“How any of this compares to the competition, I don’t know, but the 2mm to 6mm delta does seem high.”

That is VERY high compared to industry standards. General approach is to take the 6-sigma level of each measurement, then of all those 6-sigmas, whatever your 95th percentile is, is taken as representative for the…

Front suspension looks just like the setup on my ‘06 Fusion. You don’t have to go high-end to get that......

Is this guy really fawning over a pin and a slot used for locating parts during assembly?

Because that is literally how every single mass manufacturing car company around has done it for decades.

Except the need to quarantine can only be demonstrated with a test, which is limited to only after known exposure or you’re showing symptoms (for health care workers, its more limited for everyone else in Florida).  So she can’t get HOA clearance until well after she’s exposed her entire family.

There’s a lovely catch-22.

“The owners in this case, one who is a nurse and currently working at home and the other who works at a local military base are neither infected with the COVID-19 virus nor have they been directed by authorities to self quarantine. Hence, they have no immediate or justifiable need to keep an…

Yeah, the article here was talking about making surgical masks - the rectangular ones that help some in reducing spread, but pale compared to n95 or better. Surgical masks are simple to make. 50,000 a day is actually really only one small line running at low speed.

I guarantee you they aren’t making the fabric themselves. It’s a commodity industry, but those lines are not able to be installed in short order. Sourcing material is still generally easy. Transforming it to the finished product is where things are struggling right now. Surgical masks like GM is making are generally…

Because “maximize shareholder value” has been the rule. And to too many MBAs, this means that if your business has cash, they either should be reinvesting for the future or returning that to shareholders. The idea of maintaining reserves for anything beyond an ordinary recession is anathema to these people. It also…

They’re actually very easy to spit out in that timeframe - they’re remarkably simple things.  But for a company like GM that has no experience handling these sorts of materials, it will take longer.  But kudos to them for getting into it...

“I can also respect that GM seems to be taking the same tact many of us have during this crisis: it’s better to just ignore the president and keep doing the right thing anyway.”

Its better yet to do it all and not even mention it, so that Cheetos for brains doesn’t even think about saying anything stupid and false…

Except most of those loans are structured in a way that the lender is virtually guaranteed to make money if the buyer doesn’t default in the first 6-9 months. That’s the effect of sky-high interest rates.

It will suck for the buyers losing their car.  And it will drag down used car prices.  But the lenders are not…

The market may or may not be a good deal right now.

If we find an effective treatment for this soon, we’re looking at a sharp recession but possibly a quick rebound. That would put today’s prices as cheap.

If we don’t, we’re looking at massive levels of personal and corporate bankruptcies and depression era levels of…

Yep, they could well end up dead from this.
Operating income for them over the last 12 months was ~$539 million per yahoo finance, on revenue of $32.5 billion. A 7.6% drop in gross profit would take their operating profit to $0 assuming the same overhead costs.

And their total cash/cash equivalents/short term…

GM didn’t balk at the price.  Trump balked at the price GM quoted, even though it was a full 60% below the pre-pandemic price for the exact same thing.

Elon Musk is a jackass, and clearly knows nothing about this, but still won’t shut his trap.

Seems like a leap.

But the federal government had only given enough tests to Ohio that at the time the 5th case was announced, they had only run tests on 35 people total.

Out of 11.5 million, they had only tested 35. Let that sink in for a second.

The estimate of 100,000 infected is based on CDC models - that if you’ve…

You know, in late 1917, there had only been a few deaths from the spanish flu. No one in the US caught it until January 1918.. You could have said the exact same thing back then. “Meh, its only killed a few people, no worse than the common cold”. But you’d be completely ignoring that it was rapidly spreading and FAR…

Mine aren’t bad about washing their hands. Its keeping their hands out of their damned mouths all the time that is virtually impossible to get across to them.

I’m doomed if the virus gets to them before a quarantine.

Ohio is virtually guaranteed to vote for Trump. We’ve turned into redneck country here, too.  North Carolina is actually more likely to vote against Trump than Ohio is.  Hell, in current polling, TEXAS is far closer to turning blue than Ohio is.

Sure - but stairs don’t multiply in prevalence, increasing your risk on a daily basis.  Infectious disease does.  If we don’t nip the spread of this in the bud, it will make stairs look like child’s play.