Going pretty hard against the in-laws today, aren’t we Jimmy?
Speaking of cultural salad bowls, you’re a Roman Catholic omnivore, and your wife is a Hindu vegetarian.
There has got to be a joke in here about midwestern jello salad but I can’t figure it out.
ETA: I looked up his Wikipedia to confirm my suspicions about the vegetarian wife and wow, people aren’t using an altered meme photo, that’s his actual official portrait?!!
I think you can just as easily flip that on its head.
USA consistently weaponizes its companies through sanctions. If a country wants to be part of the global economy you need to do business with USA banks (eg SWIFT) and tech, and if your country is sanctioned, it cannot. Speaking of tech, the tech companies actively participates in wiretapping and that’s really old news - who knows what they’re doing today.
China is typically careful about throwing its weight around because of its high dependency on exports and limited deployment capability of its army.
In terms of a shooting war with the USA, China has a strategic advantage in being able to shut down Canadian transportation remotely, agreed.
I think recent events have shown, however, that there’s no guarantee that the USA would automatically be on the side of Canada. I’m thinking more it’s more along the lines of how Germany and Austria were “on the same side” in WWII ie Annexation.
How is China different than another belligerent nation, such as the one directly to the south of Canada? Thousands of vehicles with OnStar, Teslas, etc.? Ring? I mean the list goes on.
Canada has an auto industry? More like outsourced manufacturing. There’s no Canadian automaker (pace Edison) and the western automakers are retreating on the EV front (and thus far have targeted middle-high end range and also used Chinese components in many cases) so they’re less supporting the industry and more bailing out companies that aren’t innovating.
Why Canada would follow the USA in this tariff with the current trade war I can’t understand.
When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure; the more a quantitative indicator is used for decision-making, the more it corrupts the process it is intended to monitor.
It also imposes fines of up to $500,000 per day on doctors who take “concerted action” to challenge the government’s policies.
So, collective bargaining is out then.
But schools should be teaching critical thinking and reasoning, empathy, and expose children to different cultures.
You know, woke stuff.
When kids aren’t taught how to think critically, there’s a greater chance they’ll be caught up in the fallacies of the populist conservative movement.
That’s true, and but the part
they just don’t often get held accountable bcs it’s never to, for, or by the public (and pubic values, common morals, etc).
Is the “special” part of it. If they were held accountable by their peers, their peers might also be held accountable. Class solidarity in action.
Well, yes, except not for executives because they’re special. And they have golden parachutes.
But wow if I was to take over some of the VP roles I’ve seen with the risk they accept, there would be years of work just patching shit.
Well that’s the exact reason these people are so horny for AI.
the VP accepted the risk
Ok, and you fired him, and the replacement… did they accept all the risk too?
At the time the computers were kinda newfangled and they tolerated some hippies over there in research.
The business part, well, yeah.
It’s a good thing that there’s no illegally imported guns in Canada, otherwise this might just punish legal gun owners.
This supports my practice of waiting until the plant is wilted and dropping leaves, right?
I don’t think that’s a heat shield; all it would be shielding is the ground from the engine. It’s right under the oil pan.
The metal probably is sharper too, and harder. It’s an opportunity to tell the customer that something broke and they should come back tomorrow and get it fixed for 1/4 hr labour, or it may fall off in the near future.
The tech cut corners and the chain may suck, but I object to the way the article presents the issue. It’s not like they zip tied brakes on.
TFA really overstates the importance of the part in question. The part is typically is plastic, and serves primarily an aerodynamic function, improving fuel mileage, with a secondary function protecting the engine bay and limiting ingress of dust and debris. It’s really not a critical part and typically replacing every bolt with a zip tie of sufficient size (that is important) would be enough to hold it in place. It is indeed quite common for the bolts to be replaced with zip ties; often the bolts are weird shapes and sizes and threading. In fact, several cars I’ve worked on have used plastic screws which wouldn’t have significantly greater strength than a zip tie.
But in this car it’s metal, which makes me wonder if it’s a semi-structural component and therefore the zip ties wouldn’t hold, though this is again a pretty uncommon configuration outside of convertibles (which need reinforcement as they lose the roof structure). The photo in TFA shows some very thin sheet metal, and I don’t think that it is structural in any way.
In any case, if a shield falls off your car and it makes you drive into a ditch, particularly after you’re made aware there is a problem, I’m not sure you’re really prepared to safely operate a 1500kg wheeled vehicle at 100kph.
Some big (expensive) names in there called out.
Now I really am curious about the bulk companies like myprotein.
Also, a lot more in plant based. Is soy a heavy metals sink? Rice is, and cocoa.
I’m gonna guess:
she’s not part of the establishment
she tells it like it is
And other such rot
It’s not a zero sum game but American politicians and healthcare companies want you to believe that.