nxdefiant

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[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 2 points 2 years ago

No, not at all. I said everything sold during the pandemic, and because that was evident to manufacturers, they started putting their limited chip supply towards things with higher profit margins, like luxury cars, PHEV's and EV's.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You can turn it on anywhere in the U.S. I'm not sure if it's geolocked elsewhere. You might be confusing it with GM, Ford, Mercedes, and other systems which only work on certain stretches of certain roads.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Well you said "during the pandemic". That was the context for my response, I never said anything about after.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fuck I hope musk gets canned over this. I know the chances are near nill, but hey, a human can hope.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 15 points 2 years ago (6 children)

That's mostly because used cars cost as much as new cars, and new cars were hard to come by thanks to chip shortages, so if you wanted a car you got what you could get. Everything sold during the pandemic.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago

lake worth monster! Caddo has the Caddo Critter and San Antonio has the Donkeylady.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 10 points 2 years ago

For the sake of the secret service people, I hope he gets the very first president solitary wing named after him

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 5 points 2 years ago

Honestly that's the best possible name for it.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This history of the opinion pieces is an interesting one. I just wanted to point those two facts out to anyone who may have missed that in the headline.

More info if you're interested:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/03/insider/opinion-op-ed-explainer.html

The Opinion section operates editorially independently from the rest of the newspaper. It is the section’s unique mission both to be the voice of The Times, and to challenge it. The Op-Ed pages were born, in part, because of the closing of New York’s top conservative newspaper, The New York Herald Tribune. They were created to be opposite the editorial pages — and not just physically.

“The purpose of the Op. Ed. page is neither to reinforce nor to counterbalance The Times’s own editorial position,” the introduction to the newly created opinion pages stated in 1970. “The objective is rather to afford greater opportunity for exploration of issues and presentation of new insights and new ideas by writers and thinkers who have no institutional connection with The Times and whose views will very frequently be completely divergent from our own.”

Just to highlight that last bit: The opinions are frequently chosen to be completely divergent from those held by the NYT staff.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 18 points 2 years ago

All his experience and education was "free" in the context of his experiment. He didn't start that experiment with zero experience, and he did start it with zero debt.There are plenty of smart, motivated, people who have to give up on their actual life dreams to take care of sick family members, not just on their latest vanity project like this asshat.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website -3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Well, it's an opinion piece, and a guest writing it, so there's that.

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