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Comment Re:This will get much worse (Score 1) 48

Having a message that resonates with the majority of people certainly helps.

Nobody has that, which is why so many potential voters stay home.

There are too many immigrants. Remove them and it will be good for jobs and the economy.

Yeah, stupid people really believe that, but I don't see them lining up to change jizz soaked sheets and pick vegetables.

There aren't enough men in the WNBA. It's OK to kill children up to the age of 5.

Rapeublicans believe it's OK to have a president who raped children as young as the age of 8.

Comment Re: Different worlds (Score 1) 463

Yes, it is always very much about control with our government, this is where you can legitimately bothsides because they are both authoritarian. That's why we're fucked, because it's how we came to this pass. It wasn't Republicans insisting that we be mass-surveilled and Democrats insisting that we not be, it was Rs saying let's do this and Ds saying well how much of this can we do and how should we do it? Womp fucking womp. Now the very idea that we should have privacy is equivalent in some "minds" with terr[or]ism. Orwell wept.

Comment Re:Question ? (Score 1) 81

Our drunken ancestors had little access to spirits until fairly recently and only a few people had figured out how to make beers over about 5% ABV so it really depends on what time period you're talking about. Americans drank about four times as much before prohibition as they do now, so there's that.

Comment Re:I gave it my all.. (Score 1) 81

Young people are smoking weed or doing edibles because who wants to pay $10 for a beer or a $20 cocktail.

There is almost nowhere you can smoke cannabis publicly, so statistically no one is going out to smoke weed at an establishment. Therefore we can compare to drinking at home. I buy 12 packs of reasonably high test beer for around $20. Two of those is generally plenty. You can easily spend more than $4 a day on cannabis without even getting into the top shelf stuff. Hell, most smokers can do that even with $8 eighths.

Cannabis is taking over because it's less harmful in every way than alcohol.

Comment Re:Can't compete (Score 1) 463

The emergency is that they cannot produce enough fuel for the vehicles they have. The only non-drone vehicles they really need to produce more of are bombers, since Ukraine has blown up some of the few they have left, and they cannot really produce those either either. (They can make a few a year, maybe.) Without Ukraine, Russia's manufacturing capability was already limited. It was an important center for military vehicle production for the USSR.

Comment Re:Can't compete (Score 1) 463

Russia can't do it because they're broke. Even if they could they would have to build something with soviet technology at this point because they can't get modern components in quantity. And if they could, it would be seconds from China. While I think air cooled diesels are neat, they aren't ideal from an emissions standpoint...

Comment Re:Yes! Make cars expensive again! (Score 1) 463

The only way in which German cars are at all special is that they make very high horsepower gas burners and nobody else bothers to do that in quantity except for the USA. But that's special as in eating crayons because it's completely ass-backwards in every way.

Japan has been making vehicles of superior quality since the 1990s, which was possible because Germany stopped making vehicles as good as they could in the 1980s and went for absolute cost savings ever since, so it's all the same flimsy plastic shit as everyone else. This is not about valve covers, it's about all the parts which matter. The difference is that the Japanese are actually better engineers. German vehicles depend on parts quality, Japanese ones have more resilient systems. Since Bosch is a bunch of trash like everyone else now, this strategy no longer works and the result is that German cars sprout a new expensive problem every week once they get to be about ten years old. This isn't a problem for rich people who sell cars every couple of years, but it is for everyone else. Incidentally Hitachi hasn't gone to shit like Bosch has so that's another win for Japan.

The very top halo vehicles are somewhat special, although I've seen some reviews of those cars showing parts reuse from lesser models in a lot of them, so they're not as special as you might think. But returning to those plastic valve covers, they don't actually seem to make the cars cheaper, do they? BMW is still charging the same price premium for their marque, just with crappier parts than in the eighties.

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