My point was that at some point, the market willing to pay that upper tier price is big enough to sustain more than just the current upper crust ones. At that point...why would *any* of them make low end cars. That’s the problem with such high barrier to entry (even before COVID pricing) - upstarts can’t really…

There will be reasonably safe and habitable places on Earth for millenia.

Salt Lake City? No thanks https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/10/us/utah-great-salt-lake-dust-pollution-weir-wxc/index.html

Yep. 70k ppl is a *lot* of spilled liquids, oils, other toxic stuff. Thankfully their “Leave no trace” cleanup doesn’t deal the hard stuff like that at all /sarcasm .

As a former cop friend told me, the single most cost effective security solution is having a friend get their ADT signs mysteriously stolen.

as recently as 2016 China was installing more solar *per year* than the US had installed in the entire country. 2022? we have 140 MW installed in total, they installed 87 MW new in 2022 *alone*.

Sure. $30K for a used car isn’t a great deal me thinks. If a Soul can be $24k out the door, a *new* flex size shouldn’t be $40k.

“There can be only one!“  ...more franchise attempt apparently

Self driving cars aren’t ready for prime time to be sure. They literally need a standard ‘human take control’ system for scenarios like this. And by standard, I mean regulated, and first responders trained on it - not a small thing across an entire country. short of that it might be as ‘simple’ as 1. Beat on it so it…

yeah she likes that!  but at $40-50k it’s a non-starter unfortunately.

Had a soul since 2011, basically zero issues. Wife loves the boxy design...she just now wants it in a Ford Flex size haha

Yeah, having to go somewhere to refuel a car is definitely something Condo owners have never dealt with.

“selling $70-150k vehicles isn’t a sustainable business model”

Having spent some time in Tuscon on the Air Force base I learned something hilarious. For base housing developments, you could choose between ‘native’ and ‘grass lawn’ as your yard.

Entirely reasonable. The HOA concept has plusses and minuses, and each have different values to different people :)  I prefer knowing I won’t have a chicken farm show up on my doorstep.

An HOA is only as bad as it’s members lack of involvement in it. If people aren’t involved in the month to month actions...power hungry small minded ppl will take over make it unfriendly and lead to the horror stories.  Almost a metaphor for our current national problems.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE reserve the Woke DVDs for ppl in red states.

a cousin of mine said a couple decades ago “Apple’s a hardware company that doesn’t know it yet”. He and I agree with you their build their software...mainly to sell their hardware - so it’s a different mindset than google and others.

The words are pretty plain. “and the ability to block abusive users from the service”

The issue is the assertion that a lack of user to user block is a requirement for app stores. Nothing I’ve seen says that. Do you have a link to that?