HOPEFULLY... This nonsense goes away like that retarded start/stop bs Trump just did away with...Which was ANOTHER PITA your boy Obongo pushed automakers into implementing...
The more people that know and complain, the better chance we have of nipping it in the bud.
Like that OnStar bs practically NOBODY wanted, you were forced to buy. There was no way to delete it from the build list... even if you custom ordered a vehicle.
I don't know about you, but I've had it with all this bullshit nobody wants or needs rammed down our throats...from vehicles, to toaster ovens... that don't work because they can't find the network.
A part of me often thinks about creating old school American durable goods that are "analog" and "just work"... because EVERYTHING is total crap now AND completely overpriced to boot.
Wouldn’t it be awesome if like, all us patriot Americans pooled, let’s call it “money”, and used that “money” to create an “investment company”, whose funds we leveraged to “start a car company”, that would “build products we want”, allowing us to start from either base-level or fully featured and add or remove anything we wanted until we “were able to buy a product we actually wanted”?
Call me crazy but it seems like that could be done somehow…
It would have this crazy side benefit of having a head count of known humans and being able to tell “our humble public servants” that “THEY ARE NOT WRITING LAWS WE DESIRE TO HAVE.”
Of course, there are some overlapping promises and mechanics there from the old promises of unions, so we’d have to figure out how to ensure we didn’t let things be run by communists somehow…
I know this post sounds like… really sarcastic, when it’s actually not. Why in the crap aren’t we organizing something like this somehow?
I think that's a great idea, but it doesn't translate very well unfortunately in the real world, where subsidies, side deals and procurement of materials at volume, give existing producers a HUGE production cost advantage.
We all love to think that "we'd pay for better stuff", but quite often, there's a HUGE gap between people that gave lip service to the idea AND those who are REALLY willing to pay the actual cost it takes to produce it.
For instance, if vehicles were being considered, it may cost $150k retail for a vehicle comparable to a $50k vehicle from "the big three". This is because the cost of "tool and die" is absolutely MASSIVE... Everything from frame and bodywork stamping to engine and trans molds/dies etc.
But something like a toaster or fridge that is similar to 1987 appliances would be exponentially easier to get to market... but the pricetag would be higher than "competition" and things like "Energy star" compliance might make things more challenging than anticipated... each thing that requires a certification also means dealing with bureaucratic gangsters with their hand out...
Once again I failed to spell "bureaucratic" well enough for autocorrect to even recognize...Nice Pepe BTW...
On a rare occasion when I listened to radio, I heard an ad for a sale on home appliances. “Samsung smart fridge, was €1299, now only €999.”
A thousand euros for a bloody fridge!!! A fridge that WILL break in less than 5 years. A fridge that records your eating habits. A fridge that listens to your conversations at the dinner table.
BUT... they're also not producing anything but junk these days so you really have no choice other than to buy an old avacado green one and stuff it in your modern kitchen...
My fridge is 15 now... and it's on its 5th ice maker unit. They just corrode and self destruct. Guess who gets to play junior appliance repair man? For the record, it never broke into a brownt chicka brownt brow while laying upside down in the bottom drawer freezer...
I had a ~18 year old dish washer, a Bosch, it got repaired so many times by me that most of the internal bits were newish (mostly bits from eBay).
Then the electronics went, I swear it was a chip that intentionally fried, most of the board logic read fine, except that one chip that had it’s number sanded off and I couldn’t find a replacement according to the circuit diagram I had. I believe it was a counter chip, designed to fry after so many cycles. I tried but couldn’t bypass it.
A replacement board was outrageously expensive, so we got a new dishwasher. That was about 4 years ago, we are on new dishwasher number 2. It’s disgusting behaviour by these companies.
Dog got a drink, face all wet ...shook off ... splattered the touchpad on the range (its in the front just above the door) - it LOCKED THE DOOR like it was going into a high temp cleaning cycle and wouldn't unlock until I threw the breaker and simultaneously pushed two buttons on the pad for 90 seconds...Took about 6 times... and if anything drips on it by mistake... same deal. What kind of a retarded are engineering these things?
As another humorous aside, we have a saying in UK / Ireland that came from one of the funniest comedy shows ever “Only Fools and Horses”.
Triggers Brush, the road sweeper tells Del Boy;
I’ve had this same brush me whole career. 25 years it served me faithfully. I replaced the head about 30 times and the stick about 10. They don’t make em like they used to.
also... check out DEFLOCK.ORG... that will show you where all the traffic surveilance cameras are spying on you... currently over 93,000 are watching your every move. Trump needs to do something about this shit... the founders of the USA are rolling in their graves.... you can hear them whirring a mile away!!!
A topical humorous take on their nonsense.
Nice Pepe by the way, thank you Mods 👍🇮🇪👍🇺🇸
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HOPEFULLY... This nonsense goes away like that retarded start/stop bs Trump just did away with...Which was ANOTHER PITA your boy Obongo pushed automakers into implementing...
The more people that know and complain, the better chance we have of nipping it in the bud.
The nanny state bullshit has gone WAY too far...
u/#catdance
Yep. It’s starts with surveillance in YOUR car and then next thing you know, we’re all wearing body cams and ankle monitors.
Like that OnStar bs practically NOBODY wanted, you were forced to buy. There was no way to delete it from the build list... even if you custom ordered a vehicle.
I don't know about you, but I've had it with all this bullshit nobody wants or needs rammed down our throats...from vehicles, to toaster ovens... that don't work because they can't find the network.
A part of me often thinks about creating old school American durable goods that are "analog" and "just work"... because EVERYTHING is total crap now AND completely overpriced to boot.
Wouldn’t it be awesome if like, all us patriot Americans pooled, let’s call it “money”, and used that “money” to create an “investment company”, whose funds we leveraged to “start a car company”, that would “build products we want”, allowing us to start from either base-level or fully featured and add or remove anything we wanted until we “were able to buy a product we actually wanted”?
Call me crazy but it seems like that could be done somehow…
It would have this crazy side benefit of having a head count of known humans and being able to tell “our humble public servants” that “THEY ARE NOT WRITING LAWS WE DESIRE TO HAVE.”
Of course, there are some overlapping promises and mechanics there from the old promises of unions, so we’d have to figure out how to ensure we didn’t let things be run by communists somehow…
I know this post sounds like… really sarcastic, when it’s actually not. Why in the crap aren’t we organizing something like this somehow?
I think that's a great idea, but it doesn't translate very well unfortunately in the real world, where subsidies, side deals and procurement of materials at volume, give existing producers a HUGE production cost advantage.
We all love to think that "we'd pay for better stuff", but quite often, there's a HUGE gap between people that gave lip service to the idea AND those who are REALLY willing to pay the actual cost it takes to produce it.
For instance, if vehicles were being considered, it may cost $150k retail for a vehicle comparable to a $50k vehicle from "the big three". This is because the cost of "tool and die" is absolutely MASSIVE... Everything from frame and bodywork stamping to engine and trans molds/dies etc.
But something like a toaster or fridge that is similar to 1987 appliances would be exponentially easier to get to market... but the pricetag would be higher than "competition" and things like "Energy star" compliance might make things more challenging than anticipated... each thing that requires a certification also means dealing with bureaucratic gangsters with their hand out...
Once again I failed to spell "bureaucratic" well enough for autocorrect to even recognize...Nice Pepe BTW...
How did Saturn do it?
Injection molded plastic...
Requires liquid cooled metal dies...
On a rare occasion when I listened to radio, I heard an ad for a sale on home appliances. “Samsung smart fridge, was €1299, now only €999.”
A thousand euros for a bloody fridge!!! A fridge that WILL break in less than 5 years. A fridge that records your eating habits. A fridge that listens to your conversations at the dinner table.
People are retarded.
Yes people ARE retarded for sure...
BUT... they're also not producing anything but junk these days so you really have no choice other than to buy an old avacado green one and stuff it in your modern kitchen...
My fridge is 15 now... and it's on its 5th ice maker unit. They just corrode and self destruct. Guess who gets to play junior appliance repair man? For the record, it never broke into a brownt chicka brownt brow while laying upside down in the bottom drawer freezer...
I had a ~18 year old dish washer, a Bosch, it got repaired so many times by me that most of the internal bits were newish (mostly bits from eBay).
Then the electronics went, I swear it was a chip that intentionally fried, most of the board logic read fine, except that one chip that had it’s number sanded off and I couldn’t find a replacement according to the circuit diagram I had. I believe it was a counter chip, designed to fry after so many cycles. I tried but couldn’t bypass it.
A replacement board was outrageously expensive, so we got a new dishwasher. That was about 4 years ago, we are on new dishwasher number 2. It’s disgusting behaviour by these companies.
I know it...
Don't get me started on the range...
Dog got a drink, face all wet ...shook off ... splattered the touchpad on the range (its in the front just above the door) - it LOCKED THE DOOR like it was going into a high temp cleaning cycle and wouldn't unlock until I threw the breaker and simultaneously pushed two buttons on the pad for 90 seconds...Took about 6 times... and if anything drips on it by mistake... same deal. What kind of a retarded are engineering these things?
They definitely didn’t lear the same as us.
Next thing, they'll be listening in on everything you say via your cellphone AND your refrigerator! Oh, wait...
“Somebody sounds like he needs a nappy poo!”
(Edit: I’m in a very weird mood today. Not a “bad” one, just weird. Stress and whatnot)
I am looking for a good used 1965 anything for my new vehicle!
yeah, engineering big brother with definite harmful side effects (or intentional effects)
It’s starts with “safety” and ends in…..
“I’m sorry comrade, we read your negative comments on an unapproved message board. You are unable to use this vehicle for two weeks.
Always remember your government loves you.”
First thing I'd do if I were given a new vehicle is pay to have someone rip the electron8cs out of it
As another humorous aside, we have a saying in UK / Ireland that came from one of the funniest comedy shows ever “Only Fools and Horses”.
Triggers Brush, the road sweeper tells Del Boy;
That show is well worth a watch.
also... check out DEFLOCK.ORG... that will show you where all the traffic surveilance cameras are spying on you... currently over 93,000 are watching your every move. Trump needs to do something about this shit... the founders of the USA are rolling in their graves.... you can hear them whirring a mile away!!!
Like the scene from the Original Judge Dredd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9rMaMEpC2E
"...out the window?!, that would have been suicide."
"Maybe, but it would have been legal."