When automobile registration costs are based on weight (politically a non-starter), you might see more of that.

People have to want to buy small cars.

Power comes with range as a bigger battery can discharge more power or the same power with lower stress. For a car with a battery that supplies the range people want, it would essentially be intentionally hobbling the car to put a smaller motor in it for little savings in cost to the OEM at the loss of range from…

Except new cars are easier to finance and come with longer warrantees and newer technology, etc. Plenty of reasons why cheap new is better than used.

I have my doubts about the long term success of cheap cars in the USA. I think this was a response to inflated used car prices driving used buyers to something new in their budget. With used car prices falling quickly, I think Mirage buyers are going to largely move back to used cars that aren’t terrible.

It was me.

It is appreciated that they did this to a place just storing the inventory instead of going up to people’s homes and doing it. Best to get that vandalism as close to the source as possible. 

Not endorsing breaking the law, but this brings me so much joy. 

I’m not saying what this person(s) did was right, but part of me definitely understands and appreciates their moxie.

Ok Florida. You can stick around a bit longer.

Eugenics? From a rich white South African?

This. If he wanted to help birth rates, he could just pay his lowest paid workers at his plants more. Financial security is a big concern for future parents.

The main problem with European integration of immigrants is the racist backlash and refusal to expand resources to help them integrate. The solution is fighting xenophobia and racism, not simply accepting it as a given and keeping immigrants out regardless.

Whenever Musk is talking about population stuff, you gotta remember to substitute “people” with “white people from Western countries” and it’ll all make perfect sense. This is just old-fashioned white supremacist eugenics that’s thinly veiled behind some science-y language to make it more palatable.

Exactly. Musk’s obsession with having more kids (as long as they’re white and in the west) has three parts:

Once, when I was drunk in my 20s, I wandered through a construction site and did this in a front-end loader. Luckily I was just sober enough to realize how terrible of an idea it would be to actually start the thing up.

Probably have if you’ve worked on a car lot.  If you can’t find the keys, because someone was too lazy to put them back in the lock box, check the visor and check the cupholder. 

Thank you.  Basic common sense.  Around here we have had an absolute epidemic of car thefts from idiots who leave their keys in their cars, and then act shocked, shocked I tell you, when some local hooligans steal their car for a joyride.  Honestly if this stupidity didn’t drive up everyone’s insurance rates I would…

I was dating a girl with an early 90's Olds Cutlass Calais some time around 1996 or so. We were go-karting and I ran out to her car to grab a jacket or something. Walked right up to a white Cutlass Calais, unlocked it, got in and actually moved the car since we were parked way far away, got out and went to reach in to…