Why would a developer bother to optimize their game? That's actually a good question, given some of the recent releases.

Yes to all of that!

But instead we have a 100+ comments focused on bullshit about engine reliability which affects a small % of people, as opposed to the costs of poor fuel economy, which affect many more.

Again, people with no experience maybe.

Many times I've fantasized about doing that. But I realized that unless at least many hundreds of people also did the same thing, it would have precisely zero impact beyond wasting my own time while making the salesperson's day worse.

Big companies have gone to great lengths to ensure that they are invulnerable to all but large class-action suits and huge waves of negative public sentiment, and then they use propaganda and distractions to minimize the likelihood of those things happening. Short of managing to organize a major boycott or getting the government to take a serious interest, an individual consumer is pretty much powerless to effect change in a large corporation.

I'll take Antique Jokes for $100, Alex.

Of all the things I hate about our Honda, that behaviour is near the top of the list. Occasionally I either flip the lever the wrong way, or change my mind based on new data about what's going on around me or on the realization that I'm not yet at the turn I thought I was at. So the "blink three times" so-called "safety" feature is in fact a "danger feature".

Every time I drive that car, I swear at the oblivious fucktards who designed the "user experience". It's as though they've never driven a car at all, never mind under challenging conditions or in an unfamiliar city.

Our nation is at risk during a prolong conflict or embargo as long as we remain dependent on foreign oil. Reducing the amount we use is the most obvious path out, this allows our own reserves to stretch much further.

But MAGA is not ran by smart people. Evil people sure, but not ever evil villain is an evil genius, some are just thugs.

The AI craze is causing so much damage on so many fronts. It could end society as we know it, in ways that have nothing to do with Science Fiction scenarios such as taking over Earth and supplanting Man.

AI is causing disruption of markets, loss of jobs, negative mental health effects, increases in AGW, and on and on. And increasingly, it's being used to make propaganda more pervasive and more effective. By not pushing back harder against these trends, the 99% of us are voluntarily putting the yokes designed by the 1% around our necks, then handing them the whips they'll use on us to ensure continued compliance.

We're stumbling towards our own enslavement.

There will be a correction. There is ALWAYS a correction.

Complaining is communism and therefor treason.

Steve Lehto has a good video about this.

In Michigan the Lemon Law applies to problems that 'reduce the value to the consumer'.

Some people are attempting to return their cars over these popup ads. IIRC it was GM that was much more aggressive but I might have that detail wrong.

But my sleep apnea!

Have a long conversation with a salesman

Ask him about this feature

Inform him that it has lost him his sale

Rinse and repeat at another Subaru dealer

What you said was dumb because what we need is to reduce emissions further than our weak targets. Also automakers do NOT have any trouble meeting the targets. They could have met those targets years ago, but they would have had to make less exciting vehicles. You're putting your excitement over sustainability. This explains why you support a child molester's tampering with the future.

You cannot make a market freer by removing all regulations. That's a total misunderstanding of how markets work.