You're being trolled anf just. can't. stop. responding. "You people" and "people like you:" "everyone".....surely those are the wrong ones. Not me, the person who has to "other" people I do'nt know because they made me feel sad by telling me the ideas I have that "everyone" else says are stupid are stupid. You are a waste of time. Enjooy your shaking impotent rage fit.

Our movie theatre serves dinner and drinks. It is one of the best night out options, much better than the dancing the Wife always wants. Watching a movie is still better on the big screen and our home "theatre" comes with kids...

Keep digging that hole, cultist.

I see you can't help but view your version of what you think the truth should be through your ideology. Good job cultist.

You seem to be struggling intellectually instead. Executive function disorder?

They wouldn't have needed to renegotiate because they would have had equity if the lending standards weren't so lax. Remeber: the securitization turned into it's own business that required more inputs (mortgages) so the lending stnadards were reduced. If the lending standard weren't reduced the houses would have mostly been worth more than what was owed on them or these low/no down payment products wouldn't have gone to people to who were "judgement proof".

This is another post from someone who doesn't know what's happening in China.

They are in the midst of an accounting scandal and financal fraud by EV manufacturers that are overproducing and claiming "sales" of vehicles that are not sold, but merely delivered to dealers who then sell these new cars as "used". If you're paying attention you've seen these tactics before.

Stop laundering your feelings and ideology as facts when they clearly aren't.

They are absolutely dumping cars. Try reading more news from China before commenting on what they are or are not doing (hint: it's heading towards and accounting scandal where EV manufacturers are climing "sales" as they ship undols cars to dealerships which are then being sold as "used" with 0 miles on them - this is typical Chinese corruption that we've all seen before). The rest of your post is completely irrelevant to the story at hand.

Yes, they're trying to raise more money and needed a press release.

Longer than most think.

You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter, don't you call me, 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store

-Sixteen Tons, Tennessee Ernie Ford

"Harvard is a hedge fund with classrooms" - Scott Galloway

Where is this happening? Because I'm not aware of any place - cretainly not the US - that isn't heavily intervening in supposed "free markets" in very protectionist and lately even socilist (own/control the means of ptoduction) kind of ways and artifically picking winners and losers.

It's not just in Britain. All across the West, there's a shortage of native-born doctors. The expense and hassle of getting an MD is bad enough. Then you also have the modern stresses of being an MD (which in America, includes a highly litigious culture where doctors have to get maddeningly expensive malpractice insurance). The workload is huge, and the money is only good for the hyper-specialists now. The home-grown family doctor is an endangered species in the US, and we're addressing it in two ways: handing doctor duties to those lower on the chain, and importing doctors from the third world. Every single new doctor at my not-large Southern US hospital in the past three years has come from 3 places: India, Pakistan, or East Africa. This of course, robs those areas of badly needed doctors. And it doesn't really matter if your system is private or nationalized. Look at the ranks of doctors that staff your local services. You'll see similarities everywhere in the West: there's fewer of them, and they tend to come from overseas.

The best schools always included a mix of techniques in teaching. You had "drill 'till it kills" in math, THEN you had logic and reasoning exercises. You had memorization of names and dates, THEN you had deep discussions of historical events. A good education includes both rote and discussion, and always has.

Oh FFS. There are lots of knowledge that isn't "practical" yet is valuable to our culture. You people piss and moan about children not being properly educated, but when someone suggests that things like cursive writing and other finer points of civilization should continue to be taught, you scoff with bullshit like this.

My mother's generation had mandatory classes in Latin during high school in the early 1960's. As a culture, we're the poorer for having dropped those kinds of requirements. There's a reason the finer schools still require them. I'm all for more of a focus on the practical for kids... more shop classes, more practical math (loans and interest, basic accounting, etc), but to suggest that we should chuck all of the finer points of culture into the trash because it's "trying to get back to a past that time forgot" is complete and utter horseshit.