Yea, that makes sense, there’s no point banging your head about it unless there’s a compelling reason to stay, especially after 6 weeks.

Manipulation is particularly difficult because they might not be fully aware that they’re doing it and they can obviously get better at it every time you bring it up if you are being honest and they’re not.

Sounds like it’s time to break this off, best of luck.

Oh, nice, I hear good things about the bolt.

I think that last aptera bankruptcy happened about a decade ago under different leadership, before they had all the manufacturing partners, business plan of today and definitely before this round of pre-orders/investment.

As far as I understand, that was basically a couple guys building an awesome car that they didn’t have the business infrastructure for. It seemed easier to source parts until they had to do it.

Ramping production is still slated for ~'24, which has been delayed before I believe from last year, which isn’t great.

They’ve had mostly finished prototypes driving around for a while now and direct investment/partnerships, so I don’t see them going bust too soon.

They have a lot of pretty regular updates with production status and media updates on their website and YouTube channel to check out.

I’m hopeful. I want the thousand miler.

Solar powered, self-reparable cars are where the future is.

I don’t understand why people don’t think you were not being manipulated here, this sounds like typical gaslighting.

They sound self-absorbed, so they see things their own way and want you to also see things their way, even if that means changing what happened.

After only 6 weeks and at least three attempts at manipulation, you should calmly and plainly tell them with very specific undeniable examples that you realize they are changing the facts in these stories to get you to agree with them and you need them to stop that.

If they have a rational, calm response to you explaining why you need them to stop gaslighting you, then okay.

If they ovverreact or get unreasonably angry and immediately blame you(“well, you…”) then you should probably stop spending less time with that person, better none.

I second aptera

I hear the lore’s really interesting and some guy linked me a YouTube channel full of elden ring lore so I might look into that.

But playing it, not so much.

Elden ring yawwwwn.

It’s beautiful, and it seems like an interesting world, but learning exactly how to dodgerollattack for every enemy with deliberately delayed reflexes is not my kinda fun.

Did - Lived abroad. Cheap, fun, good healthcare/dental, great new foods

Acquired - electric toothbrush, immediate halt of dental decay

Exact same games for me, I started with dead cells and a hundred hours in was like well I guess I do like roguelites after all, Even though I had always thought I didn’t.

And then I played Hades and was absolutely blown away, I love the stories inside and the action.

Boy, if you’re considering hollow knight, you will have zero regrets, it’s so fun and so eerie.

Soulslikes still make me yawn in comparison, dead souls 1, 2 and elden ring.

Maybe one day

Live abroad(I do this a lot anyway), apply for asylum internationally if civil war/ presidentially decreed assassinations are carried out

Didn’t turn out great, but is definitely worth watching.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRQQtd1KYXQ&t=644

The US President now has legal immunity from executing those laws faithfully.

A large portion of tourism income, including airfare, goes directly to the government, and North Korea can buy old nuclear warheads for several hundred thousand dollars, which adds up pretty quick with a few hundred tourists.

Bear that in mind if you’re thinking of visiting.

Disclaimer: someone calm me and op down.

I couldn’t believe that every post wasn’t about this ruling all day

No, you shouldn’t calm down, this decision is absolutely cataclysmic for the US should a dangerous person be elected or the ruling not overturned.

I’ve been saying the states are okay despite all SCOTUS’ stripping of civil rights and everything else wrong with that country because as long as there were checks and balances, voting had relevance.

With this ruling,I can’t see that it still does.

A president can order his political opponents murdered.

They can order that all civil rights be suspended indefinitely.

They can order a suspension or abolition of term limits.

They can abolish voting altogether in a hundred different ways and nothing can be legally done to halt that president from continuing to abolish voting until it sticks.

If anyone does manage to legally stop the president, the president can kill them or cut off their fingers she rejoice their voice box.

Literally anything is now legal, fair game.

Biden has spoken out against that kind of power and he has it right now.

Whoever comes after, this term or the next, likely won’t have the same scruples.

This is the most dangerous and harmful decision SCOTUS’ has ever made, which is saying a LOT.

It is the antithesis of the line in the Constitution explicitly stating that no elected official (like the president) has legal immunity.

The decision to grant an entire branch of the government absolute(it is absolute, anything can become “official”) legal immunity could very rapidly destroy the country as it is and turn it into a true authoritarian state within a week.

It takes some time to write, print and sign the executive orders or I’d say a day.

I have to read up on it more because I haven’t read or heard enough yet to convince me that this decision is not utterly catastrophic.

I’m definitely in the satire camp here, thanks for fully explaining.

I don’t know what that is.

Where’s the transphobic part?

Print: Hello first-world

Hooo, way more, unfortunately, you are right on the money with the supreme Court f****** up civil rights.

I just think that this time it’s really at the peril of us stability.

Absolute executive power with immunity is the final step before complete actual and practical authoritarianism.

About to happen means already happened with this meme?

I didn’t know.

Ha, sorry, no offense was meant to you or the meme, it’s solid.

I meant the idea that the checks and balances were about to be completely destroyed was outdated.

The supreme Court already abolished the remainder of constitutional executive checks and balances, absolute executive power cripples US stability.