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Comment Offside (Score 1) 101

In almost every case the annoyance with VARD is because of really, really close offside decisions. Seems possible to fix. For example the entire body needs to be offside? Or, less extreme, ignore arms and legs that are offside i.e. only count the torso, or only the feet or the back foot only etc?

Comment Re:Right twice a day (Score 1) 409

Tesla owns 75% of EV market in the US which is going to be the one of the highest growing markets ever in the next few years. Tesla share could drop by half (it's still increasing) and they would still increase revenue.

Not to mention the massive lead in self driving and other software, the supercharger network. It also makes it's own batteries which is a competitive advantage. Huge brand recognition as THE electric car and status symbol at this point. Semi, pickup and roadster coming up soon. You are deluded it you think Tesla is likely to see a "disastrous quarter" in the next 5-10 years.

Comment Re:Leaving the civilized world (Score -1, Troll) 202

Calling NATO countries "the civilized world" is a step further in racist delusion to calling them "international community" as is usually the case in western propaganda. 5/6ths of the world by population do not have any sanctions against Russia and trade continues normally or increasing. I've no idea where you get the idea that Russia is "disrupting collaboration" with India, China etc, from everything I see they are trying to increase it, especially with BRICS countries and basically everyone else they can get, to work around the western sanctions.

Comment Re: Unaccustomed (Score 2) 281

Are there Texans poking fun? Also, you can turn the question around. Texas had a once in a lifetime cold spell of -17C (normally hardly ever goes below 0) and many US liberals and, I think, Europeans were blaming Republicans/capitalism/lack of regulation etc i.e. saying we should be more regulated, you know like those sensible Europeans. Meanwhile the moment temperature deviates from expected by 5 degrees Europeans literally start dropping dead like flies.

Comment Re:Statistics (Score 1) 281

Why focus on mass shootings when they are a miniscule portion of overall homicides?

US is about where you would expect in terms of homicides per capita at 5 per 100K, somewhere between Canada (2 per 100K) or Mexico/other Central and South American countries (30-40 per 100K - btw most of them have a near complete ban on private gun ownership) as it fits somewhere between those countries demographically and culturally.

Also, do you consider it interesting that places in the US with the highest rate of gun ownership (rural, small to medium cities) have a very low homicide rate, comparable to Europe, while big cities which mostly have stricter gun regulations and lower rate of ownership have MUCH higher homicide rate? Obviously there are other factors that are more relevant than just the number of guns.

Comment Re:I don't think Tesla's gonna be around (Score 1, Insightful) 214

What is a "big" car company? Tesla's market cap is higher than Toyota, VW, GM, Ford, Mercedes and BMW put together. That's the value that the market places on these companies but we are to believe you know better?

Overvalued? Perhaps, but so what? Tesla has 75% share of EV market in the US, which is expected to grow by about 6x in 5 years. Both world and US market share is actually increasing (+4% this year) despite so many new EV cars coming out. He built this company from nothing in less than 20 years because "he just figured out he could make a ton of money off a government carbon credit program".

Seriously, do you actually think that's how the world works?

Calling Elon hard right is equally insane. He is more left wing than Obama was in his first term. He literally supports universal basic income, carbon tax, estate tax, more direct democracy and supported Andrew Yang etc. More of a Tesla is made in the US than any other car and employees are paid more on average.

He opposes Twitter anti conservative bias and expressed mild annoyance at some of the more ridiculous woke bs and this makes him hard right. You leftists are breaking new ground in stupidity every day.

Comment Re: Medieval peasants (Score 1) 185

Lol at "moderate increases". People we now classify as loving "in poverty" have objectively safer, longer, cleaner, healthier, richer in information and entertainment, in almost every respect much better life than aristocracy even in 18th century and every king and tribal chief since the beginning of civilization.

Comment Re: Productivity is so subjective (Score 1) 185

> we now require two incomes in a household for even a basic middle-class lifestyle

Depends on where you live. For example, in most small-medium cities in the US a family can have a very nice middle class lifestyle on one semi-decent salary. On the other hand if you want to live in Manhattan you can live like a bum even with two incomes.

Comment Re:Sedition [Re:Insurrection] (Score 2, Informative) 215

From the article: "The attack resulted in the deaths of five people, including a police officer."

And they wonder why trust in media is so low when mainstream news constantly publish obvious lies like the above.

As for the charges, I would say every protest in the US has nutcases who want to abolish every institution of the state. At you average antifa riot you can find people who want to abolish police, military, institute anarchy or communism.

It is laughably stupid to believe that Jan 6 protests were an insurrection by any reasonable definition of the word. A bunch of idiots making a mess at the capitol building and taking selfies is not even 0.0001% of what it would take to take power by force in the US.

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