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Hey guys, I've now said goodbye to the biker scene entirely.
For personal reasons, I rarely get to drive, and when I do, I don't have a clear head.
My severely autistic 7-year-old son Ben can't handle it when I'm on my bike. And my son just goes first, unfortunately he only accepts me as a reference person. My heart is bleeding a little, it was a great bike. The way it looks now, I will never drive again, until now I'm 57 and you can't say how my son will develop. Autism is not just a cough and runny nose that disappears again, and unfortunately it has a very pronounced type, A-typical hyperautistic (autism spectrum)
I don't blame my son, he didn't choose autism, and I want to give him the time and help him find his way in this world of norm neuros.
 I offered my 1 year old BMW S1000RR for sale and sold it immediately, picked it up and gone ;-(

I still have my Audi S6, which already has 860 hp, and instead of the BMW RR I bought a Mercedes SUV ML 63 AMG today, .. as a Christmas present, I will only get it in a week, the car is needed, will still prepared and serviced

Figured that for the more visionary/brainstorming types, many of us will have probably come up with more than a few ideas that weren't quite realistic. Dreams we hope will come true, but that aren't quite possible with today's technology. Goals that are lofty but that we've failed at before, and the list goes on. 

It's not always depressing to think about these ideas, even if they aren't entirely feasible. Science fiction is a big genre! Figured I'd create a thread for all of the lofty visionary ideas that folks have had that didn't quite prove to be as feasible (yet) as hoped. 

I'll start: I wanted to create a replacement for lithium ion battery technology in EVs. Quickly realized I wasn't nearly well versed enough in chemistry to make that happen (if even the smartest people in the world are scratching their heads, I certainly wont be the one to figure it out )

Cities Skylines has brought insider trading (literally) to the game as a part of the Financial Districts DLC. You can buy or sell stocks depending on how things are going in your city, and you can benefit (or lose money) depending on how their respective industries perform. 

The idea seems interesting to me, but I'd feel too weird about doing literal insider trading on my cities. The extra districts with new buildings would probably be nice though, Cities Skylines sometimes feels a little bland with the base game's buildings. 

What are your thoughts on some of the DLCs? Do you own any, and if so, which ones?

I throw stickers on pretty much anything I own. It seems like a no-brainer to do it for laptops too (you can put a bit of your personality into it and make it your own, which I've always enjoyed. I usually get a case for them so that I can keep them after I get rid of the laptop too, although I usually keep my computers for quite a long time before replacing them.) 

Among some folks in the Mac community, it's a lot more controversial. Sticker's don't seem that damaging to me (devices are meant to be used anyway, nothing stays new forever), but it's something that's a surprisingly hot topic in many of these circles. 

Do you put stickers on your personalized devices? Why or why not?

Hello MS Community, 

Our new server seems to be sending emails much better than our older one, and that's a bit of an achilles heel. MyBB (our forum software, as many of you already know) is quite excessive with subscription emails out of the box, and literally auto subscribes users to every thread they've ever replied to. This means you'll get an email for every reply that someone makes to a thread you've also posted in (unless you manually uncheck the subscription box when you post). 

That's a lot of emails. Particularly for users who are pretty active.

We're looking into ways to help clean up this behavior (currently you can still enable/disable these emails in the User CP, which won't change), but some of the options might involve unsubscribing all users to all current threads and requiring manual action to subscribe to future threads. We can do this (and it would clean up everyone's email quickly), but I don't necessarily want to get rid of existing subscriptions if there are people who are making use of them either.

We wanted to create a poll to get community input and to allow MS users to help us decide. (Keep in mind that our forum software is pretty archaic, it unfortunately doesn't have any sort of daily digest feature for these things. That would probably be the ideal solution, but we're looking into alternatives due to the difficulty of implementing this.)

Feel free to also comment any additional ideas below as well!

AI Art has grown massively in the past few years. It went from being relatively on the fringe to now being almost mainstream, and even social media filters are taking advantage of it. 

Some artists are in support of it because it's seen as the future (or something that can at least augment the technology that we use for artistic design). Others are very afraid it will replace human artists, and are also afraid of AI's ability to be trained on vast datasets without any accreditation to the artists who created the work that it was trained on. 

What are your thoughts on AI Art? Do you see it growing larger in the future than it is today?

For me, it'd certainly be NYC (been once, want to see again), Los Angelos, Rome, London, and Tokyo. 

What cities are on your bucket list to visit? Which cities have you visited that you would recommend?

As a lot of folks probably already know, SBF (Sam Bankman-Fried) was recently extradited to the US to face fraud charges following the FTX Fiasco. Many customers have lost a substantial amount of money from the exchange's collapse, and it's unclear when (or if) these funds will be returned. 

It's fairly clear that SBF is guilty, and will likely be found guilty by the courts when his case goes to trial. What's less clear is what this means for the rest of the crypto industry. FTX is not the first exchange to collapse in this fashion, and it will almost certainly not be the last. 

What are your thoughts on FTX, and on the rest of the crypto industry as a whole?

EVs are still more expensive than their ICE counterparts, but their prices have dropped significantly over the past couple of years. Tesla still starts their cheapest models at about $47K, but there are other manufacturers (including Nissan and GM) that are pricing new EVs below $30,000. This is still very pricey, but in the USA, the federal government recently approved $7,500 tax credits for EVs, working out effectively to a 7.5K discount. This puts many EVs in the 20K range, and puts some Tesla models under 40K. 

These are still far too expensive for someone like me to afford, but I'm surprised to see them drop in price this rapidly. They will still take years to flood the used market, but for new car buyers, they are starting enter price ranges that are roughly comparable to their ICE counterparts. 

Electric vehicles might be mainstream much sooner than we thought. I wouldn't be surprised if it's only 5-7 years before more EVs are sold new than ICE vehicles are, and I'd give it another 10 years or so before the used market begins to catch up. 

Would you consider buying an EV (new or used) if the price was right? Why or why not?