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Only the savings matter to them unfortunately.

I bet they'll defund the IRS too. Did you know that every dollar in IRS funding brings multiple dollars back to the federal budget? It'll have diminishing returns eventually, but the 1:1 point hasn't been hit. Essentially it's because IRS can catch more tax evaders if they have better funding.

Destroying unsold Teslas at least doesn't hurt people who may have bought their cars just because at one point Tesla made the best EVs (not even close to the best cars, but definitely the best EVs in terms of powertrain and battery. A while ago, anyway). So there's way less collateral damage and fewer people to alienate.

There is one caveat though. The dealerships are probably insured and would financially be better off having the cars burn as nobody's buying them right now. Though maybe if enough Teslas burn, Tesla dealers become uninsurable. Now that would put them out of business real quick.

Additionally, if someone managed to somehow disable a Tesla factory without directly hurting the workers, that would bring tears of joy to many people. The workers themselves are just simple laborers though. It's not like jobs are easy to come by right now and I'm sure plenty would leave if they could. So I hope nobody shoots up a factory with workers inside or something. Even leaving the moral implications of homicide aside, it would also instantly boost Elon and Tesla in a lot of people's eyes if something like this happened.

Yeah but wouldn't it naturally pass from the forest to the adjacent gardens if it can pass from garden to garden?

I grew up 200 meters from the edge of the forest. I'm used to mom just finding random new plants she didn't even know she wanted. These would also pass to neighbours and obviously we got some from neighbours as well.

Mint is cool because you can use it to make herbal tea n stuff

They put the 2.2 ecotec in several Opel models and the 2.4 in a select few I believe.

A sluggish 2.4 engine isn't a performance engine. If anything, it's ideal for fuel economy in those bigger cars because you're not tempted to rev it that much. It's got some more low end torque, but it's not fun to redline.

The best highway fuel economy I've gotten out of a gasoline engine was a 3.5 V6. You never needed to rev it over 2000 in regular usage and honestly 3000 rpm was plenty for overtaking. It had plenty of top end power too but you never needed it, so the pedal only got full usage when overtaking someone in a 3.0 diesel Audi or BMW and they couldn't handle an old Chrysler passing them, but my young reckless ass also wasn't going to back off obviously.

It's a plant. It grows naturally too. Ain't nobody removing all the mint from forests and such.

Yeah it gives me superpowers like once every few months where for a day or 5 I get a ridiculous amount of work done. The rest of my existence is miserable and I hate myself for not just my lack of work productivity but also how hard it is to get myself to exercise, brush teeth, or just get out of bed. And not a single healthy routine sticks. Only the unhealthy ones. Why is it so easy to pick up smoking again but so hard to do anything that's good for me?

Wait till you hear about humans.

While most of us these days are obese, humans as a species are capable of running indefinitely. Because of that, we could hunt faster prey by simply tiring them out

I mean they used the ecotec engines in plenty of Opel, Saab, Vauxhall and Holden models too. Those are all non US market cars. Except maybe Saab which might have been sold in the US in addition to Europe.

I've never been to Italy myself so I'm staying out of this argument, but I've heard from other Estonians that if you go to Italy and order pizza there, you might be sorely disappointed. Naturally there are others who say you can only get real pizza in Italy.

I reckon people like different styles and a lot of people like styles that Italians aren't willing to make

What a privilege it is to be white tbh

You have still failed to provide an example of a better place.

It barely uses any resources. You can have up to 6 active jobs and most of the time you'll be waiting for an upload slot to open up so you can get one of your 6 uploaded.

You can just set it and forget it unless you have a bandwidth cap and set it on a video site.

Do non-white people not love it?

Your part of the globe sounds awesome. I suspect it's close to my part of the globe.

I don't want to buy Russian or Chinese any more than I want to buy American. Rhea is interesting, but seems only targeted at HPC and uses ARM cores. Now RISC-V on the other hand... Damn I do hope it takes off. I suppose it's dependent on software support as much as actual CPU support, so once I can actually buy a RISC-V machine, I'll see if there's anything I can do to widen RISC-V support in the FOSS world. I'm sure there are plenty of projects that will build without a whole load of modifications needed, but need someone to configure the build targets and test.

I asked for a single country that was not racist in the 20th century, but had comparable diversity. You have not provided one yet.

The for-profit prison system is fucked for sure and no other country has fucked up this bad.

It is easy to criticize the one country that has the most different nationalities in it for its history with racism. However, can you name another country that has as large a share of minorities and does NOT have a history of racism?

Right off the bat all of Europe is already disqualified. The west dabbled in its' own colonialism and the east under Soviet rule got so racist, the n-word is the standard way to refer to black people among people over 40. Remember that Yandex source code leak where the master-slave relationship (already a racist terminology) had "n***er" instead of slave? In many Asian countries, black people are also seen as subhuman. Scandinavia pretends to be super tolerant, but it's superficial. Eastern Europeans are seen as lower class.

People don't see that the entire world is racist as fuck. It's so easy to blame a single country and act like it's the only source of racism in the world. It might just be the most open about it, but there's still quiet discrimination everywhere.

Do name a more diverse or equal place though. I know in my country you get stared down hard if you dare be too dark skinned. Same goes for many European AND Asian countries (imagine being a black tourist in Japan lmao, they can barely stand white folks).

Many of the older people in my country still think anyone from Africa (which by the way includes Afghanistan) is a monkey. By older I mean 50+ not even like 80 or 90.

The UK and France are definitely more tolerant and diverse, but they also imported black people as slaves way back when, so it's not like they're all that much better either.

Plus in much of Europe we still can't stand gypsies. It's literally the same thing as with black people in the US historically.

The Arab countries literally import slaves from South-East Asia and Africans can't even stand other Africans based on cultural differences.

I don't know, maybe South America? Uruguay nowadays is a pretty good place for everyone I hear. I wouldn't want to be in South America in the 1900s but half of all that was US-caused anyway.

The US had a 94% income tax rate for the richest at one point. It has not always been what it is now. The country has been looted of both its' economic strength as well as its' moral values.