It sucks, eh? LOL

What else can you do but laugh in the face of certain destruction? You can see it coming, but you can't do anything about it. You could reduce or entirely eliminate your own footprint and it wouldn't matter in the slightest compared to the industrial output and the imposed need for personal transportation.

It sucks, eh? LOL

American cars have provably been shit since the 1970s. It is no surprise that China has surpassed the USA with vehicles. The real surprise would be that China has surpassed Japan or Korea for quality vehicles. It appears they may have done so; however, I have not seen one myself, so I can not verify.

The problem with DEI is that in order to practice it, you have to pay attention to skin color, gender, age, etc. The whole point of DEI is to NOT pay attention to those things. It is a logical paradox to employ DEI. That is why it is a disgusting thing.

It is impossible to force those who don't want to treat everyone equally to treat everyone equally. Furthermore, it is impossible to tell what a person really thinks; therefore, you can not be certain that a group of Indians are not discriminating against everyone else by hiring only Indians even though there are only people from India working there. (I chose India because it is relevant enough and because in most of these discussions, it is 'White' men discriminating against everyone else).

I do not want racism, sexism, gender, etc to play any role in hiring; however, I do not see a way to completely ensure that outcome without some draconian and inflexible rules that violate the spirit of why they were created.

There are ways to encourage hiring for merit, and that is the best we can do for now.

Voice control takes a cognitive load off of your own brain. You do not have to fully understand something, you just mutter some words and hopefully, the computer will do what you want rather than what you say.

That is a shitty interface to someone like you or me who fully understands what it is they are doing and knows exactly what they want to do and knows how to do it.

Having an intermediary is almost completely necessary for someone who doesn't understand things directly. So, idiots will always be begging for simpler interfaces. It is why the taskbar can no longer be on the side of the monitor instead of the bottom.

+6 insightful. Land ownership needs to be rethought. There does need to be personal land ownership; however, it should not be possible to raise "rents" arbitrarily. Being able to raise rent arbitrarily ruins any desires to run a business from 'rented' property. Perhaps some sort of organization that manages commercial properties Where the landowner can get some money for letting someone else use their property? Just this year in my local area, at least 3 historic and well-known businesses have stopped doing business because the landowner squeezed them too hard. They had no choice but to rent the land because the land keeps getting passed from generation to generation within the same family. There was never an option to buy.

Ummm, why would you lie? I have a German car with decent massaging seats. A 12 hour drive feels more like a 4 hour drive with them. That car is more than 20 years old now, so it is NOT new, which gives you no excuse for lying about it. The same manufacturer also sells a version with a refrigerator in the back seat... but that is only useful for a person being chauffeured. My cars chills the beverage holder, so I don't really need a refrigerator.

You do realize that engineers are the single most dangerous group of people on the planet... right? This is not hyperbole or exaggeration. An engineer could tip the economy overnight. Lots of engineers have caused all sorts of economic disruption. Engineers represent the power of the mind over the physical.

Don't piss of engineers with authoritarianism, they will be making the drones, attaching the guns to the vehicles, etc.

The true issue is the same issue that we saw in the 70s and 80s: The executive class wants to keep what they had instead of inventing new stuff or improving their current stuff.

Well, they kept it, and they are close to losing everything because of it. Again. As long as money is the focus, everyone whose primary focus isn't money will outrun us every time.

This is why IBM died. GE died. Sears died. etc. Sure, they are still existing concerns technically, it takes a long time to fully blow through what they originally created... but GE used to be the third largest economy behind the USA as a whole and then California. And, look at it now. Greed is gross and disgusting.

I think political discussion is increasing in the USA because the USA has been troubled for a very long time and it is coming to a head. Most people want to talk about how cute cats are or what they did today, not waste time getting worked up over stupid and corrupt political shit.

The only reason these arguments against factual data hold any water is that the IPCC compromised themselves while trying to convey urgency. Once you lie, you will always be labelled a liar, even when producing incontrovertible facts. They made a huge mistake, 20ish years ago (?) and now, the whole planet pays. (don't worry, the whole planet would/will be paying anyways as nobody who has the ability to change anything has been paying attention,)

This is going to sound contradictory to what I stated previously in this subject, but, sometimes, you have to get their attention. I think it was Robert A. Heinlein that said nature gave us a way to apply pain without causing long term physical damage: the buttocks. As Robert Anton Wilson said, sometimes, pain is the only method of catching someone's attention.

Hitting a child because you are angry or upset is plain abuse. Period. Literally.

Applying some instant pressure to the buttocks can get their attention. Once you have their attention. You speak the words that you want them to retain and then you are done. If you find yourself doing this regularly, you have failed as a teacher; although to be fair, some children can be hard headed. My daughter never once required anything physical like that. My son required it something like 4 times in his whole life. The Real World is nowhere near as gentle as I was.

Instant authoritarianism. I love it. Children do not need to learn, they need to be told what to do. They will eventually figure out what they need to know to survive regardless.

You should apply these theories of compliance against larger problems like illegal drugs. Let me know how that works out for you.

You have already surrendered almost all of your power to others. You don't have to give in, they do... and they have. Enjoy the results.

Eh? All that happened was the dude failed to pay off the right people in Congress. Yes, the DOJ can do good things. No, the DOJ will not do good things if certain people ask it not to do so. An investment of less than 10% of his fortune would have yielded a free pass for his crimes in the USA. Some people never learn.

You have bad hardware bro. I am no Windows 11 evangelist but I do have enough experience to know that file explorer crashing is insufficient to take down the entire operating system without an underlying issue of bad hardware.