The average American car payment right now is like $670 per month. Its truly absurd. Its no surprise that people are drowning when you look at what theyre paying to have this or that.
Even more shocking is the amount of people buying their next car while still underwater on the first one. A large number of people are rolling $10k of prior vehicle debt into the purchase of a vehicle, driving up their monthly even further
Theres an argument to be made that we also dominated by creating manufacturing standards before there were international standards, so by the time the world was establishing international standards we were able to push for our standards to become ISO standards. Like screw threads being 45°, that kind of thing.
But the world standards especially became our standards because we were the cheap production hub as you said, and because we were farther removed from conflict during WWII. Another aspect is that we had established a ton of military bases to move things around the world, which was a huge benefit as well. But overall, we certainly used to occupy that same spot that China occupies today
That ship sailed when the US locked China out of being a customer for our chipsets and other advanced technology. We could have held that over them and made money selling to them, but instead we forced them to bolster their own technological development. And now they beat us in most every aspect of new technology time and again. We just pretend that they dont by not letting Americans be consumers of their products.
Cheap and decent quality electric vehicles? They beat us. Advances in manufacturing? They beat us. Developments in nuclear fusion? Theyre beating us. We may still have an edge in AI, but that is only because of our edge in developing data harvesting search & social media spheres. Eventually, if not quite soon, they will whoop us on that too: since we have separate sources of data harvesting. And while they can buy all the data they want from American companies, the opposite is rarely true
And realistically, the rising tide is lifting a bunch of other boats but ours. People in other countries are happy to buy BYD cars and use Huawei cellphone technology. It makes perfect sense considering that manufacturing is hardly a relevant industry in most countries anymore, the US included. Less than 10% of American jobs are manufacturing jobs. We arent going to be catching up anytime soon, nor anytime at all. But half of American voters are obsessed with trying to revive a dead era of manufacturing despite it making no economic sense. So all we have are overpriced domestic productions, few real manufacturing jobs, and a cratering economy.
Trying to compete with the people we crowned as the world’s manufacturing power is quite plainly a losing affair
It sounds like it would be an analogue issue that is already similarly solved in other respects.
For example, its not only illegal for someone to make and sell known illegal drugs, but its additionally illegal to make or sell anything that is not the specifically illegal drug but is analogous to it in terms of effect (and especially facets of chemical structure)
So any process that produces an end result analogous to copyright infringement would be viewed as copyright infringement, even if it skirts the existing laws on a technical basis, is probably what the prevailing approach will be
I never said he is a bad governor or even a bad politician. I said it is antithetical for anyone who is legitimate progressive to run with him. The Prtizkers at large are the type of people who are democrats in the interest of protecting their money. Typical establishment democrats who will make limited concessions in whatever way is needed to prevent any radical change from occurring. No DemSoc or Progressive candidates or voters should be foolish enough to let the fox be in charge of the henhouse
Being better than nutjob conservative billionaires doesnt make someone a good fit to run with progressive candidates
The Pritzkers are literally the billionaire family of the Hyatt hotel chain fortune. They are, if anything, one part of the problem with the democratic establishment. If you want there to be zero change in society when it comes to taxing the wealthy to create social safety nets, JB is your guy.
Realistically there is zero chance that an actual progressive and a Pritzker could ever function on one ticket. Thats like Bernie running with Bezos, it makes no sense
I could care less about the immediate “no” answer to the clickbait headline, but the real question posited by the article is “when is it going to stop, since it is clear that this is all hype and nothing more?”
How does one short this clearly impending financial disaster? Assuming that realistically it cannot go on forever, and that when it crashes it doesnt take the entire world economy with it. Although that is surely possible as well, in which case shorting anything would be a waste of time. But seriously, I dont see how more and more on wall street arent taking aim at the biggest hype bubble the world has ever seen
Also, secondly, why the fuck is Ted Cruz on stage in this photo?
In most push to start modern cars, it isnt really one central computer like how cars used to be. You still have an ECU, like the computer that is relevant to the drivetrain. But then you also have one or two others separate units that have to have authority over the ECU by nature because of other things they do. Like if the unit that communicates with your key to say “its okay to allow you to use the car” doesnt have authority over operating your powertrain, then it would be much easier to steal your car (i.e. kia and hyundai from a certain period of time). In many cars it also monitors engine performance and can make live adjustments to the operation of the engine, prevent some catastrophic failures, etc.
So having some smarter computer aspect of your car rule your powertrain is a pretty good security and operational thing, even if it leads to the potential for inconveniences. Like if your electric key dies you could lose the ability to start your car, which would never happen with a physical key
That said, I think all updates for cars should be done at dealerships, and not be an over the internet type of thing
Point a of interest here is that even the majority of Republican voters agree with the democrats on restoring the medical subsidies, and blame republican congresscritters for the shutdown
Point b of interest is that I dont think even republican voters are stupid enough to believe that the GOP would negotiate about medical subsidies if the democrats caved and reopened the government. This whole line of “lets reopen first and talk later” is perhaps the most blatantly obvious bullshit anyone has ever heard of
They were just taking time off from being unpaid, but yeah, lets push them to quit permanently! Itll only take 2-3 years to replace every single one of them that quits. Who cares if planes crash and people die in the meantime? Im sure there will be plenty of people clamoring to become ATCs seeing how this plays out
If any CEOs would do it, it makes sense it would be tech CEOs. Big tech is just as useful in a democracy as it would be to a totalitarian dictatorship, if not even more so. Thats a big difference from things like independent media companies, or major corporations that produce much of anything that isnt beneficial to a totalitarian state. Tech companies have the means to help a dictator control their citizens lives and spy on them, while a big food producer or car manufacturer or whatever does not
Theyre probably forgetting the part of roman history where, after making their version of a legislature a rubber stamp, being a roman emperor became the most hazardous occupation possible. On average, if you managed to stay in the role without getting assassinated by your successor for a year then that was considered a pretty good run
There are literally millions of people that would most likely die if they went without care for “a few months”
Not to mention, what is a few months? Its been nearly a week and these people cant even restart the government. A few months of further negotiation would probably be 24 months or some shit
That is a parole board as in the board of a prison that grants or denies parole to people currently in prison.
This parole commission sounds like it isnt a parole board whatsoever, theyre just using the term improperly. This is a body that supervises parolees after they have been granted parole by a parole board
Trying to make pedo shit out to be an artifact of the patriarchy certainly requires ignoring the fact that there are a ton of women that are pedos. Even in an entirely gender-equitable society there would still be creeps of all genders. Its just a sad fact of life that there are a lot of creeps, and those creeps seek positions of authority in order to enact their creepy shit. Patriarchy has nothing to do with it
Theyll certainly overlap the two things. Ice agents literally repelled from helicopters to raid an apartment building in Chicago recently, allegedly because of Tren De Aragua members being there. Next theyll say they need to declare martial law and sweep the cities
The real question is why the fuck anyone would go hunting for squirrels with a large enough caliber weapon that it could kill a person.
You can drop a squirrel with a pellet air rifle im sure. Anything larger than that and youre not hunting a squirrel, youre just blowing it away.
Hunting squirrels is stupid enough on its own without doing it solely for the sake of shooting something thats alive. Thats not conservation, its blood sport
Reality has jumped the shark