your right to have unnecessary emissions ends where my lungs begin.

Earth is a BIG planet.....I PROMISE I won't drive anywhere near you and your lungs....

;)

In China nothing is brutal since over 30 years.

Unlike USA it is a fine working striving democracy -

LOL...PLEASE tell me you weren't able to actually type that without at least a smile on your face....

If you were actually serious...I have to tell you you're a bit too late for 1984, doublespeak and rewriting history daily

A few months ago I picked up a Mac Mini M4 with 24GB memory....so far that thing has handled a lot of reasonably sized models I've thrown at it...

1. I never said it was illegitimate, did i ever use that word? You're out over your skis and it's clear you do not understand my argument so now you're grasping. I was using your definition of tyranny to point out a flaw in your reasoning because you absolutely do not think Trump is illegitimate despite the fact he didn't win a majority, or can you not follow that? "How would you feel if you didn't eat breakfast this morning?"

Which candidate got more votes than Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996?

So 2 times in one sentence you have to strawman me falsely. This is pretty sad.

Strange how this is only a problem in the USA.

What's the problem....if you bought it, it is your vehicle and if you want to make it run better, more efficiently....why not?

Can we get a car like this? Can we get congress to pass a law that says we can have a car like this?

I'd written something similar earlier....make some cars and jeeps this simple, go back to 60's - 70's tech maybe....where you can work on your vehicles on your own on the weekend.

No need for uber tech, no telemetry and over the air updates....

I for one would kill for a modern day CJ7....simple gas engine that is bulletproof....and well, not that much else.....

Hell, give me a '76 TransAm....big engine, no computer needed...maybe just modernize the suspension....

Ahem....back to tractors one can own and self repair made simply and just works...

If they would only do this with CARS and JEEPS again.....simple, mechanical...without all the fucking tech, something in 60-70's area of tech....I'd be one of the first in line.

It was nice to be a shade tree mechanic and work on your own vehicles on the weekends....

I guess maybe having just Bluetooth in the radio to hook my phone to to stream music..but shy of that I don't need cars that phone home, nor have internet, or require software updates...fuck all that.

Hell I don't even need a backup camera....I never use them on cars that have them anyway....so far, mine don't.

Raw? no. The drivers don't exist (yet). I expect MS to roll out a few flavors of Linux for WSL as this is targeted to be a dev box.

Ugh....not for me unless it can be MS Free....

https://www.zetor.com/series-6

Czech Zetor tractors are much better.

"Billionaires in the US only invest there because they pay next to no income tax. The consequence of that is that the middle class gradually disappears"
Yes, billionaires pay little to no income tax (or more accurately: capital gains tax or tax on dividend). Yes, the middle class is gradually disappearing. But no, one is not a consequence of the other. Taxing billionaires on realized gains is not going to bring in enough revenue to save the middle class. The middle class is not being squeezed out by taxes, but by corporations / private equity increasing prices on basic necessities. It's an odd application of the old communist tenet "from each according to their ability". If you are in the income group that can afford to pay €2 for a €1 item, they'll try and charge you €2 if they can get away with it. And if they can corner the market on a scarce item (or create that scarcity), they'll charge you even more.

If the whole company's revenue stream can be summed up into profit via screen addiction, would it really surprise you to find screen addicts doing what they love, on their lunch break?

Should be about as "shocking" as finding potheads taking a bong break at the weed dispensary.

Uh huh. And a shitload more of not-all-companies also don't care for the overhead of local IT either. Now identify for me exactly which modern mainstream corporate OS and cloud provider that isn't riddled with involuntary telemetry and additional "monitoring" capability.

To clarify, you're not a "tech" company when you sell fertilizer. But you're now a company riddled with tech surveillance that you're paying for one way or another, because you happen to need modern computing technology in order to simply run the business today. Even if the tech isn't for you or your business, you're still being subjected to it.

I wonder how long it will be when the non-tracking business owner is contacted by their own insurance company to let the boss know a certain employee or seven are going to be dropped from all insurance polices due to "discrepancies" reported by telemetry-gathering systems last month..

You're also cherry picking since those were the two elections with Perot which is an outlier in the past 60 years. Obama got over the 50% mark twice. Bush in 2004 did also. Biden hit 51.

But hey with a popular vote we could things like you have to get 50%+1.