You bastards, I had one stolen on winter morning I had to get my kid to hospital in Helsinki. Of course car was not driveable.
How is a car undrivable without a CAT? Is this some weird modern car thing?
Yeah, new features like oil pipes hacked by clumsy thieving monkeys
Ah, yup. That’ll do it.
Palladium is used in semiconductor chips and Platinum is used on hard disks, so AI already hoarding those precious metals, cutting the middle man
so you’re saying that are more valuable now?
So your saying I should take my battery powered grinder, saw-za, and crack pipe to a data center?
I’m saying you should do that even if there wasn’t a material incentive
I passed by a mechanic’s shop a couple of years ago that had a big lit-up sign out front that said “WE BUY CATALYTIC CONVERTERS”. I hope it was a honeypot but I dunno.



