Zoolander

All the top “safest” cars are legacy brands. They fucked up their analysis.

No, but it’s incredibly suspect that the top 3 cars are all cars that haven’t been produced since 2011 at the latest.

It’s not confirmed. The “study” is faulty.

The numbers are bullshit and this isn’t even a study. It’s an analyses of insurance data that was done wrong.

The top 3 “safest” cars are all makes and models that are no longer in production. Mercury, the #1, hasn’t made a new vehicle since 2011, Pontiac since 2009, and Saturn since 2010.

It’s a bullshit story.

None of those say what you claimed.

Your first Lemmy link just links to an article that says 10 to 20 thousand vehicles. Considering they’ve sold millions, their rates are actually below lots of other manufacturers by volume. They’re not the best by any stretch but they are far from the worst, as you stated.

The 2nd is the same - “tens of thousands”. That means less than 1% of their cars sold.

The last link has nothing to do with build quality and its source is a LendingTree article based on insurance data that is specious. Their “safest” cars are vehicles that haven’t been produced in over 10 years. They clearly have issues with their data and even have a disclaimer at the top of the source.

If you’re going to be a condescending ass, at least get your information straight instead of falling right into the sensationalist bs that you’re complaining about.

There’s a small center of people who are actually knowledgeable and courteous here. You just have to wade through the shit and sewage to get to it.

I finally plan to wipe my Windows PC and install SteamOS on it after the forced push to Windows 12. The requirement to have a connected account just to login is a complete dealbreaker for a machine that I only play games on. I don’t need OneDrive. I don’t need to be connected to Microsoft’s portals. I’ll never need to recover anything on here via the web.

RIP to the local admin account. You were awesome. Thanks for making the switch easy, Microsoft.

Holy shit, yo. He got his eye ripped out of your head?! That’s nuts. /s

Yup. Google developers had to go back to the drawing board for both the hardware and the OS after the iPhone announcement.

Nonsense. Palm was not better. I sold Palm, Treo, and Blackberry phones at the time and the sudden drop in confidence was palpable. Your second statement is completely wrong too. The entire difference between the iPhone was that it didn’t use mobile web. Safari was a desktop-class browser, unlike the others (minus Flash, obviously). Even Windows devices like PocketPCs didn’t have full browsers.

Again, the iPod statement is just flat-out false. The alternatives at the time were Walkman devices, Creative Labs devices, and devices from Diamond, and crap like the RCA Kazoo. All of them had tiny LCD displays, 256MB of memory max, and transferred music like glorified flash drives. Tags had to be managed manually. Playlists weren’t a thing unless you created them in separate software. There was nothing “identical” about them.

Steve Jobs pulling out a 5GB iPod from his pocket broke the industry and started the whole market, changing the field from a niche for nerds into music for everyone. On top of that, it started the podcast revolution and that is undeniable. To say that it wasn’t unique or better is revisionist history.

Lemmy is pretty toxic. There are 5 opinions allowed on here and your personal experience is irrelevant.

This is a very ignorant take. MP3 players before the iPod sucked for most people. Obtaining music that was properly tagged or ripping CDs with command-line apps was out of reach for the majority of people.

Saying that the iPhone wasn’t special is also crazy. The best-selling smartphone of all time wasn’t special?

Unbelievable…

For clarity, BlackBerry devices still loaded “mobile” websites, aka “WAP” sites. The iPhone’s innovation was figuring out a way to allow browsing of full, normal web pages. By displaying the full page and using the touchscreen features to zoom in and out, it made every page out there almost instantly usable on mobile.

Probably a bit of both. Before the hair plugs, he probably did want to help the world. Now he just wants to help himself.

A human being that misses the point of the comment might think this…

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I bought mine way before Musk became a right-wing nutjob asshole and wouldn’t buy another of his cars now unless something changed with their leadership structure.

That doesn’t mean that I can retroactively say the car sucks now. It is a fantastic vehicle. I don’t use Autopilot so that part doesn’t apply (tried it during a trial and wasn’t impressed) but, as a car, I have no qualms.

Personal experience is still evidence. It’s not objective evidence, which normally would be a problem, but you haven’t provided any whatsoever. “Google it” doesn’t serve as a replacement for it, either.

Some cheaper, some the same price range.

What’s your experience based on? Do you own one? Or is this just third-hand?

I don’t care what it’s considered. It’s the best car I’ve ever owned and I’ve owned Fords, Dodges, VWs, Toyotas, and BMWs.

If you’re driving, you shouldn’t be doing anything that distracts you from driving. Period.

At least I provided some kind of evidence, even if it’s an anecdote. You made a generalization with absolutely no evidence.

That’s fine if there’s a disparity but it’s not as common as your statement makes it seem.