I love my 09 ranger, one of the last years before they scrapped it and went with the Goliath model.
Honestly don't see the appeal to the huge trucks unless they're for work, but it's not surprising that automakers in North America don't really care to offer what consumers actually want to drive.
For what it's worth, a government can absolutely subsidized an industry in an attempt to capture a foreign market.
There's a reason Japan and Korea have their own auto industries despite being next door to the largest manufacturing nation on earth, and it isn't because they're somehow making and distributing them for even less than China.
That being said, several automakers have blindfolded themselves about the type of cars people want. I do hope this threat is significant enough that automakers actually shift to mini-electric transportation options.
If not, I'd be happy enough buying a small Chinese electric even if the taxes made it equivalent to a larger "western" vehicle. Because it's what I want to have available to me and it's nice to fuck capitalists with capitalism.
Lewis Black's comedy always has a special place in my heart
People saw it, but if you remember Taxis before Uber it wasn't exactly great either.
No-shows, demanding flat rates double what the meter would charge/refusing service, various forms of harassment, etc.
Turns out when there is very little competition, businesses treat their customers like shit.
Uber definitely does some things better than traditional taxis. Things like work flexibility are great, but workers still need better protections and pay (aka, a union).
Paying workers more is inflationary, but raising the cost of goods because you control the supply chain is "business"
Basically, raising product costs to cover increased labour costs are bad because actual workers are getting that money instead of the wealthy capital class.
I wish people understood boycotting more. Sure 6 companies own everything, but remember when the cost of a barrel of oil went significantly negative because people weren't driving for 2 weeks?
If people collectively decided they didn't want to buy anything but the absolute necessary staples for a few months there would be an absolute catastrophe in the supply chain and they'd be forced to lower prices significantly.
They may not lower prices forever, but modern business is built entirely on supply chain logistics. If people stop buying anything, or buy things exclusively to return them we would see some serious changes
Don't most political parties across the world use some form of ranked choice for internal elections within their parties?
Makes sense that they'd want the best consensus amongst themselves, but not for us, the people they "represent"
$8.6 million Seems like a paltry amount for buying politicians in several governments when you consider the amount of money wealthy people have.
I am not sure what point you are trying to make, or how it relates to my comment/the article?
Even if we're talking about someone who simply lacks basic or any morals, that would make them even more susceptible to Greed.
Especially when using a system specifically designed to provide them with vulnerable people who are mostly hidden from public and given less wages and rights, don't know local laws, and are incredibly desperate.
What a convenient coincidence, heartless Greed finds itself flush with unlimited desperate workers. Again.
Indifference is just a tool they use - the root cause is Greed.
They hate immigrants, but love slave labour. Then use immigrants "taking jobs" (what the farm owners actually want, because slaves are very profitable and locals would never do that work at that wage) to rile up the population to vote for Conservative governments, who often don't change the influx of immigrants but who does love to lower taxes and turn a blind eye to labour abuses.
Samurai champloo is a classic and contributed a ton to anime style, but maybe doesn't hit as hard with plot as more recent creations. Fun and campy meets dark and gritty
Inuyasha is another classic feudal Japan and magic environment
May as well mention Afro Samurai if I'm gonna have a string of feudal Japan anime
Most people look like they mentioned Cowboy bebop already
I'm a huge Neon Genesis Evangelion fan, but originally watched it in the early 2000's as a teenager with divorced parents so there's probably a big nostalgia factor
I absolutely loved cyberpunk edgerunners, but it's only 10 episodes (watched this probably 5x already)
The animated witcher movie + Castlevania (not nocturne though) were really good.
Arcane + DOTA I found to be really enjoyable as well.
Have you seen the state of reality recently?
"how things work" is, and always has been a suggestion. It used to be enforced, and recently enforcement has been entirely up to the opinions and personal beliefs of the enforcers. If there ever is an issue with this selective enforcement, there is unlimited wealth shielding selective enforcers from consequences.
Trump personally may not be technically able to do anything as president elect for Ukraine support, but multiple cogs in government may suspiciously stop working preventing anything from getting done.
Democrats believe in "how things are done" vs Republicans who believe "who is going to stop us when we're in power"
If you think you're going to stop a Republican from doing what they want by pointing to pieces of paper, you haven't been paying attention to the last decade.
In this war the Israelis/IDF are the Nazis in control of Palestine from the outside, and Hamas are the Nazis in control inside Palestine. Palestinians are victims (not necessarily entirely innocent), but also not really given another option either. Palestinians are largely controlled by Hamas and everything is controlled by Israel, and both see Palestinians as pawns and human shields/targets.
For the sake of discussion, I'll ignore the fact that even if the Palestinian neighbours knew about the hostages and went to the IDF, they'd probably be tortured/killed just in case. So choosing not to alert the IDF isn't necessarily support for Hamas, and could very well be an aversion to the IDF bombing and executing the shit out of your neighbours.
The best way to survive is being invisible, and I wouldn't blame someone for wanting to be invisible when the city they live in is a cage/prison that is being bombed to hell and both armies are very happy to kill Palestinians.
My dystopian expectation is we'll probably settle on all plastic should be white so it can reflect light back into space, replacing albedo effect we got from all the snow we used to have
Don't worry if you're Canadian - wages don't go up here unless you're in a good good union, or crack upper management.
There may be a few industries where job hopping is worthwhile, but there's a kilometers thick crust of nepotism to crack if you don't have connections
This is my first time seeing them in meme format, and I'm happy it's for LOTR
Fun fact, in South Africa they are often referred to as a Dassie
Sure, it's just "good worker raises" that no other worker gets must be super difficult for the law to determine what is normal employment and business, and what is a bribe.
Would be nice if they could force the trump org to justify why only these few, specific people are getting huge raises or sweetheart deals/bonuses.
Chances are they have similar education and competence/accomplishments as non-bribed employees. Since everyone is working at similar levels they all should get double salaries and multi-million dollar severence, or have their families get high paying jobs simply for being related.
If he didn't bring enough bribes for everyone, than nobody gets any!
I've always said something along the lines of
"Hopefully here, as I'd prefer to work hard for a company that values me, instead of moving around constantly."
Doesn't have to be true, but companies love it when you come across as someone who will "stick it out" and seem uninterested in job hopping.
Note, if that's why they hire you, absolutely keep looking for better compensation because they'll never hand it over.
Embellish the fuck out of your resume with your current roles, and apply for jobs a level (or two depending on experience/abilities) above your current experience.
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