Veraxus

“Tyranny of the majority” was an ur-fascist Republican mantra even when I was a kid. These people were always anti-democratic.

They’ll just get some corrupt judge to wave their hands and rule “not like that”.

No, but it’s the only one that big corporations know/care about… primarily because of MS’s aggressive “look, it’s basically free and TOTALLY the same thing, we promise” marketing strategy.

The customer is never just a customer… even if you are paying. You are always the product now. Always.

Well, that’s just great. Another reason for corporations to force everyone into the miserable, counterproductive dumpster fire that is MS Teams.

Until the US government doubles the price to protect our own garbage auto industry.

Though maybe if they take that money and funnel it into subsidies for own promising upstarts like Rivian and Aptera… but no, that would mean our corrupt officials wouldn’t be able to plunder it for own big donors. What was I thinking?

The international buzz right now is that they are legitimately very good.

https://www.theautopian.com/i-drove-a-bunch-of-chinese-cars-and-they-are-amazing-how-china-learned-to-build-better-cars-while-the-west-was-sleeping/

so which are you choosing?

I think most people will choose what they can actually afford. The fact that things cost so much and people aren’t being paid anywhere near enough to compensate for the skyrocketing price of consumer goods, including vehicles.

Whatever the reasons, there is a very serious and dangerous disconnect between the prices of American goods and the spending power of the average American. Unless we do something about that - and I do not mean short-sighted, punitive, protectionist measures like tariffs - China is going to drink our milkshake.

On the up-side, I can cancel subscriptions whenever I want and only subscribe to one or two at a time when they have something I want to watch. I could never do that with cable.

That said, pricing is getting way out of control. I will not tolerate ads and we’re getting to the point where purchasing content makes more financial sense than subscribing to things that load you up with caveats unless you pay premiums.