Ommm...If you think that is how VW got started, you may want dig a little into the history of the company. 

Not to mention that cities/states are expecting a big drop in revenue this year and next. My town has essentially put all road work on hold until they see how bad their bottom line looks. I can’t blame them for not starting projects when they know revenue is taking a big hit.

I think projects that have already started are getting finished ahead of schedule. I have family in Nashville, and they say the city has been getting stuff done during the pandemic. They finished widening and repaving the entire bypass early and finished the airport renovations three years early. For the airport, they…

They are really just Karens wanting to talk to the manager so they will wave the higher prices and give them some desert on the house. They aren’t actually that upset. It is just an act they put on to get discounts and free stuff to shut them up.

Perhaps I should have said, ‘selective use of statistics’. Apparently he only spent 1/2 hour researching this so it is not surprising he picked the first statistic that supported his argument.

That is the thing about statistics, you can argue whatever you want. He said the percentage of deaths due to rollover hasn’t changed, so the test must not be helpful. This is misleading at best. It ignores the fact we went from mostly sedans to mostly rollover prone SUVs in the decades between the numbers he cited.…

“Riders” pay Uber and Uber then decides how much to pass onto the drivers.

You are correct that this study doesn’t prove buffs are worse. However, there are some people who think they are good enough, and this study suggests that may not be true. There are also very high profile people wearing buffs while telling others to wear masks. In this case, over interpretation of the results may be…

People accepted jobs with Google and were compensated later because it came out that wages were suppressed through an anti-competitive hiring agreement

It is probably the opposite. There have been tens of millions of first time buyers this year. They probably don’t understand all of the rules yet. 

Exactly! Paying bribes to the union is business 101. Apparently, GM failed to follow the basic rules of working with a union (money paid directly to the union bigwigs), and is upset that other companies got away with it. 

Except the drivers signed up for a position as an independent contractor and then tried to get it reclassified. No one forced them to be drivers. No one promised them they could make a living off of the job. In fact, the advertisements almost always say it is a way to make extra money. If I decided to make a living…

People don’t seem to understand wechat. Yes, it is a messaging system, but it is also a government sponsored system to generate social credit scores and is becoming required for payments of almost everything. Essentially, by tying the social credit system and payment system together, CCP can control everything about…

To be fair, reviews are essentially used to increase product awareness, i.e. advertising. As Torch pointed out yesterday about Tesla, if the review is not positive, there will be pushback. 

Look at the New England Journal paper. SARS was less infectious than SARS-COV-2 because most of the SARS virus was present in the lungs, whereas there are high viral titers in the nasal passages with SARS-COV-2, making it easier to transmit. Even with that limitation, one plane ride with one sick individual lead to 22…

On a similar note, I have found that if I put a little more time into my ‘temporary fixes’ it makes life easier, because they end up getting used longer than you expect. I realized this when I went to visit a place where I used to work and they were still using equipment that had my temporary fixes. I was like, “why…

• 4 door with Sasquatch Package has Ford performance beadlock rings.

So your going to ignore the infectious disease experts who literally caught covid on flights because they didn’t cover their eyes and call it science?

I always heard that these kind of laws were why German brands didn’t use touchscreens for so long. I mean Mercedes just started embracing touchscreens this year. 

I understand wanting to see your folks, but air travel at this time is no joke. There are doctors who have studied and treated patients with everything from ebola to SARS that have caught COVID from air travel. They said even wearing masks and wiping down like they would for other diseases didn’t work because they got…