Also Budweiser sales have been in steady almost linear decline since the 80s. The reaching out to another demographic was a stopgap measure, and the dropoff was a result of offending both sides and returning to the previous steady decline. Bud is a particularly bad example to use for the right.

The charging situation is gonna be basically meaningless to the average user unless they’re on a actual road trip... Superchargers aren’t helpful/needed for the most part...

A huge difference in your analogy is the price of the product.

A lot of the time activists will tout that their actions are the reason for a stock decline when there are much more obvious/predicted reasons. Right wingers celebrated target’s stock decline during the brouhaha over bathrooms but there was a quarterly earnings call the same week where target had negative results due…

Funny how people on the right rage against “cancel culture” while embracing it just as much as anyone else.

Didn’t affect international sales either.  For some bizarre reason, Bud is considered a great American beer overseas.  Mind boggling, isn’t it?

Sort of off-topic, but has “Go Woke, Go Broke” ever worked in real life?

Anti-woke mind virus

You’re not wrong on the politics. But I think the era of cheap labor is ending if it isn’t already over, and I’m not sure the Chinese government has a plan for that beyond “subcontracting to the Vietnamese.”

We are just getting started on rebuilding our industrial capabilities.  China and Korea are about to have a worker-shortage like we’ve never seen.  We are going to have to be able to make things locally instead of using Chinese slave-labor to pay for the things that we’re cheap about.  To push this development, the…

Meanwhile we have Republicans telling us the country’s infrastructure can’t support everyone moving to EVs. At the same time they reject any attempts to spend money on electrical or EV infrastructure as “unnecessary” because people don’t want EVs...

i think you are correct... as it turns out lithium ... is not as scarce as first thought. the true challenge will be as the technology changes... and major developments in battery tech and charging tech change... will be adoption of the new tech and hopefully they all get on board with the same ports and universal…

Disagree. The point of the credits is to retool the industry as well as sell cars. You need both. Hyundai, Honda, and other EV makers are scrambling to build plants in the US for battery production. Mines in the US are being opened. Even domestics like Ford and GM are having to reconsider and move their EV and battery…

They simply cannot get enough of these piles o shit. 

The goal of this legislation was to bring battery production to the US, not necessarily to make cars cheaper. If making cars cheaper was the sole goal we would have reduced the barriers to entry, not made them harder. This was more about protecting jobs and fighting a geo-political struggle with China than making…

Yeah and we shouldn’t subsidize oil, corn, eggs, etc. etc.

Yeap. I got offered a job to work overseas. It was a 2 year contract. They would hold on to my passport for those 2 years for safe-keeping.

Cruise Ship Abandons 9 Passengers On African Island After Tour Overruns

Heard about this on a local radio station. Update was they were being permitted to rejoin the cruise except for one couple, who were apparently “checking out their options.”

Ah, I missed that. I need new glasses, I guess.