[-] [email protected] 94 points 1 year ago

No need for regulations, just set a price floor please. Only billionaires allowed.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Fines like this should be calculated based on % of corporations net assets. Something like this, say 5-10%. That would at least get their attention.

Same with personal fines honestly, percentage of income or total wealth, depending on the crime.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I have mixed feelings on this. I think there were a few good reasons to move to sealed batteries. In an ideal world you could give consumers choices between the various trade-offs and offer multiple models or variants.

But of course that will never happen because non-replaceable batteries present a far better business case. If they were forced to offer options, the manufacturers would deliberately make the user-replaceable models far shittier and then complain to the regulators that they were unpopular.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

I’m having a hard time believing that industry executives are negotiating in even remotely good faith. If that were true, it’s not likely that a second major union would have joined the strike.

Such ridiculous pandering; get ready for the PR tactics that will make union demands look unreasonable and paint the workers as lazy and greedy.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

I’m having a hard time believing that industry executives are negotiating in even remotely good faith. If that were true, it’s not likely that a second major union would have joined the strike.

Such ridiculous pandering; get ready for the PR tactics that will make union demands look unreasonable and paint the workers as lazy and greedy.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeahhhhh… the infotainment in the last GM vehicle I drove maybe 4-5 years ago had a UI that looked like it was designed by a drunk child, absolutely no useful functionality to speak of, and was slower than molasses in winter. I’ll believe their Carplay killer when I see it.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Completely agree. I think it’s just going to become a very mainstream basic place for basic discussion, probably with a lot of mean comments, racism, bigotry, etc. It wasn’t that way when I joined and it had already fallen pretty far when I left last month.

It’s not going to die as a site but the community is already gone.

bearr

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