The DOGE board is purely symbolic and useless. Occams Razor: he stole the election for Trump using sophisticated techniques in a handful of states (not all of which use Starlink) to have barely any influence in the new administration and to just pump his stock prices higher, or he did the same as everyone else and…

Some are doing that. GM and Hyundai just agreed to a partnership...both use LG batteries; others will follow.

Congress being GOP means that the has a has clearer path on new laws he’d like to pass; Mitch indicated the filibuster isn’t going anywhere, but he’s not going to be Senate Majority leader, so who the fuck knows what happens.

Can you buy a racing one and import it I wonder?

He doesn’t control those things; his companies, made of many, many people do. He is as replaceable as anyone.

That isn’t what DEI means.

You misspelled syphilis.

You need big promises to catch low information voters (75% of the people voting in this election fall into that category) attention. Governance starts with ideals but then regresses towards the mean. The other guy is going out there saying he will level a 2000% tariff on cars for chrissakes.

And the rest of this is…

Ford gifting with $2500 max campaign donations to “both sides” in a district where they have a factory or dumping money into a lobbying firm to push industry standards is certainly a thing...but its not a 70mil check and Jim Farley leaping around like a frog on stage. Optics does matter.

FWIW, polls this year are weird. Most pollsters are weighting extra to account for “quiet Trump” voters to avoid what happened in 2016/2020, but by weighting them they are necessarily undercounting Harris. Additionally, some of the polls are over-indexing on rural voters but sometimes significantly over urban and…

If you think that Kamala isn’t a supremely capable choice for President, I don’t know what to tell you. This narrative of the “hold your nose and pull” voters is just good old fashioned misogyny and/or racism; like Clinton she is leagues ahead of the person she is going against.

I like the ouroboros of truck appreciation is the “cheap ones that will probably get beat up because they are cheap”, true or not that it may be.

Disney has been using automatons like this for decades. I would actually give them more of a chance for fully “human” like robots powered by AI than Tesla if only based on pure force of will and history of hitting timelines/goals....

Just because kids might doesn’t mean that you make the assumption they have and that its ok you weirdo.

Technically it was a ratio ad nomen. And what would I need to provide additional? I’ve been involved in union contract negotiations and seen them in both private and federal disputes.

“There is an argument against ‘paying them what they are worth’ when a robot can do it cheaper in the long run.”

Counterpoint; what is the point of saving a percentage and destroying the economic multiplier that is employee pay in exchange for a dividend or stock buyback or higher total compensation for the C-suite? 

At…

In most port cities, cost of living is incredibly high. Even a 100k income aint getting you much and this work is dangerous.

User name on point.

“Virtuous Circle” is the name of the crystal bowl that the owners will all drop their keys into at the swap party.

Stellantis should probably reduce its structure to about 5 core global brands and then a “Heritage” brand that does badge-job or coachbuilt versions of certain cars each year (you want a new 037? We got ya) to take a bite out of the secondary market.