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Forget what you read online: 94% of EV drivers won't go back to gas in c/electricvehicles@slrpnk.net
[–] 6 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I've seen YouTube videos of those car sales guys talking to customers and then regretting getting an EV because of the distance/range and lack of charging stations and stuff.

How many of videos are real and all that, I have no idea. Also, most of those customers are rolling negative equity and stuff so not a great judgment.

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    • 'A wasted effort': US tourism groups attempt to win Canadian visitors back in c/FuckTheUSA@lemmy.ca
    What movies out there have horrible taste and poorly thought-out plots but were excellently executed? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
    [–] 8 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    ATBGE? I missed that subreddit.

    It's hard for me to pin down to be honest because good execution hides a lot. I've found the Ocean Twelve movie really dumb but enjoyed it ... not sure if it's horrible taste though?

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    Person most likely to be able to survive the Apocalypse in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
    [–] 4 points 2 days ago

    I saw an episode where he decided to climb up onto some train tracks when he was lost and like headed into a tunnel. They "assumed" there were no trains and then it came last second and they were running and barely made it.

    I think it's obvious bullshit.

    Wait I found the clip: https://youtu.be/5jjpRIMn1mM

    Why would you ever waste energy doing this in a real situation and it's obviously staged or edited heavily to me.

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    • US Fatally Bombs Wedding in Iran, Killing 4, Including Children in c/world@lemmy.world
    The joe rogan experience in c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
    [–] 8 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    I watched a lot of Joe back in the day. He used to seem more reasonable and leaned more left because he would empathize a bit more with people. He would also have on more interesting guests.

    I know people are saying he was always like this but I don't think so. At least because I don't see it as binary. I think he was more reasonable back in the day. He is absolutely not funny though and his stand up blows -- that has been consistent over time.

    He says some shit recently like, "people are on a survival mindset, imagine if we just took care of their basic needs, how much better would that be?" Motherfucker! You endorsed and took credit for putting Trump in office that removed so much aid to the poor. Stupid fucking asshole. I don't know how he even has the nerve to say it.

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    • A pro-Trump home in Calgary has reportedly been hit with eggs, dog feces, and online arson threats in c/calgary@lemmy.ca
    [–] 33 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

    “The position of some would be to say, ‘Hey, this guy, he doesn’t agree with what we agree in, politically (even though) he goes to work, he pays his taxes … (so) let’s run them out of town,'” the homeowner said in an interview.

    “That’s not a good look in my opinion, in any democratic society.” ... “We’re proud Americans, we support the president, and that was the idea behind the flags,”

    Support him back at home you bumble fucks. He's trying to take over Canada. That's not a fucking "political disagreement". Also paying taxes isn't good enough of an argument for this shit. We should ICE him the fuck out of here.

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    The manosphere has a new dating hack: stop showering and let yourself stink in c/usa@midwest.social
    doggy rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    Cycling like the Dutch would slash the world’s carbon footprint in c/climate@slrpnk.net
    Flock CEO Garrett Langley Targeted as Address Shared Online in c/DeFlock@sh.itjust.works
    [–] 7 points 1 week ago

    You don't understand! They have to protect their children and their lives because they can be targeted!

    Poor people aren't real humans so it's okay. When they get targeted it's probably because they deserve it! /s

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    • Stole $10 million from children in c/antitrumpalliance@lemmy.world
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    The diamond scam is finally collapsing (and China is behind it) (youtu.be)
    submitted 4 weeks ago by to c/china@lemmy.ml
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    Saw this on YouTube, thought it seemed interesting.

    This may sound positive and it is that the shitty diamond market is eating it but there's more to it and another monopoly emerges.

    📌 Receive our guide to sourcing in China → https://statrys.com/whitepaper/china-clusterOpen a business account : https://bit.ly/welcome_statrys00:00 Introdu...

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    I "saved" a runaway dog last week (lemmy.ca)
    submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by to c/casualconversation@piefed.social
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    I don't really have many people to talk to about this but I finished my run with my run club and as I was leaving to go back to my car when I saw a Shiba Inu run towards me. I thought to myself: "that is a beautiful dog". Then I noticed no leash on the dog and then I saw two young adult men (I'm 40, everyone younger than me looks like a teenager so I dunno) run as fast as they could and they screamed, "STOP THAT DOG!"

    I've never owned a dog so I knelt down to the dog running towards me (behind me is traffic) and I spread my arms to block it and slowly wrapped my arms around the dog trying not to spook it. I put my fingers into the hole in the collar (where the leash hook would go ... I don't own a dog ... so I don't know what the names are) while trying to comfort a dog that wanted absolutely nothing to do with me.

    The two boys eventually caught up and I noticed neither had a leash and both kept a distance from me. One of them keeled over and the other one was trying to catch their breath while making a phone call. I said, "where's the leash?" They were like, "it's not our dog we're door-to-door salespeople". Apparently, they knocked on a door and the dog darted out and they tried their best to catch it. The one not keeled over in pain phoned the owner (I have no idea how he had her number) but she eventually arrived and picked up the dog.

    The owner didn't really say thank you or made eye contact with me at all. She took her dog and put it into the back of the car. I didn't really blame her for that. I can just imagine the shock and everything not really registering.

    I just thought it was a funny incident on my side and I was just happy to help.

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    Rant: Manager Came In and Told Us We Can't Touch Code Anymore (lemmy.ca)
     

    Pointless rant. Please ignore. I'm a software developer and we all know how AI has changed our industry. How we work or why we're fired and why we can't afford PCs.

    Anyways, we're already all forced to use AI already and we're already atrophying the minds of our juniors. It's great.

    New team meeting and one of our managers tells us that we're never going to write code anymore at all. The AI will read the JIRA ticket and create the pull request (change request to the codebase) on GitHub. Our job is to only review the code on GitHub and then rank how well AI did and then comment and then get AI to fix it. We have to do this so we can improve the AI process. Which is funny because none of the people who plan this AI shit are data scientists. The only way they can change things is by promoting, it's not like we're releasing our own coding models but anyways ... He's like, now you should be able to do much more work and just review PRs all day now and that we should never be doing only one thing. You can only tell AI through a GitHub comment to fix a mistake and then you can start reviewing the next thing.

    We were like, if it's a simple fix why can't we just fix it?

    "Because we need to improve the AI process"

    But then, I have to context switch.

    "Yes that's the point you can come back to it later"

    Why come back to it later when we can solve it now? We can even use AI to solve it now.

    "No, we want you just comment on the PR so the bot can handle it"

    Context switching is free apparently... It's actually infuriating because apparently we're not using IDEs any more. I personally use the GitHub plugin to review PRs in my IDE but no one else seems to do it so I don't think they even took that into account.

    These guys have auto merged AI code that's taken us weeks to unravel and which we still haven't fully been able to fix. They just merge shit all the time and a lot of it is fucking slip. AI merged hundreds of tests and no one cares when they break. They didn't configure prettier because AI doesn't use it so it breaks out formatting when humans do it.

    I ranted to my own manager for 30 minutes about it today and he was just as upset because every developer is now asking what exactly are they doing. My manager asked me what I would do. I said the process sucks but what are we supposed to do as devs. If I review 20 PRs a day, how is the company going to ensure my skills are gonna be sharp? What are we doing about taking in ideas from regular devs? How do we ensure code ownership when we're just merging tickets we don't write and code we had no hand in shaping?

    Sorry. I actually thought I had faith in my company with AI because they were coming up with thoughtful approaches but it seems like utter incompetence.

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