the new USMCA North American trade agreement is causing some problems. That includes strangling American aluminum production due to cheaper metal flowing in from Canadian suppliers.

I suspect GM will get their revenge when they continue with their relatively rational and competent product rollout over the next decade and the vaporware companies begin to fall by the roadside as few or none of them end up delivering on their lofty promises.

The minute you try to regulate, restrict, and dictate the responsibility and morality of otherwise legal activities, like business, and social interaction, you’ve already lost.

That’s a whole lot of words to say a whole lot of smug nothing.

And at 84 months and 12%, because you’re poor, need to stretch your payments, and have totally inadequate credit, your new car, even at $10000, is costing you $250-300 with insurance, gas and maintenance deep into obsolescence.

Ok, that’s even worse than I thought. I also note that the 9th Circuit has already found a match with ALPR alone is insufficient grounds for a stop (unfortunately Colorado is in the 10th Circuit so it’s still an issue to be decided in this case).

Volkswagen: Da da da, ich lieb’ dich nicht du liebst mich nicht aha aha aha

Apple is The World’s most valuable company and doesn’t have a man-child sociopath as a CEO playing on Twitter all day long.   Apple > Tesla and that will always be the case.

and make the Americans pay for it!

They have no desire to bring a product to market.

Thank you for not making this article a slide show

Even if that does happen, and I’m not optimistic since Mitch McConnell clearly thinks he can just blame the Dems for everything yet a-fuckin’-gain, we’re in deep shit. Any small business still closed is probably done; women are being forced out of the workforce (we could lose a sixth of all workers. A SIXTH! Nobody’s…

Exactly. I get paid more than the lab techs who work in my lab because I have 15 years more experience and a PhD. But they’ve got BS or MS degrees and several years’ experience. They shouldn’t ask me to fire them so they can get paid more.

Last time I heard that from someone, just before I retired from the oilfield, it was the day gate guard on the ranch I was working in.

I don’t disagree with what you’re saying at all. It’s insane that the conversation is about “lazy people who don’t want to work” and not “people being paid so abysmally in the first place”

The recent infection rates in the US are 15-25 times higher. PERIOD. You are an idiot that doesn’t understand math. PERIOD. Even if the US has 10x the population, we have 37x the number of cases. PERIOD.

Giving folks piles of money is a nice idea in theory. And I’m not going to argue that it hasn’t done tremendous good for people who lost their jobs. However, the numbers really show just how out of touch Congress is with real life.

Yeah my Chinese colleagues have been back at work for over 2 months. European colleagues went back last month. Meanwhile our production plant in the United States is in a state with high virus cases, and we have a whole bunch of workers quarantined which is affecting product output. If another shift goes down the plant…