Exactly. I’m not paying for the privilege of paying more next month. My internet company keeps trying that shit on me. “We’ll give you faster speeds for less money!” “Yeah? How long is the contract?” “One year!” “After that what does the price go up to?” “Oh, you don’t need to worry about that!”

The real meat of the story and source of anger isn’t them quibbling over using the word “Cruise”. It’s what you slipped in right at the end - that this shit is gonna be a goddamn microtransaction.
I’m gonna go on the record for this - every single auto manufacturer can take their microtransactions and over-the-air…

Staff lawyers have to justify their existence somehow.

Exactly. Cruise is a common word.

Ford has argued that GM and Cruise’s claim is “meritless and frivolous” because “drivers for decades have understood what cruise control is, every automaker offers it, and ‘cruise’ is common shorthand for the capability.”

This is an excellent regulation. It increased safety, standardized operation of a common control, and made it so manufacturers can’t get all cute with something that actually works.

To be fair to that ”low coolant light”, if the expansion tank is that guy on left, you could prolly afford to be a little low with it being the size of fucking Texas.

There’s only one Lumina in the world I’d consider to be worth that amount of dosh and it’s this one.

Climate deniers pull the same shit all the time too. “The environmental and climate scientists are lying for money! The oil guys? They have no vested interest and are obviously telling the truth!”

You think harassment and discrimination are making Activision money? There is plenty of evidence to suggest that more inclusive workplace cultures make more profit, this has been understood for a while now. Regardless, this kind of culture is unfortunately the norm so consumers don't have much choice in many areas of…

It’s not on customers to know everything about the company they do business with. It’s entirely on management to not tolerate this kind of thing. Blaming consumers for not boycotting takes away the responsibility from management.

Civil servants appointed by democratically elected politicians > “unaccountable”

The Clarity was awesome tech in a Transformers-meets-U.S.-malaise-era wrapper. It’s astounding that someone signed off on the exterior styling.

I think it’s ethically sound to withhold your business from shitty companies. That said, the way you wrote this implies that consumers are responsible for forcing change at the corporate level.

“Unaccountable/unelected bureaucrats” is a popular phrase used by Republicans whenever they need to undermine a federal body they don’t like.

You’re thinking of Bing Cosby from Cosby Stahls and Natch.

“It is this type of irresponsible behavior from unaccountable State bureaucrats that are driving many of the State’s best businesses out of California”

Hmm, another Japan-based carmaker realizing EV’s aren’t just another European or American fad?

You mean fuel cells aren’t the path to the future?

They could probably use some styling help too.