Melodrama much?

We have the technology to wane us from the habit of fossils now. Yes, it is indeed possible to have civilization AND a habitable planet.

Actually, considering how humans react when resources (especially stuff like food and water) get scarce, I dare say having a habitable planet is a prerequisite for retaining civilization.

It's like playing hide and seek with a three year old that covers his eyes and thinks if he can't see you, you can't see him.

I can see the appeal of apping appz.

It's nice to know that 3 years from now, your code will be considered hopelessly outdated and obsolete and you'll never have to maintain it...

As I've been one of those software engineers that got thrown into the slings and arrows of old, badly written, worse documented and worst supported code, I admire the coding (and working) standards of the NASA engineers of the 70s.

They still have people at hand who can make sense of that code. Even the junior programmers of the original crew are by now retired or dead.

No. Wrong.

Big scandal in Australia about MG5 getting ZERO safety rating. Australia will let you drive a Chinese glorified go-cart death trap.

Lower standards than USA, as EU standards are lower too.

Utterly false, USA has stricter standards.

in EU you don't even need airbags.

hahaha, no. MG5 does not meet U.S. safety standards. In Australia big scandal about it getting ZERO safety rating.

And, in EU what is sold as the MG5 is rebranded different thing, a Roewe i5

Most Chinese autos are utter junk and won't be allowed in USA.

Most of the population just doesn't have a fucking clue what's going on. Imagine all you get is Fox News. No other news sources allowed.

It's like being trapped in a right-wing filter bubble, the main difference to the average Fox News enthusiast is that it's not self-inflicted.

Yes
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A stroke. Right.

I didn't say used can *satisfy* those young people seeking new, I'm telling them to suck it up, quit being a fad and status following sheep, and buy used and save a pile of money and get amazing fuel economy. Maybe the color will be ugly and they'll only basic features and their wear-the-nails friends will look down on them.

Who cares if GM / Ford hurt. They're the ones that back in the 1970s said quality doesn't matter because americans had to buy them. Except that turned out not to be true, and they're copping the same kind of attitude now and getting the smackdown. Maybe this time their entitled asses won't survive.

Just as example, Honda is making and selling more than ever each and every year in USA, for example.

This "OMG DOOM!" about small cars is a meme and urban legend.

Hold on, what animator gets paid a subsistence level income? Is the studio hiring?

So... advertising is fraud.

That's not capitalism, it's simply human nature. Want a communist example? Allow me to use a joke:

The communist economy was a planned economy. Every kolkhoz, every "people owned enterprise" (read: state-run company) had to produce a certain amount of certain goods. What mattered was fulfilling, or preferably over-fulfilling, that plan. At least if you wanted to climb the corporate ladder. So here's what usually happened:

The leader of a worker brigade noticed that his brigade fulfilled their plan only by 80%. Disaster! Under-fulfilling the plan was anathema, and tantamount to severe repercussions. So he reported that the plan was fulfilled to 100%, he'll fudge the numbers a little and somehow that should work out.

The kolkhoz leader got the report from the brigade leader and was pleased to see a 100% plan fulfillment. But 100% wouldn't be enough to impress his superior and since he wants to get ahead, he'll report a 120% fulfillment. Somehow he'll fudge the numbers, and if the other brigades would pick up the slack, this should be doable.

The oblast coordinator is pleased with a 120% fulfillment report from his kolkhoz leaders. But 120% is what everyone reports, that's no big deal. He'll report 140% fulfillment, that way his section stands out and he will be commanded, and of course eventually promoted. If everything fails, he'll buy some good on the black market to make ends meet.

The plan aggregation office collects reports of 140% plan fulfillment, but reporting less than 50% surplus would not look good. Let's report 160% plan fulfillment, nobody is really going to notice the difference between 140% and 160%, everyone will just be happy and after all, it's some anniversary year again (every year was some important anniversary), and we need that for our people to know that we have a huge surplus.

The planning committee is ecstatic to hear that the plan has been overfulfilled to 160%. The recommendation is to send half of it for export, the rest should be far more than enough to keep our people happy.