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Cake day: July 8th, 2023

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  • There’s a saying the fall of empires is slow until it’s not. The fact of the matter is the US isn’t all that different from those that fell before it, the British, Soviets, and French all seemed to be on top of the world right until they weren’t. All empires are on a timer from their birth, they all fall eventually and in the modern age it could come from anywhere.

    My personal bet is that the source will be economic in nature, Trump’s tariffs will cause base level economic issues which will effect basically everyone. You’ll probably get a block of states who will declare independence possibly with international backing triggering a domino effect not to dissimilar from the Soviets.

    I don’t think the stock market or really anything else is really notable, as you said it’s largely automated meaning it’s pretty much disconnected from reality at this point making it a piss poor indicator of ground level issues.












  • So I get what you’re saying but at least from my point of view that’s still too much unnecessary shit, mind you I think cup holders are optional but hear me out. The problem isn’t the touch screen per-se it’s everything else reliant on it cruise control, lane assist, and back up cams are all either unnecessary or in the case of the back up cams a failure of design. All a lot of folks want is a basic as shit car where the most complex thing inside of it is the door ajar light.

    In many ways cars are too computerized they have so many points of failure that I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if we see a generation or two being bricked because of another capacitor or CPU plague. That’s also not getting into their shitty interiors, I fucking hate my grandmother’s car but maybe Ford in particular is bad. Point is they have too much shit going on maintenance wise and frankly speaking lots of folks just want what amounts to a 2001 era car, enough electronics for maintenance while still being relatively easy to repair and replace hell for backup cams you could even have a cool popup screen.

    But maybe I’m just a biased asshole who is a borderline luddite and only has really driven cars from the early 90s to 01, point is I will labatomize any new car if I am somehow forced to use one.