Crime rates per capital are significantly lower in urban areas than suburban and rural areas. This further goes down in societies that treat the cause of crime instead of just shooting black people and enslaving kids like the US exclusively does as their criminal justice system.

He’s a billionaire, and he’s a normal billionaire at that. Investing is literally the only thing they do.

They genuinely aren’t, Muerza in South Africa and a variety of other local brands across Africa and Asia have cheap cars.

China cuts it down further by completely subsidizing education and opening vocational schools near factories that specialize in what those factory owners need, allowing hyper specialization. When you have an entire neighborhood able to produce all the parts of a car, instead of importing parts from across the world and assembling it like us car manufacturers do, you’re able to massively cut costs.

All manufacturing in china takes this approach of having almost enclaves of specialized knowledge and factories, and is genuinely an engineers wet dream to work in since you can get any part you could possibly want the same day, even if you just designed the part yesterday.

So your own source shows the dimensions increasing every single generation to the point of more than a 20% increase in some dimensions… Are you sure that’s what you want to use to defend your deranged worship of giant, indefensible trucks that have explicitly proven to be larger and less safe than their predecessors?

I don’t personally use a picture, because I’ve been outside in the past few years and can literally see the difference in real life. I was suggesting pictures for you, so you can correct yourself and understand what people are talking about in this thread, since you haven’t been outside yet in your life.

I really don’t care about random numbers you claim to have found that go contrary to reality.

So… Your point is the 2004 ranger is smaller, and makes the 2024 ranger look bigger because it’s so much smaller?

Good work agreeing with me while trying to be clever but entirely misusing the idea of forced perspective.

Sure, the spec sheet I’ll look at is a picture of a 2004 Ford ranger and a 2024 Ford ranger, one of which is twice the size of the other while having more limited visibility from the driver’s seat and headlights set above the average height of cars from the 1990s, ensuring bright ass headlights in your mirrors no matter what.

It absolutely is, and facts don’t get trumped by misleading facts.

Its not even a difficult thing to understand. You’re on the internet and have an infinite number of pictures that refute your idea.

The problem is you’re arguing against what people have actually experienced, and in cases where they’re in an area with persevered older vehicles on the road, can directly see.

Rangers are now the size of old f150s, f150s are now larger than older f350s. Trucks are just bigger, period. All newer vehicles are just bigger and bulkier than older (90s-00s) vehicles.

Its a massive safety issue, it’s been studied in actual scientific journals, it is a fact you can’t really deny at this point and it’s weird you’re trying to.

Mostly automation and sensible regulations. Also direct to consumer sales with third party dealerships not really existing for new cars. Also generally a lower cost of living allowing for lower wages and thus lower labor costs for the non automated parts.

It does make sense, as regular cabs cannot be bought on new trucks. All of them are crew cabs, decreasing their utility and increasing their weight and size.

As far as the general argument. Look at the headlight and start height of a Ford ranger in 2002 vs today.

MS Office runs just fine, libre office is also fine for the vast majority of use cases, and of course you can play call of duty. The only thing kernel level anticheat does is make the installation of a game take longer with a few more steps; and most companies are realizing that given the demand from the steam deck.

…why did the single most transformative event in terms of working from home on non work supplied devices change how companies deploy apps?

That obvious question and answer aside, everything has been moving from installed apps to web apps over the last decade. Office365 was the nail in the coffin for traditionally deployed applications, as now businesses didn’t need to update a hundred thousand deployments, just have them login in like they have always done. Not to mention web apps also tend to work on phones and tablets without any addition development work or training.

Have you just been out of it for the last decade or what? Have you just been out of a job for that entire time? Especially with how we assembly has been developed there are exceedingly few cases where you need to have anything but a browser installed for work. I’ve been with three companies in the last 5 years. The only system requirements was a chrome browser and fast enough hard lines internet. Two of those companies were fortune 100, so its not like this is just happening with startups using SaaS providers to cut down on costs.

What decade did you step out of? These arguments stopped being true last decade. None of these arguments have been even slightly true since the pandemic.

She started out strong solely from the idea that Biden finally stepped down and she might be different. Then within a day of the announcement she essentially sank her chances by suggesting she’d stay the course and that the Biden admin did well.

Regardless of her advisors, she said the Biden economy was good and she would continue it… That killed all reasonable votes from the poor and middle class.

Not really. Most people under 25 grew up on Chromebooks, not windows. Most people over 25 that aren’t tech savvy have been systematically moved to exclusively use web apps for whatever thing they’re doing. And based on browser numbers they can recognize a chrome logo to click on.

Anyone even slightly tech savvy, and I’m including people that use a computer for anything other than web based apps as tech savvy, has heard of Linux and can figure out what pretty icon to click on.

This isn’t 1994, Ubuntu was made for the iPhone generation, windows 11 was made for the iPhone generation. They’re both babby mode oses for people that think google is a program.

Maybe, instead of repeating disproven propaganda, you acknowledge the fact that Harris was not the candidate anyone left of burning orphans for warmth wanted.

That really only matters for massive cost care, like hospitalization and surgery. ACA does not matter for the majority of people, as the deductible is usually significantly higher than the median net (post expenses) income of people.

Professional advice costs your rent and is unironically tailored to white males (major acknowledged problem in medicine right now).

Its much cheaper to ask someone you know that has your issue how they treat it, since you know they also haven’t been to a doctor since they finished childhood vaccinations.