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- Comment on How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*? 8 hours ago:
The stock market is delaminated from the real market, and has been for a while.
How this has happened is not simple but a short version is that as the stock market has evolved it became a key place to put assets with a level of growth expectation. As time goes on the demand for a place for investment without effort (starting your own business vs investing in a businesses stock) keeps getting larger and the alternatives keep getting less desirable (bonds, GICs, etc.) causing a sort of investment feedback loop. There is X amount of money that needs to be invested each year lets say, and if every thing is crashing (waves at the general state of things) it means nothing is since pensions, people and firms still need to have that investment somewhere.
As long as there is still some expectation of return and faith in the current stock market you will have investment and as stocks (and therefor the market) are measured by the demand (the buy vs the sell) we have the current situation. If you want to see what happens when a stock market looses people faith and therefor investment look at China’s stock market crash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%E2%80%932016_Chinese_stock_market_turbulence
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 1 week ago:
I remember as a kid there was a test where you parked in a spot and there where lines on a wall to check your light alignment. This was just a thing that was done, even sometimes by police on the roadside. Now? Fuck you and your retinas I guess, I don’t think a single new vehicle would pass that test today.
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 1 week ago:
Have you seen the prices for oats these days!?
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 1 week ago:
Typo, I fixed it.
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 1 week ago:
Might I suggest instead of spending money on a car payment, spend less money on maintance? I am shocked at how many bald tyre, brakes fucked, window washer fluid depleted cars are sliding around in winter.
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 1 week ago:
I think anything 2008 and before is kinda a sweet spot for car driving quality. After the subprime crisis its like all the car makers went to shit.
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 1 week ago:
Yes, But this is my point. You are sharing a video from “CAR TV” who’s tag line is “Watch New Model Cars With Pleasure 🎬” Its very much selling the idea that newer is safer, but the data only shows a slight increase in safety (and nothing on rate of crashes old vs new). In the video they show the two cars crashing but no data at all, the 1998 one from what I can see looks non fatal (seatbelt held, engine block not in lap, steering wheel not impaling chest) but not only do they say “The test showed the driver of the older Corolla would likely have died as a result of the 64km/h collision” they also don’t show that data. Even when looking for sources I get almost no where, this stinks.
Oh and in the little write up they say “ROAD safety experts have renewed calls for drivers to get behind the wheel of newer cars after an unprecedented crash test revealed shocking results.” Why do they write ROAD in all caps? Is this a special interest group? A lobbyist? No idea I can’t even check since there are no sources!
I am not saying newer cars don’t have more safety built in, I am saying its a matter of finding what level you are comfortable in and to not get suckered into needless fear over your cars safety rating while the average driver does not even maintain their car’s brakes.
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 1 week ago:
No, The issue is with conceptions of auto safety becoming a selling point. For example look at the single biggest invention in reducing crash fatality? You would think maybe airbags, seat belts or ABS brakes… But nope, collapsible steering columns. But we are now sold “death proof” SUVs that are not really safer, in some ways worse. The issue is that safety devices have a diminishing return but fear is a great selling point, I would say there are old things that are death traps (like square body chevys) and things like volvos that I would say are to this day built safer then new cars. If we look at the data for auto fatalities per capita we can see that car safety has not had some magical jump since the late 80s but a more expected gradual change.
As a side note I do and have done a lot of driving and from what I have seen in the last 20 plus years is a slide into cars that are:
- Top heavy (bigger is not safer)
- Have little to no visibility (that then try to make up for with back up cameras)
- Are built not to avoid crashing but to make crashing more comfortable
- Have limited to no driving feed back and over reliance on things like traction control
- Make driving on the same road with them more dangerous (just look at north american headlights)
At the end of the day I would rather drive a car that I can see out of and has a degree of safety devices (seat belts, collapsible steering column, working brakes) then something that is built like a living room on low profile tires that I will at some point crash. Bonus points if it does not explode or catch fire easily (think pintos or teslas).
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 1 week ago:
Right now my car is an 84. With a back up 86 truck. I used to have a 2011 subaru, but hit an prairie antelope with it. If I had my pick I think 1990-2008 Japanese cars are the sweet spot.
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 1 week ago:
That’s newer then I would go but yeah at least Honda seems to be behind on the complete shit curve.
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 1 week ago:
Too bad it comes with the jeep…
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 1 week ago:
Hard, even stuff from 10 years ago have proaitary hardware across multiple “brains”.
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 1 week ago:
This is why used cars are so dang expensive, it seems like automobile quality has been in a free fall since 2008. The end user experience gets worse while the price goes up.
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 1 week ago:
- Comment on Elon Musk wants the U.S. to “Liberate the people Britain from their tyrannical government” 1 month ago:
So between this and trumps statements on Canada are we getting the commonwealth back together? I could go for another burning down of a white house.
- Comment on FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules Struck Down by Federal Appeals Court 1 month ago:
Ministry of truth and all that.
- Comment on Equal under the law or something 1 month ago:
Can we have a place for not boring dystopia now? This is getting a bit riveting
- Comment on Steam Winter Sale Featured Deep Discounts - any recommendations? 1 month ago:
Thats the joy of the time sink the game is. I wish to find at least one more game like it I can really get into.
- Comment on Steam Winter Sale Featured Deep Discounts - any recommendations? 1 month ago:
Oh yes, the learning curve is almost a wall.
- Comment on Steam Winter Sale Featured Deep Discounts - any recommendations? 1 month ago:
From The Depths.
Half off, stupid time sink.
- Comment on MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate 2 months ago:
Wait, you can get assisted death after losing an emotional debate? Or can the winner also partake?
- Comment on ugh i wish 2 months ago:
Sorry, I am out of line.
But I do think it could catch on.
- Comment on ugh i wish 2 months ago:
Wonder if they tried heating the milk up to 63 degrees C for 30 mins before consumption?
Maybe that would help.
- Comment on Reminder for all Lemmy moderators and admins. 2 months ago:
Instructions unclear, grass under ice and snow and now I have frost bite.
- Comment on Trump confirms plan to declare national emergency, use military for mass deportations 2 months ago:
War?
I for one am a bit interested with what happens when they target natives?
- Comment on Capsaicin 3 months ago:
Next time try Fishermans friends and straight hot sauce.
- Comment on Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year 3 months ago:
I 'member.
Twas Dicky 14 or so, and I plan to make good on Microsofts words.
- Comment on Intel hasn't sold a single Arrow Lake CPU at Germany's largest retailer — Core Ultra 200S sales stagnate after just one week 3 months ago:
Might want to wait even on that idea until we know they don’t destroy themselves. (kinda have to do that with all intel now, sad)
- Comment on Intel hasn't sold a single Arrow Lake CPU at Germany's largest retailer — Core Ultra 200S sales stagnate after just one week 3 months ago:
CONSUME?
- Comment on Are You Pregnant Yet? Chinese officials have begun knocking on doors, asking women about their family planning intentions 3 months ago:
Well if you look at the (granted simple) definition of fascism other then being a far right party China kinda nails it Fascist governments are usually totalitarian and authoritarian one-party states.[4][5][6] Under fascism, the economy and other parts of society are heavily and closely controlled by the government, usually by using a form of authoritarian corporatism, where companies and workers are supposed to work together under national unity. The government uses violence and police power to arrest, kill or stop anyone it does not think useful.[3][7]
And that then leads us to the weird concept of emulated fascism, or far left fascism. How much does it matter to someone living under a authoritarian regime what we call it anyway?
