That’s cute. Do you have any idea how auto regulations work in Japan? The Auto industry owns the politicians and is the reason that cars are forced to be taken off the road after a set number of years. If companies like Toyota don’t want to make an EV, the government will not force the matter.

Some parts have been that way since at least 2017.

They don’t make electric Kei trucks though.

Unless he’s puling a Seinfeld when I wasn’t looking, I’ll reserve that judgement for another day.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar called out this behavior back in 2020.

He just wants to be in the news cycle again.

Read the book by Barbara Walters.

And you lost me.

1. He volunteered.

2. Tell that to Putin.

Wasn’t that a reference to Thatcher? Not women in general.

The same reason poor people can be in favor of conservatives.

I believe him.

Money and connections.

oh, I was never locked in the apple ecosystem. I genuinely liked the OS for a very long time, but avoided owning music on iTunes, using their office suite or owning any iOS device. I was already using linux full time on an ebay Macbook Pro while my desktop was a hackintosh. Dropping support for 32bit apps was the final straw.

You’d have a point, except in the case of Operating Systems, one of the reasons I bailed on Mac was the reduction in customization of the desktop. They kept removing the colors in favor of a safe for business grayscale.

In the case of trucks, I’d rather have the same grill be used for 20 years so I can cheaply get a replacement from the junkyard if I need one. I’m so frustrated by the commercial options, I’m building a light duty 80’s C10 for my daily. Easy to work on, easy to fix, parts are cheap.

It’s an excuse to keep your product in the news/review cycle. You can’t just create a useful product and leave it at that. You have to constantly change shit so people are constantly talking about it. Why do you think iPhone keep switching between rounded and square edges? It’s not because one style is better then the other. It’s so reviewers have something to talk about. It’s why commercial OSes keep getting features no one asked for. It’s why car and truck bodies keep changing even though body lines have no effect on driveability.

It’s funny how you don’t see the connect between labeling all tattooed people as gangbaners and labeling Jews as Communists or the lack of due process in both cases.

I’m not using it as a basis for persecution. I’m saying that I don’t care if they are persecuted

Those things are the same thing.

First they came for the Communists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the Socialists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me

And there was no one left

To speak out for me

So where does the jump from “people that I should avoid” to rounding up and being sent to concentration camps happen? I don’t really care if you avoid people with tattoos, but where do you get off using that as a basis for persecution?

Literally. And it sucks. There’s reasons they don’t do it like this anymore.

That’s only if they choose not to get bottom surgery.