The article doesn’t really explain why except “maybe someone would like it” but I think the real answer was CGA. CGA was a predecessor color technology to VGA with a different 8 bit color space. So if you took a color scheme for CGA and rendered it on VGA you’d end up with a really garish scene.

When I was a kid I had a DOS game that I played the hell out of. I ended up ruining the disk, and stupidly didn’t have a backup, but the box included a CGA version of the game. It played just fine on my computer except that the colors were trippy on my VGA monitor.

Came here to make the same comment.

I graduated in 2006. When I was in school the idea was that there wouldn’t be any programmers left in the USA because it would all be offshore. But by the time I graduated it was fairly easy to find work. There was a slowdown in 2008 but tech did better than most other fields. This is where the idea comes from that tech will come back, I think. Tech is cyclical but it’s not on the same cycle as other business, or hasn’t been.

The whole AI thing is fake. What’s really going on is another massive offshoring attempt. Everyone I know who’s lost a job lost it to offshoring not AI. This is basically 2001 all over again. So the idea is that offshoring will not work out again and the jobs will come back. Is it true or is this time different? I’m not entirely sure.

Planned obsolescence. 😎

Epic bacon must be worth at least 10 billion market cap.

The DOD just paid Elon a bunch of money for his mechahitler chat bot…

Yeah Bush had a lot of Boris Johnson energy.

They’re jangling their keys in front of the Democrats now to:

• hedge their bets in case of Trump unpopularity and a midterm loss and
• preclude any anti-corportist reform in that party after their blowout loss

I’m guessing that hyper-defensiveness is probably a survival tactic at Tesla.

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The wedge already exists. The Trump people started leaking that Elon is a seagull less than 3 days after the election. The problem is that Elon paid for Trump’s victory and he’s continuing to throw money around. Trump knows this and it’s why he keeps appointing Elon’s goons to the administration (beginning with JD Vance and continuing with David Sachs and all the other VC).

Next time they pick a patsy for a guy with distinctive eyebrows they should find a guy with the same eyebrows.

Tesla is the new BMW and nobody’s using those buttons.

You’d probably have to lie between them instead of just looking at a photo, to assess if it’s still possible.

Clearly they were put there with the intention of making it difficult/uncomfortable to lie down on the subway vent. If they were installed incompetently that doesn’t make them unhostile though, it just makes them ineffective for their obviously intended purpose.

TBH I think it was always clear that he was going to be at least somewhat right-coded given that he was so competent with firearms.

I personally don’t care what he thinks about pronouns or whatever, unlike Rittenhouse or that subway guy he actually went after one of America’s true villains. The right wing violence in this country finally found a legitimate target.

Biden takes his pardons very seriously. He would never pardon someone who stands accused of serious crimes.

/s

To the extent that he wasn’t a criminal it’s only because our government is too corrupt to make his actions illegal.

He wanted to kill King James. Regicide is always based.

I dropped it here but didn’t get any traction, maybe because I didn’t describe it well enough:

https://midwest.social/post/20162538

The “all in” podcast is hosted by four goulish Silicon Valley VC assholes. The audience is mostly simps but it’s an entertaining listen just to see how out-of-touch and self-absorbed they are.

Healthcare CEO be like.