So which lie is it? Nobody buying US, or USA USA ?

Go away, troll.

Nope, try again.

The Big Three have also been pushed aside by the Germans, BMW and Mercedes at the middle and top, Volkswagen at all levels of the market. Chrysler has so badly failed that they were taken over by Italians! And the Italians are not really renowned for organizational efficiency or precision engineering.

ALL those companies are unionized from the top down and also partly owned by their local governments. Imagine the incessant interference by non-C-suite stakeholders!

The failure is at the top, not elsewhere. And Tesla, which really did own the EV market at some point less than a decade ago, is already going down the drain because of the CEO's personal hubris. It also is getting it's pie eaten by everyone, a pie GM had all to itself at the beginning of the 90's but just abandoned on the window sill.

The failure is at the top, and it really seems like it's a USA management culture problem.

No, it's not what happened.

What happened is the C-suites were lazy and they were both undercut and out-performed by foreign upstarts, TWO TIMES: the Japanese and then Hyundai. They are also complacent and so were hard-hit when fuel prices went up quickly, TWO TIMES.

The US automotive companies are led by lazy, short-sighted, incompetent fools that cannot even prevent getting destroyed by the same event a second time. They are, however, excellent at getting bailouts when bankruptcy is close.

None of that is related to unions or the people engineering, designing or building the vehicles. In fact, many of the big wins of those companies happened when somebody successfully hid their innovative product from the higher-ups until it was out in the public.

There is a huge jump from letting people say their opinions about the Republic of their form of government and hate speech, slander and other reasonable restrictions on speech.

That's why the first amendment is not an absolute free pass, and has never been meant so. Many supreme Court decisions around that.

Also, life is a lot wider and more diverse than the application of current US laws. That's where philosophy comes in - you think about things from basic principles.

Just like we are re-living play-by-play the rise of the Nazis, this exact philosophical question has been debated a century ago. It even has it's own name: "the paradox of tolerance".

tl;dr: Tolerating intolerance leads to intolerance taking over.

Read the Wikipedia blurb: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Or take the time to read Karl Popper's full book "The open society and its enemies" here: https://archive.org/details/in...
And it's second volume with sources here: https://archive.org/details/in...

I believe that they DO understand the fiction.

They justify themselves to themselves in a few ways:
1) "I'm just creating the gadget, nothing to do with the context"
2) In those dystopias people on top have it really good, I am/will be on top, ergo: let's do this.
3) The dystopias are bad on the "small people", f*** that [immigrant/white] trash it's going to make me a buck.

An off-regulation "market" seeing rampant manipulation? I am shocked! Shocked, I tell you!

They are playing the "we're not a financial market" and "we're not online gambling" at the same time to get out of all regulation, like all good scammers. And like all good scammers, they have buddies scamming the marks/"clients" so their hands stay clean.

Any person dumb enough to put a dollar in there should just go to Vegas instead, at least those guys have to tell you the rules and the odds and then pay out when you win.

This is a shill using the moment to scrap a regulation they don't like.

The solution to the annoyance of banners is making mandatory the presence of a "no consent" button, and making it the default choice if the user does not act. The banner should also not be shown more than once per session, so you don't have those popups repeatedly trying you to reverse your "no" decision.

And then, make ad-blocker-excluding websites illegal, and mandate the banners to accept the ad-blocker saying "no consent" automatically.

No, because this site is dead.

It's corpse still festers with the slime of trolls, parasites, incels and MAGA. Those do not understand C, or even the interest of obfuscated code.

This is a stupid take, so stupid even the current US education system contradicts it. Is primary and secondary education "rationed" around you? No. Every child gets it, and is mandated to attend it. There are enough schools for everyone, because the government is mandated to provide them.

And then, in civilized countries university is free or almost-free in the beer sense. The only programs that have limited space are the ones where the available jobs are few (like art conservators), or the academic requirements are high (like medicine). Any person can enter, as long as they have the prerequisite knowledge.

As for the "decided by 14" bit, you are also completely wrong. There is no entrance age limit, even for very hard to get courses. So if at the first occasion (around 17 or 18) you do not make the cut, you can try again later. Some go into a related program, work hard, get the high marks, then get back in their preferred program. This diversion is also good for society in two ways: some discover that they love the related stuff, and the ones that get back to their first choice are better-rounded professionals.

Oh but that ship has long sailed away for Google. Google does a lot apart from search like television (YouTube) and advertising.

Worse: Google search results are heavily edited by Google for their own purposes - advertising and paid results. In fact, since before the pandemic one of the best ways to not find something has been to use the goog.

So they have no leg to stand on when they say "when people search they want to find relevant info and we relentlessly work to give them only that!"

Nice strawman, but no.

Preparing for a hiccup - say a few days or weeks - is feasible and useful. Great for storms and other events that happen everywhere all the time.

What is impossible is what preppers sell: permanent total self-sufficiency.

Whatever you go get at the store got there by ICE truck. Your seed and fertilizer came to you the same way.

Your tires are made of fuel and have a shelf life of a decade at most before they dry rot.

Your heat pump is filled with a hydrocarbon refrigerant, maybe even straight propane (R-290, HC-12a or HC-22a), which you won't be able to refill without a petrochemical plant.

Your solar installation probably shuts down if the power lines go dead, and is probably not powerful enough to charge your car, heat the house and power your fridge and hot water at the same time, because it's not economical to do so.

Don't misunderstand: you having made those investments is fantastic, but it does not make you self-sufficient, just at best net-zero energy wise.

You cannot prep for the end of civilization, period. It's not possible. IRL the breakdown of society does not look like "mad Max", it looks like some dumb ass with no fuel, no electricity and quickly disappearing or rotting stocks.

Piling enough food for one person for a year is already a stupid proposition, imagine a decade and then two or three, for all of your extended family. Even if you had the land and manual tools, being a subsistence farmer is a profession the you are not trained or physically fit enough for. And then your have to upkeep whatever you have at the start for a few decades by repairing, rebuilding and replacing what is worn down.

Stop waiting for the collapse and start correcting what we already have to avert it.

I hate you because you're probably right.