PurpleTentacle

I was going to add stupidity, but they usually go hand in hand.

To be fair, neither do most Lemmyngs.

The only question I'm wondering about:

Is Trump just an idiot or Putin's useful idiot? How much of this is sheer stupidity and how much is deliberate chaos controlled by a foreign entity?

The fact that Trump put Tariffs on penguins but not Russians feels telling.

Kompromat / компромат

and, yes, the Chinese government has used similar methods.

Ich hab nicht viel beizutragen außer: danke, ich habe deinen Beitrag mit Aufmerksamkeit gelesen. Ein Upvote allein schien mir dafür nicht ausreichend.

Tesla understood the "computer on wheels" approach to vehicle engineering far before most, if not all, traditional manufacturers. Their EV route planner in combination with their Supercharger network is still mostly unbeaten and was long its biggest selling point. The software is far from perfect, but it's mostly polished, mature and has been a focus from the beginning.

All your criticism is perfectly valid, though. But most of them aren't owed to lack of software quality but merely bad management decisions. I'd even argue that the autopilot is doing well with the limited sensors its been given - a restriction its unlikely to overcome with software alone, regardless of Elon's lies.

I would never buy a Tesla, but most manufacturers struggle more when it comes to delivering software people actually want to use.

Software was probably one of the last areas where Tesla still had a small edge over the competition.

The competition has caught up when it comes to range and Teslas were never really competitive when it comes to quality or price.

Cherry-picking the Bible as usual:

A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet.

Timothy 2:11-13

Of course. But on the other hand: Who else would?

It's not like Bob from Des Moines is going to find $100 billion behind the sofa cushions to buy it. There aren't that many companies with much higher valuations.

The only thing that surprised me about the idiotic numbers was that they weren't overwritten by even dumber ones in sharpie.

It's an old British Idiom far preceding Pink Floyd.