Comment on bmw
EvilFonzy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Step 1: Please pay your Signal Light Subscription of $36/month to enable the bulbs.
I can only imagine the frustration of engineers in BMW having to deal with finance people.
Engineer: “…So you want me to route the functionality of heated seats to a PCB to check for a payment variable, to prevent the person, who bought the car, to not be able to use a function already built in… Is that correct?”
Finance guy: “Yes! You got it!”
Engineer: “I know the answer is money but still… Why?!”
12 years ago. Back then shit was less dire.
2013 was plenty dire. We had Ted Cruz’s friends in the House trying to dismember social security and medicare while Obama kept explaining away why we needed more troops in Afghanistan and fewer labor organizers in Ohio.
The '08 Housing Crisis was still echoing through the US economy, the economy was stalling in the face of Congressional austerity, and people ringing the big “Climate Change is coming for us” dinner bell were once again getting told to shut up so we wouldn’t scare away moderate republican voters in the 2014 midterms. Israel and Gaza had broken out into a brief shooting war, the recently-debunked Lancet “Vaccination-Autism” study was gaining traction among reactionary politicians, Jeffry Epstein was hanging out with Bill Gates on Palm Beach, and a fresh-faced NYC landlord with political aspirations was all over FOX News saying how he was on the verge of uncovering Obama’s real birth certificate.
The fuse was lit. We were all just in the fucking around phase, rather than the finding out part.
With respect to subscription hells. Not your “colonial” policies.
Top quality comment right here. Way to hit on so many disparate yet crucial historical events. I’d read a history book this person wrote.
“Before I begin, I recommend paying your heated seat subscription before bothering with stuff like the turn signals.”
Turn signals only available with the deluxe interior / lighting package.
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For an additional 3 grand.
There are now entire forums dedicated to pirating the turn signal
SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Why pay if not used
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Fr that seems flagrantly wasteful
bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago
So is a BMW, yet here we are