Yes if you want to ruin your car (assuming we’re talking about the brush type carwash). It wears down the clear coat if you do it a lot.

Rookie mistake. Send 18000 Codex prompts next time and they’ll hail you as a god amongst men

The top 1% don’t get 99% of the resources, they get 99% of imaginary wealth. It can’t be sold off en masse.

Ergo, we don’t have a magical extra 100x increase in actual goods and other physical resources per person coming if we just kill the 1%. Things could be distributed much more fairly for sure, but it’s not as simple as “these few people own everything so if they’re gone, everyone else is a millionaire”.

Anyway, much of the “basics” is going to be in person care work with an aging society. We haven’t handed that off to AI yet, nor medicine, but once that’s happened then yes we can actually handle social safety nets in an aging society. Right now the solution they’re going for is a constant increase in retirement age to keep the tax revenue high enough to pay for retired people’s needs.

That’s peanuts though?

If you’re living under capitalism and not investing in any way, that’s not really some noble act, it’s you voluntarily staying broke and dependent on others in the future.

Should at least have some form of retirement fund going so you don’t have to leech off the taxes paid by the young when you’re old.

In the US. Not in the 21st century.

I have bad news for you. Lisa Su has been cozying up to Trump for increased AI spend and lax regulations too.

Maybe he just didn’t want to work till death. The big tech companies used to pay enough that you could retire early fairly easily. Few other opportunities for that unless you’re born into wealth and connections.

Idk if they still pay the same after all the layoffs, I haven’t kept up because under Trump, the US is no longer an attractive place to work.

Quite a bit if you actually wanted to use it. Opencode offers enough usage for free that you could create full apps from it lol, caveat being that their free plan usage is being used to train the models you use. But then everyone is probably doing it on their paid plans as well.

Free games with MTX and ads and shit are all the rage anyway

If you go work for Samsung, it might just work out for you. They do healthcare, construction, heavy machinery and whatever the hell else.

Usually people buy their own home before they start accumulating loads of crap. Nobody wants to drag it from rental to rental.

For the majority of my 20s I could fit nearly everything into my wagon and with the except of my E-Class, they’ve all had tow hitches so if I couldn’t fit everything in the car, I could just get a trailer too.

Distances are smaller too, you’d usually never be moving more than 200 km away within the same country, so even doing multiple trips with car is not too bad, you just have a few weeks of overlap between moving in and having to clear out the last place, then you can get it all done and clean up after work and on the weekends

The first one from the tip I can’t manipulate individually so you’re right, base 4 is impossible. But 0/1/2 I could do an all 3 fingers and my thumbs. Technically that means the ability to count to 59049, though it’d be a painstaking process.

Yes, but don’t forget, I was talking about a 2003 there. Before piezo injectors and actually efficient automatic transmissions. Newer cars, even with all the nasty emissions equipment ruining them, get better mileage.

Diesel and gasoline are priced the same where I come from, with diesel often being cheaper.

That Honda Civic would cost a bit more to run on a daily basis than a larger and heavier diesel wagon that can carry tons of cargo. Maybe about equivalent to a SUV like a 2018+ BMW X5 or similar in terms of fuel economy. Obviously much cheaper to maintain, but that was my point: For the first few owners, the overly complicated hunks of plastic are a much better balance of power, economy and refinement. 300-400k km is where they usually start breaking down bad if maintained to manufacturer spec (i.e oil changes rarely, transmission fluid change never)

They nearly had me in the first quarter, but now I no longer believe I’ll ever see it. Not enough young people are born. My generation is enough to support the current old people, but there won’t be enough people to support my generation.

Oh definitely, I’m just saying it doesn’t mean there’s a literal trillion missing from somewhere else. If the government confiscated all his companies they’d have to sell off super slowly to get that full trillion, otherwise it would tank.

This man could lose a trillion dollars and still be a billionaire, it’s fucked up.

It’s made worse by the fact that my native language has exactly the same phrase in terms of literal meanings of words… So naturally the meaning is the exact opposite of what it is in English.

Large enough load would escape when braking. No wall up front. Add one and visibility goes to shit.

His wealth is much more imaginary than, say, Warren Buffett’s.

If Musk starts selling off all his stock, well, he’s the majority shareholder of his own companies, so the prices will collapse. He’ll be lucky to get 200-300 billion out of his trillion dollar valuation. I chose Buffett as a comparison because his company holds shares in tons of other companies, so it’s much more diversified and the value is not nearly as dependent on one single shareholder not selling much

It’s unfortunate but this gets you more car per kilogram/millimeter.

That 2017 Civic probably uses more fuel than a significantly more spacious and comfier Euro wagon with a diesel engine,. My 2003 E-class could do just above 5 l/100km on the highway and had TONS of space. Like who needs a van if you have one of those. Newer ones with tighter engine bays get more space in relation to car length and also less weight for same amount of car AND get better fuel economy.

Really it’s the third or fourth owner’s problem when shit starts breaking at 300-400k km and you’re constantly fixing it