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Absolutely! What's weird is that Teslas have been top-rated for crash-worthiness in the past, so there are a few possibilities I can think of:

• They need to be top crash-worthy, because of the stupid autopilot trying its best to kill the occupants
• They need to be top crash-worthy, because otherwise any crash at all would result in a fiery death
• The Cybertruck is an outlier and is not as crash-worthy as the previous Teslas
• All of the above

What was that rule of thumb for taking multiple choice tests? If you don't know the answer, always select "all of the above"?

Cybertruck will have 14.52 fatalities per 100,000 units — far eclipsing the Pinto’s 0.85.

Holy shit, that means the Cybertruck fatality rate is around 17 times higher than the Pinto's!

420 microplastics?

Look, I don't doubt that some of what you outlined had a role in inflation. But unlike you, I think that absolving corporations of blame here is the real copout.

Your last paragraph makes it sound like the poor, innocent corporations didn't have a choice and were forced to crank their profits up when they saw a $$$ opportunity, because what else were they to do in the middle of a pandemic ravaging the country? Poor angels!

https://www.epi.org/blog/profits-and-price-inflation-are-indeed-linked/

Please, multiple studies were done about the causes of the recent wave of inflation and they determined that the vast majority of it was a result of greedy corporations taking the opportunity to boost their profits.

Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_monetary_theory

Very good observation. On the high end of that bell curve, there's Modern Monetary Theory (MMT): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_monetary_theory

The thing is, we cross the world to crush someone all the time in the interest of the rich and powerful at home. That's a full feature of the American system, not a bug.

He's saying the quiet parts out loud. We've been the bad guys for at least 70 some years (end of WWII, start of Korean war), if not longer (Mexican-American War), or even longer (original colonization of the US).

And George Soros being some kind of secret mastermind is also a right wing fever dream.

The funny thing is that so is the idea of Melon Husk being some kind of mastermind.

Thanks for the background.

It's from all that accordion-playing he does.

I get .world, but what's wrong with .ee? I thought that one was supposed to be cool?