I might be one of the few who had the reverse revelation, learning about her terrible politics, and then marveling at the amazing technical accomplishments when I read further. Is that a new different way to have a terrible time online? Discovering that Racist Duck also made milkshakes.

Can't blame this shit on the survey!

I checked, crypto shit was not in any of the top 8 results (top 5 broken out, and they mentioned 3 more, which are surely #6 through #8).

To think that when sneer club/techtakes migrated to lemmy, I was pretty sure we would not be getting a lot of incidental traffic to the communities. Just about as wrong as you can be.

Gross, that whole thread is gross. A lot of promptfans in that thread seemingly experiencing pushback for the first time and they are baffled!

Tedium and logorrhea in the substack comments, as intended. I wonder how often people on LW use "ink spilled" and "column inches" to describe themselves.

"10 to 20" so, 10. How many of the messages were just from Nayib Bukele and Javier Milei?

Very grim that she feels the need to couch her damning report with "some, I assume, are good people" for a paragraph. I guess that's one of her survival strategies.

Very true. Of course they voted to join in the plebiscite, they had recently overthrown the Pope in 1849 to make a short-lived republic. Unfortunately France under Louis Napoleon (who had personally participated in an 1831 rebellion against the Pope) crushed that Republic to appease those ultramontanes.

The pope was king of a large chunk of central Italy for 1000 years until the unification of Italy took away almost all of that territory. The Popes insisted he should have all of Rome and refused to acknowledge the situation from 1870 to 1929, only finally coming to an agreement (with the fucking fascists, hmm).

Almost 900 words to say, poorly, "It was just a joke (but not really)". The short tweets feel like they're designed for traction, but of course EY falls back on ponderous beigeness when he gets pushback.

Yes, it's normal to hire independent investigations, and I'm not sure why Verge worded it this way (sarcasm?), the actual 200 page report contains a lot of condemnation of Cruise...but inconsistently. The report does seem to massage the situation in favor of Cruise in several places.

I've only read about 30 pages of the report, but I don't see it anywhere consider whether the connectivity issues were intentional, despite Director Matt Woods streaming the video from his home computer (!?) in three consecutive meetings without trying to fix the issue or have someone else play it (it was available to everyone via Slack, including Cruise execs who were in-person at the meetings).

In fact, on page 54 it says he just paused it before the dragging happened: "Cruise expected and intended its October 3 meeting with NHTSA to follow its past practices in which Cruise employees would show a video of an accident or incident and respond to regulators’ questions based upon what they observed in the video. But this did not happen for at least two reasons. There were internet connectivity issues and the Director of System Integrity Wood paused the video at the point of impact, and then never resumed playing it."

Despite simply pausing the video at the moment of impact, the summary on page 13 says: "Virtual meeting with NHTSA representatives. Wood shows Full Video, again having internet connectivity issues causing video to freeze and/or black-out in key places including after initial impact."

Page 61-63 shows that there's debate whether they even showed the DMV the full 45s video or a 12s one that cuts before the dragging, with Cruise employees recalling both possibilities. Quinn Emanuel even hired an engineering consulting company to do forensics on Wood's home PC, which concluded: "It is not possible to verify [which video he showed]".

Yet, the summary of that meeting: "Cruise holds hybrid in-person and virtual meeting with DMV and CHP representatives. Wood shows Full Video"

These summaries seems extremely charitable to the point of inaccuracy, to me!

EDIT: extremely tangential but I find it funny that Quinn Emanuel founder John Quinn's wikipedia proudly announces that he has a podcast where he has interviewed, among others, NYC Mayor Eric Adams and Depp's lawyer Camille Vasquez.

You know, I thought that moving sneerclub onto lemmy meant we probably would not get that familiar mix of rationalists, heterodox rationalists, and just-left-but-still-mired-in-the-mindset ex-rationalists that swing by and want to quiz sneerclub. Maybe we're just that irresistible.