Their true purpose is for politicians to posture for reelection lol, same with the anti-porn bullshit, just different politicians.

Exactly.

If a criminal wants something, they can get it whether there’s a ban or not. Actual solutions here are much more difficult than a ban, hence why politicians love bans so much.

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And it’s not like mass shooters are law abiding citizens except in the small area of murdering random people… They can easily drive one state over to Idaho and get whatever they want, and if they’re out, continue south to Utah or east to Montana. Nobody is going to check your car on the way back…

I grew up in WA, and everyone got around whatever law they didn’t like. Want to blow up big fireworks but your town doesn’t allow it? Go to the local res, hide them under a blanket in the car, and be a very law abiding citizen on the way home (and blow them up in a random neighborhood). Before weed was legal, people would just grow it in the forest on public land, which was literally everywhere.

The mag law just exists to piss off law abiding citizens and is the same “save the children” BS excuse that’d being used to effectively ban porn and other things across the country. Solve the problem another way.

Seems someone isn’t a Brit.

It really depends on the year. But generally speaking, even the bad year beetles were fine since parts were available, they just didn’t quite compare to Toyotas.

Yup. They weren’t particularly reliable, but they were cheap and parts were easily available.

Yup. I assist with hiring and ask questions to try to find these people and reject them. I don’t want that toxic culture here, and I’d absolutely prefer working with someone less talented than someone who is toxic like this. Talent can be learned, unfortunately ego is hard to unlearn.

Exactly. Code should be self-explanatory, and anything fancy should be clearly commented.

The difference between a good and great software engineer is understanding the cost of fancy code, and when it’s worth it to pay that cost. A great software engineer practices restraint, preferring code that even the most junior of engineers can maintain. Solutions should be extensible without serious refactors, and should attain good performance through good high-level design instead of low-level optimizations.

I’m guessing the “rockstar” OP is talking about went deep into the weeds of metaprogramming and even they can’t explain how it works a few weeks later. We have that crap here too, and nobody likes it, especially the seniors, but it’s so ingrained in the code that nobody wants to risk introducing bugs by fixing it.

That’s not how these words work.

I get that you don’t like Elon Musk, and that’s completely fair. But that doesn’t make it okay to just change the meaning of words so it can fit your narrative, whatever that means.

If Elon Musk commits an act of terrorism, he would be a domestic terrorist. That’s how words are defined.

Mercedes is no doubt among the absolute most reliable cars you can get, most Taxi drivers here use Mercedes for that reason.

Most taxi drivers here drive a Toyota Prius, because they’re incredibly reliable and get great fuel economy.

The only people who drive Mercedes here are rich people who like the brand, or people who need a 15 passenger van, because there aren’t many options and it’s better than a Ford or Chevy.

The only people who get BMW and Audi are car enthusiasts and rich people who like the respective brands and are willing to pay for the privilege. The only people who get VW are those who are attracted by the low prices,(can get a Jetta for ~$20k because nobody wants them) and later get screwed on repairs. I almost never see VW here, they have a terrible reputation, which is amazing because everyone loved the old Beetles.

But sure, if you don’t like the stats I showed, provide your own and prove me wrong. Sales figures won’t convince me, repairability stats do.

International implies he’s not a citizen, which he is.

And I’m sure VW is a lot cheaper in Europe. My uncle bought an Audi when he lived in Germany because it made sense there, and now he drives a Japanese car because Audis don’t make sense in the US.

If you buy German, you need to be ready to spend a lot on maintenance and repairs here in the US.

I’m not sure how that’s relevant. The OP claimed he wasn’t a citizen, I corrected that.

VW was never comparable to Toyota. The top has always been the Japanese brands, sometimes with caveats about certain transmissions (e.g. Mazda and Mitsubishi CVTs).

German cars are fine, but parts are generally hard to get or are expensive. Many shops won’t touch them, so you need to find a European imports shop.

Here’s some data from 2024, VW is fourth last, ahead of Land Rover, Audi, and Chrystler. Somehow they’re behind Luncoln…

Hyundai and Kia aren’t at the top, but they’re reasonably good and their price and warranty make up for the issues they have.

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But what about 0-10? 0-5? Surely you’d be better off limited to 2 mph/kph for the first 10s after a stop.

That’s fine, but he’s still a US citizen according to the law.

That doesn’t change the fact that he’s an American citizen. That’s what I was correcting.

I wonder why that may be.

Parts are expensive since everything needs to be imported. This has been true long before Trump started messing with tariffs. Parts are way easier to get and cheaper in the EU.

Toyota is popular here for the opposite reason: parts are inexpensive and easy to find. They’re also imported, but they’ve done a much better job figuring out their supply chain.

Porsche is also VW

Maybe by ownership, but they target a very different demographic and thus are designed very differently.

Hyundai is also losing profits

Hyundai is a lot more popular here than VW. Why? They’re cheap and reasonably reliable. VW isn’t as reliable.

Ooh, how about it accelerates really slowly at stop lights unless I pay for “turbo mode” to not get honked at?

But he is, he has both US and Canadian citizenship in addition to S. African.