In the West. In China there are several amazing alternatives; they are like ten years ahead.

Makes me so annoyed that we are stuck with this monopoly.

You say that like black people actually vote for Trump? Does that happen? I'm actually curious now.

You think the rest of the world doesn't follow the news when a lunatic is in the run with an actual chance of getting elected?
Turns out we have journalists, in France!

I'm guessing what you describe is like some of my knives (IKEA ones iirc) getting rust on them if they don't get dried properly and are left to dry with water left on them?

Still sounds like terrible design when no car I've ever seen has this sort of problem.

You forgot your maid bonnet. Classic blunder!

I was like "oh, I gotta remember that duck billed one. That's an ugly one too. Ugliest I ever saw!"

It's the Multipla. It's a Fiat, though.

Right but my point is that when you start to follow the money in Shadowrun, you invariably end up with a dragon. Like, they took the metaphor literally and so the richest hoarders in the world, with their claws in every possible pie, influencing the destiny of entire countries, are literal dragons.

My auntie has done the opposite for fucking years : she'll come visit her mum and leave with some knicknacks she's had her eye on from a previous visit. My mum is absolutely fuming about it. She absolutely does not need anything, but just the principle of her sister being such a fucking vulture...

Right, but you are under the impression that companies want to keep those. My personal experience is that they just don't give a fuck. At. All.

Sounds like something ChatGPT would write : perfectly sensible English, yet the underlying logic makes no sense.

Well yes, they're clearly a robot. You think only humans read this?