I want to believe we have gotten better and "wehrhafte Demokratie" is not just a throwaway slogan. In sum, "only" about 25% are voting populist, be it put of protest, spite, for your own benefit ot out of crooked conviction. That means 75% are still somewhat reasonable and I want to see this as a positive thing.

The only ads I'm exposed to are influencers and product placements. I recently bought something because of an influencer the second time in my life (excluding their own merch). I think I can manage.

I do fall for sales tho. Bad impulse control.

And here I was thinking you just shoot assholes who play lame combos like that

When you have not thanked your chatbot of choice even once

Tbf, some viruses are our friends. I would really like to avoid others tho

I hope so, using fish automatically makes you a better person in my humble and completely unbiased opinion

You have no idea what a pain in the ass it is to develop even a fraction of a car. I have seen the madness first hand. Everything is specified precisely, tested, protyped and tested again. Pretty much every part, microchip, piece of software, you name it. In addition you have designers wanting stuff certain ways, cost cutting and so on.

Now take that, put some old farts in exec position into the equation and imagine you want to totally change how cars work. They may be convinced you are right at this point, but now you need to rethink and adapt all processes, develop and specify and prototype tons of new stuff, integrate that with old stuff, build new supply chains, test all that and repeat.

Comparing a company to a containership was always a great analogy. The current situation is attempting a 360 with one at full speed. Startups have the advantage of being build arround new ideas like centralised computing, autonomous driving, modern entertainment systems etc. They have disadvantage when it comes to cost, quality management, distribution, volume... That said, the technological advantage is very pronounced atm.

I'm sure we will get there eventually, but it will definitely take some more time for the Germans to fully catch up.

Yes, no, and they can still become a dish if you wrap them right...Or so I have heard...

You know, I think it's kinda weird. Chatbots are all the hype and yet people hate terminals. Maybe we just need a very over-engineered terminal that insults your pitiful attempts at bash before they are cool again.

Es ist nie zu spät für ein Michmich. Aber versuch vielleicht mal Melatonin - wirkt keine Wunder, aber wenn man versucht zu schlafen lässt es einen schlafen.

Dünnes Eis Zuhausi, dünnes Eis

Europeans who's children go to school alone at 6 would be laughing their ass off if this wasn't such outrageous bs