That was my main thinking. A bunch of Euro-American companies investing into the factories and then giving away all of their manufacturing experience is a much bigger loss than patents. They paid China to take their businesses in exchange for cheap labor and lax environmental laws. 

I wonder how much IP theft actually helps when it comes to building cars. It’s not like the knowledge is a special secret and people can’t look at existing American patents. The patent just stops people from selling stuff in America. I’m almost certain the executives who made those decisions were well aware of what…

That’s the real secret to vertical thrust. 

Texas & Florida legislators are currently writing a new law to ban these TVs in all schools. 

It’s almost impressive how many children of the 60s admit they never saw race without realizing that maybe it’s because segregation was still legal. 

Segregation was legal while you were child, but go on about how much better race relations were in America.

I wonder how long it will take before all of crypto gets treated the same as an email from a Nigerian prince. 

Houston hospitals are sending their new resident doctors to Oregon for OBGYN training so they can get proper exposure to different medical outcomes and have less concern with losing their medical license before they can even finish residency.

If you want to be technical, the electric car actually came before the ICE car. However, I don’t think any modern manufacturers actually existed back at the breaking point towards ICE.

As the last several decades of abortion & anti-voting laws have shown, they don’t need to be fully implemented to be successful. The textbook manufacturers are already trying to appease the right wing school boards at the expense of everyone. The GOP can just keep passing these types of laws over and over until one…

I forgot how awful that was. Makes more sense why Porsche fans hated it so much. 

Since when is a ute’s profile a bad thing?

If by gold, they mean literal money, then it all still pretty much turns into gold, even if the recent movies have been more blah since End Game. 

I think your replies are full of people who like South Park and don’t want to feel like they are part of the problem. Many of the adults running the insane 4chan (et all) sites and recruiting current teens to them are the guys who grew up on SP. They just never aged out of being a 14 year old mimicking Cartman and…

Always love the “I didn’t know anyone who liked her, therefore she wasn’t popular” argument. I was in private jr high & high school during those years and saw plenty of girls emulating her. My siblings were in college & shortly post college during that time and Paris is who the basic sorority girls were emulating.

One of the signs of progress I think I’ve seen in this whole Ja discourse is that most of the big names in sports talk are discussing this story in a manner that shows they concerned for Ja. It has been wayyyy different than how sports media treated Iverson, so maybe things can be easier for Ja moving forward than…

They got the Subaru right, but the model wrong. The Forester is what you get when you want additional loading space without too big of a footprint. 

While you’re point still stands, that is actually a $48k Kia in your picture.

Internet kids also grew up with school shootings and post 9/11 terrorism stuff, so things like those ransomware attacks weren’t that big of a deal for a lot of us. The biggest concern was that your parents would know you were watching porn. 

If you like nature/hiking/lakes/etc, it’s actually a pretty nice place to visit in the spring/fall. Would be awful to live there, especially in summer, but not a bad place to disconnect for a bit.