Your average friendly nihilist from Finland.

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Cake day: July 29th, 2023

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  • Well, woudn’t be the first time words get new meaning due to events in history.

    In nordic countries using taxation to limit gap between rich and poor, keeping government control of vital resources, free government sponsored healthcare, handing social welfare to poor and disabled, etc. is considered socialism.

    Right wing politics is the opposite. They want to privatise everything, leave the poor and the disabled to charity organisations that work on donations from people who care, don’t think the rich should be taxed for being rich. Basically minimising government ownership and control of societys money flow to establish truly free market.





  • I think you missed the point.

    You could argue they’re not simple, software-wise, for the average consumer to work on themselves, but that would ignore the relative complexity of modern CANbus systems in new cars, with dozens of subsystems feeding multiple computers, all of which can malfunction and cause problems for the whole system. Such as when an led tail-light breaks and that bricks the whole car, leaving the owner potentially stranded.

    You think people living in middle of nowhere wants a car like this, with nearest approved maintenance with all the correct databus plugins nowhere in sight.

    Otherwise agreeing what you posted, and yes many new ICEs have equally complex software and databus systems to control the maintenance infrastructure and keep the money flowing to the manufacturer.