American car makers are apparently scared sheepless that Chinese EVs would be a big hit. As usual, they employ the government to screw with the market instead of improving their vehicles. Your take on this should be to accept their evaluation that American cars aren't worth buying.

Well... beyond... the...

Look, sonny, who do you think invented the Internet? No, it wasn't Al Gore (if you're even old enough to understand that reference). I didn't have to call in my grandchildren to set up my smart home for me, which is just as well, because they wouldn't have the faintest clue where to begin. Also, I don't have any grandchildren, but my hypothetical is better than yours!

Are we to understand that your parents are technologically incompetent, and you assume that must apply to everyone else's parents?

This study notes that it has defined "frequent use" to mean "a few times a week", which most people would consider "occasional" rather than "frequent". It then goes on to use the word "frequent" according to this fraudulent definition.

If you can simultaneously focus on both far and near objects, you are definitely not human. That's not how eyes work at all.

What they have demonstrated is a remote-controlled toy. I'm sure it's charming.

Every... 5,000... miles? Are you out of your mind? Cars didn't need oil changes that frequently even back when they used unleaded gasoline. How far are you willing to go to lie for the petroleum industry?

An oil change for $100? Are you out of your mind? Where are you getting your car serviced? Do they wear tuxedos?

Oh my gods, Reddit has become self-aware? Please, tell us more about what Reddit believes, so that we might worship it accordingly. Does it believe in animal sacrifice, like the god of the Christians? I'm going to need to invest in turtledoves right away.

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When are we going to finish building the wall to keep Americans from leaving the country, anyway? I thought that was one of Trump's priorities.

Yeah, let me know when they start injecting them.

If, by "addiction", you mean "people like it", I confess that I too enjoy smartphones. I have not yet gotten to the point of snorting them, let alone injecting them but, y'know, it could happen any day now.

"The good news is that the robot, about the size of a small SUV, ..."

That's great! Now I'd know what size a small SUV is if they'd just tell me the size of the robot.

It's not as good as "won't somebody please think of the children" but, apparently lots of people will buy into the notion that their consumer goods are betraying precious national secrets, like how many cat videos they watch and how crispy they like their toast.

This is just rank protectionism, due to the rabid fear American billionaires have that they might not be making ALL the money.

You seem confused. What does the "free market" have to do with Capitalism?

I don't buy this excuse. You can't count on it to debug anything, because it has no idea what is correct and what isn't. If you tell it that you want your gloves to have five fingers, maybe it will manage that, or maybe it will tell you that gloves have six fingers and make up a reference for that fact. Maybe it will apologize after making a run of two-fingered gloves, but that won't stop it from repeating the error.

That got modded "insightful"? Really? It seems wildly out-of-touch. You're already being recorded by cameras almost everywhere you go, and that's not going to become any less common.