That’s pretty much it. They glom onto something they read, interpret it with their myopic world view, and boom, newt theory comes out that goes out to socmed and all the other non-thinkers, and the idea takes hold. People just don’t want to think any more. We’ll be the death of us yet.

Foldable owners: will your next one still be a foldable?

Do you need windows? Renault has a couple of small ones, the Twizy and Zoe, in order of size. Dunno if they’re still available. Else in my country they have the BYD dolphin and Smart One Plus.

They’re not baseless! The last election saw several fake ballots cast by republicans, for republicans!

Chinese EV it is, then!

Uh… good?

Shit knows shit. Literally and figuratively.

The one prone to violence and has control issues, then wonders why no one likes them except dumb, or sociopathic people, so they make up false equivalencies and conspiracies to justify their own sad existence? Hopefully the voters wake up and do a purge. Especially in the midterms.

Which party I wonder…

Dunno. I’d expect grown ass adults to be able to put their personal feelings aside for the sake of professional obligations. If your coworker is gonna get upset at everything, he’s not in for a very good time.

Good counterpoint mate. Will have to avoid those too, then.

Ive actually heard of internet connected soldering irons. I feel your pain.

Learned a new word: mendacious

Because I lose features I bought the tv for? I mean, if the selling point is a YouTube/ netflix/ spotify client, then 3 years down the line when the Netflix client is no longer compatible with the current service, and can’t be updated because the TV’s OS isn’t being updated by the manufacturer any more, it means I have to buy another device, which I could have done in the beginning. So now I want a dumb tv so I can pair it with anything I want for years (HDMI will be around a lot longer than Netflix v3.x.xxxx), instead of having a tv filled with zombie apps I can’t delete.

The spyware is there as long as I’m using the services. So it’s not what is bothering me, though it’s the common bogeyman. It’s the forced obsolescence and waste.

Someone put him to sleep already.

The dumbass doesn’t know he’s being played by his aides and their republican masters. He’s just their tool.

Agree with everything there, but man. I wouldn’t want to get on the bad side of your imagination.

Ok. Let’s vindicate the fuck out of MAGA then!

That’s what the thread was meant to be about. Seems to have turned into a beat up on the luddites thing, with a few notable and rather helpful exceptions. Maybe I should have marked it [serious]. Oh well.

Actually, forget planned. It’s forced obsolescence - the hardware is perfectly fine, only they want you to update your netflix client so go and buy a new tv.

I have an unopened ipod mini somewhere. Figure I’d use it as a media player as you said. Now where to find a clean S2000 for the car part? Lol