I suppose that’s easy to do with a bit of chrome plated steel and a spring. But thats also like 40lb hanging off both ends of the car like barbels. I’d rather have the gas mileage and some scrapes right now.

With the way they keep killing people, I wasn’t all that comfortable getting a Model Y uber in the snow last winter.

Not only in R&D but market development… Like, finding out what people want and selling it to them, exporting them… The Americans are trying to push pickups on europe…

I’m fairly confident you could drive most modern econoboxes into things at 5mph and come away with just abrasions on the bumpers.

Bumpers are for bumpin’ and we should have never let them paint them body coloured.

Do you know how fucking drastic shit has to be to get boring EU companies to be like “Yeah maybe lets entirely divest from the US tech stack”

We’re here. Hedgemony’s dead bro, the US doesn’t make anything we want any more.

President doesn’t have that much power.

You’d think…

more-stringent towing requirements than in Europe

it does make me laugh seeing Americans need a fifth wheel to move what I’ve seen a transit connect tow on its hitch. Or that time I saw a BMW 2 series convertible towing a caravan bigger than it.

That’s completely normal and safe. And Americans are lil’ bitches about towing, it would seem. Its either that or decades of automatic gearboxes zero tow rating has lead to the assumption you need a piggup trugg to move anything more than a utility trailer.

I’m fucking furious that the tankstation owner appears to have a dodge ram that I have to look at every time I head out of the city northbound.

I regularly fantasise about coating it in paintstripper, but a supersoaker would dissolve too fast.

Either that or finding a bunch of dutch language books about insecurity to leave on the windscreen.

They have been trying to murder the US and EU auto industry and dumping biblical shittons of money into battery technology. the EU and the US aren’t trying to compete.

Its still an advancement for all mankind, even if my countries leadership wont let me have one.

It is strange seeing the physical manifestation of a web endpoint, to me, in 2026, after decades of cloudslop.

Its just a computer! on a shelf! you can go hold it!

How dejected could you be when you can bring someone such joy?

No, I mean it. If you’d indulge me, I’d love to know more about your background, how you’ve ended up this way.

I wish I could be as disconnected from the reality of whats happening around us as these people seem to be, genuinely envious.

I would have less anxiety, for a start.

I mean, I can understand it from the guy… half a year of dying in a bed? Or right the fuck now? Who knows how much pain he was currently in.

Wow. You’re cooked.

I’d love to know more about your life, your living situation… how you got this way.

Mmm butlerian jihad, it is calling me.

Personally, I’m glad they’re almost dead.

Suits were a consequence of the professionalization of what would otherwise be trade workers. Most of those that put on suits didn’t get to get a union, either.

A software developer is a machine monkey, just in air conditioning and no grease under their nails. For some god damn reason they have to wear a collar and tie. This pushed most of the devs with career mobility to reject that and you get the sandles-and-t-shirt techbro stereotype.

Suits are too expensive to get tailored and off-the-shelf ends up looking a bit tragic on the majority that are compelled to wear 'em.

Occasionally I’d get jams. The jams would manifest with a train sat occupying the corner, so i put a circuit in each one that sets off an alarm after 60 seconds of being continuously blocked. Then I’d investigate.

Generally, given that my stations only became available if they had > 1.0wagonscapacity*stacksize the trains mostly sat in “parking” waiting or at “parking” nearer the raw resource in the far outposts.

It required a little tuning, some modules have a lead-in perimeter loop where 5-6 trains can be stacked waiting to unload.

Please inform yourself of the adjacency of lobbyist centers and capital hill.

Politicians don’t write shit, they get given frameworks and proposals from lobbyists and “industry leaders”, sometimes they get made into law directly without edit, especially when it comes to smaller ordinances.

There are designated handlers from the larger lobby groups for designated politicans and congress-critters.

They should wear jumpsuits like nascar, maybe you and the public would understand it better.

Edit: Looking at the rest of your replies you’re getting downvoted to oblivion for denying reality.

In 1.0 I played bobs+angels and ran on a 100 square cell structure

In 2.0 I’ve still only done vanilla, but I went with a 200 square cell this time for bigger trains.

My only regret is exploring south and not east or west

The creeping horror for other players is making them zoom in to realise the scale of the thing. Its a long time to traverse even with rocket trains and go fast legs.

Edit: I should have included a picture of one of the cells for scale