I am for literally anything that is bad for dealerships.

I wish we could just nuke the dealer franchise laws from orbit. 

COME ON AMAZON! I can’t wait for my Warehouse Deals EV6 GT!

People wouldn’t run away from their job so fast if the company would just put a a stake in the ground and stay on a course of action rather than starting out with pie in the sky dream growth numbers and then completely reversing course when they don’t pan out to be 100% true.

Having worked for an OEM (and then at other much smaller companies that went through their systems upgrades with consistently terrible (but predictable) outcomes) I think it’s hard for most people to grasp how hard those transitions in the business are for companies that large and that multi-national. The old standards…

Automakers, you folks really need to shape up if you want to get these nerds on your teams. Sure, they’re geeks, but you’re going to need them.

Look, I have no idea whether Ghosn is guilty of the crimes he’s accused of, or of the profligate spending they claim he did. All I know is

“More of the EV talent is heading out than in,”

I remember last time this dumbass ran for president, he was talking about coal miners, and someone mentioned off hand that JCPenney employed more people than the entire coal mining industry in the US, and that maybe we’d be better off if he tried to save JCPenney rather than the coal industry.  lol

Oddly the discussion about factory jobs can be a National Security one. Not in the tanks and bullets sense, but Covid exposed that we had ignored production of simple things like PPE (masks, simple medical supplies).

Because it’s all just virtue signaling. His crowd is very much the “NUTHIN IS MADE IN AMERICA ANYMORE” type that drives a Dodge Ram clad with Chinese-made wheels and light bars and a wE tHe PeOpLe sticker on it.

If manufacturing jobs were what they were 50+ years ago it’d be great, but paying good wages isn’t good for heavily diverting capital to the upper crust.

Is more than just a blue collar job. Car manufacture requires an entire infrastructure of suppliers everything from ball bearings to metal working machine to chip making. Once you loose that, you lost your manufacturing infrastructure. If a war starts in Taiwan, and you don’t have ball bearings, or engines, that could…

Pretty much the same here on Muni/Bart - everyone just ignores it.

Note to anyone who drives through Indiana — that state has the greatest and most eclectic variety of unmarked Smokies of any state I’ve ever been in. You dont know you’re in front a cop barreling down I-65 until his cherries light, because you’re being followed by a Ford Tempo or mid-90's Ford Escort. It’s either…

Weak sauce. Clearly none of these people have ever ridden the MTA in NYC. I see much crazier stuff on a daily basis, but it doesn’t even register to me at this point. It’s just background noise to New Yorkers.

Oh, it only will be (was?) in space for a year.

With great trepidation, I find myself wondering what OTHER things I’ve never heard of that are only available to the mega-rich.

They could learn about physics. Or... they could rationalize it and assume that Expensive = Safe. One of these is far easier than the other.

So let’s say you have a friend or family member who decides to go bungee jumping. Their cord snaps and they fall to their death. At their funeral you would tell people “well, he fucked around and found out!” Or “well, he played a stupid game and won a stupid prize!”