It's a pretty important exception, actually. like posting anonymous coward to hide who'd really replying.

Depends on the manufacturer. My Mazda's guidance system was fantastic, always worked, never crashed, and was fast. The interface- which unfortunately Mazda is moving away from - was a simple rotating knob and a few buttons arranged around it. Once you learned how it worked, you could run all of it without looking away from the road.
Meanwhile, on my current Honda I can only use Android Auto: which continually crashes, works super slow in some apps, and often just freezes for up to twenty seconds. I've got a secondary Sirius transmitter tied in because the car didn't ship with it ( only high end trim now get it), and the built in system randomly decides it won't let my Sirius Bluetooth connection play audio in favor of my phone. When I reset it to allow audio on the Sirius device, it simply goes back to what it wants to do when I restart the car, but only maybe every third or fourth time. I can't totally disconnect the phone because I need it for calls and Android navigation. So in this case you're correct, the Honda system is a terrible mess.

Yes, some of these issues could be my phone, but in the end having a built in system would alleviate this issue.

Now it makes sense! That's why Audi drivers are so terrible at driving!

Dictatorships only appear smart until that magic moment where they get overthrown and the leader - who months earlier appeared invulnerable - gets shot/hung/burned/buried alive or any combination therof.

I take Paul Krugman's economic advice like I take Jim Kramer's investment advice: if he say A, then B is the answer.

True. They'd just use gold deliveries.

Seriously? You're not looking hard enough. They all do it, and every administration gets exponentially worse with it.

I'm trying to imagine myself summoning the energy to produce that diatribe, and just can't do it. I guess you may have asked AI to generate it for you, but it's just so awful with factual issues and random generalizations that make it appear AI generated.

I keep hearing the call: "But this time it's different We have to do ( extreme thing) because it's Hitler!!!"

It's never Hitler.

Until he dies, and some other tinpot dictator takes over and demands more tribute. Oh, wait... Him and Putin will live forever on organ harvesting, I forgot.

I would argue that fart jokes are inherently more wholesome than most of the things being generated today. At least farts are honest.

Whenever someone demands I opt out, I always wonder if they'd be comfortable having to opt out of being punched in the face. Automatic face punch, unless you opt out.

I'm sorry, but if I had such a genetic mutation, having kids would simply be out of the question. I'd adopt.

If only there was some technology that could help them deal with such an unrelenting massive deluge of communications from citizens asking questions!
Why, that means during the average workday, they might have to deal with , say, roughly 12 per hour for the entire office! Think of the stress!

Hey, I'm from California. I have a long history of knowing my state really doesn't care at all about its citizens. This sort of thing is old news to me.

At least it's QUALCOMM and not Broadcom. Otherwise the boards would require a $1000 support maintenance contract that changes monthly.