thegrim000

Man I hate their licensing system. Now I have to buy an updated license so my fallback version will be at least this new version. So I have to pay for another license to get this fix.

So .. a massive conspiracy which involves nearly all companies and all industries across the entire country, which all, in unison, jacked up prices, not because of valid economic reasons, but because they're all universally run by evil greedy mustache twirling villains that are all in cahoots?

Read the first line, was absolutely dripping with biased partisan hate, instantly closed the article. No thank you.

Gotta love the obvious ideological slant - apparently wanting "immigration quotas and restrictions on welfare benefits for certain migrants who are not in work" makes you "far right"? So unless you vote for completely unrestricted mass immigration you're "far right"? The bias is so obvious.

I assume that quote is probably talking more about the society itself; the people in it and how they treat/trash their city and each other, and less about the specific objects in the public space.

The website doesn't list a single number anywhere. Nothing about degrees, wattage, hours, anything. How hot does it heat water, how much sun is needed, how much water can it heat, how long does it take to heat, how long does it stay hot, prices, literally nothing actually about the product. The website is completely, pure, 100%, marketing fluff.

What a weird world we live in. If you want to advertise a project, in a sane, logical, world full of reasonable people, you would just list such things. You'd actually provide the details of what you're selling. But not so in our current society.

I guess the idea is you contact them and they (hopefully) send you more details, but no thanks.

If the government sent out a hit team to forcefully rob every single last penny of net worth every US billionaire has, what impact would that income have on the national debt? I'm pretty sure it'd be extremely negligible.

The major brands won't do it, there's no money in it for them to do so, and there's so much regulation, regulatory capture that it's virtually impossible to start a new auto manufacturer without having billions of dollars of private equity to flush down the toilet on it, to target a very small fraction of the market that would want such vehicles, and such a company would just be quickly regulated out of existence if it was ever actually created.

Pretty much the definition of corrupt/biased "fact checkers" right here. It's a mechanism where the car can decide to turn itself off and prevent you from driving. It's literally a kill switch, where the car refuses your commands. They're arguing semantics about how it currently isn't a remote kill switch, only a local kill switch. Reminds me of other similarly ridiculous "fact checks" where someone claims something like "X is raising taxes by 9%!" and they fact check it as "completely false" because technically it's not 9%, it's 9.1%, or whatever.

Of course in the future the kill switch will also be mandated to be remotely triggerable, we all know it, but by that time the overton window will have shifted far enough, by things like mandating local kill switches, that making it remote as well will slip through easily in however many years.

I will never in my life own a vehicle that can decide, locally or remotely, to refuse to function, or that can decide to slam on the brakes by itself, or that can phone home data about me. Not sure how much longer I can get away with that before older, non-smart cars are declared evil and banned, in the name of climate change or walkable cities or whatever, but we'll see.