It includes a pre-globalization world

All while India and China build coal power plants at record pace

this just isn't true though.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-coal-power-drops-in-chi...

Individuals get arrested for posting memes in the U.K. and fined and/or get phones taken away in Germany for the same because an unelected bureaucrat did not like it. 1984

That’s why we have courts

I'm sure China doesn't care it's not safe... and there's the issue

Human experts make expensive mistakes all the time

Not at the same rate than AI supervised by a non-expert.

Pre-paid optimism that we've been paying for now with high inflation due to overstimulated economy through printed money.

That's not the full story. I presume it was some Toyota, which are in high demand. Plenty of small size alternatives are available from other brands with 0 wait time.

So buy an SUV, or accept a huge hit in reliability driving a different brand?

Now who’s leaving out part of the story?! :]

This was spread across multiple makes and models. The car I wound up with is larger than I would like, but you're right, it was in stock. Because the dealers stock what people want and lead times (at the time) were atrocious.

I could walk in to any number of dealers and purchase what you are describing tonight. I have an excellent electric SUV that I walked into a dealer an purchased.

Good for you!

I hate this trend on Hacker News where you share an anecdote and get replies calling you a liar. Cool?

Swiss? Where money laundering is basically a given?

The flip side of privacy is privacy, yes.

I don't think it's still the money laundering haven, though. The US forced them into some pretty strict KYC laws to avoid being globally debanked.