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Here’s an article that explores pros and cons; https://www.nationaltransmission.ca/manual-vs-automatic/

Interestingly all automatic transmissions I used had a high and low drives, which can be used to down shift or up shift as needed. Also, many automatic transmission from middle or high end cars have a semi-automatic shifter to go up and down gears. Best of both world.

I think this debate will be useless real soon anyway, with EV not needing a transmission at all.

Lifetime guarantees are absolutely still a thing. But it’s normally for higher priced items since the quality of the average ware went down.

I agree with you that customers should become more responsible for the decisions they make. But we’ve proven time and time again (for decades if not longer) that customers are not rational actors that know everything about everything. Ads would never work if that was a thing.

But here we are. There are laws against false advertising and words have exact meanings. The fact that “unlimited” is still not false advertising baffles me. It should be.

I guess you’re okay with predatory wordings in product descriptions that target people who don’t understand that things cannot be without limits? Just because they should know better, ignoring the fact you don’t know everything? Where do you draw the line? Would you blindly trust a single drug description saying it cures cancer, though no such thing can ever exist?

That’s his secret: he doesn’t have an audio team.

In the marketing department apparently.

Companies should stop saying unlimited if we all agree nothing is unlimited, don’t you think?

And modern automatic gearbox are actually more performant and use less gas than human shifters. We’re not driving 90s cars anymore.

!dataisugly

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

It’s meant as a black hole of Musk spam posts. A way for other communities to just say “we’re banning any news about Musk, post those in EMS”.

I guess technology didn’t get the memo.

His name is “Fuck”?

How the fuck am I supposed to read that shit?

Or reverse.

How the shit am I supposed to read that fuck?

Just be creative.

M’minem! /tips fedora

The Old Testament God is clearly a harsh parent that will ask you to do inconsiderable things to prove your loyalty, and will just destroy whatever doesn’t fit his vision. He is not the good guy, nor the bad guy I guess. There’s no Hell or Satan in OT, right?

Anyway, I can only imagine a teenage having a fit that his terrarium’s humans aren’t behaving like he want them to, then growing out of his tantrums within a few years.