automated headlights are another.

Automated headlights should be banned. Whenever I pull up next to someone with their lights off and talk to them, the answer is always the same “I thought they were on automatic!”, and then they fumble about madly for a minute trying to find where the switch is at.

It takes one bump and you’re driving without lights for days. It’s even worse with DRLs since your “headlights” are always on, there is no major visual impact to the driver when their lights are off, but the safety aspects of DRLs I think outweighs the risks here.

For the record, I’m not saying automatic headlights are useless. They’re great if you are driving in an area that has a lot of light levels variations, like tunnels, or intermittent storms. They also are nice if you are driving during dawn or dusk. But… Automatic lights should be something you manually turn on and off, not a set-it-and-forget-it behavior.

Nope. Terrible.

2015 Honda - perfect. Buttons when I wanted buttons. Touch when I wanted touch, and I never had to use it when driving.

2023 Ford - Yeah, it’s bad and dangerous.

Explains why trump was so desperate to make a “deal” too! That’s his bonus uncle Vlad is burning in trenches.

If only we had some other technology to make vaccines…

The French also didn’t live in a surveillance state with the largest power disparity between the top 1 percent and the bottom 99.

Are you taking notes on a goddamn criminal conspiracy!?

Also, if you seriously need notes like that, don’t bother, you’re gonna get caught anyway, might as well save some paper.

Hmmmm tough call.

Whichever pharmaceutical company(s) is hiking the price on insulin. The patent was fucking free, the product costs pennies to produce and distribute. No, 99.97% of the cost cannot be “R&D” for an old, mass produced drug.

Maybe also my old employer, which got laws passed to make them the only possible workers claim comp system in the state, then spun up a side business consulting for companies on how to use coding errors in medical billing to deny healthcare and compensation for people injured in their negligent and hazardous workplaces.

I mean, that is a whole level of evil I couldn’t stoop to on my worst day.

Maybe the economy would being doing better if 90% of people had money for basic needs and maybe a little left over afterwards for shit like I dunno, cars, hobbies, charity, advocacy and events.

Remember, not that long ago, a single working man could provide for a house, 2 cars, a wife and 2.5 kids.

Nowadays, it takes DINKs deep into their careers to afford a starter home.

Hear me out. Tesla makes (or at least made) innovative cars, they persued their vision of electric vehicles and made EVs a commonplace option for the average consumer. They needed Musk’s capital to do that. They are still capable of doing great things… But not with Elon at the helm. The best thing we can do, even if you like your Model 3, or even your damn Cybertruck, is to get Elon out of Tesla.

That means boycotts. Don’t use their chargers, don’t rent or buy their cars, don’t subscribe to their full-self driving, and black them out on social media.