Yup. But you can’t break someone out of that mindset and so you have to see them where they think they are, which is the most persecuted, put-upon, politically devalued and targeted by the deep state group of people who ever walked the earth. I’m sure they think that the civil rights movement was a cake walk compared…

So reading between the lines, this is how we get the new Grande Panda in the US? Cool.

And rather than accepting this as an answer and going with the cost effective answer of “Ok, cool, let’s prioritize training women for space, men clearly don’t belong up there” we are gonna spend billions trying to figure out how to make space easier for men and keep sending more men into space than women.

and there is NO ONE ON EARTH better at playing the victim than boomers. Old white christian boomers are the single most persecuted people on earth- just ask them. This is where they think they are.

100% agree. But that’s the mindset and it doesn’t matter if the guy who has that mindset is driving an $80k bro truck, in his mind he’s the poor put upon and forgotten citizen.

Taxes and Tax incentives are how governments work though- we tax stuff we want people not to do. Thus, the price of a pack of cigarettes is mostly tax. We incentivize people do do stuff we want to do. Thus, mortgages come with huge tax breaks- we don’t want folks smoking, we do want them buying houses.And this mostly…

I get why everyone wanted to skip hybrids. Hybrids are more complicated and transitional. More complicated means harder to build and transitional means all the infrastructure needed to build them is gonna be obsolete sooner than later.

I totally get wanting to just skip the transitional stage and just suck it up and…

I don’t know if this is still common practice but I know there are orgs out there that take RFPs and immediately toss the highest priced proposals AND the lowest priced proposals.

You are assuming the folks who vote for him don’t know this. They want other people to hurt like they hurt. They’re perfectly happy with burning the whole fucking thing to the ground because their shit burnt up long ago and they’ve been standing out in the cold watching everyone else not give a shit about them.…

When you’ve been shat on for decades and your choices are, a guy who’s gonna be business as usual and a guy who’s gonna shit allover everyone and maybe make the folks who’ve been shiting on you get a taste of what it’s like, the choice isn’t that crazy. And you know he’s not going to make anything better for you but…

This is the stuff I was thinking but couldn’t articulate. Thanks.

Someday Jack Welch and the other purveyors of the “shareholder value uber alles” business mentality are gonna be recognized as the people who broke the American dream.

Tesla is suffering from the delusion that because they led the market for a long time, they will always lead the market. Because they didn’t need advertising for a long time, they will never need advertising, that because they didn’t need to update the looks of their cars for a long time, that they will never need to…

It would seem the next logical step is to arrest Hudson and seize his car. And it seems city officials are considering it. A statement from the Seattle city attorney’s office to Fox 13 on June 10th said that the office is “looking into what more they can do.” Kind of makes you wonder why impounding his car wasn’t…

And this, ladies and gentlemen of the United States, is our leading presidential candidate.

They do make a statement, even if that statement is, “I bought something that gets better gas mileage than your bronco sport and can do 95% of the same stuff off road...” But seriously, they do make a statement- an outback is always gonna be the weird choice compared to all the other SUVs out there.

While that may have been true in the beginning, back when the subaru wagon was a tiny little AWD thing, it’s grown into something bigger and better.

The Subaru Outback is a total ripoff of the original Jeep Wagoneer, done much better, with the questionable bits of plastic trim standing in for the plastic wood of dubious quality on the sides of the wagoneer.

Red Bull’s junior program really seems to be more catch and kill rather than development- As long as they’re under contract with Red Bull, they can’t drive for anyone else...

Prii are like bicycles in traffic in that, you notice them doing stuff because you’re aware of them and are already biased against them.