but the observed pattern does 100% apply to other things.

Sure, if you retroactively go back and look for patterns where it matches something but that isn’t a very useful exercise.

I’d disagree on that considering these people trend toward obedience in everything like police/laws, Christianity, “traditional values,” party politics, etc, etc.

I think it’s more a superiority complex where instead of being boring nobodies, they’re actually insiders with special knowledge that the rest of the masses don’t have. Additionally, right wing propaganda gives them scapegoats to blame for all their life problems (financial, social, personal). Add these two together and you have the modern republican base.

I don’t think it’s really on Ford to remove those barriers as that isn’t even a market (compacts, sub-compacts) they were in with ICE cars either. Ford and GM have both given up on trying to compete in the small car market as all the Asian brands have dominated it for decades with European brands right behind them. Both focus their efforts on their money-makers, which are trucks and SUVs.

Those trade barriers against Chinese EVs are there to protect the entire industry in the US, including all the other foreign brands, and the hundreds of thousands of jobs that come with it. China’s subsidies are completely unsustainable and are only there to give an unfair advantage as no automaker in the world has pockets as deep as the Chinese government. I wouldn’t mind seeing them here if they actually sold them at cost.

The poster said they’re in canada, but after traveling to different regions of the US, I’ve noticed that certain brands are more popular than others depending on where you are. On the west coast, it’s all Tesla, Asian brands, BMW/Merc, and GM/Ford fullsize trucks and SUVs. In the midwest, everyone drives GM, Ford, and Stellantis vehicles almost exclusively. Here in Oregon I’ve only ever seen a handful of the Blazers and none of the EV versionn nor have I seen many Equinox both ICE or EV.

GM bet the hardest on EVs of any US manufacturer by far

Except Tesla and apart from them, the only remaining US manufacturer is Ford.

There aren’t. Mercedes system only works in two states on freeways during the daytime on sunny days at speeds below 40MPH with clearly marked lines and no construction. There are so many qualifiers that it’s basically useless outside of the attention grabbing headlines.

You talking about Oregon? The state legislature torpedoed the whole thing from the start and set it up for failure and as a lifelong resident, haven’t noticed any uptick in the homelessness or drug issue since 2021 when the law was implemented. We had these problems of ‘visible’ homeless and drug use leading all the way back to the '08 recession and prior to that had meth cooks scattered all over in the boonies and everyone under 30 popping opioid pills in one form or another.

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It’s not just Ohio. I’m on the west coast and the outage is happening here too.

I bet your friends on Facebook love when you make posts like this.

He did this with Biden too.

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This is such a farce that I hear about all the time in the true crime podcasts I listen to. Prosecutors find themselves with a case that has no direct evidence pointing to their guy and 9 times out of 10 they pull a jailhouse informant out of the woodwork at the 11th hour claiming that their guy confessed (to a complete stranger) every little detail of their crime.

Meanwhile whenever someone who may have any sort of criminal record comes on the stand to defend the defendent, prosecutors claim they can’t possibly be trustworthy because they have a record.

It’s a clear “heads I win, tails you lose” situation in the courtroom most of the time.

Which can be a failure in itself when you spend 10 years and tens of billions building something “perfectly” only for it to break on its maiden voyage. That makes you wonder what was the point of doing everything so methodically when they could have taken a more efficient and iterative approach.

You’re the person who corrects people to say “datum” and “the data are …” aren’t you?

Potato potato

What if he and his identical twin stole two identical cars at the same time?

What if it executes and install Windows 11 on your machine!?

Third-party ECUs are already wildly popular items (Holley Sniper and Terminator along with less popular third-party products).

Also, your car being an automatic isn’t the difficult part of the conversion, having to fabricate the parts to adapt the drivetrain and battery are.