People are being compensated decently through the buyback. We just turned in a paid-off 2011 TDI for a shade over $19,000, which was $5-6,000 over trade-in value and frankly impressive for an 80,000 mile car. We bought a brand-new Alltrack and will have fraction of the payment we would have otherwise. The settlement…

We’ve been successfully factionalized. If black activists don’t “trust” white activists, then we have nothing. Nobody wins these battles alone.

Goddamn this identity shit is out of control, especially the pissing on white women activists.

So we’re calling out the white women who are so vehemently opposed to Trump that they “got off the couch” and travelled to a huge protest to communicate it on the basis that a theoretical 3% more of white women nationwide supported him?

Janet Porter, president of Faith2Action, who was behind Ohio’s Heartbeat Bill,

Shut up gross neoliberals who lost the goddamn election because people didn’t buy that you can replace economic issues with identity politics and kiss Wall Street’s ass while pretending to be progressive.

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Trump may be a vile idiot, but this whole “Russia hacked the election” thing does smell like propaganda. Since when does the CIA release reports to the public?

Yep. Annoying legal behavior, much like annoying journalistic behavior, is largely a product of consumer behavior.

Where did you get the idea that people are “dialing up” the nicotine in vapor? The strongest concentration available is said to come close to the amount of nicotine in a cigarette, and few people use it. I have never heard of a “stronger than cigarettes” concentration anywhere.

No. Only the highest level of nicotine available in vapor comes close to the amount in cigarettes. The bottles are labeled, and most people use something like 1/5 of that strength to vape.

There is a synthetic butter flavor used for microwave popcorn that someone apparently once inhaled a ton of and had lung damage as a result. That flavor was at one point used in popcorn-flavored vapor. It’s not anymore.

Da DUN!

“Don’t drive 59 mph in a school zone” is subject to a lot less interpretation than “Give VW your car back and they’ll pay you.”

The judge’s interpretation of what’s required in the settlement carries a lot of weight. Depending on a few things, he could be the one who would decide what is and isn’t okay in the event of a dispute.

That’s part of what’s irritating about guys like Joe. They’re why every warranty and contract has 50,000 lines of silly 9-pt type buried somewhere in them. Why ladders have warnings on them they aren’t flotation devices or whatever.

But does the settlement explicitly require VW to give him an appointment by a certain date? Pay by a certain method? Provide a convenient drop-off location?

Lawyers get paid big bucks to argue close calls in court. Big bucks Joe will be paying if he wants to stand by his radical non-lawyer’s interpretation of the settlement.

I feel like Joe the Stripper is the Streisand here. Had he not decided to take the idea of removing a few things from the car to creative heights and then bragging about it on the internet, he’d be well on his way to his buyback money by now.

I think the dichotomy of “A-bomb or invasion of the home islands” as our two options itself was a red herring. Japan was suing for peace. It had no navy. It was largely out of steel. We had firebombed major cities to cinders. MacArthur, Nimitz, Lemay and other military leaders said the bombs were militarily…