Duamerthrax

I've dropped websites over less.

After electing Bush II twice? It never was.

5 minutes. I don't live in a swing state and go during work hours, so that might effect it.

I was just picking up food at a gas station and had a woman stair me in the eyes and ask me if I believed in god. I thought she may have been setting up for a joke about the touch screen, but when she just asked again and I silently walked away. She then moved onto another person and I waited for my food to be finished outside. When I came back in, she had cornered an employee. There was a trump rally outside, so I do believe that she was more likely to have been an evangelical over something else.

Yeah, I just checked. I can see my own dislikes. They hide the number directly, but I can see how many likes I have and the ratio of likes to unlikes.

Also, the creators that I follow didn't like having the dislikes removed. Even if they did, I can make my own judgement calls. I'm sure the creators who are more dependent on sponsorships like not having their embarrassments visible. I'm sure IH doesn't mind that stuff not being visible for "his" hole video.

Except that the uploader can still see the downvote count. It was just removed so that corporations wouldn't be embarrassed when they put out an unpopular trailer or product.

There's a long list of historic examples of people who actual are what the techbros fantasy about being. I was limiting myself to living examples of people who were just interested in the tech. Carmack's comments when he left facebook was fun to see. I always thought he was better then that company.

When Google removed the dislikes from youtube videos, one of the lies they told was it was for the users(or uploader's) mental health.

A few things the cynics are missing.

1. The engineers who are designing this car don't have the political power to push for better mass transit.
2. Even in ideal circumstances, there will still be a need for personal transport vehicles and infrastructure. Small cars will still be needed.
3. Aptera has 31 employees as of 2023. If they're working overtime, it's because they're letting the company do it. Maintaining good moral is way more important in small companies.

Well, Stark is actually a fictional character in a genre that too often uses the term "smartest X alive" when that's not how intelligence works at all. Also, like others have said, Howard Hughes is more likely the inspiration for Stark. That being said, the closest irl "tech savant" I can think of is John Carmack.

When he wrote code at PayPal, people kept having to go back and fix it. He doesn't know what he's doing.

A friend's wife "makes" and sells AI slop prints. He had to make a twitter account so he could help her deal with the "harassment". Not sure exactly what she's dealing with, but my friend and I have slightly different ideas of what harassment is and I'm not interested in hearing more about the situation. The prints I've seen look like generic fantasy novel art that you'd see at the checkout line of a grocery store.