It depends on the make but that’s when I feel cars tipped the scale to becoming appliances

I am never buying a car built after 2016

If I ran a high school tech class I’d give them a box of parts and say “make it run Doom”

Klitoris would be an add on for KDE for folks who use Thinkpad nubs

It’s weird that my two most trusted institutions are a satirical newspaper and a rude card game, right?

Yes but 69F is nice while 69C is not

Since we’re in the cursed timeline, Trump will leave office in 2029 and be elected prime minister of Canada.

There’s also the fact that a lot of those dollars moving are against people’s will or for stupid, inefficient reasons.

If we each paid each other a thousand bucks an hour not to hit each other then that grows GDP without doing anything useful.

GDP measures the value of all goods and services produced in a country. A legal scam can hide as a service and get counted.

This is why cars are good for GDP but mass transit isn’t, because a lot more cost goes into a car than a bus on a per rider basis.

The same goes for health insurance. Simply paying a doctor for services is far less GDP than paying an insurance company who then pays the doctor after taking a cut.

Once you realize what GDP measures a lot of what countries do makes sense.

They were moderately popular around the turn of the century. They held 100-250MB but were pretty fragile. There were others called Jaz disks that held 1GB.

But once you could burn a CD or use a thumb drive they weren’t worth the risk of data loss.

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Scams improve GDP

If you were a real pervert like me you needed zip disks

I used to live in a small town who successfully kept out a Walmart and Cracker Barrel. The former because it would have paved over a historic farm and cost millions to extend the sewer, and the latter because “we already have restaurants.”

I miss that place.

Sorry, all electric cars must be giant SUVs or crossovers with bland styling, built in iPads instead of knobs, and mandatory data harvesting

And luxury car parts, which are more often than not from ordinary cars.

My VW is running Bugatti parts, for example.

I’d take that Tracker over any car built in 2026.

It’s like selling special gold shovels during a gold rush that are better at shoveling gold.

When is the next conjunction of planets that enabled the Voyager missions happening and are we preparing for it?

I’m in the unenviable position of basically doing self hosting for work and all I want to do on the weekend is get greasy under my car.

Gonna change the oil later and replace a MAF