They named the company Bird because that’s what they were flipping city residents as they dropped these pieces of shit in the middle of every downtown.

Maybe they’re sentient and actively suicidal.

I don’t remember mentioning Democrats. Oh, wait. That’s because I didn’t.

Keep voting for fascists you dumb pig 🖕

Republicans handed over tons of government scratch to Pfizer and other big pharma companies.

This was done to avoid the fuckery of having a very small window on annual contracts where if you missed it, you would be locked in for another year.

Here in the good ol US of A that’s how some of my apartment leases worked.

🎶 God bless America 🎶

Cable lobby and Republicans …

Isn’t that a little redundant? Aren’t Republicans and big business lobbies effectively the same thing?

And the shareholders…don’t forget about the shareholders…cuz they definitely haven’t.

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We already know what we need to do but people don’t want to do it.

That’s the thing that gets me about AI solving global warming or whatever. You think a computer telling you that you have to get off oil is going to make a difference?

Believe it or not in the USA it’s actually based off of self compliance

Oh I believe it.

🎶 It’s a bad idea, and they’re all about it 🎶

And if you look at the history of consumer markets this happens often, even with the collusion and crime.

EVs actually seem to make this more inevitable to me. Most people aren’t capable of building a combustion engine and transmission, but EVs are fundamentally easier from the engineering side. There are complications with the batteries but the overall thing is a lot simpler. I think that’s why there are already lots of Chinese EVs available for like half the price of anything here.

You can only really count on your property not changing when you buy a property.

Guess which one the bosses are talking about farming out to third world countries.

🥱 It’s 2023 dude, if they could offshore work they likely have already. Hell, in the last reduction in force at my company they fired a bunch of employees at our “third world country” office.

Yeah it’s a pretty sad situation exacerbated by the pandemic too. A lot of people left cities, but in many cases (e.g. my city) prices still went up anyway. I bought in early 2020 before the insane price hikes, and now I’m very glad I did as basically nobody can afford these prices unless they’re already in the market.

But I agree with everything you said, and I vote against the “preserve our single family neighborhood” politicians whenever I see them on the ballot.

GM claims this way the smart software will be more integrated with the car’s hardware… which sounds ridiculous to me.

They likely want to go the Tesla route: features people have to pay multiple times for, rented features, recalls via software update, etc. I believe investors rewarded them when they made this announcement. Everyone should know that in most cases what’s good for investors is bad for customers.

I’m not saying that cities are bad, but to claim rural people don’t have beautiful and interesting things easily available to them is just misunderstanding what some people find beautiful and interesting.

They may have accessible nature, though not all of them even enjoy that in my experience, but they often do not have easily accessible cultural experiences at all. Not everyone appreciates the things they live by, and that’s just humanity. We can be miserable anywhere.

But it’s been my experience living in the states that it’s extremely commonplace for people to shit on the very idea of cities, and especially raising children in them, and overwhelmingly encourage people to set up shop miles away from their jobs in the suburbs and rural areas despite the downsides.

roadcraft

LOL

Oh boy, RIP to the inbox of anyone arguing with this guy.

But we ride bikes to parks and gardens, go to different museums and the zoo, visit festivals for different cultures. It’s pretty awesome and almost every weekend is an eventful thing for us.

A thing often misunderstood by suburb and rural denizens is that when beautiful and interesting things are more easily available to you you can actually make meaningful use of them. Sure, they’ll brave the city once every six months and maybe go to the zoo or a cultural event once or twice a year, but nothing beats being able to do these things on a random weekend (or sometimes even weeknight) without much hassle, additional cost, or preparation.

I was searching in the philadelphia suburbs using auto trader. You basically just enter in your mileage options and other information and then sort by price lowest to highest.