A couple years ago, I became a NMS billionaire the “hard”/slow way - I manually mined a crap-load of cobalt, sold it a Space Station (which then crashes the local economy purchase price by about 80%) then bought it all back at less than I sold it for. I’d then spend 30 minutes or so buying more cobalt a few hundred at…

There’s a worrying lack of perspective on this in some of the subreddit comments too. There are people very bitter that their ships have been nerfed and now they have “years of hard work wasted”.

I like the idea of exploring the galaxy and finding abandoned factories/mines from a past boom.

“insanely hard work”

Upper Level Capitalism in a nutshell, bay-bee!

“The mines I built were more an exercise in what could I generate than what I needed to generate.”

I’d say (as someone who loves driving) #1 is a red-herring: if we want to make concrete change, we have to rethink our relationship to consumption (and how our current economy is dependent on consumption which is unsustainable by design). That means more urban centres that can be served by mass transit (and I say this…

I also like the marketing. It’s a better version of cruise control. As a driver that has used cruise control for 30+ years, I know what that means. The car does stuff, but I have to pay attention, because sometimes the car is stupid.

Your already carrying a cell phone...

Good Lord, I’m going to praise GM...

Everyone in the country wearing a high-powered transponder. Can’t think of any way that could go wrong.

my dude, that’s just a left turn .. who the fuck dreads that other than people who dread about a bajillion other things one routinely does while driving?

Don’t be silly. Jesus left behind a bigger sedan:

1. Most shops offer loaner vehicles these days and even a $5k repair is cheaper than a year of $500 payments.
If lump sum is the problem, there’s personal loans, if you can get a $40k vehicle loan, you can get a $5k personal loan. My local lender will do so at only 1.2% higher interest than a vehicle loan. Over a year…

I did my first transmission swap in a parking space over the span of a week while learning how to do it in a dodge neon. I spent $250 on a used transmission, and $275 on a “racing clutch”. On jackstands, in the middle of the winter with only hand tools. Being poor and stubborn will force your hand in ways never…

I did it on the Jackstands pictured

Things I don’t have:

Well—normal person wouldn’t want to touch ECUs on their regular ICE cars anyway.

Modern ICE vehicles are rolling computers as well.

Everything but the drive train is same on an EV, and while the drive train is significantly different it is also much simpler. Maintaining evs tends to be a lot easier. Yes when batteries start going bad that is a more complex repair, but people are already doing it. I would argue it is no more complex than having an…