I live in a large European city where the subway and bike are usually quicker than driving. My commute is 0.8 miles so it wouldnt be worth driving there.

I dont drive often, so when I do, I want to enjoy the ride as much as possible. I’ve also never found it to be exausting (though the longest I’ve driven was 2h and when I’m on the highway I dont have to switch gears anyway so there’s that)…

50% of newly produced cars sold in Europe are automatic. Manuals are definitely more popular but there are definitely automatic cars.

Its machines making DECISIONS thats the issue.

Just saying, you can stay in 1st gear for 10mph.

That was the case 20 years ago.

If its at an angle, yes. But i presume this was on flat terrain. BTW, 1st gear is only if its in danger of rolling backwards. If its in danger of rolling forwards, park in reverse gear.

Its appealing for people that want driving to be more engaging in contrast to people that want it to be less engaging and more layed back (like you do).

For me, driving a manual feels more rewarding/tactile, like typing on a mechanical keyboard instead of a touchscreen.

(And manual cars are usually cheaper to buy and, more importantly, maintain here in Europe)

You dont need permission to comment on something as far as Im concerned. + Only having opinions that match your own is not good a thing (its called a filter bubble).

I can get this 2TB Samsung 970 Evo Plus 2TB (from Amazon, shipped to the USA) for under 100$: https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-970-EVO-Plus-MZ-V7S2T0B/dp/B07MFZXR1B/

On the Github page you linked it says under Installation: “Clone the repository and install the required dependencies enlisted in requirements.txt.”

It seems like you didnt do that…

SSDs are cheap nowadays, you can very easily find a 2TB SSD for under 100 bucks.

if those who control the government belong to the capitalist class then […]

regulatory protections […] may be removed through the direct influence of amazon or some other large corporation

This I dont understand because if everybody votes, the government represent the interests of the whole population (still disregarding lobbying), doesnt it? And if lobbying were the issue, we could just ban it…

Fair enough, I’d just find such a world depressing from my more liberal point of view.

There is no definite proof, there is also no definite proof that a quantum can even be in a superposition at all (in the sense od being in two states at once) becuae we cannot observe it. Physicist Niels Bohr for example believes that the outcome is already set long before we observe it.

1. The Soviet Union led the space race, the Soviet Union made many innovations without the need for competition

They were very much competing (against the USA) in the space race, why else would it be called a “race”? There may be no proof for my statement about competition driving innovation but would you just innovate for the sake of innovating without any rewards? I would not…

Also, I do notice that monopolies tend to be less innovative than multiple competing businesses in a market.

2.Agreed but if something is completely redundanty it will die out in a capitalist market and more importantly, what would be the incentive to innovate at all if we had one monopoly?

3. Completely agee on this one and I do think there should be regulations regarding the market (not like in the USA for example).

high amount of homeless people.

Because it doesnt work like its supposed to, but from a theoretical point of view, they all have the right to food and shelter and everything they need to keep their dignity…

What exactly do you mean by “capitalist class”? Is that only the people that dont work at all?

And why cant those capitalists and the “working class” BOTH have power over the government? Disregarding lobbying for a moment, how does each member of the “capitalist class” have any more influence on the government than each member of the “working class”?

Right, but disproportionate wealth can always be used to influence populations, in any system. Is the solition really to eliminate disproportional wealth completely?

Because for science calculations, the Kelvin scale makes the most sense and Celcius is the Kelvin scale shifted up to make it useful for our daily use.

Persons with larger amounts of money having an influence on the government seems more like a problem with democracy rather than an issue with capitalism.

If we had, in theory, a direct democracy (aka we vote for every decision) then a (regulated) capitalist market seems good to me…

The “free” market doesn’t innovate, at the very best it creates redundancy.

Competition drives innovation. And capitalism has the most competition. This is not to say that socialism and capitalism are mutually exclusive though. The US, for example, is too capitalist for my liking but the free market there certainly does innovate.

A “social market economy” like Germany has it is pretty spot on IMO.