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”

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

I’ve undermined smarter and more annoying bosses than that. Bring it on.

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.

Scams improve GDP

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

My VW is running Bugatti parts, for example.

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

Yeah, but I’d think k YouTube would rather people post there first (or exclusively) than to have their competitor’s logo in every video

Almost as scary as those four-wheeled dudes from Return to Oz

I wonder how many people who see this have actually seen The Wiz

So many of the shorts I’ve seen are repackaged Tik Tok that it makes sense for YT not to encourage publishing on a competitor first.

I’ve had roast peafowl and I don’t get the appeal beyond it being exotic. Turkey is far tastier

Looks like Bluecifer

I like their attitude.

As well he should