There is no way for consumers to know how much these things should cost, and a long history of utter shit being sold at premium prices. There is no trustworthy system to signal whether you are in fact cheaping out or not.

well, you know how much it costs to produce the car, you know how much it costs to market the car... then you have to decide how much revenue you’ll need to put back into the business to make more cars, and finally how much money you want to take home. at least that’s how I’d go about it. 

ICE cars are incentivized, just in other ways. Do you have any idea how much of the government’s resources go to ensuring a steady supply of oil?

The US outlawed lawn darts after the death of one five year old. We have regulations for consumer products out the ass to protect the public. There is no (personal view, here) case to be made against making more safe an item that is designed to kill; you’d think that would be a fucking feature, but not in this country.

“You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star they let you do it,” Trump says. “You can do anything. Grab them by the p*ssy. You can do anything.”

cameras are fucking small nowadays, and there’s nothing not undercover about a dashcam, since you can get one off Uncle Jeff’s emporium of counterfeits (amazon) for cheap.

Wait. Did this Chief of Police Dude... just try to say he wants to hold automakers accountable for the products they manufacture?

The news report didn’t mention race. Therefore it was a white kid.

LOL

The article has a photo of the frunk, therefore it must exist. The article also has the drag coefficient, a very low .24...the same as a Model S with virtually no grille.

A few grey comments I can’t reply directly to:

But that’s the thing - it doesn’t make things equal for teams. If you get crashed out by somebody else, not only do you suffer a loss of points, you have to spend resources that you would have used in an effort to make your car faster to instead repair damage, further penalizing you. That’s not even accounting for big…

Australia has a doctrine of exhaustion since 2020, similar to the doctrine of first sale in the US. All rights of the patent holder, except the right to make the product, are exhausted on first sale. As long as McDonalds legally purchased the controllers, Sony has no legal grounds to prevent McDonalds from painting…

Also time to review all that coroners’ previous calls, esp with minorities.

there is such a thing as setting a legal precedent though.

Releasing only in theaters didn’t stop Fast 9 from making bank. And the whole “only $20M” line is the same logic that keeps people from siding with “rich athletes” that are the whole reason that people go to the ballpark, rather than their much, much richer team owners who are screwing them. ScarJo, and nobody else,…

If someone paid me millions of dollars to do a job and then offered to pay me millions of dollars to do it again *and* people would like the end product better *and* I’d get to work with a better boss, I’d probably do it.

It’s virtually always employed that way in practice. US intervention being sadistic and selfish isn’t the perception of millennials, it’s the unavoidable reality for people on the ground, and has been discussed that way by thoughtful people since this country began.

My favorite King Shark is Ron Funches depiction in the Harley Quinn show. He manages to wrap up the beastly, the idiotic, and the funny sides of the character into one charming package.

He was really good in Altered Carbon, the first season is great.