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the us will be a true shithole in about a decade.
Will be?
I haven’t had any interest in visiting the place since Bush was president.
the us will be a true shithole in about a decade.
Will be?
I haven’t had any interest in visiting the place since Bush was president.
Is that a typo?
I would agree that Ford is the bigger fiend…
The main thing that concerns me about a fully cashless society is that the means of buying and selling stuff shifts fully into the hands of the for profit, private company payment processors.
If cash is no longer an option, then ever increasing payment fees can become a growing profit center for those banks, credit card companies and payment processors as they gouge the public worse than they already are.
It’s all part of the “move fast and break things” development process.
We actually do need 0% emissions and 100% renewables.
Yes. The sooner the better.
But on the way there we have to take the wins we can get and not let perfect be the enemy of good.
There are some limited use cases where they can make sense.
Commuting or grocery shopping aren’t among those, though.
It’s not even limited by country. There are far too many places in well resourced countries that don’t have access to good (or any) libraries.
The account’s discovery raises questions on just how many bots are operating on X, including those run by foreign adversaries
Far more than you imagine.
No more delays.
Also: you went too fast and cut corners with ArriveCan making it a steaming pile of uselessness.
Must be a country specific thing.
Import a bunch of those cheap Chinese EVs and lots of people will buy them
Or start building affordable EVs here.
Back in the 70s when Toyota, Datsun, Honda etc started eating the big 3’s lunch on affordable fuel efficient vehicles, they responded with smaller cars of their own.
If they’re not willing to respond to market demand and competition, do they even deserve to stay in business?
Isn’t that what the “free market” they claim to love enforces?
For me, the last time I was in the market for a replacement vehicle, the 2 biggest factors were availability and price.
The dealers had zero stock (except maybe a rare fully optioned ridiculously priced example of the top of the line model), and I was not in a position to wait 2+ months for a factory order of a car that I couldn’t even test drive.
Literally never seen one of those outside of movies.
It’s hard to see how they still manage to have much money after all the grifters have been picking their pockets.
Of course. Why wouldn’t a con artist go after a group that has already self-selected for gullibility?
It’s scamming on easy mode
The menu is 6 foot across, above the counter where you order, glowing, with pictures of each item and number next to it
And changing pages while you’re trying to parse the cacophony of choices and options.
I think an automated battery swap system would work best for OTR trucking.
Yes, that and other commercial vehicles that put on a lot of miles in a day, every day.
That may be fine for regular customers, but what about the rest of us who don’t have the menu memorized?
You could see just what you wanted to see.
That’s not my experience. I never wanted to see rightwing conspiracy crap, but I wasn’t able to avoid it crowding my feed until I avoided Twitter entirely.
Thats one of many times each year the card processing system (in full or in part) has gone down.
Though usually it doesn’t stay down as long as that one.