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Fucking thousands of pounds of lava, carefully cooled then machined into hundreds of precise shapes, assembled, then filled with explosions powered by the souls of dead dinosaurs? And I own one? Just to go to the grocery store? WTAF

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[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago

They're a constantly evolving miracle of engineering and I hate them and want them to go away forever

[-] BigHaas@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago
[-] forcequit@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

you can get a further 100% discount if you throw the battery in the ocean

[-] Car@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

Completely safe and legal thrill

[-] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

I'm am frequently in awe of the complexity of modern cars. I like to think about all of the tiny bits and how they all work together with minimal maintenance for many years. Most of those parts are made by other complex machines which are made using another set of complex machines.

Basically all gas engines these days go 100k miles before dying if maintained. That's billions of little contained explosions that we take for granted.

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

Dead plants from way before dinos, not dinos

[-] zifnab25@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

Pre-fugus trees, liquified into high energy slurry

[-] LesbianLiberty@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

Decades of stable growth and enough subsidies to make your head spin, that's how they can manage it. Economies of scale are a seriously insane phenomenon

[-] 000999@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

dang anti-caritalists are trying to bump the price up

[-] BigHaas@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Imagine if cars were too expensive for the working class to own sicko-mega

[-] 000999@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago

How can call themselv "anticaritalist" but own car

[-] parpol@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

Tbf, you paid for the car, but you still have to pay monthly charges for your seatwarmers to work, and just like online services, advertisements companies they sell your info to pay for most of your car.

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