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  • Software engineers are facing an 'identity crisis bordering on depression,' Menlo Ventures partner says

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  • however; with the skyrocketing cost of AI, my employer has been urging us to do as much as possible by hand lately to cut back on token usage.

    and the Slop companies are still losing money... the end result still seems to be more expensive, crappier code, yet most companies seem to be so nearsighted they are not jumping into the spike pit face first

  • USA: Slate's New Electric Truck Will Cost Slightly More Than $24,950

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  • so there’s also an “I’ll make my own, with blackjack, and hookers” option.

    Always the best option! hahahaha

  • USA: Slate's New Electric Truck Will Cost Slightly More Than $24,950

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  • There’s a huge market for small ass trucks, no one is catering to it

    Absolutely correct. The American car makers keep on saying "we only want big trucks" but that is complete BS, there is plenty of demand for smaller trucks which is why they have lobbied the gov to all but ban any possible import

    The benefit of simplicity is that it makes it simpler for another manufacturer to pick up the slack.

    While this is true in theory, in practice it rarely shows up. If these trucks do deliver a good, simple experience at $25K, others would not be able to just copy it and catch up. It would be easier for any of the big guys to just buy the company.

    If the company is not for sale, then they would have the monopoly on small trucks and thus, freedom to enshitify

  • USA: Slate's New Electric Truck Will Cost Slightly More Than $24,950

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  • He was never "in it"; but he put up the seed money, then participated in the main round of fund raising and placed a ton of his people in the company. So even if his is not personally involved, he has all the strings he needs to pull it where he wants it to go (which, IMO, means Slate will be enshitified to the full the moment those little trucks start selling)

    https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/08/inside-the-ev-startup-secretly-backed-by-jeff-bezos/

  • Slate EV truck starts at $24,950

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  • I think to call this "good" we need to see more... so far it's a neat idea at best

    If you think Bezos not disclosing the amounts invested, nor the many puppets he pushed to be in charge in this company does not add up to "secretly", we simply have a difference of tolerance when it comes to that.

  • USA: Slate's New Electric Truck Will Cost Slightly More Than $24,950

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  • Slate raised at least $111 million in Series A financing, including an undisclosed amount from Bezos. Slate then raised $600 million in 2024 from Mark Walter, the controlling owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers and CEO of Guggenheim Partners, Jeff Bezos, and General Catalyst, a venture capital firm.[5] In mid-2026, the company said it had completed a $650m series C investment round, which took its total capital raised to $1.4bn.[6]

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    Bezos was seed money AND part of the owner conglomerate that raised all the capital the company started with in 2024. That is enough for me to avoid this like the plague as it will, certain as the sun is hot, be enshitified to the core

    If you do not believe me, here is an article explaining how this is all a big Amazon initiative

    https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/08/inside-the-ev-startup-secretly-backed-by-jeff-bezos/

  • Slate EV truck starts at $24,950

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  • Slate raised at least $111 million in Series A financing, including an undisclosed amount from Bezos. Slate then raised $600 million in 2024 from Mark Walter, the controlling owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers and CEO of Guggenheim Partners, Jeff Bezos, and General Catalyst, a venture capital firm.[5] In mid-2026, the company said it had completed a $650m series C investment round, which took its total capital raised to $1.4bn.[6]

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    And if that is still not enough for you, here is an article that explains in details how this is all an Amazon initiative

    https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/08/inside-the-ev-startup-secretly-backed-by-jeff-bezos/

  • Slate EV truck starts at $24,950

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  • As Canadian…

    American company?, nope

    Owned by Bezos?, hell nah

  • USA: Slate's New Electric Truck Will Cost Slightly More Than $24,950

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  • As Canadian…

    American company?, nope

    Owned by Bezos?, hell nah

  • Texas anti-ICE protesters convicted of terrorism charges sentenced to at least 50 years in prison

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  • It's Texas...

  • Judge blocks use of federal database to check citizenship, saying it could wrongly purge voters

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  • Pedophilia Team: … but purging votes is the whole point you honor!

  • Senator Gillibrand's son graduated on Sunday. Today it's reported that he's received $30 million in venture capital funding to launch a derivatives exchange

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  • Exactly... he started life making the right choice of being born rich; then he continued staying alive and ensuring use of privilege for an uninterrupted period of 22 years!

  • Trump shares post saying he tops every conqueror who ever lived

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  • bud, that is completely false… I can see how fascist want you to believe that but it is simply not true

    organize and fight, you do have power in numbers

    while at it cancel every account you may have with meta, amazon, xitter and encourage family and friend to do the same

  • SpaceX Stock Plunge Wipes Out $600 Billion After Cursor Deal Spooks Investors

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  • there are no rules anymore man… they just change them to rig the game in plain light… no ill consequences for the rich

  • The blue paint is peeling off the Reflecting Pool

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  • yes, best way to distract people is to call as much attention to yourself in the most convoluted and stupid ways… this is why nobody has noticed the corruption, ineptitude and overall failure, right?

  • Trump shares post saying he tops every conqueror who ever lived

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  • the fact that you see taking 1 day off to defend your erodinc rights as an affront confirms everything we see from the outside… yet instead of fighting the powers that put you in that place you rather attack me instead…

    Exactly like the people who don't complain about their own poor wages but complain others are getting paid too much

    good luck with that bud

  • SpaceX Stock Plunge Wipes Out $600 Billion After Cursor Deal Spooks Investors

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  • It's worse than that... what they IPO with is basically a tiny percentage of SpaceX composed solely of xAI

    The entire stock market is basically 99.9% blind speculation and 0.1% basic math, which is why it rarely makes sense

  • Trump shares post saying he tops every conqueror who ever lived

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  • Maybe Americans will finally realize their cute "No Kings" parade, mean nothing to this administration? maybe try it on a weekday so the economic impact does the talking for you?

  • Scores Fall Ill at Air Force Base After Hegseth Makes Flu Vaccine Optional

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  • and this is why it's always a bad idea to put idiots in charge of anything