One reason might be shipping. A car probably takes up the same space in a shipping container as four cars worth of steel.

I don't know where the break even point is. But it's likely to be more complex than you describe.

Good on them.

Rich assholes need to either play fair, or be removed.

I can see that, but I've always expected tidal waves to be far more destructive. This is, as you say, an astonishing amount of movement, but nothing like I was expecting to see.

Am I missing a joke?

Sure they can write laws making it illegal to claim the king of Thailand is a doddering old fool anywhere in the world. Good for them.

They have no legal right to enforce it on me, though. If I visit their country, of course, I will be subject to their laws. But they can't apply it to me until then.

They can write whatever they like, but in practical terms, they can only enforce their laws inside their borders.

I've never know a happy Southern Baptist. I'm not interested in being as miserable as them.

I find it hard to believe that it's legal to buy a company, but not it's contractual obligations. Seems line a hell of a loophole for getting out of things you don't want to do.

I'm an elder millennial. I feel like my life has spent more time on hold than otherwise. Economic crisis, plague, not-really-a-war-but-war, more economic crisis, watered down dictator. . .

Can I just die already?

ED meds are gender affirming care, aren't they? If they are gonna cut it out of military spending, cut all of it out.

Everyone who thinks this seems to forget that they have to live through the collapse of civilization. It's not gonna be pleasant.

So he wasn't using AI to make the argument, just to speak his own words, because he mumbles.

While he should have identified this properly, this is the least offensive use of AI generated video I can imagine.