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Cake day: July 21st, 2023

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  • They responded

    You’re saying “they”, but it’s you. And no you didn’t, repeating what you said before isn’t addressing the issues.

    Adressed twice.

    Never addressed at all, you pivoted to the oil industry. You didn’t address the subsidies from China or the unfair trade practices.

    America will not subsidize to that level, if they could, and no amount of innovation is going to combat subsidization or the unfair trade practices.

    According to a Bloomberg article, China will sell EVs at under $10,000, undercutting the price of the average American EV by $50,000. Are you seriously arguing that “investment to lower cost” will reduce the cost by 85-90%? That’s simply a ludicrous assertion.

    You think US products won’t have spyware?

    I don’t think that collecting anonymized usage data, is the same as unlimited spying going back to an authoritarian government. So no, absolutely nothing comparable.



  • Americans get cheaper EVs…

    For a few years, until the American automakers go bankrupt, as you said, then the Chinese automakers increase prices 10x.

    …and the legacy auto industry gets taught a valuable lesson as companies who refused to modernize go bankrupt.

    What a valuable lesson, get subsidized by an authoritarian government so that you can offer vehicles below cost. Also be sure to add spyware for the aforementioned authoritarian government.

    Do you even understand what below cost means? No amount of modernization will counteract it.







  • Anyway, the new terms are about waiving your right to a class action lawsuit. It’s weird to me because I’d never considered filing a class action lawsuit against Roku until this. I wish Roku TVs weren’t cheap walmart brand sh*t. Someone with some actual money might sue them and sort this out…

    The good thing about class action lawsuits is that you don’t need money. The law firms are just about the only ones that get paid. If you pay attention to class action settlements it’s often something like $3m in attorneys fees, $5,000 to the named plaintiffs, and then a 3 month subscription to the companies own service or a refund of out of pocket expenses, during a specified period, not to exceed $150 per person.

    Long story short, firms are more than happy to take on a class action that can be won, but you won’t get much.




  • My favorite Wayfair story is when I ordered an entertainment cabinet. The majority was brown, but the doors were white. One box comes in, packed tightly, it’s obvious that nothing is missing from the box, but I have no white pieces. Missing the doors plus all the hardware to put it together.

    Contact customer service explain the problem, that I think there’s supposed to be a second box. OK, we’ll send another. Same thing, one box, packed tightly, same pieces missing. Call again, explain again, they send out the same thing a third time. Finally I just cancelled my order and threw all three “Box A’s” into the dumpster.