My first guess would be that private equity sunk their greedy little hooks into it.

Yeah Exactly! Like rsilvergun, people like that.
Every post has to involve some weird and zany progressive delusion about concentration camps, or forced sterilization of migrants.. Just really out there progressive fan-fiction.

Just whatever you do, don't mention the demographics involved. Please don't. Just don't do it.

>We are fine supporting your ridiculous life styles
What do you mean by that? :) There's nothing really ridiculous about not wanting to be surrounded by noise, traffic and hordes of people, is there? IMO the suburban lifestyle is the ridiculous one. Almost all the downsides of living in a densely populated area, with none of the upsides; and none of the upsides of actually being 'rural', but all of the downsides (more driving, primarily)

I can say though, living about 30 miles outside the nearest 'city' (albeit only 200k or so people) that I firmly, firmly support green belts/urban growth boundaries. Bit more planning trips into town, or making grocery lists -- but the peace and solitude out here is beyond worth it.

To be honest AC, I enjoy the fact that he's YOUR president more than anything else :)
The deranged, utterly mind broken TDS people are worth the lackluster deportation numbers he's putting up.

And this is the most obnoxiously cunty thing about hard-core environmentalists. You act like temporarily embarrassed dictators (You could say the same for progressives in general, actually). So pray tell, what century's living standards would you allow us, your grace?

You're cunting about some dude heating a swimming pool, rather than going out and burning down some data centers (which oddly enough represent the single largest increase in electricity usage in the US the past decade running). It's the smug Prius driver syndrome at play: attempting to shame the individual while glossing over the actual issues.

But this is why nothing really gets done on climate/pollution issues. There's a chunk of people who agree with you, a small chunk who absolutely do not agree with you, and a swathe of people who are middle of the road. Obnoxious, cunty fucking statements like yours do nothing but alienate moderates. After reading your post I want to go idle my car with the AC on full blast just to spite you.

Herbert might have been on to something all this time, we just didn't realize it.

Just wait til the 6070 comes out, it'll support the latest native ray traced slideshow technology, as well as frame generation. Not to mention an AMPLE 8GB of VRAM (and don't believe anyone who tells you otherwise, 8GB is more than generous), and with a TDP of 555W, what's not to love?
And all that for just $750?? If you need more: maybe the 6080 and its 16GB of VRAM and completely reasonable $3,200 MSRP will be a better fit.

Maybe, but then again, how many megacorps buy the naming rights to sporting events or stadiums?
Sure there might be a business case for wanting to buy Chrome, but outside of having their arms broken by antitrust regulators (lol), what are the odds that Google would part ways with Chrome? Let alone to a competitor?

Haha, is it a bad sign that whenever this company releases a new feature, the first thing asked is almost always
>how do disable it?
>is it mandatory?
>why are they doing this to me?
>is it time to switch to linux?
And yet, MSFT is booming .. odd of course considering the 15,000 layoffs they just did -- Perhaps they let the wrong people go?

Today you thought about Perplexity, you talked about Perplexity. Without a potentially bogus offer to purchase Chrome, this might not have happened.
Seems like a pretty cheap (free?) way to get some name recognition and discussion about your AI startup.

Your post is completely completely silly, and I think you're wildly out of your depth; but CVT's are reliable?
Really?

(The rest of your post is just as silly of course, but what's the point?)

My post contained no political bullshit. It was a play on words with the f150 lighting which is sitting on lots all over the US with virtually no sales; but surely you got the reference before going into a breathless progressive moment, right?

>The Cybertruck's problem is that there's only so many people willing to pay $70k+ for a pavement princess.

To be fair though, have you seen what the average F150 owner does with their truck? Sure you could do real work with one, but you might get scratch the paint or get a ding in the fender.
But the cybertruck.. man, that thing has problems way beyond just battery capacity when towing. It's defeated by rain, or carwashes. The frame is so flimsy that actually approaching is rated towing capacity will crack it. The bed is useless; someone will probably correct me if I'm wrong here, but you can't even lay a 4' sheet of plywood/drywall flat in it. The instant low-end torque is great, but you don't need a full on EV for that (some of the newer Toyotas for instance use pure electric in 1st gear)

I just find it really odd that a new ranger is actually larger (or at least very, very close) in size to my 1998 f150.
But to your point, those barebones cars and trucks are quite literally illegal to sell in the US due to all sorts of FUN nannying by congress (safety, emissions etc). It's also why everything made now has a CVT that starts running a very real risk of turning into confetti at 50k miles (even honda and toyota are experiencing these issues to varying degrees)

it seems as if congress just looks at
>emissions
>mpg
and those are the only figures that matter. And then automakers are forced to comply.

But what is more damaging: a more robust engine/tranny that easily goes 150k miles without needing a rebuild (but that you CAN rebuild or repair) or a tiny, supercharged 4cyl with cvt that shits itself well before 100k, and is completely unrepairable?