But full-sized trucks like the F150 are some of the most amazingly inconvenient vehicles on the road currently? You can't fit them anywhere, can't park anywhere, the ride quality is dogshit without a huge load in the back or off-road, fuel costs are bankruptcy-inducing, they go through consumables like crazy and so on.

Somehow, it doesn't add up to me that people would prefer to face constant daily inconveniences for the sake of the one or two times a year it's useful rather than have a convenient time most of the time and have to come up with something occasionally.

Sales numbers seem to disagree...

Isn't Stellantis selling Ram 1500s at a pretty good clip in Europe no less.

With no contrast that's a little disingenuous. https://www.best-selling-cars.com/europe/2025-full-year-euro...

Gas is closing in on >6$/gal and my country produces no oil but a ton of electricity. How are any of those supposed to help?

They absolutely could not, the high-tech interior is cheaper. A screen is cheaper than ten million tiny little buttons.

Incidentally, this is also partly why the interiors feel so egregious and cheap in the pieces of shit produced by Germans these days.

So… it’s not really high-tech, it’s just a screen? I guess I need to see what the actual offering is.

That's the entire modern, Tesla-inspired design ethos: remove all knobs, remove all buttons, remove all levers, remove the PRNDL, remove all the gauges, replace it all with controls on a big iPad in the center, and call the spartan interior "high-tech"

They cancelled and destroyed their 0 Series EV line when it was basically two days away from starting deliveries and now they have absolutely nothing to show for it.

They are so unbelievably fucked. I wouldn't be surprised if they eventually pull out of the car manufacturing game and exclusively stick to motorcycles.

Can't wait for the day where Toyota is called "the BYD of ICE", as opposed to how it is now.

Libertarians are unable to conceptualize what 'art' even is. It doesn't bring in financial benefit, so what is it for? If it's not an advertising board with your company's logo on it, it's worthless wasted space.

Art is cool.

Painting your art on someone else's private property is not.

Pushing your political agenda in public spaces is especially not cool. I just want to walk outside and enjoy the world, don't want your political agenda pushed on me.

imagine telling people not to bring their politics to "the world" so you can enjoy it. the world isn't a product you ordered.

i mean a modicum of reflection shows you that what you are suggesting would in fact be imposing your own political agenda on everyone else.

I agree. Hell, when I'm listening to music with my full-fat expensive setup, even the noise of the fans in my desktop computer is distracting and adversarial to the listening environment. Bringing those cans outside would be insane.

It's always the same thing with these people. The women have to take care of the kids, and stay at home, never go kind and never complain. They should do all the work then the fathers should get to stumble in drunk, entertain their kids for 10 minutes and then force their wives into sex.

It's always wives, mothers, grandmothers.

It's not the most pressing issue in the world, but long-term, maps do shape conceptions about the world that we don't personally know. So it might be symbolic, but symbols are powerful.

That must be why we all live in awe and fear of giant, mighty Greenland.

Pretty unapologetically, too. He's still doing it and will keep doing it the more you give him money.