Not really. If that's your hobby you could easily do 40 hours a week, regardless of what the psychologists would like you to do.

I have a room going on multiple years now.

It doesn't have to be generic. You can assign genders, ideals, even modern ones, and it should do it's best to oblige.

The best thing you can do is ask the distributor or publisher. It shows them this is wanted and gets you answers.

The math doesn't work when you calculate the same thing based on buying low mileage used cars or leases.

You're throwing large amounts of equity away every 4 years.

Also electric cars get killed on the depreciation curve.

Low mileage used cars don't come with a warranty, or probably have a more limited warranty if they're CPO.

Leases can be better, but again they are usually better choices in high depreciation scenarios (like luxury vehicles or EVs, as you point out), not low depreciation scenarios.

    > Also electric cars get killed on the depreciation curve.

I have heard this a couple of times now, and I believe it. Is the cause battery wear or pure demand (buyers don't want used EVs for various non technical reasons)?

In California, at one point, you could get a few thousand rebate, if you were in the Central Valley, and additional few thousand rebate. Some local cities gave rebates on top of that, and the federal tax rebate on that. Buy a $45k Model 3 and get back $13k-$15k just for buying it. Rebates like that are going to play havoc with resale values. On top of that, new Tesla's went down in price over the past several years. I think as these incentives taper off we'll see more of a stable drop off.

I think buyers just understand the value of a battery that they've cared for and babied compared to a battery with unknown history.

If the next update fails to remove ads on by default we can assume these are empty promises.

https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-disable-sponsored-suggestions...

The tell isn't the emdash alone, it's the emdash character being used in place of a dash.

Yes. The internet is awesome and the government will destroy it.

genocides are happening online? That's pretty remarkable.

no, but incentives to commit genocide are spread through social media. [0]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_genocide

I bet people used phones, letters and the pony Express before that.

The government committed that genocide...

The genocides would have happened with age verification or not, don't conflate the two.

Ironically, the solution to both the proliferation of genocide and social media causing harm to kids is the same, and it's a solution that helps everyone: legislate the source of the problem, the product itself and what we colloquially call "the algorithm".

Algorithmic optimization and manipulation that causes harm needs to be banned wholesale, across the board, from advertising to social media.

Instead, we get legislation that not only makes it easier to identify everyone as verifiably monetizable users to platforms, it also makes it easier to keep the proles in their place.

I like how you're careful to use the "west" because if you had said US your argument would have been laughable.

Most European countries did awful things during their colonial years, some late into the XX century. Some still do shady things in Africa right now. And they all welcome money siphoned off peripheral countries by crooks.

Nobody can claim moral superiority.

I dont believe it would be even more circuitry. 2 exposed pins and maybe a diode if you really want some protection. They did this to sell more rings.