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Because I suspect YC minimally maintain HN. Not specifically a bad per-se, but don't expect anything new to happen.

> Were any U.S. soldiers tried at the Nuremberg trials?

History is written by the victorious side, so until the US keep is hegemonic military position weaken, it will not happen.

It is arguable the us has committed plenty of crimes against humanity in the past 75 years of world domination.

> Mis-labeling a product is literally fraud

Such as Tesla FSD ?

That's the problem, you just repeating the Gospel without understanding the externalities involved in the regulations you advocates for.

Many times, you are not free to set the price of goods, especially in today socialist / regulated economy. Your costs go up, your margins profit go down. There is so much you can squeeze. Heck, DEF sounds nice to save the environment & all, but when your combine three a DEF code and pretty much blew your engine 400 miles from the nearest dealership right during harvest before a storm, goes into limp mode and prevent you from harvesting, you're literally fucked, your all farm might even go bankrupt. Don't even count on insurance to save your ass, because you already had to cut back to focus on other coverage to mitigate skyrocketing fertilizer costs, which doesn't matter anyway because the price you'll sell your production 6 month from now has been set a thousand mile away by a white collar asshole right after his daily jerk off and line of coke. But what a beer sipping urbanite would know of actual hard constraint while at the same time, accusing us of social grand standing. Just GFY.

You pretend yourself smart, but you're not. You sound like Marie Antoinette "let them eat cake". Next thing you know, your head hang on a spike in front of an angry mob.

I'm glad you mastered "How-start-a-civil-war 101".

Can't answer your comment further down so I'm doing it here.

We (my direct family and I to some extend as well) haul your food, your mail, we build the infrastructure and mine the ore you rely on.

Don't fuck with us, because we'll be happy to make you pay. What happening in Canada right now is just the beginning.

Hauling / towing heavy / bulky shit.

Every now and then their 5' 100lb wife will use that truck to go for groceries and then you'll see them there, because you have no life in the real world, and you'll judge them based on that single interaction alone.

Meanwhile, the next day, her hubby and the family will tow an 8000lb boat to enjoy the lake, and heck they can even stop at the hardware store pick up a couple 1000lb of concrete / 2x4 for their home improvement projects.

I've personally saved a few grands this year in various fees alone by being able to haul shit and do DIY home improvements.

But sure, that's only for social grand-standing...

> People need more vehicle than they "need" for the same reason a 30yo finance professional "needs" a couple sets of nice clothes. It's what his peers expect from him.

I'm afraid you're projecting your own issues on others...

> Point is people with the money to buy new buy more vehicle than they "need" because it is what society expects of them so in some sense they "need" it to meet the expectations of those around them.

I'm afraid that you are guilty of what psychology would call "projection". Unless you can back your views with hard facts. I have yet to meet anyone just blowing away $100k on a truck that don't NEED.

Fortunately, we live in a free society where what you "agree" on is irrelevant to the discussion.

Now, if you want to legislate my freedom away, now I do have a problem with that and we will not be friends.

Just as if you could plan which tool you'd need for a job... You'd be surprised how quick you can go from using a ratchet, to an impact, to an air driven 3/4" impact, to requiring an oxy-acetylene torch for a given job...

How about we agree that we just don't have the same lifestyle ?

Only when you're living a EU urbanites lifestyle. And who the fuck are you to speak in term of "need" ?

You don't need an iphone when a 10 that's old piece of crap hardware does the same job (albeit much less efficiently).

That's complete bs, see my comment above. Pickups are much more flexible than vans.

The problem is the insurance model which insure the vehicle rather than the driver. Thus why some people daily drive their pickup because maintaining another beater is too much cost.

Only urbanites don't need them... until they do. Plenty of people in Europe need pickups.

Please do not imply were dumb. We're not spending 100,000$ just to show off. We do need them, because we need to haul 2000-4000lb at a time over hundreds of miles and tow 5,000lb to 30,000lb on a regular basis. My biggest haul personally was about 20,000lb (of actual payload) over 500mi, and I regularly max out my 2,500lb capacity dodge 2500.

You ain't gonna move that shit with a Citroen C2.

Also, it's not just a matter of payload. The bigger wheelbase and larger tires make them much more drive able in snow or mud or ice which is common weather around. Small cars are a safety issue on black ice.

Btw, I'm a small player.

> They are not as common as in the US

I'm not sure we're living in the same US ...

A full size pickup with passengers and cargo. IIRC my dodge 2500 is ~6000#, plus 2500# of cargo, your pretty much there.

A 2018 Ford F350 Super Duty dually is about 8000#, add at least 3000# of cargo, your already at 11k#.

NO, it's not the job of the government to save people from shooting themselves.

The current mainstream [radical] left Gospel meets the definition of dogma, as in, they are just as bad as the darkest religion they themselves condemn. Not very difficult to understand.

No, only ad-hominem against people carrying the Gospel are frowned upon. There has been plenty of ad-hominem against me and I don't see you condemning those.

That your remarks are counter-productive ? Congrats, you've leveled up at being useless !

If you think it's an horror show, you're pretty frail... Toughen up, cupcake.

Academia is even more of a scam than tech...

Your point being ?

I've already been called Nazi, mysogynist, racist, baby killer, pure evil here (on other now-banned accounts). Do you think "sociopath" is gonna affect me the least ?

For anything it actually strengthen my no-fuck-given stance.

typo: explored -> exploited

Big tech get a free pass because, in the western world at least, they offer their regular sacrifice to the dogmatic left God.

> ...humanity is not there yet.

Especially with the dogmatic left at the helm.

"bad things" is a subjective concept. A former roommate was building a website in the mid 2000 for a dildo company. You probably don't care, but a religious zealot might consider it "bad".

We're gonna make a deal, I'll let you work in ad-tech, and you let me build tool which allow people to shoot themselves in the foot.

> If it's not illegal it's fine.

A lot of today unicorns started illegally. Uber, Spotify, Airbnb. Yet, nobody comment about those because their goal was supposedly "noble". That's the problem with the variable geometry morality of the left.

"If it's moral from our point of view, but illegal, the laws are the problem. If what's you're doing is immoral from our point of view, but legal, then you should be ashamed of yourself and repent (or die)."

In other words, it's nothing but dogma and proselytism.

Don't give me that China bullshit, the poors have been explored tough morality and honesty forever by the various churches, nobility, ruling classes/party, INCLUDING in China.