With the way they keep killing people, I wasn’t all that comfortable getting a Model Y uber in the snow last winter.

Not only in R&D but market development… Like, finding out what people want and selling it to them, exporting them… The Americans are trying to push pickups on europe…

more-stringent towing requirements than in Europe

it does make me laugh seeing Americans need a fifth wheel to move what I’ve seen a transit connect tow on its hitch. Or that time I saw a BMW 2 series convertible towing a caravan bigger than it.

That’s completely normal and safe. And Americans are lil’ bitches about towing, it would seem. Its either that or decades of automatic gearboxes zero tow rating has lead to the assumption you need a piggup trugg to move anything more than a utility trailer.

I’m fucking furious that the tankstation owner appears to have a dodge ram that I have to look at every time I head out of the city northbound.

I regularly fantasise about coating it in paintstripper, but a supersoaker would dissolve too fast.

Either that or finding a bunch of dutch language books about insecurity to leave on the windscreen.

They have been trying to murder the US and EU auto industry and dumping biblical shittons of money into battery technology. the EU and the US aren’t trying to compete.

Its still an advancement for all mankind, even if my countries leadership wont let me have one.

No, I mean it. If you’d indulge me, I’d love to know more about your background, how you’ve ended up this way.

Wow. You’re cooked.

I’d love to know more about your life, your living situation… how you got this way.

Please inform yourself of the adjacency of lobbyist centers and capital hill.

Politicians don’t write shit, they get given frameworks and proposals from lobbyists and “industry leaders”, sometimes they get made into law directly without edit, especially when it comes to smaller ordinances.

There are designated handlers from the larger lobby groups for designated politicans and congress-critters.

They should wear jumpsuits like nascar, maybe you and the public would understand it better.

Edit: Looking at the rest of your replies you’re getting downvoted to oblivion for denying reality.

what would you like them to do? Any punishment we could mete out on them is nothing compared to the self-destruction they’re inflicting.

If we -did- do something it’d be a drop in the ocean compared to the fall from grace already in flight.

America is over, man.

What is the over/under on the odds on them being an American too? It usually seems to be that way.

They’re not useful tools.

its all a pissing contest between people we really aught to hang from the rafters… The consequences of their pissbaby behaviour is ours to bare.

We should be making soup out of them.

If I recall, it was something Ed Zitron said but I can’t find the quote, so it might not be. The implication that the cost of delivering that $20 user account was approximately $1800 worth of compute.

They wanted companies to normalise a dollar spend on tokens equivalent to half a dev salary per dev.

They want to pay you in it too

Its not consumers they charge.

They were talking about businesses budgeting about 50% of a developer salary per developer on tokens.

A consumer $20 claude code account gets about $1800 worth of tokens, iirc.

The venture capital is just piles of money in other rich peoples pockets. As I understand it, the AI bubble is funded by massive amounts of saudi oil money anyway.

Its kinda like the jokers cash bonfire, but its Sam Altman pleading for more of it while eagerly dousing it in gasoline.

All replies are some variation of “nuh uh.”

Maybe that’s because you don’t cite sources and your message is bullshit.

Todays landlords should sell up and fuck off.

Two tiered system: Small, compact cars like we should always have had and Cars The Marketing Men Sold Us

Cars as safe mobility vs Profitmobiles.

Gnome 3 was a fad anyway