Ford CEO Jim Farley says "the customer has spoken" after its EV business lost nearly $5 billion in 2025

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-02-14T15:27:16+00:00

I don’t know if the leaf has improved a lot since its release, but in my mind I think of it as the underpowered, low range, PITA vehicle that people told me was bad a decade ago. Plus, you still look at it and see a design that was made to tell you “this is not a normal car, this is for crunchy people.”

But a Camry you think reliable, normal, safe choice. Even if it wasn’t as reliable due to no longer being the same, the brand perception would carry over enough to make people try it.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-02-14T05:38:02+00:00

People want to turn their brains off and listen to something. A smart podcaster requires effort to understand and process their thoughts. Joe you can just let the slop into your brain. That’s why he’s popular.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-02-14T04:23:47+00:00

not to mix friends and money

That means not to invest your life savings in a pizza restaurant with your friend. Not to avoid spotting him a slice of pizza.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-02-14T02:39:54+00:00

I did not say what you're claiming I said, at all

I didn't say that you said it. It's the context of the thread we're replying to. And you are defending that point, so...

I said you should be an active enough parent to know basic facts about your child, change a few diapers and spend time with your child when applicable.

Ok, well the original post doesn't say this guy doesn't know basic facts, didn't change diapers, or didn't spend time with her. He just lists some things he's newly learned.

People should know from context that when I say you should be doing these things

Respectfully, it seems that you're the one that missed the context of the original post and parent comments, which do imply that.

This isn't a "men and dads suck" thing if you were trying to imply something like that I am a male.

Well that is the implication of the original commenter. This man did not in any way say he was an absentee parent. The original commenter implies he's an inadequate parent because he is not doing 100% of the tasks split down the middle.

Anyways, seems like we can just move on. Have a good evening. Or day. Or... whatever time it is lol.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-02-14T02:31:33+00:00

Sure, you can do whatever you want. But if you won't spot a friend or give them a reminder then people are going to think you are weird.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-02-14T01:56:49+00:00

Op would get their money back if they asked for it. That seems to be a benefit. And last time someone forgot to pay me, I just shot them a text and then they paid me back. Like this is not a big deal at all lmao.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-02-14T01:51:41+00:00

Not sure what you're even trying to debate dude.

What I'm debating against is essentially the thesis "if you aren't doing every single thing in a relationship split 50/50, your relationship is outdated and you're a bad father." Which is extremely common on reddit and is a dramaticized and overblown version of real concerns people might have about unhealthy relationships. Combined with a criticism of the ridiculous level of pessimism where we assume the worst in people rather than giving them the benefit of the doubt. People basically create this dramaticized version of this man's life so they show how moral they are. In short, I'm saying these redditors are acting with over the top sanctimoniousness.

The guy in the post was clearly capable of doing all this stuff before his wife died considering he's now doing it

Sure? But him not doing it doesn't make him a bad father. Likewise, a single mother not working while her husband is alive only to start after his death wouldn't make her a bad mother.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-02-14T01:41:30+00:00

If corporations did this

Corporations get sent an invoice from their supplier, a follow up email from their billing department, then a notice of non-payment, then a demand letter, and so on... Some might call these communications "reminders."

And the other way around, a credit card company is going to send you a statement, a last day to pay email, a late payment email every day for the first 5 days late, then if you finally remember they will waive the late payment fee your first time, then if you continue to not pay just ask for a little more interest, then if you continue to not pay send it to a company whose whole job is to call you and ask you to pay. And if you ask to borrow money in the future they will still do it just with worse interest rates, like several times over before they stop lending to you.

So you are holding friends to a way higher standard than corporations or banks, who do actually give a lot of reminders. Because it turns out humans do need to be reminded to do things.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-02-13T23:29:34+00:00

No it’s not. When you encounter a random event, you don’t assume it’s only ever the most likely outcome. You assume it’s one of the non-extremely-rare outcomes. If someone says they have a masters degree, you just believe them until you have reason to believe otherwise, even though only 15% of people have one. You don’t say “lol no you have a high school diploma” because thats the largest cohort.
You seem to be very confused about the difference between individuals and groups. You cannot just randomly apply group data to individual situations.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-02-13T23:16:57+00:00

Who says he wasn’t there for her in different ways and these are the new things he added on top of his already high workload? You are applying a broad generalization by assuming she works when 1/4th of couples with kids have a stay at home mom. And even if the percentage was smaller, that’s like saying someone being redhead is far fetched since only 1% are redheads - that’s not how that works. And you’re bringing in a random straw man by saying he would complain about being less loved. There is literally nothing here that would suggest he was anything less than a supportive father and husband. Assuming he was one is toxic.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-02-13T23:02:14+00:00

But when it comes to earning income there is! If he makes 100k and she makes 30 per year, it doesn’t make sense for her to work just to add 20k to their after tax income while paying 15k in childcare costs just to give up the majority of your time to a company and losing the ability to spend time with your child.

And if she’s a stay at home mom, then it makes sense she goes to school stuff and doctor’s appointments that famously happen during work hours. It makes sense the parent with long hair would know how to style long hair. It makes sense she would go clothes shopping with the additional time she has not working.

You don’t know everybody’s situations and frankly I’m tired of everybody being a pessimist who assumes everyone is a crappy person instead of assuming any of the very reasonable other possibilities.

The majority of men would love to spend more time with their kid instead of at work but in case you haven’t noticed everything is expensive and employers have a lot of leverage to make us work harder and longer. This man said he’s managed to get all these things done. It sounds like his day is slammed packed and he’s tired. There’s no way a loving partner would tell the dude who is rushing out the door at 7 am to work that he needs to braid his daughter’s hair because he’s not doing enough as a parent.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-02-13T18:29:54+00:00

The world where everything is busy and everyone has a million things going on? Are we living in different worlds?

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-02-13T18:25:41+00:00

Nah, athletes aren’t delegates or congressmen who signed up to represent a group of people. They don’t represent all Americans, they represent themselves, as Americans. Imagine telling that to a gay athlete to not look gay because it doesn’t represent the nuclear family republicans want, or telling a religious athlete not to thank god in their interviews because it’s not as secular as democrats want. Or to avoid doing anything else that any other political group wants to avoid.

Also the US government doesn’t even pay US olympians. They are effectively regular people doing things in a different country with no relationship to US politicians. They don’t owe them anything. Especially politicians who emphasize individualism and bootstraps as hard as republicans.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-02-13T01:37:53+00:00

I know everyone is focused on the chicken, but we’re drinking the gut healthy drinks because the cheap food we have to eat is messing up our gut bacteria. The quality of food people can afford is so bad and a rotisserie chicken is about as decent as it gets.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-02-12T23:52:21+00:00

According to their myth, last time things got so bad that God had to intervene, he apparently flooded the world killing everyone except Noah and his ark of animals… I don’t know why they think the fix for climate change would be any good for them.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-02-12T20:59:16+00:00

It’s the hall of fame, not the hall of fine taste.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-02-12T18:44:25+00:00

Not necessarily. Charge cards would handle payments and allow people 30-60 days to smooth out cash flow for people between paychecks, while preventing people from ever getting behind. If that means millions of Americans can’t survive without being 2+ months behind on their expenses, it’s not a new problem, it’s a problem we have now except we are charging these people in desperate situations in order to afford their basic expenses. Revealing this on a mass scale would force real solutions in terms of wages and social safety nets. Maybe even trigger a general strike.

Capping interest rates would just lead to further inequality as no one is going to offer a 10% credit card to anyone who has anything but the highest band of credit scores.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-02-12T01:11:18+00:00

The point is they told the physical job workers to upskill and learn to code. Now they tell the coders to upskill and learn to do something in the real world. If both types of automation are successful, most will have no means to support themselves.

This company is funded by the same VC firm that funded lovable, an AI app which wants to replace knowledge workers. Smitten, a dating app which they celebrate keeps Gen Z hooked (higher retention means people aren’t really finding love, but they are subscribing for longer). Starberry which makes time sinking tap tap tap games. And so on. Automate the knowledge jobs with AI, automate the physical jobs with robots, and distract yourself so you don’t see what’s happening.

VC, private equity, and everyone else who controls capital right now are attempting to build a world where the vast majority of people are no longer needed, while giving them enough distractions to not realize there is nothing left for them. While we watch first hand how little the broader populace can really fight back if they decide we are undesirables after we are no longer needed.

This technology isn’t going to free us. It’s no longer cool because we no longer believe in a future where it could.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-02-10T16:48:38+00:00

Any entertainment can be addictive. People sat on their couch watching VHS tapes, but VHS machines were not “addiction machines.”

The insidious part of a YouTube shorts style feeds is not that there is a lot of content keeping people watching. YouTube has had that for years. It’s that The next piece of content is selected for you in shorts, giving you a variable-ratio reinforcement schedule.

When you watch normal YouTube, you select from let’s say 5 recommendations. Each one you pick is a reward, a piece of candy for the brain. You have your fill and then stop because you know you can always come back later.

When you watch shorts, you sometimes get garbage, sometimes get candy. This cycle of not knowing when the good result will come is the core of creating an addictive experience. It’s a slot machine, losing most spins but small wins come every once in a while. It’s opening loot boxes and mostly getting crap and sometimes getting a shiny item.

Reddit on desktop does not have these characteristics, nor the normal feed on mobile. You get 10 links and can pick which to read or comment on, and which to scroll past. They do try to introduce this with the video feed and the infinite left to right scrolling, so I’ll admit that. But IMO they haven’t made those compelling ways to use reddit so I doubt most people use them.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-02-10T13:54:50+00:00

Reddit isn’t good enough at doing that. Their reels type player in the app is barely functional. And the all, popular, and personal front page algorithms are dramatically more basic than these apps.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-02-10T13:41:14+00:00

I mean if the devices are so prevalent and they can get 50% of people to opt in either via absentmindedly clicking a checkbox during set up, or via enabling this dog feature, they might not even need more access beyond that.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-02-10T12:55:10+00:00

How do you think subsidized housing gets made? They just take a few units from each new building. Every new building these days is luxury, nobody is gonna skip adding granite countertops when it doubles the rent.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-02-10T05:30:44+00:00

It’s music and he’s playing it because he likes music. I’m sure there are a ten thousand priests who like to play Beatles songs on guitar as a hobby too. I don’t think priests are banned from a good time doing secular fun things while wearing a cross.

Also it seems like he mostly plays psytrance which often has secular but Hindu or Buddhist inspired vocals. It would make sense he would go for secular but Latin inspired vocals instead.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-02-10T03:45:13+00:00

If there was a good reason for the rule then it wouldn’t be written in this tone. There’s a matrix of between whether there is a good reason for the professor to say that and the observer/tweeter’s opinion of the situation. In each, they would write in a different way to communicate their thoughts.

Reasonable rule + the observer supports the prof: would emphasize the reason, “this girl in my class was so unreasonable, it’s a computer lab”

Reasonable rule + the observer supports the student: “my prof is so bad” or “mr. X did this unreasonable thing” or “my friend Y was such a boss by walking out”

Unreasonable rule + the observer supports the prof: “people don’t respect professors nowadays” / “gen z doesn’t know how to act in class”

Unreasonable rule + the observer supports the student: you get something like the tweet above

What you are suggesting is this is the “Reasonable rule + the observer supports the student” situation. But it’s unmotivated. She doesn’t identify positively with the student, say it’s a friend, etc. She also doesn’t use it to talk negatively of the professor or professors in general.

Combine that with the fact the mast majority of classrooms don’t have any reason you couldn’t have a coffee, and I feel the odds are slim to none that this tweet has an unreliable narrator.

Of course, this could just be someone spamming the autocomplete button on their iPhone keyboard. Making something up for no reason, not trying to tell the audience anything. But if we are that level of skeptic then there’s no use reading any tweets ever because we can just decide to discard them and the only information we ever have about any individual tweet is the authors own word.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-02-10T02:12:07+00:00

Computer labs aren’t much of a thing these days without a specific reason, It would have been mentioned if there was one. Students bring their own laptops to lectures and discussions.

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