This is amazing!

I have gotten to the point that when a scifi world is made futuristic by having… traffic jams in the sky, and futuristic cities absolutely must have magic sky cars in their skyline but there is ZERO thought towards futuristic mass transit I just shut it off.

We already have flying cars that people use as their primary vehicle, it is called living in the middle nowhere Alaska and owning a bush plane. The thing is, that is actually the only kind of situation where everyone owning a flying car makes sense, extreme isolation, huge empty distances and no roads.

The whole point of a city is NOT to need something like a flying car.

No they are leaving because this is a trash country to live in, and a hellish place to try to make any kind of art.

Of course NYT would focus on labor being too expensive in their headline and article lol, when will people stop reading this antiworker, pro-capitalist neoliberal propaganda and pretending it represents any kind of progressive view?

The strikes were an invitation to build a future, and the people who own things in the US have a deeply violent relationship with the future.

Why the hell would you make a big budget movie in the US these days unless you had to? Nobody likes hanging out on a rapidly sinking ship.

Came here to ask the same question, any SAM would do really :)

Fight Now Or Be Deported Later

Productivity is part of the dominant theology of (at least) Western culture and functionally extends and replaces the societal functions of christian (also other religions) conservatism to centralize power in a rigid and defensive structure of guilt and judgement.

Look it isn’t that I won’t consider not supporting genocide, it is that your tone and the manner that you bring up the fact that I support the genocide makes me feel bad so out of spite I will continue to support the genocide, and now how do you feel?

This is all your fault.

/s

I love it because at first you think hey, it is a play on Dictator, which must mean the superpower is being able to psychically control an army of ducks, which if I could choose which animal I could mind control with my super power I wouldn’t choose ducks but sure, take what you can get right? There are after all ducks everywhere so there is probably some angle you can play with your super power there.

Nope though, keep lowering your expectations.

I can turn ducks around… but only when they are in the water

Yes, this is basically every large US tech company right now

Kodak went from being a major player in the photography industry to being completely blindsided by digital photography.

Genocide Profiteer not War Profiteer

Fuck you Microsoft, if I wasn’t already done with you for completely enshittifying your operating system, I would DEFINITELY be done with you for this.

Fuck off and continue to become a Kodak or Yahoo or other still existing washout company that totally lost the plot.

I understand, I am sorry I didn’t mean to be defensive, to be clear, this isn’t just like a U.S. thing, there are whole major influenes to this car that I don’t know that well either because I know the U.S. import equivalents less well or have never heard of the cars that never made it to U.S. shores.

I understand what you are saying though, most of the time when someone is talking like I am talking they are acting like you thought I was acting lol, point taken there.

I have stated multiple times the influences on this car I am pointing out are not exclusive, so this is a waste of time to respond to, but I do find it hilarious that you think this car doesn’t reference at least the lincoln town car, we are talking about an era of car design with influences going in all directions, you are making an absurd argument to suggest that I am saying this is exclusively a 'murican thing.

This concept car is CLEARLY heavily influenced by the pre 1997 lincoln town cars… which were also influenced by lots of asian cars, I mean I don’t even like U.S. cars, I have never bought one and likely never will lol so it is funny that you are interpreting me being excited about a concept car from Hyundai as trying to claim it exclusively as a U.S. thing.

Also, I am from the U.S., and these types of cars are everywhere vs. I have definitely never seen a Toyota Century, so like yeah… I don’t mean to make this a U.S. centric conversation but rather point out connections to the culture/landscape I grew up in. The lincoln town car and cars like it were the grandpa car when I was growing up, I am sure you have grandpa cars wherever you live and they are probably a different type of car. Growing up as a USian I never thought of these cars as anything more than grandpa cars, but they are actually pretty cool and I was trying to shed some light on how these cars are more interesting than they seem especially if you don’t know much about U.S. cars to which I think the images I pasted clearly suggest an aesthetic link with this concept car whether it is direct or indirect.

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I mean, definitely, I wasn’t trying to say this was exclusively a reference to those cars only that the reference is there.

I searched in google i think

Definitely not worth that, that is museum price lol

I feel like this conversation is slipping into equating “makes fediverse grow faster” to “good”.

Maybe most people need to have an initial experience where they get pushback for behaving the way they did somewhere else?

That is of course a dangerous rationalization to apply, as it can be used for any kind of shitty treatment of people, but there is also a similar danger to assuming that whatever will bring people in the fastest is inherently good.

I mean, there is kind of already 4chan-like spaces on the fediverse, they are just mostly off in their own corner because nobody else wants to deal with childishly incomplete visions of how moderation should work in a community to keep the most vulnerable people safe.

Thank you for commenting! I agree too, it is conversation that makes a place a place, not headlines and articles handed down to silent readers.