For many of those years it was the only electric pickup truck being advertised. And also, yes people do like the Tesla name. Musk and growing competition has done a ton to tank the reputation lately, but until just a couple years ago Tesla was far and away the best and most advanced electric car, and depending on your criteria the most advanced/best car period. Perception shifts slowly outside of well-informed groups, and the Musk hate is really only affecting well-informed left wing groups right now, so a lot of libertarian Musk fanboys are still fully on the Tesla train

One could make the case that it is a patriotic duty to divert money from fascists that would otherwise go to fascist causes

In addition to what Blisterex said, the open-source hardware ethos is very similar to the Linux open-source software ethos, so it attracts a similar crowd

UK mpg are different than US mpg, it looks like 1 mpg US is ~1.2 mpg UK

Because companies mostly don’t want the degree to prove skill sets, which is why they don’t generally ask for transcripts, just that you have a degree in a somewhat related field. The value of a bachelor’s degree to a company is that it proves the applicant is capable of undertaking a ~4 year commitment, achieving a tangible result, and that they pass a threshold competence at navigating beaurocracies and interacting with other humans. The specific skills/experience the company wants are much better assessed using prior experience, interviews, assessments, etc.

Just sounds like the first episode of community with less context and more soapboxing

Aldi in the US always gives me the option at checkout to pay later, I’ve never explored it to find out the fine print

Oh ho ho, where have you been that you think they’ll hold their own side to this standard?

Funny thing is they aren’t even GMOs, they’re hybrids between tetraploid and diploid watermelon cultivars. You could do it yourself in your backyard if you can find tetraploid seed for sale, or make it yourself with colchicine

Not to beat a dead horse but do you know how we get/got novel variation in crops before targeted DNA technology? It mostly wasn’t wild germpasm unless you happen to work with a crop with large amounts of historically documented pools, e.g. corn and wheat. No, most historical breeding programs use mutagens, either chemical or sometimes radioactive, to cause novel variation, grow the seed, see what looks interesting and not too weird, and cross it back into your gene pool. GMOs are significantly less mad science-y than what they replace.

https://freesewing.org/ has somewhat limited patterns but they’re flexible and a really cool project!

You can tweak ink into your own colors and they can’t stop you! If you like an ink but it is too light/dark you can add a few drops of water or black or dark brown ink, respectively, to tweak it several shades in either direction without significantly changing the characteristics or hue of the ink. I suggest pipetting a bit out onto a nonabsorbent surface (I use takeout container lids) and adding 1-2 drops at a time and testing until I get my desired shade.

Oh I’ve got one too, PM me for it I guess?

I thought they were all side-lit? Which is functionally the same imo but technically different

You should be able to, but US non-car infrastructure is so abysmal that there’s a strong chance you can’t safely unfortunately

And help one of the 5 benefits they listed?

They don’t make it obvious at all, in fact they do their best to seem like you can’t

US funding for basic research–the type that will lead to the truly paradigm-shifting breakthroughs–has also been in decline for 50+ years as a proportion of GDP. While bureacracy could be an obstacle, the much larger one is insufficient resources to fund a lot of moonshots that may fizzle or may result in 'zero to one’s innovation, as the author states

I have an aeropress and have only ever used a metal filter with it! I’ve had normal paper filtered aeropress coffee and I can’t taste the difference

I mean they very obviously aren’t failing in droves, Disney for instance has been increasing their profit every year except 2020 for the last while.