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  1. Kinda helps when you build 5-10x the supply.
  2. You didn't answer the second question. A politician (whose job is to boost US businesses) promoting a specific domestic company's stock is bad. But a politician who actively cheered against a specific domestic company's stock is...what?
  3. I agree, politicians should be more promoting entire domestic sectors and industries than cherry picking single companies. But since you guys brought up the cherry-picking (I never posted on it before), what's your stance when the last administration did it? And since a govt representative advocating a single stock run such afoul of your morals, what's your stance when one antagonized that single stock just last week?
  4. Ah yes, if only your party had more billionaire support, it could have won. I think maybe you need to stick to the topic, instead of sticking to me. This is the statement from the Department of Commerce Why were you unmoved when POTUS flaunted a Dutch car in front of the white house, but aggrieved when the Sec of Commerce promotes a domestic company?
  5. Are you confused perhaps by the offices of a regulator like the SEC or an economy stabilizer like the Fed, with implicit neutrality, versus that of the the *Commerce* office, whose job is as an advocator? When the Biden administration invited manufacturers to bring electric vehicles to the WH lawn for the signing of his executive order mandating EV sales, but specifically excluded Tesla, was that “choosing winners and losers”? When he credited the GM CEO with “you electrified the entire automotive industry; im serious”, for having sold 1 electrified car to Tesla’s 100, what would you call that? An anointment, or a gaffe, or both?
  6. Nice little rally since i was on a minication. Correlation is not causation but maybe i should go on more minications
  7. The Jeep is majority European-owned, btw.
  8. 100%. I still love driving my own car around and going to smaller cities or the country side. Just the hyper cities are not good for dragging a kid too big for stroller, too small to walk everywhere We were meeting my family, who visited for the first time. They started in Milan and said the more south they went the more hectic it got 😆
  9. So uh this Rome trip was a debbie downer. Official Roma taxi from the airport ripped us off with meter fare instead of flat fare within the Aurelian walls. (We pointed to the literal walls at our stop). Official taxis hailed in the city using their official Uber clone app overbilled us after the rides. All the drivers were intrusively chatty. We took the train back to airport to avoid traffic and all this taxi distaste and the train had a billion people on it. The bus in the city was a joke. Schedules meant nothing. Literal hour go by for stops that were meant to be every 15 minutes. (We spotted from our apartment balcony). I shouldve known that from walking along a narrow street, seeing a line of 50 backed up and honking cars, to discover the head of the line was a stopped/broken bus. The one time we did ride a bus, it drove literally off-route. Bonci didn’t taste half as good as I remember. Went to some nonna-owned trattoria raved about on Eater and Timeout and etc and it was meh. Rest of the eating was just okay. (tbh ive always had that opinion) There was a trillion people at Trevi fountain and all other attractions, despite not officially being Spring season yet. Its not too family friendly as there werent many parks or greenery for my kid to play in, and the ones we found were like nasty. Im just too spoiled by sleepy northern europe that I find much of this city chaotic and filthy. I still marvel at all the great ancient architecture everywhere but its tragic to juxtapose what that was to where the modern Italian state is today.
  10. Yall need these knipex pliers in your lives
  11. 52-80

    Sonos thread

    Turntable just needs to hook up to any compatible sonos device, ie speaker with aux or port/amp. Once its there it can rebroadcast across sonos net. mines connected to Five with signal autodetect but its sorta janky and autoplays half the time. getting slightly fed up with sonos voice features as it randomly plays shit or has false triggers. turned that off.
  12. Today this hit home today like a predator drone. Plan: stay in hotel near airport tonight. take 6am flight tomorrow morning. meeting my family whose already established at the vacation house. short weekend trip, sunny destination (ie minimal packing required). because i already do 95% of vacation planning and booking, and we’re flying from *her* family’s place, she agreed to take care of the hotel for tonight. this whole week, i “gently” remind her we need a hotel. “okay yeah ill look at it”. this whole week, she continues to work from home on-and-off into the evening. (its mostly voluntary, because she wants to show off). tonight, 13 hours from departure, she runs over exasperated. “i havent packed anything. i dont know if we can bring kiddos medicines [uh yes we can]. i didnt buy ziplock bags or portable containers for my liquids [uh, we can buy another $3 bottle of shampoo at destination, if its not already at the airbnb]. i havent even thought of what to pack. …and…uh…did you book that hotel yet?” i tried not to answer.
  13. Today i watched a korean guy speak english in an italian style
  14. 3. Unrelated but were acquired around the same time at similar ages. I think they had some Star Wars Queen Padma type of bond amongst themselves so after the first one died, the others got sad and dragged down soon after.
  15. Wife had 3 of her Beagles from youth put down in the same year. Degenerative cancer stuff. Devastating stuff
  16. i would kill.
  17. i got just the thing fam
  18. Not necessary newly-invented zoomer names, but they all have names of low class stereotypes. Wayne in UK. Ronny is really really crass in Norway. Kevin in Germany and neighboring countries too, derived from tacky people trying to Americanize their kids.
  19. does this change the facts i've discussed or do your facts require personal motive?
  20. 52-80

    1923

    I've dealt with Newark customs and immigrations plenty of time and never got the full service treatment.
  21. The validity of the argument wasn't tested because the product, vision based FSD, wasn't tested. The video creator admitted that yesterday. When his video was challenged with suspicion, he posted a "raw footage" in response. That footage turned out to be from a different event. He admitted the video was staged across multiple weeks. That's all straight from the source, independent of what you think of your friends in your group chat.
  22. CO2, otherwise known as New Carbon Monoxide
  23. WebMD says sometimes it happens to men even younger than 48
  24. Someone could make a video about that AP... but your description in the thread and the videos title doesnt match its content.
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