I don’t know what I think about the storyline with Fury and his skrull wife, but I will say their final scene at the dining room table was well done, I really appreciated the maturity of it. 

Actual Russians wouldn’t communicate in Russian while attacking POTUS. 

Car surpluses and worker shortages aren’t what the name says. It’s a money problem. Charge too much for a car and get no buyers. Pay an employee too little and you get no employees. Was this that hard to figure out?

Along with what many are saying about prices, subscriptions, and such; I will say my biggest hurdle is still range. 300mi is the number I want but I want to be able to hit 300mi minimum when it is 115F as well as 0F.

Ex) Car and Driver says their real world test of the Ioniq 6 shows 260mi range. 100mi less than the…

Price and infrastructure, the area where I live isn’t super EV friendly, it’s okay if stay in the city as can just charge at home, but if make a lot of trips into the sticks best be ready to wait on 110V household outlet charging as chargers are scarce and working ones even less so. And the value proposition isn’t…

This is pretty disingenuous. The base model Camry starts at 26k which is almost 20% less. And I’m not sure how the rebate works, but it’s not instant, is it? You still have to take out a loan for a 40k+ car, right?

“The problem isn’t supply anymore, it’s demand.”
“The latest reports from Cox Automotive indicate that car buyers are much more interested in EVs now than in the past: 51 percent of buyers who participated in a recent Cox survey are considering buying a new or used EV, which is up from 38 percent in 2021. And Cox says…

-The new car market is finally cooling off and EVs are generally more expensive.

The problem with nearly every car mentioned here is the price.

EV’s are being forced on people from the top down. Drivers in the meantime are aware of the slew of issues, from charging networks to range to battery replacement costs, with this emerging technology, and are wary. Rightfully so.  

Wow — I had the exact opposite reaction to the choice to not change the genders. I would have guessed that the “classic conservative” version would definitely change the genders because if he didn’t use it as yet another opportunity to perform his manhood, people might think he was a wuss. I think he made the exact…

I think Audra might seriously think Chapman was a country singer who never got her due until a white man covered it. But that is completely bastardized since... she isn’t a country singer.

I’d argue “I Will Always Love You” as performed by Dolly is iconic in its own right; it has an intimacy to it that the bravado of the Houston cover doesn’t match. That’s not to say the cover is less than the original, only that neither is “better” than the other.

She’s not mad, why should you be? Are you, presumably a white woman, dictating how a black woman should feel? That’s a little racist, isn’t it?

The question should be “would China have noticed if the line wasn’t on something titled ‘world map’ which features an approximation of their country and its location?” The answer of course is absolutely they would - it’s what they employ scores of censors to do.

“You can brush my hair, put China’s borders anywheeeeere...”

When I heard the movie had done this, I thought it sounded like the absolute worst, most craven example of Hollywood sucking up to the CCP - like, in what scenario would you need to include any maritime boundary on a map, let alone this one?

That’s why North Korea is the villain in so many movies despite not even able to feed itself — nobody cares about offending North Korea -- it’s not like North Koreans are going to buy tickets to your movie.

I think a better analogy would be if Alaska were shown as part of Russia, but still, that wouldn’t be enough to get it banned in the US, though it would provoke temper tantrums from a certain segment of the population.

Fuck Chinese imperialism (and imperialism in all forms) - but bans like this just make these countries look insecure and neurotic. If a movie about barbie dolls “denigrates your sovereignty” than I’m not sure how much self-respect you have!