inconceivable

30 years ago i rode my bicycle to school on public roads. without a helmet.

yeah, the irony now is my parents are glued to their phones. or at least were until recently. i think they have made a conscious effort to put them down.

i think no outright ban in classrooms will ever exist in the US because a large % of parents will insist that their child have uninterrupted access to their phones for all sorts of valid reasons.

really? i heard it was to protect from invaders from outer space.

tarantino hates asian men and has an asian female fetish. look through the history of his movies. he's the typical 80s/90s hollywood producer type that relentlessly trashed on asians in every fucking way/every chance possible.

no, absolutely no debit cards for me. i protect my cash with multiple layers of protection. if i lose my wallet or my phone the person who ends up with these things will have no clue where most of my money is at.

amex takes most if not all the risk in my financial life when it comes to day to day spending. one time i had my wallet stolen and the only thing they could muster was a failed gas station transaction. they didn't even try the ATM card.

i use the free points/perks that the irresponsible idiots subsidize to my own advantage. it's linked directly to my amazon account and shows up as a positive cash balance.

nobody gives a shit about the logical arguments. it's social maneuvering for power and money. in other words, it's politics. the sooner you understand that people are looking out for their own monetary interests the less confused you will be about the whole thing.

i have a similar setup with an amd threadripper thinkstation.

clarification: fruit juice is basically pure fructose which cancer loves and your organs can't handle.

actual fruit has fiber and you're unlikely to eat enough to cause harm.

that makes you the ultimate food hipster

you can do this already. look up rpi based cyberdecks.

no. my autism is unstoppable and will not be mediated by the likes of you.

no. cold noodles with a light sauce are often eaten on hot days all over asia by billions of people.

sounds weird, right? except the western equivalent is a pasta salad which you probably eat all the time.

think harder about food.

you're behind schedule on your food hipsterism. american cheese has passed through the unironically bad phase, the ironically bad phase, and ironically good phase, and is now back to unironically good.

hey at least they're not doing something absolutely and deliberately idiotic like putting the % in front of the number like a currency symbol.

yeah, the collapse is coming, any day now.

just like the US federal reserve, the US federal debt, the US stock market... it's all going to collapse any day now.

give me a break. both the US and china doomsayers are perennially WRONG. they're all fueled by the same stupid handful of youtube channels that spout the same shit over and over and over again.

(it was a then-uncommon combo scanner/scale with error correction)

you are literally powerless to make them do anything.

this is known as impotent range.

i can tell you watch a lot of youtube videos on why china is bad.

lmao china took over japan

OKAY BUDDY.

you are literally just making shit up.

you're going to upset both the china ccp tankies and the japanophile weebs at the same time. truly a remarkable feat. something i didn't think was possible.

the reason you are so confused is because your assumption that china just popped into existence fully-formed in 1945 or whatever, is totally and utterly wrong and ignores literally hundreds if not thousands of years of relevant history.

literally everyone has tried to take over china (modern translation: "access their markets"), from the mongols to the british to the japanese. i bet even the romans had some half-assed plan they were working on.

ground breaking novel analysis: china is going to collapse any day now. for real this time. maybe if we keep repeating it enough, it will happen.

china is not going to ever respect western patents. people need to get this through their thick skulls. if your company is not compatible with china existing, one of these things is going away, and it isn't china. the madder you get, the less they care. they're on the other side of the planet and have their own system. they're not even thinking about you as they go about their business.

i swear it's like the collective west just infinite-loops through the stages of grief when it comes to china even existing.

and to those of you who think "well we have to do something about it" -- yeah, the west has been "doing something" about it for hundreds of years. various tactics, strategies, wars, colonialism, both pro- and anti- whatever regime is in power. none of it works long term.

> it’s about keeping fossil fuels and ICE cars around as long as possible

yeah, what tipped you off, the fact that they're trying to keep them fueled at great cost? i'm glad a real sherlock holmes like you is on the case.

of course not, but all of this insanity is just based on feelings, not actual outcomes.

good. banning ICE by 2035 is insanely stupid.

> Porsche seems to be the only vehicle manufacturer who doesnt believe in the electric car

i think you just completely made this up out of thin air because you hate sports cars. they're one of the first manufacturers to sell an electric sports car, and their work on performance hybrid drivetrains is probably the best in the industry.

they also race in formula E and are working on synthetic fuel replacements for their classic cars.

they're also innovating on synthetic fuel.

i'm old enough to need GI exams, and yeah cool flex, i understood that reference, i'm also a watercooled porsche guy, except this nostalgia about broken cars is not something i participate in. never have, never will. i don't get wishy washy over when i was so broke i couldn't fix everything (cars, house, computers, etc.) as soon as they developed issues. those weren't the good old days. the good old days were when i first started making enough money to make sure all of the stuff i owned was always in excellent condition and not a danger to myself and everyone else.

i'm a car guy and i also think it's dumb. he should fix his car.

HN is filled with people who are deeply troubled by the way other people live their lives.