Yep, that sector has completely ruined everything for those of us who actually need to *work* the dang vehicle, a work truck and not a giant plastic penis. Myself and many co-workers are independent heavy mechanics. I can only afford *one* vehicle, and it has to be able to do everything. In America, most mechanics supply their own tools, even the dealership guys. And in my case that includes a welder and air compressor. On the back of the truck. EV's are a long, long way from being ready for that market. And Joe Blow Tinypenis has spent the last 20 years wrecking the pickup truck market for those of us who actually *work* the damn things.

It's a good thing DeSantis doesn't represent the military, because he is not currently in it, nor was it ever his mission to represent them. Legally, the military is represented by the Joint Chiefs, and the President.

If the CxO's determine the direction of a company, and a company can have no direction or purpose without the executives, then why are the companies held accountable instead of the executives? Corporate veil popping.

Suggested alternative: A mixed environment. How about democratic socialism, such as practised by the Dutch and Germans? How about a strong social safety net and labor/industry protections, in order to cut crime? The only flaw that I've found in modern "conservative" American thinking is that their idea has been tried, and failed, multiple times in the last couple hundred years. And it was not because they didn't try hard enough, or they weren't pure enough, or because of interference. It fails because "the market" is not sufficient to cause equitable outcomes, let alone anything resembling morally or socially desirable for long-term stability and health.

It would be great if we didn't need big government. But we do need it, because of big business. If you wanted everyone to be able to care for themselves and society without a big government, then you would need to find a way to triple everyone's pay without increasing prices. Good luck with that.

Forged aluminum rods are common in lawn mowers. Nowhere else in north america, outside of racing and perhaps motorcycles. Source: me. I've been welding and turning wrenches for a living for the last 30 years.

BTW with the possible exception of some heavy-duty trucks (not pickups) over 10,000 lbs, there is *zero* vehicles designed for long-term reliability available today for the individual consumer. Vehicles today are designed to separate you from your money, on an almost-subscription basis.

Pretty sure the crazies are everywhere. About 25 yrs ago we had some numbnuts came up from Tennesee, said he was gonna go over Niagara Falls in a kayak. Everyone told him not to. They still haven't found the body, or anything else for that matter. (I'm about 5 miles from there, and have a healthy respect for it... grew up fishing there.)

What's really frustrating is when political partisans try to claim some kind of moral superiority. When in fact they've been for sale since decades. But of course blatant hypocrisy is totally OK when *we* do it....

Does it matter which one is which? When the strongest one will get their way, and that's it.

IMHO Salt Lake is far more sane than this thing. They were motivated by bare survival back then, having been hunted down near to death and persecuted everywhere. Early church leadership was very much into the "Age of Enlightenment" and continual self-improvement type of thinking. The entire rationale was completely different from what these guys are doing. The early settlers did it with their bare hands and backbreaking labor, no billionaires involved. Salt Lake eventually became "The Crossroads of the West"; what will this become?

the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (aka the Mormons). They own a few corporations in order to do business. Roughly around 1860 to 1880, and currently booming with all the people moving in from California (and bringing all their problems with them...)

Salt Lake City. Last I saw they seem to be doing pretty ok.

Given the current state of affairs, I would argue the opposite: we're not very good in large numbers either. I mean, there's been a couple world wars, countless smaller ones, mass pollution, starvation, etc etc etc despite all kinds of wealth, advanced communications, etc.

Remember when some guy got UNIX running on a gameboy? slashdot article: https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...

Aah ya beat me to it. Glad to see it's still funny, though!

I would like to point out that Salt Lake City was planned, very much so. Hardly a failure.