By the time the Sky came along, Saturn had been transitioned from “A Different Kind of Car Company” to another badge-engineered division of General Motors.

True, but it wasn’t fixed pricing that killed them.

The two purposes they seem to serve are:

given how many games have to either be online or patch before they can even launch it’s very symbolic at this point. If Steam or any of the consoles dies I’m just hitting the high seas and always, always keep a full stock of roms for every major console N64 and older on hand so if it all goes away I still have my…

That’s the thing, all of the data is not on the disc. It’s becoming more and more of the norm.  For instance Jedi Survivor would require multiple discs if that was the case.

It is a strange yet real correlation…

The jokes on you because you are negotiating with a middle man that is already inflating the price. You don’t stand to save, only minimize the added markup.

Haggling over a new car is like having two colonoscopies in the same day.  Fixed pricing is the way to get me back in the showroom, whether EV or ICE.

And we don’t have a more recent example of high demand driving up prices?

I think this specifically proves another point.

This sounds like a step toward buying vehicles direct from the OEM.

the poor in California are about to get shafted into expensive EVs that they may not be able to easily charge. Or bloated prices on used gas cars already in the state. Or be forced onto the pitiful public transportation systems.

Perhaps you should do some reading on California’s constitution and its laws. In the 70s, after graduating for free at UCs and buying up cheap housing stock, California’s passed a bill freezing their property tax rates and banning the state from creating new taxes or raising existing ones, while also every couple of…

I’ve noticed that people who reflexively feel the need to shit on California often aren’t the best at reading

So what you are saying is that we are about to get a flood of rust free used cars in the rest of the US, and that the poor in California are about to get shafted into expensive EVs that they may not be able to easily charge.

Did you even bother to read any of the text? the answer to your question is literally in the 2nd sentence of the paragraph about the subject. 

It’s a little more nuanced than that:

In addition, we all also “feel it” in the form of our health insurance premiums and healthcare costs. 

Republican Senator Deb Fischer said “every American consumer will feel the effects of this rule and its price increases.”

2nd: Fuck off and die, poors! -the GOP