The only problem, early adopters usually are the only ones who really bank on the passive income of that type. Once things get too saturated, that’s when they will start singing the praises of whatever system it is, then try to offload theirs onto someone else as a favor. 

In my municipality they restrict washing your car at home to one day per week and only from a bucket (no running hose) to save water don’t you know.   Businesses have no water restrictions at all, just homeowners, because we are the problem.

I would go with “real estate investment” as the biggest one here. I know a guy that owns a ton of gas stations and even the ones in small towns are good investments. He told me that you get essentially the best real estate that pays for itself at the same time. He was also impressed with dollar general and those…

I tried that.

Money laundering.

^ this

The last time Stellantis developed a diesel for the US market it resulted in criminal charges on top of civil fines.

Fuck it - make it $20 billion. Doesn’t fix the damage done.

The whining from the delete crowd on this is so ridiculous. The EPA really needs to step up enforcement and stop resales of deleted vehicles as well. I know it will be a huge work effort, but its the only way to put an end to the deletes. They all think their vehicles will be “worth more” with a delete. 

The 2013-2018 engines were listed as defeats and the 2019-2023 were listed as AECD violations. Unfortunately, the details don’t appear to have been released yet.

oh, brodozers....

Now make them do a recall to fix every engine with the defeat device in place. Also make it impossible to license any vehicle for on road use if the recall isn’t addressed within 6 months. I realize state based licensing makes the second have of my proposal impossible.

In classic GM form, the engine and mechanicals are shared across a number of different platforms. GM has used the LTG engine across a bunch of different models including the camaro, caddillacs, including a bunch of their mass market CUVs. I would be worried about body panels and trim, but the rest is quite a bit of par…

“beginning of SUVification”

It’s a scam at $0 too. It isn’t worth the time and bandwidth to download and install, let alone “play” it.

This game was a scam at $40, if you’re a stupid enough asshole to spend even more then that go for it. I can only imagine “content creators” would buy a key for this scammy turd at this point if they didn’t dive in on launch day and missed out on all the easy clicks and views, this scammy piece of shit gave a lot of…

And a handful of streamers will buy it to create content and a “Steam banned this game?!?!” YouTube thumbnail video.

This is basically the entire reason the FDA was created. A 5 lb sack of flour used to contain at least a pound of gypsum and that wasn’t the worst of it. Milk used formaldehyde as a preservative and meat used Borax.

The people who will run in with attempts at “told you so”s will ignore two major elements:

1) Even if it was the best thing ever, Microsoft did such an ATROCIOUS job explaining/marketing it, it never would have mattered. The case study of just how you could botch a console launch from every conceivable angle is…

I wrote a whole blog about this (on this site! that no longer exists! fuck the herb!) at the time, and I stand by it to this day. Xbox One was way ahead of its time and some of its smart home theater conveniences still haven’t been adequately replicated to this day.