkedIn you will understand why it has gone to sh;t.

hint on who it is: Their headquarters are at One Microsoft Way, Redmond WA

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My bad, those were Telsa global delivery numbers, not US. For the US sales numbres:

Q1 Sales: 128,100 vehicles were sold and Q2 Sales: 143,535 vehicles were sold for a total of 271,635 which would mean a significant number of EVs were purchased from other vendors this year in the US. THAT's a big deal if you're a Tesla stock holder or employee.

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Obviously stated by someone who has never driven a modern EV. Because they have the torque of a turbo diesel, the speed of an LS8 and at more than 2x the energy conversion efficiency. They get ~300 miles on effectively the energy of 3 gallons of gasoline.

But, if you REALLY like driving snow plow looking vehicles becasue they look manly have at it. But don't judge until you've pinned yourself into the seat a few times in one of the many EVs on the market today.

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Google says Tesla sold Q1 2025, 336,681 vehicle deliveries and Q2 2025, 384,122 vehicles delivered.
I guess some of those could have been sold in 2024 but a full 100,000 unit difference and that's just Telsa so the 50,000 or so GM and Ford sold aren't even counted. Note, just guessing on the Ford and GM number since they are usually just a fraction of Tesla sales.

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