Idiots still need to pay the bills and buy groceries, which in most of America means that idiots still need cars. It’s also why anyone able to fog a mirror is able to get a driver’s license.

That’s two months and COBRA more than the law requires, so sadly it’s actually a pretty good deal.

Maybe after their Tesla experience they just want something that works every day, never mind the power plant?

Anecdotally speaking I’m starting to see many bay area upper class tech nerds move away from Tesla to other makers.

Personally I would have preferred “people before cars” but no one made me the marketing director of remaking America.

I live in San Jose and work in San Francisco and while it would technically be faster for me to drive in and the parking would be covered by the company the fact that I don’t have to deal with traffic and focus all my attention on driving in the hell that is bay area rush hour means my mental health is so much better…

The problems all feed on each other. Sprawl means it’s nearly impossible to have a workable public transportation system to serve everyone, which puts everyone back in their car.

Costco as it exists is basically a byproduct of car dependence. Heavily urbanized areas generally expect people to buy less stuff at once, more often, in walkable distance.

The expansion was great! Different enough from the main game and didn’t overstay its welcome, definitely recommend playing it through.

It’s actually not out of whack for gacha games (and Genshin at least guarantees that you’ll eventually get all the shit unlike some others where you just have to keep rolling on small percentages). They make the money on whales and they kinda have to maximize how much the whales can whale.

I ran through the numbers a while ago and to max a banner’s character and weapon was well over $1k, so with one of those every 2-3 weeks I can definitely see more than 20k over a period of time.

I’m a sucker for these retro-futuristic aesthetics, and loved the Truman show, so I feel like the game was made for me.

Beyond all the Michael Jackson controversy through the years, I’d bet that just because his name doesn’t show in the credits doesn’t mean that there aren’t a bunch of thorny licensing legal issues about using it after all these years without running things through a very expensive lawyer gauntlet.

Mayor Adams is somehow managing to be the real life bumbling fool of a big city mayor from your average 80s buddy cop movie, but also it’s 2022 and he stands out as an anachronism 🤷🏽‍♂️

Thanks that’s the kind of informed reply that the Internet could use more of!

I would expect an A380 to be more expensive to operate than a 787, the question would be how much more it costs per passenger. Probably not too different there.

I wonder how much the move to smaller jets and the failure of very large ones like the A380 has been more about the very diminished earning power of pilots and crew these days compared to a few decades ago. Much easier to justify having two or three flights to cover a route instead of a very large one when you’re…

The majority of people didn’t buy GTRs or Impalas in their time either 😅

The younger generations don’t spend money on cars because it’s a lot more money in proportion to what they make than Way Back When and because they already have most of their money spoken for in rent, student loans and covering other basic necessities. Avocado toast has little to do with it.

I think the lack of affordability of cars for later millenials and younger should be a bigger part of the conversation about the death of fun cars.