You don't need a lot of marketing to prefer a basic but decent car for a third (or less) of the price of the average American car (read: truck). American cars are bloating like crazy, and even if the tracking is insane on a chinese car, it's no better on a domestic car. The American (and European) auto industry needs to get its act together and stop blaming consumers for not happily donating them stupid amounts of money and data

Nice! Hopefully they can repeat and improve on this result.

At what point does the state confiscate them and auction them off? Give right of refusal to a residents' coop and shake off the parasite.

It's not thriving. The devs are prickly arseholes, which is anathema to building a cooperative, volunteer-driven dev community and the tone of many mainstream communities is obnoxiously set by tankies amd their alts.

Let apple take the flak for moving the market and then quietly copy because of course it's more lucrative... classic.

You're delusional. The houthis are shitth. The idf and the houthis can both be shitty at the same time. Two wrongs don't make a right, it's not hard to understand.

The problem is, before they wemt on that murdering spree, the western world pretty much ignored their plight, or maybe tutted when they chucked a rocket or two over the border. But any kind of "proper" political solution was flatly ignored. It's not a justification, but I have to say that I umderstand why that situation led to a "fuck it, let's just rampage" attitude. And look, they actually have a tonne of eyeballs and attention on their shitty situation (and shitty leaders), so maybe something will come of this. Palestinians are paying an exorbitantly heavy price for it, though.

Nothing will be accomplished without violence.

I can see no downside to the state being able to track every transaction you make and devalue it at will, charge negative interest rates to encourage spending to boost 'the economy'. Read the research papers banks issue on this topic, the bankers are salivating.

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I like this, we should do this, for sure. Nobody can claim it's unfair.

It lacks the massive audience to bear non-nerd communities. The formula1 subs are not a patch on reddit, nor are the outdoorsy, camping and flashlight communities.

Does that help? As an appeal to authority, I'm not convinced. Anglicans aren't known for much more than constant infighting, definitely not for missile strike origin identification.