Paywalled, sorry. Can’t read it.

Pay Monthly, Not Own

Unfortunately, the Vigoz is not yet available for purchase. Cixi still has to build a working prototype with a production-ready design before manufacturing begins in France. When it finally hits the road, ownership won’t be an option either, as the Vigoz will only be offered on subscription, with prices set once production costs are confirmed.

Confirmed - fuck this business and everything about it.

And importantly, people died from that shit. Not every time, obviously, so you get morons with survivorship bias lamenting safety laws.

A kid in my neighborhood died from falling out of the bed of a pickup truck. Hit his head and was gone.

He may have cheated to win the last election and he’s at least somewhat likely to run a third time and cheat to win that too.

I don’t really give a fuck about your nuanced opinion on how things were before vs. now.

No thanks/hard pass. The rest of you go ahead and enjoy it.

This is the way.

Because they’re insincere.

Imagine voting for a child-raping conman racist. Then realize that supposedly enough people did that to elect their false idol.

We’re SOL.

Yeah that ship sailed long ago. I sure wish there was a better party to vote for in opposition of the fascists currently in power.

I blame the left for not being more violent. It’s led us to where we are.

Just yesterday I was driving home and passed a bunch of people with signs - “down with fascism!” and “No Kings!” and while I agree, I couldn’t help but think of how they’ve managed to pass gun ban after gun ban and restrictions on top of restrictions in my state.

“We won’t accept a dictator!” (Actual sign, last one I could see as I drove by) <- motherfuckers, exactly how do you plan on not accepting him? He runs the media, the election board, has his own gestapo, and all you’ve managed to do is disarm honest people.

I’d sincerely love to be wrong but as far as I can tell we’ve lost, the nation is simply fucking evil now and won’t be going back.

Make it a million.

Also, I doubt this will actually happen.

And if it does, all those megacorps will simply enhance their offshore development centers. They’ll not hesitate to fuck over the h-1b holders, who are mostly perfectly nice and normal people just like everyone else. Heck, most of the ones I’ve met were really nice.