You're letting bias affect your judgement. If you buy the absolute cheapest electronic widget in the USA it's going to be on par with the cheapest widget from China. The fastest EV is Chinese made and the fastest EV around the Nurburging is also Chinese. The myth that they make trash is long dead.
The easiest thing is probably title the car in South America and just never switch it over.
Bullshit. The EU has more stringent safety standards than the USA and BYD has no trouble in that market.
Solar panels have a mostly linear output so unless it's so cloudy that the street lights are on you're full of shit.
I guarantee if you turned on this guy's tv it would be set to Fox News. https://abcnews.go.com/US/wire...
Butthurt MAGA doesn't like reality. https://www.fbi.gov/news/press...
Murder and non-negligent manslaughter recorded a 2024 estimated nationwide decrease of 14.9% compared to the previous year.
In 2024, the estimated number of offenses in the revised rape category saw an estimated 5.2% decrease.
Aggravated assault figures decreased an estimated 3.0% in 2024.
Robbery showed an estimated decrease of 8.9% nationally.
Further analysis. https://counciloncj.org/crime-...
Fox News really is breaking peoples brains. Crime has been slowly decreasing since the early 1990s. Covid caused a slight uptick but again it's declining. This is the safest time in history to be alive and yet one station continually says you will be violently attacked it's only a matter of time.
Money talks but wealth whispers. If you hold significant funds then keeping your mouth shut is probably the best deterrent.
What you are describing is called Plutocracy, not capitalism.
Plutocracy is rule by the rich. Nobody wants to admit that so often they lie and claim to be a Capitalist.
Plutocracy is a form of government and capitalism is an economic system. They describe different things and can exist together just fine.
Capitalism is about the Free Market (Free as in choice) not ruling.
Capitalism and a Free Market also describe different things. All you need to have capitalism is private ownership of the means of production in the economy. A free market is arguably necessary to ensure capitalism doesn't devolve into a plutocracy, but it isn't a necessary component of capitalism.
Are they watching Taylor Swift videos? Complete waste of time.
Are they watching history, science, and other documentary videos? Good use of time.
It's rarely going to all be in just one category. Most of my early TV viewing was mindless entertainment, but I taught myself to read by watching Sesame Street. Most of my early computer usage was playing video games, but I also learned QBasic in 4th grade so I could create my own video games. Which ultimately led to a career that put me into the top 5% of earners (not writing video games though).
My 11 year daughter watches a lot of mindless YouTube shorts. But she also watching videos that help her learn to write better stories, and her early love of gems currently has her quite interested in Geology to learn where gems come from. I try to take the good with the bad.
I'm old enough to remember the first CDROMs, but was only a tween / teenager at the time. I remember loving that CD slop, perhaps because I was too young to recognize its low value. I also remember hating Myst and being very upset for wasting what was at the time a lot of money on that game (I think around $60, at a time when $30-50 was more common for games). It was very slow pace with little to no action, so it probably didn't give my young brain enough dopamine hits.
Now that I have tweens of my own, I see that same behavior where they disregard anything I think is valuable as boring and spend their time on content I view as mindless. But every time I am about to block all digital access, my 11 year old uses AI to help come up with ideas to get past her writer's block on the horror book she is writing (she gets her oddity from me), which reminds me of when I fit in enough time to learn Basic at her age in between all my video game playing.
I just had trouble looking at a comment on one of my posts yesterday because I can't get through the Cloudflare bot detector. I'm not sure why that is only used when looking at my comment history. It's funny that I first have that problem this morning on Slashdot just to see this story at the top of my news feed on the same site.
There are many manufacturers that sell all kinds of vehicles in the USA. Some made completely abroad from various different countries. Some domestically. And a lot are a complex mixture of the two. But you think there is a grand conspiracy/collusion among them all of them to deprive consumers of lower-priced/lower-end models?
Yes. Why else do you Chinese cars are outright banned in this country? Plenty of people on Youtube drive these cars and yes they are better quality and literally half the price. Domestic auto makers are scared shitless.
People buying essentials on credit has been around for a very long time.
Longer than most think.
You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter, don't you call me, 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
-Sixteen Tons, Tennessee Ernie Ford
Are they a university for research and learning or a tax-haven for investments^W gambling.
"Harvard is a hedge fund with classrooms" - Scott Galloway
"It is hard to overstate the debt that we owe to men and women of genius." -- Robert G. Ingersoll
