Stumblinbear

There was no thinking involved

I actually wholeheartedly disagree. It's easy to spout off your own beliefs, it's harder to justify one you don't already agree with. Critical thinking here would require you to understand where the article is coming from rather than writing it off entirely because you start from a position of not agreeing.

Understanding an opinion while not agreeing with it is incredibly important. If you don't understand a topic well enough to advocate for the devil, then you don't understand it enough to have a conversation at all.

This is literally what critical thinking is. It's not "justify a position you already agree with."

They'll release a second one, but never a third. It's what they do

My roommate drops his Fold almost daily onto hardwood and tile since he got it a year or two ago. It hasn't broken once. I'm honestly astonished

I used mine to help put on my license plates in the dark. I get a surprising amount of use out of the ability to fold the screen to point the flashlight wherever

I mean, the original comment was pretty shit too. That was kinda the point. Knowingly taking words out of context as a gotcha does absolutely nothing useful and only serves to annoy literally everyone involved. You're not clever

Oh sure, I agree that it's not always perfect, but neither is driving. I can't tell you how many times I've been randomly stuck in gridlock because someone got in a crash on the freeway.

The issue here is entirely that there is no choice that can be made. You either drive, or you don't go anywhere. I don't want to need a car, I want to want a car. Cars are convenient, but when they're required to do literally everything then they're a massive inconvenience.

If I was able to make a choice, I could share a car with someone else. As it stands, we both have to own one.

I just bounce

Even during my own parties or while I have people over. Stay as long as you like, even stay the night if you so desire, but I'm going to my room and passing out at 10pm no matter what, so you do you from that point on. It's likely I'll also forget to tell you I'm going to bed

Having been to the UK and Germany, it's incredibly convenient and much quicker than driving in many cases. I've used the metro where I live and it's also much quicker, the only issue is the closest bus stop is 20 minutes away by foot. That's easy to fix though.

Finally I can buy one

I've been holding off on getting a steam deck since I wanted to get their second version rather than being a beta tester for the first

Cars are investments for banks too, but I'm specifically talking about buyers. Selling a house for more than you bought it is the most absurd thing I've ever seen, and that's coming from someone buying a house as we speak. I should not be able to sell this thing for 2x its value in ten years.

Houses should not be investments. They break down and should depreciate like any other physical asset. If you built your retirement solely on your house then that's nobody's fault but your own.