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@sleepyfox @Setok

Car makers, especially European ones, baffle me. Every last person I know would buy an EV if it looked like the Volkswagen Beetle of the '70s. Before EVs, half of them would have bought a replica gas-powered one. What did they do instead? The "new" Beetle. When did the "new" anything ever sell well?

An EV replica Beetle. <sigh>

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@sleepyfox @Setok

Car makers, especially European ones, baffle me. Every last person I know would buy an EV if it looked like the Volkswagen Beetle of the '70s. Before EVs, half of them would have bought a replica gas-powered one. What did they do instead? The "new" Beetle. When did the "new" anything ever sell well?

An EV replica Beetle. <sigh>

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@alan @DoorbellQueen

Yes, Costco's bakery is remarkably good. We have tried their croissants and like them. Lidl's are also pretty good, and you can buy them in single units.

Interesting that Costco sells them unbaked. If they're the same ones they sell baked, one wonders why they're not as good. We'll investigate...

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@alan @DoorbellQueen

Yes, Costco's bakery is remarkably good. We have tried their croissants and like them. Lidl's are also pretty good, and you can buy them in single units.

Interesting that Costco sells them unbaked. If they're the same ones they sell baked, one wonders why they're not as good. We'll investigate...

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Good morning!

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Good morning!

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Slightly cloudy sky over a rooftop with sun just behind it. 

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@alan @DoorbellQueen

Ah, yes, croissants! We looked into those and likewise concluded they just weren't worth the effort. We get ours at Lidl. Haven't tried freezing them, but will do so.

Where do you get yours?

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@alan @DoorbellQueen

Ah, yes, croissants! We looked into those and likewise concluded they just weren't worth the effort. We get ours at Lidl. Haven't tried freezing them, but will do so.

Where do you get yours?

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@DoorbellQueen @alan

Yes, @DoorbellQueen 's bagels are better than any you can buy. They're just a huge amount of work. Our English muffins are also better than any you can buy. But they're a lot of work too. We buy things we can't make, can't make as well as a pro, or that just aren't quite worth the effort, even if ours are better. That's not a long list at all.

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@DoorbellQueen @alan

Yes, @DoorbellQueen 's bagels are better than any you can buy. They're just a huge amount of work. Our English muffins are also better than any you can buy. But they're a lot of work too. We buy things we can't make, can't make as well as a pro, or that just aren't quite worth the effort, even if ours are better. That's not a long list at all.

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@alan @DoorbellQueen

We do the same thing! Restaurant food has become so expensive in the last few years that don't go out much at all, anymore. If it's something that's too much trouble to make, or it's still a good deal, we will. But, mostly, we end up saying, "Ours is better and cheaper, and we could eat it in our jammies if we made it at home."

We still go out for gyros, mussels in sherry cream sauce, and deep fried chicken drumsticks ($1 each in a box of 20).

Oh, and bagels.

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@alan @DoorbellQueen

We do the same thing! Restaurant food has become so expensive in the last few years that don't go out much at all, anymore. If it's something that's too much trouble to make, or it's still a good deal, we will. But, mostly, we end up saying, "Ours is better and cheaper, and we could eat it in our jammies if we made it at home."

We still go out for gyros, mussels in sherry cream sauce, and deep fried chicken drumsticks ($1 each in a box of 20).

Oh, and bagels.

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@DoorbellQueen

Hey! How did the Old Bay end up behind the Colman's and the bullion cubes? Front and center, missy, where it belongs!

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@DoorbellQueen

Hey! How did the Old Bay end up behind the Colman's and the bullion cubes? Front and center, missy, where it belongs!

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@alan @DoorbellQueen

Brother, the keys are square jars and a pull-out drawer that pulls ALL the way out. The square jars make efficient use of the shelf space and (even more importantly) make it easy to keep things in alphabetical order. That and a drawer that lets you see the labels means I can (finally) find the spice I need on the first try, not the third (or fourth, if you count the fact that I tend to pick up the same wrong jar at least twice).

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@alan @DoorbellQueen

Brother, the keys are square jars and a pull-out drawer that pulls ALL the way out. The square jars make efficient use of the shelf space and (even more importantly) make it easy to keep things in alphabetical order. That and a drawer that lets you see the labels means I can (finally) find the spice I need on the first try, not the third (or fourth, if you count the fact that I tend to pick up the same wrong jar at least twice).

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Our new spice storage system. What shall @DoorbellQueen and I cook for you?

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Our new spice storage system. What shall @DoorbellQueen and I cook for you?

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@Setok

It does seem like a lost opportunity. They're doing a complete reinvention of their product line, but preserving nothing of their brand's credibility. What's left after that? Now, they're going to look like another deranged high-tech start-up. Ironic in the extreme since their new slogan is "copy nothing," while they are trying to be more Musk than Musk himself.

A lot of the world still doesn't trust EVs. This could have been their moment.

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@Setok

It does seem like a lost opportunity. They're doing a complete reinvention of their product line, but preserving nothing of their brand's credibility. What's left after that? Now, they're going to look like another deranged high-tech start-up. Ironic in the extreme since their new slogan is "copy nothing," while they are trying to be more Musk than Musk himself.

A lot of the world still doesn't trust EVs. This could have been their moment.

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@Setok

So they think "upmarket" means selling to space aliens?

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@Setok

So they think "upmarket" means selling to space aliens?

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@Setok

Holy hammerheads, Batman! That is just scary. She has a 'do like that mallet she's holding, which she had hidden behind her until taking it out to give me a look like I'd crossed that last line. A cop would probably open fire under The 21-Foot Rule.

THIS is their new appeal to consumers? Have they gone mad?

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@Setok

Holy hammerheads, Batman! That is just scary. She has a 'do like that mallet she's holding, which she had hidden behind her until taking it out to give me a look like I'd crossed that last line. A cop would probably open fire under The 21-Foot Rule.

THIS is their new appeal to consumers? Have they gone mad?

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woman in a red dress with a severe haircut looking down her nose at you with a bright yellow sledge hammer in her hands. Say your prayers.

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@mylulei @Moah

Except for the fifth or sixth time you do it and, realizing it _still_ isn't right, you also realize you have returned to the design you started with.

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@mylulei @Moah

Except for the fifth or sixth time you do it and, realizing it _still_ isn't right, you also realize you have returned to the design you started with.

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@ChrisPirillo

We've got our piece of the world. We'll still have it after they're gone.

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@ChrisPirillo

We've got our piece of the world. We'll still have it after they're gone.

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@memoriesin8bit

Agreed. All mechanical systems have some amount of slop in them. If the imprecision in a physics simulator introduces departures from perfect Newtonian mechanics, and those departures resemble real-world characteristics, that's a win for you as the developer.

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@memoriesin8bit

Agreed. All mechanical systems have some amount of slop in them. If the imprecision in a physics simulator introduces departures from perfect Newtonian mechanics, and those departures resemble real-world characteristics, that's a win for you as the developer.

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@gumpfloyd @rbreich

For those who can already see the corruption, no further exposure is necessary to get them to do their part. For those who do not already see the corruption, no further exposure will have any new effect.

What we do now is oppose, oppose, oppose. Use every ethical option to stop them from doing the harm they want to do. We are past persuasion. All that's left is cooperation with each other, in opposition to the other side.

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@gumpfloyd @rbreich

For those who can already see the corruption, no further exposure is necessary to get them to do their part. For those who do not already see the corruption, no further exposure will have any new effect.

What we do now is oppose, oppose, oppose. Use every ethical option to stop them from doing the harm they want to do. We are past persuasion. All that's left is cooperation with each other, in opposition to the other side.

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@georgetakei

Not reading this. It uses a lot of X material when there are better sources.

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@georgetakei

Not reading this. It uses a lot of X material when there are better sources.

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@memoriesin8bit

My gawd. I haven't played ANY of those. I've only even heard of maybe 15-20% of them (and that's only if you count hearing of the franchise as a whole).

Well, I've always been a niche kind of guy. True for me of games. @DoorbellQueen and I realized years ago that "Very Positive" is the review summary on Steam that correlates best with what we like to play. While "Overwhelmingly Positive" almost always means we won't like it.

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@memoriesin8bit

My gawd. I haven't played ANY of those. I've only even heard of maybe 15-20% of them (and that's only if you count hearing of the franchise as a whole).

Well, I've always been a niche kind of guy. True for me of games. @DoorbellQueen and I realized years ago that "Very Positive" is the review summary on Steam that correlates best with what we like to play. While "Overwhelmingly Positive" almost always means we won't like it.