Why are you replying here? I'm talking to you upstairs. Chill out.
Sometimes it is, but even when it isn't, "taste" by itself is not by itself what is making people stopping themselves from an adequate vehicle.
This is what I was originally replying to and I think it's nonsense (regardless of how "refined" your taste is):
Well if Mercedes and BMW could stop making electric cars as ugly as humanly possible we would quickly see them take that market back.
Yes, I'm one of those people who wouldn't mind living in Zion, eating nutritious slop and wearing unremarkable homemade textiles ;)
PS: but I understand many people need to brag to their friends or impress their clients or make themselves feel better by displaying their status in some material way.
I just don't see any huge aesthetic differences between any of the cars for sale that would singlehandedly stop e.g. German electric cars from being sold: they all look like sleek solutions to a conditioned aerodynamics problem :D
Haha, yea, the only heresy greater than owning an ugly efficient car these days is riding a bus 😧, it seems.
How is that better than an immutable database where you guarantee trust simply by gettin your own public hash receipt for the database every time you introduce a new item? Why obfuscate things by riding the "Blockchain" hype bandwagon?
And it will work, because we've grown used to Hollywood being so repetitive.
No more cheap russian gas and oil, internal combustion engine expertise and all the associated pieces and submarkets being phased out in favour of simpler electric cars...it's going to be a few hard years until they find a new export industry to perfect. I'd expect hydrogen-based aviation or pharma, maybe even semiconductors, they'll figure it out.
I found e.g.
https://jezebel.com/this-is-the-pornographic-anne-frank-excerpt-thats-causi-484571352
and
https://www.dw.com/en/secret-pages-in-anne-franks-diary-reveal-her-reflections-on-sex/a-43803106
🙄 throw away a good teacher for this...if Ann was the same age as the class, it's probably the stuff people their age gossip about anyway.
the teacher was sent home on Wednesday after reading a passage from Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation in which Frank wrote about male and female genitalia.
I don't remember reading anything about male and female genitalia in Ann Frank's diary...😕
Lots of russian activity trying to astroturf against Ukraine's allies, both in US and Europe and they're having a field day with the grain dispute. They were talking about this in r/credibledefense https://old.reddit.com/r/CredibleDefense/comments/16mp2do/credibledefense_daily_megathread_september_19_2023/k1c3o6o/