To be fair, the Rabbit/Golf is perhaps the perfect car

Half feels way low. There are zero electric cars that aren’t SUVs and are under $100k

My kid just turned 16 and when we’re driving together she points out cars she likes and they’re all from before 2008.

I’m gonna buy her some giant Buick party barge.

My dream car is in the meme: A Mk1 GTI

This has me feeling like an ent

The problem is that I would already have existed, so the damage is done.

Yep.

Yep

It needn’t be a conspiracy for it to be harmful. I remember a creepy countdown timer for when they (and others) turned 18. The projection of that, and the pressure to retain their childhood traits for profitability, can fuck someone up.

Like they gained the ability to curse their abusers.

And yet points at every chance humans have had to not kill themselves and learn more about the universe and every time they keep fighting over fractions of a dot

Okay but only for booze.

Most humans could not give two shits about the universe.

Why is that a responsibility? I didn’t ask to exist. What the hell do I owe the universe?

Hmm, yes. As the holy texts say: “In the beginning the universe was created. This has made many people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad idea.”

Existence was a mistake.

I ain’t forcin’ you

You are automatically better than every government that has ever existed.

Or just nudge the asteroid and then there’s just another 65 million years of dinosaurs.

What if I want to be a hunter-gatherer, trading game meat, wild fruit, and psychedelics for trinkets and booze? Will I have to wear pants then?

As long as I don’t have to obey property laws or wake up early or wear pants.

Yeah. But anyone who trusts a government in the first place is an idiot.