hence migrant labor, which the GOP villainizes.

almost like we need a group of workers willing to do the work ‘Murican’s won’t.

I own one of those firearm belt buckles.

fun little toy but not a useful weapon in any way. nearly impossible to hold and fire unless you have baby hands, finicky single action, unguarded hair trigger, no safety at all (so drop it on the hammer and bad things will happen) reloading requires removing the cylinder, not…

you’ve never been near a paper mill, have you....

all along the Fla gulf coast there are paper mills and you get within 10 miles it is just a matter of which way the wind is blowing that determines whether or not you are blowing chunks.

same up in Maine, there are a lot of papermills down deep in valleys where if the…

exactly - up through 2020, microsoft (and apple) were pulling the double irish to offshore the vast majority of their profits and evade taxes.

you know for sure they had new loopholes written into the Trump tax law or else it would never have passed.

“we don’t know anything yet about how these cars drive in the real world, but the rules change didn’t work”

so this is more zero information speculation. we won’t have any real idea how well they can follow until they run on track in real conditions.

there are several things they could have done that would actually have…

but one can not avoid asshat mustang drivers without avoiding mustangs.  ergo....

the rate of growth of pro-soccer fandom in the US suggests this will be a good investment.  solid odds that 10 years from now Soccer will be the #3 US sport in terms of revenue (behind NFL and NBA).  Baseball is on the long decline and Hockey will always have fairly limited appeal (much as I love it)

there are shit tons of them around, and they don’t have a huge “vintage authentic” collector culture. they get driven for fun, not put up in shrink wrap until the next auction.

I’m sorry, you have completely lost me. what is your point?

do chrysler products suck in build quality and reliability? yes, yes they do.

first of all, I make a point of avoiding mustangs for the very reasons you suggest.

and yes. chryslers have a lot more problems than other domestic brands (just look at their quality ratings from CR or similar sources)

yeah, no. they all knew exactly what it stood for. they all watched the original hoodies waving the flag in Selma and everywhere else all through the ‘60s

how about.... paying farmers fair value for their crops so the farmers can pay a fair wage to their employees?

honestly, the _only_ reason to watch NASCAR these days is the wrecks. the stupid “competition cautions”, “lucky dog”, Stages and the Chase/playoffs bullshit it has become a game show where the only thing that is really interesting is “the Big One” and someone driving their nemesis into the wall.

and even that is only…

for sure, you could probably sell almost all of the controls to some flight sim geek to build his dream simulator, all the steam gauges, switches etc are things avgeeks would love.

um, where does VAG relate to my factual statement about Chrysler?

the fact that VAG is also crappy does not detract from the extreme shittiness of Chrysler products.

name a car that hasn’t had a recall.  I’m not a toyota fan, but in general their cars are leagues better in terms of build quality and reliability than anything coming out of Stellantis (or almost any other car company really)

“the flag was not a racist symbol at the time” to oblivious white people. it had been in use by the KKK throughout the civil rights era.

the show, in general, was no more racist than anything else on network TV at the time (that is to say, any black characters were tokens whose only purpose was to show the protagonists…

Microsoft did exactly what I describe above (through the double Irish) for years and never paid a big penalty (or else there would have been a huge story about it)...

listened to a story on The Moth yesterday about that.

guy was reminiscing about his gramma who was the best gramma ever and when he would spend the weekend with her, they’d watch the Dukes and he’d play with a little toy car. he’d go home and inevitably lose the car after playing with it. next weekend he’d go to…

almost certainly a tax dodge.

the BVI company will have a Caymans subsidiary that “owns” all the process IP, which it will “license” to the BVI company, which will in turn “license” it to the Minnesota subsidiary, the cost of the license will conveniently align with expected profit margin on both the extraction…