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Comment Re:When pulled over for speeding.... (Score 1) 165

Officer: Why did you rear end the car in front of you?
Me: I had to take my eyes off the road and find the speed somewhere on the crammed infotainment system. I eventually found it just above the Spotify playlist, next to the navigation, but it disappeared underneath a popup that said the airbag has been deployed.

Comment Re:If anyone wants to know why people buy vinyl (Score 1) 165

Reprogramming a turntable? Especially an audiophile turntable? My friend there's not an ounce of code in it. It's a motor that spins when you apply power, connected to a belt. You put the record on and drop the tone arm where you want it, either manually or using a mechanical release device.

What you you reprogramming here? The laws of physics? The electron flow? The magnetic flux?

Comment Re: Why include a wall wart and headphones? (Score 1) 165

Correctish. It's actually the same law. The Radio Equipment Directive not only standardised the charging connection but also mandated that every manufacturer provide the purchaser the choice of *not* buying a charger. But they only required a choice, it was still very much possible to sell an included charger with a phone.

And thank god. Those included ones are completely useless compared to a dedicated charger.

Comment Re: good bye (Score 1) 46

They're incentivized to make the service or product good.

No they aren't. They are incentivized to make the service *addictive*. Those are not the same. Do you want Xbox cloud gaming to be nothing more than the Android app store with mobile clickers and microtransactions? Because that makes them the most money: pandering to the weak minded and the whales.

"Good" doesn't mean "profitable"

Comment Re: Will these be cheaper? (Score 1) 112

In 1924 the average earnings were $1,303

Do you know that purchasing power and cost are two different things right? Things are still cheaper than they were before. Also looking at average earnings varies widely by economic policy over many years. Average earnings are a poor reflection of population wealth especially as inequality has changed greatly over the years.

You're right purchasing power is down for cars, but still know you're talking about a different thing and not refuting the parent's point in the slightest. Many things are much cheaper.

Comment Re: Let me think (Score 1) 112

Thanks for your autistic interpretation. The rest of the world realises we're talking about the era where fuel injection is electrically controlled by an ECU. Most cars sold even in the late 80s had carburated injection systems.

But if you want to nit-pick at least be correct, fuel injection is from the late 1800s. Some of the earliest engines used in cars had direct fuel injection. Daimler mass produced and sold the first passenger vehicles in the 1930s with fuel injection.

Comment Re:Different worlds (Score 1) 306

And the solution is ... wait for it ... tariffs. That is precisely what tariffs are designed for. But that won't happen, not because Trump doesn't love a good tariff but because he has no fucking idea how they work or how to use them.

The EU has already implemented such tariffs. The tariffs are based on individual contributions to the companies so vary with manufacturer. But I've got some bad news for you, EVs produced in purpose built factors are cheap to make, so even when you cancel out the subsidies,... the Chinese cars are still excellent value for money.

Comment Re:Different worlds (Score 1) 306

The EU mandates these systems not record or calculate any biometric data (meaning any data that could identify the differences between drivers, let alone identifying individuals) and not retain any graphic data beyond the time needed to do a closed loop calculation of attentiveness, and not record while the system is bypassed.

That's in EC regulation 2023/2590 Section 2.3.1

Comment Re: Yes! Make cars expensive again! (Score 1) 306

What reality? The reality that it's 2026 and you're still not able to buy a car from Ford built on a unified EV platform while Chinese EVs, Teslas, and at least to some extent European competitors have had unified EV platform cars on the road for a while and in many cases well over a decade?

Yeah reality is calling, wake up and see how embarrassing your link truly is for Ford.

Comment Re:Can't compete (Score 1) 306

You lost me at step 1. Why would we get in a war with China? Again it benefits absolutely no one.

You just described the last 5 wars America was involved in. Sorry did I say war? I meant international police action, or preventative anti-terror action, or special military operation, or whatever euphemism gets you around obeying laws by not saying the W word.

Comment Re:we’re probably gonna bust past 1.8C (Score 1) 193

they are still burying blades while talking about how supposedly green these are

If you can't even separate the concept of zero emissions from the concept of end of life *inert* waste then I'm sorry man not amount of education can correct whatever accident happened upon your brain as a baby.

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