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Comment Re:Mazda3... (Score 1) 185

A and B class cars were not really profitable in the USA. Marketing had this great idea that if a young person bought a new B class and liked it they'd go on to buy profitable bigger cars from the same manufacturer. Hmm, well it's a great story, but turns out it wasn't true.

Comment Re:And the enshittification continues (Score 2) 185

Not exactly what you were talking about but I found this - the new price of cars and median full time pay, in the USA

2024 Camry $27555 median full time pay $43222 a base Camry cost 64% of your annual pay

1991 Camry $11588 median full time pay $15076 a base Camry cost 77% of your annual pay

Needless to say the spec of a 2024 Camry is rather less frugal than the 1991 one.

F150

$12760 in 91 to $37065 last year

It's gone from 110% to 86% of median pay.

Comment Don't worry (Score 1) 251

It's all going to be OK, Bernie Sanders can fly in his private jet. The economic argument is easy, does adapting cost more than the (futile) attempt to switch from CO2 emissions to a Net Zero economy? Given the lack of interest in reducing CO2 by major emitters (China, India, Gore,Sanders) it would seem that costing the price of adaptation would be a wise approach.

Comment Got it (Score 4, Informative) 61

All the sheet metal is assembled and then painted as one. The doors are removed to prevent damage as the interior is fitted. Frankly I doubt that using robots to do this is a first, but I can't be bothered to chase references down. GM were using robots to install the entire pre-assembled and tested dash/ cross member assembly back in the 80s, Cockpit 2 they called it.

Comment Gerbil warbling, sea level rise, and hypocrisy. (Score 0) 13

I think we can probably agree that cement production and tourist jets produce CO2. We can probably agree that increases in CO2 increases global temperatures. We can certainly agree that increased temperatures contribute to sea level rise. The Maldives often claims to be the poster boy for how they need financial compensation for global warbling.

The Maldives has recently built several new runways from concrete. The Maldives encourages jet tourism. The Maldives are increasing in land area, partly due to natural processes, and partly due to artificial processes.

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Comment Hang on (Score 1) 37

Having a reliable bot that can churn out usable code isn't valueless. Sure it puts a few low talent coders out of a job, maybe they should retrain as pool cleaners. Then they can star in porn films, except that very few people want porn with spotty overweight basement dwellers as the male lead (with the exception of /. contributors).

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