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If ignorance is truly bliss, then why do so many Americans need Prozac?
When 'woke' attempts to deny reality, or to be unscientific then it has a huge problem. The whole gender issue is a prime example of an attempt to...
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Do we hate Russia yet? Let's add some more gasoline to the vitriol being spewed. I am really starting to depise little big men.
Just watching The Gentlemen on Netflix. Great dialogues, good characters created by Madonnas ex. ;) The rich will do anything to stay rich.
Do these judges ever listen to themselves? Don't they know how ridiculous they are, how nonsensical their rulings are becoming? A person with a...
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Also crates & crates of new engines all still wrapped.
Unless supply matches demand exactly, there is going to be either a surplus or a deficit. That's the reality of mass production.
And here's a shocker: 58 thousand cars isn't a bad margin of error when you consider the number of cars sold in the U.S. (5.7 million in 2018). [Link]
And around 80 million world wide in the same year! -With demand increasing, according to some sources. (Though, every source I looked at had wildly different numbers from every other).
In any case, people just aren't wired to comprehend scale beyond what we can see and process from personal vantage points, and we are gobsmacked by the reality of it when we inadvertently fall out of our personal perception bubbles and get a hint of what 8 billion humans actually means.
But the truly amazing thing is how insignificant a number like 8 billion is when our collective works are not seen from orbit. The Earth is really, really BIG and we are really, really small. For this reason the anthropocentric climate change idea is able to dominate public discourse without much pushback.
So this is how it works... A whole bunch of people in UAE, especially foreigners buy super cars on hire purchase.
At some point, they can't keep up with the payments. The UAE being the UAE, not being able to pay off your debts is illegal. So what the foreign owners of these super cars do is leave the country and in the process leave there supercars behind. These super cars are then collected and taken to a junk yard where they are auctioned off at fraction of the price... Some of them just remain to rot in the yards really.
You can probably grab one of these super cars if you were so inclined but problem is importing them to your home country... Think the customs tax on them are well unpalatable.
Too many electronic gadgets.
It's now almost impossible for an average person to make repairs.
Too much plastic.
Paper thin metal. I can dent a new car with a finger poke.
Too expensive to insure.
New cars spy. From location to driving habits.
They're overpriced.
Garbage.
I drive a vintage VW Bug. It's cheap and easy to repair, good on gas and cheap to insure. If I need to make a long road trip, I rent a car.
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Anyway, one day she decided to get rid of it.
"Nahhhh!!!! Don't get rid of it!!!!" I protested.
Anyway, she sold it and bought this new modern car. As she was habituated to slamming the driver door of the Morris with the side of her lady-sized rump, first time out with the new car she tried the same thing and made a HUUGE dent in the door and it cost her a mint to repair it.
Naturally, I hated to be Mister I-told-you-so.
That car had really thick metal - I once spun on some ice, went up a bank and through the top of some three bar farm fencing (Thick wood). It took several people to bounce it off the slope and back onto the road.
I pulled the front bumper off, chucked it in the boot and then carried on my way .. the car was fine
I'm a bad boy too, having a simple used car worth just a monthly salary, and keeping it until it's worn out.
But wait - you can pay the politicians to issue new laws, making old and "dirty" cars illegal. Or manage to instigate "scandals", to force the dumb customers to replace their "tainted" models for a tiny discount...
What would be the point of that? Weapons, now, that's a horse of a different color. They actually get consumed! That's what we're selling. The fact we're producing at all would indicate a hidden reason to hang onto that steel. 10% efficient internal combustion engines? No improvement in 100 years because it would have cost the plants to upgrade continually. No future in nuclear, just the forever prayer for cold fusion. Cities with aging bus and limited rail, the few big cities that have bit the bullet and done lite rail you can count on one hand. We're stumbling from one crisis to the next without a wisp of a plan. Even if we could part the curtain of endless propaganda to view the bald old man at the switches, what the heck would we do about it? Golan/Globus runaway train ends exactly like you think --- no track.
I f the US decides to pull out of somewhere, the weapons and equipment are either left behind or will be given to police officer near you
The addition of predetermined breaking points to design as planned obsolescence is a fact. Consumer electronics without safety requirements are much more affected. Just check out the "Phoebus cartel" from the begin of the 20.th century, when the likes of GE, Osram (Siemens), Philips agreed to reduce the lifetime of light bulbs to 1000 hours, and marked individulal distribution areas. A shared monopole, so to say.
BTW, many users would be shocked to learn about the ongoing efforts to implement a mandatory remote-stop / remote control interface in cars.