The thing is “Democrat who doesn’t support single-payer healthcare and student loan forgiveness” and “Republican who commits borderline treason and wants to create a fascist dictatorship in America” is a huge difference you can’t dismiss with Both Sides are Bad.

The psychotic hypocrisy of Republicans kills me... They’re now effing animals incapable of thinking rationally.

I do think “cheating” on mpg/emissions probably needs qualifiers post dieselgate. When VW’s defeat devices weren’t in use, some of the cars were emitting almost 40 fucking times the allowable limit of NOx. Much different than fudging half a mpg.

Pretty much this. There are basically no COVID restrictions anymore. What are they protesting, exactly?

I used the qualifier “if.” But if these guys are smuggling illegal weapons across state lines, or endangering anyone, law enforcement has some latitude to break it up.

Uhhh...is something up with Jalopnik? No posts this morning? No NPOND? No QOTD?

ahhh the GMG strike has begun bois. 

I think if the party and cause affiliations were reversed, people would be screaming in protest.

Nothing like “emergency powers” being used to take people’s private property without recourse.

As others have noted, there is no concept of the logistics of a city here. An average person eats or drinks around 10 lbs of food and beverages a day. In a city of a million people (big but not huge), this means that you have to find a way to ship in 10,000,000 lbs of food and drink every day. This doesn’t include the…

Had the government not forced domestic auto makers to build more efficient, safer cars in the 70s, would we even be where we are today? Safety and efficiency were not really driven by consumers. Consumers were mostly fine with the big ol’ leaded fuel barges they’d been buying for years. Consumers were mostly fine with…

“Say what you will about the Biden admin in general, at least NHTSA seems to be getting its mojo back.”

Not a big deal but gasoline taxes are mostly diverted to other non-road expenses already. And damage to roads is primarily a result of temperature cycling, poor initial foundations, and heavy trucks. Making a small change to passenger vehicle weight won’t make a difference.

We aren’t out of the woods quite yet. Despite cases having dropped dramatically they are still higher than at any other time during the pandemic. While the vaccines are very effective and I personally have Three full doses of Moderna I know people who got Omicron and were totally knocked on their asses for a week…

Or they could pay their taxes... and say they paid $x billion in taxes and detail what that supports (education, healthcare, us defense, etc.)

Polestar is hitting me, even if I am not a Mini SUV fan. It looks really good.

1st: My Polestar 2 is pretty great.

“4. If you don’t like offshoring IP etc. then vote and contact your lawmakers.”

“Dems had all three branches under Obama and did fuck all about stuff like this.”

Stock price aside, if you report profit, you should pay taxes. Period. Especially 7.2 BILLION with a B in profit. Not revenue... PROFIT. If they claim that $7.35B in profit came from overseas, wonderful. But you can’t repatriate that money without paying taxes. Did they pay taxes in the territories that they claim…