I couldn't get over how fast everyone drives there! I spent my entire life there up until a couple of years ago, and people-- myself included-- have always driven aggressively in that area. But just in the past twenty four months it seems as though things have amped up to eleven: I took the wife's WRX, which is no slouch in terms of acceleration-- but every single driver around me would floor it at every single light! I was the slowest moving vehicle in the entire pack.
Apparently it's not just the driving. My mother is working with a lawyer for a particular matter, and the lawyer lives in St. Paul. The other day he asked her, "Boy, isn't it scary when you get carjacked? It's really scary!" He was shocked to hear that my mother in fact had never been carjacked. "Wow! Well, me and everyone I know has had it happen at least once!" I am also seeing lots of stories such as this, where black kids in the schools are starting these huge brawls, beating up the other students. And I thought going to school was obnoxious when I was a teenager.
Home schooling, vindicated.
How the EeeVee Dies?
The bottom is falling out of the entire EeeVee "market"-- if one can call it a "market", when car companies like Ford are losing tens of thousands of dollars per sale, and when the government is handing over thousands of dollars of tax money to people who are coerced into buying an EeeVee. Evidently, despite having every single multi-billion dollar corporation, every single media outlet, and every single politician pushing The Message, people still aren't buying EeeVees.
From the article: "A great product is not enough in the EV business anymore... we have to be totally competitive on cost." Good luck with that: $80k loss per vehicle sold, incoming? More: "We know prices will come down, and as that happens, we will have a bigger ramp-up of EVs." Prices for EeeVees have been going up, not down, as the rare Earth minerals are already proving to be a crippling constraint! The only price drops which have occurred have been down to car companies-- er, I'm sorry, "mobility" companies-- swallowing unfathomable losses per vehicle sold.
From Honda's CEO: "After studying this for a year, we decided that this would be difficult as a business, so at the moment we are ending development of an affordable EV." Probably because it's not possible to build an "affordable" one: it would be tiny and slow, which hardly anyone wants. EeeVees are like "tulip mania": all of these people have gotten caught up in this irrational state of mind, and hardly anyone wants to point out the obvious, that the emperor is naked.
Microsoft Re-Org
If I were to make a list of the issues facing Microsoft's "game studios" development, it would look something like this:
- Super woke: They can't make a game which just has characters in them-- they all need to be crazy haired black lesbians, square-jawed androgynous creatures from the black lagoon, and so forth. Yuck.
- Broken software: I recently saw someone write, "They released Redfall, then broken-graphics Starfield, then Redfall with cars", and that about sums it up. They can't even produce functional software anymore.
- Lack of creativity: Their games play everything way too safe. The gameplay systems are formulaic; the menus are bland; the music sucks. There is nothing "imagination capturing" about their game releases.
Microsoft just re-orged their gaming division. Surely, they dumped the Cultural Marxism, hired based purely on meritocracy, and put in charge a super technical engineering-type, right? Nope! "Look at all of these strong empowered womyn, and we even installed a black one as president!"
People have been pointing out lately that game companies are outsourcing much of their "creative" process to firms such as this. That explains a lot, as documented in this hilarious video, and elsewhere. Remember: these people don't care about video games-- they are activists: "Everything Within the Ideology, Nothing Against the Ideology, Nothing Outside the Ideology."