You will need to fix the tax code and CAFE for that. They will continue buying F350s as long as they can write them off on their taxes.

Isn't interesting to ponder what the market would look like if tax policy encouraged them buying efficient vehicles instead of encouraging them to buy the least efficient and most dangerous ones?

And in the bigger competitive picture, you don't have to choose between a cheap car that's missing basic features, and an expensive car that has modern features. You can get a cheap car that ALSO has basic modern features like power windows, as long as you buy from a capable, modern car company i.e. a Chinese company.

This is the same dynamic that happened in the 1980s with Japanese cars and the 90s'/00s with Korean cars...American companies loved to lock basic features like power locks, power windows, and then-advanced "climate control" behind expensive trim paywalls. The other companies realized that power locks cost a $5 solenoid and some wiring, and power windows are actually cheaper than crank windows in volume, and climate control consists of a $0.50 thermistor in the rearview mirror and a few lines of code, and all of it was getting cheaper by the minute because of efficiency of scale, so they could offer all these things in the cheap cars just as well, and guess what, people decided they liked driving cheap cars that had most of the key functions they wanted.

This $25,000 Slate truck is only interesting because you aren't allowed to buy competing $25,000 Chinese trucks that blow it out of the water by offering all the normal, modern car features at the same price.

So you saying younger people are too stupid to value privacy and right to repair and only "the crotchety old fucks" value it? What a dumb take.

This is exactly what I want. Unfortunately, it has only 2 doors. Hope near-future mod to convert it into 4 door vehicle.

I am really tired of gimmick-galore screen overload modern vehicles. Slate is a breath of fresh air in being basic. I hope they make 4 door version next.

Isn't it just mighty convenient that our press and leaders are working hard to keep the evidence from being released. I wonder why that is.

But you can google pretty much any name, and there's an Epstein connection, if not good ol' island visits. And you can google pretty much any name, and find them not pushing for the release of the files, if not outright working to shut down the conversation.

In this kind of a situation, I consider everyone not actively pushing for the release guilty until proven otherwise. Guilty if not of outright rape and cannibalism, then enablement, obstruction of justice, and criminal negligence. The whole lot needs to be locked up forever, and our halls of power cleansed of the slime with industrial grade disinfectant.

It would be a good start, but not worth it unless Musk and Thiel are also ruined.

No, core of marxism is not true. It is not all about power and viewing the world through that lens resulted in deaths of millions last century.

To me it is clear that Wikipedia Indefinitely abandoned the original design long time ago and this just another confirmation of the fact.

Depends on what you consider "block". For practical purposes, this is a done deal for quite some years now. For the amount of stink it created, look e.g. into how The Guardian was made to destroy their hard drives that had the Snowden files on them. No real stink came of it, but The Guardian was broken, and never stood up for principles again. In a similar vein during the last dozen years or so all of the mainstream media has been reworked, and now only parrots govt line without question.

These days you can have either have major news, or real news. Major news fall in line with govt, because otherwise they meet the soft power of losing first hand access to govt news, and the hard power of the weight of the state apparatus. And that is before you get into the problematic of media moguls like Murdoch maintaining their business empires, which depend heavily on good relations with the govt. The same has happened with new media like Goole, Facebook and so on, everyone's in bed with the govt now.

For a measure of how our media is functioning, check out the reporting, or lack thereof, on Gaza, and Epstein. That basically all of the Western governments are supplying the weapons for a genocide, and covering for it in the public... That basically all of the people in the Western governments turned out to be raping minors and eating children... These things are not only objectively horrible, and pretty much the worst things human beings can do. They also make a mockery of all of the "Western values" that we have been endlessly lectured on by our governments. This is a complete collapse of any moral authority we might have had, of any pretense of us being the good guys, and the destruction of the cornerstones of the postwar Western world we built. UK is now jailing people off the streets for protesting against the genocide now, and they're not alone. We are debanking independent journalists, ICC judges, and their families now, turning them into nonpersons... Where is the major real news here? They're cheering on.

Yes, the end goal is to not have people being able to effectively vote according to their interests by becoming informed voters.

You are not suggesting regulation for consumer safety. You are prescribing how these companies must run. The closest analog to what you suggest we have is utility regulations. I think your approach is not workable, bureaucracy regulating is too slow, too easy to capture to be effective. I think assigning liability for specific adverse events (e.g., social media addiction, etc.) and let companies run themselves is the only way to do this.

Exactly. How many mainstream news organizations reported on Biden's mental decline prior to his brains melting on live TV?

If a social media can be forced to operate in one way, then it can be forced to operate in any way. That is, if you get to dictate, then you only get to dictate while in power, and someone else will come into power and dictate something else.