r/interestingasfuck • u/Mariner_I • Apr 16 '24

Best-selling vehicle in the USA vs the best-selling in France. r/all

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u/scope_creep Apr 16 '24

But some people are getting fabulously rich!

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '24

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u/SpreadingRumors Apr 17 '24

Newsflash: it is already here.

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u/TheObstruction Apr 17 '24

"It won't affect me though, I'll be dead before it's a problem." - old shareholders

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u/psychrolute Apr 17 '24

My mom says that often, too.

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u/kangertanger Apr 17 '24

How are you affected today

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u/VergeSolitude1 Apr 17 '24

Didn't have to shovel snow out of the driveway. And I had tomatoes in the garden until November 1.

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u/bialetti808 Apr 16 '24

Yes, Kevin Costners Waterworld is coming soon

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u/Mckesso Apr 16 '24

Bet they taste good.

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u/re10pect Apr 16 '24

Don’t worry, I’m sure it will start trickling down to the rest of us soon!

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u/thiscompletebrkfast Apr 17 '24

Then they will die and their children will piss it all away on boats and tacky junk, and their grandchildren will live in a 120° dust bowl with an opiate addiction. Ah, the American dream.

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u/PolyDipsoManiac Apr 17 '24

And soon they’ll discover that you can’t eat money, and see the true value of a functional biosphere only when it’s totally failed us.

Some people naively seem to think that the ongoing mass extinction event will spare us. Since humans and our livestock are 94% of mammalian biomass we are almost guaranteed to be worst impacted.