I was sitting in a diversity training class at Ford in the late 1990’s when the presenters aired this same statement. Our manager, who was a Brit on loan from Jaguar, offered the following statement:

“So you’re saying that if I was looking for the best and most popular four door family sedan, I should look at a picture of the design teams from the Big Three, and the one that was most diverse would be the number one car?”

He was told that was correct.

He then said that it was a bit of a trick question, since the best selling sedan in America was the Toyota Camry, and the design team for that car was the least diverse group you could possibly imagine, consisting of Japanese males between 30 and 60.

After a long silence, the presenters finished their PowerPoint and left.

In the USA there's usually frozen slushee coffee but not fresh coffee at the in house eatery.

Hasn't the bay area had a lot of population loss in the past few years?

https://www.kron4.com/news/bay...

San Fran alone lost 8.6%.

Someone doesn't get the movie reference...

DC arguably has the best mass transit on the east coast outside of NYC, yet ridership is down.

Why? Well asides from telecommuting being much more prevelant, mass transit has gotten quite expensive, due to corruption, they started charging more for parking, due to lack of ridership, service got signifigantly cut back, and due to safety incidents people are scared of insufficent maintenance. People would prefer to drive in their own cars than ride on the train.

I wish I could vote you up.

Sounds like you support the blasphemy laws already on the books.

Why do you consider it a giveaway?

The ACA mandates how much they are allowed to retain for profits and salaries. Depending on the size of the company, they are mandated to pay out at least between 80-85% of the premiums. This actually created a disincentive to cut costs because.... they don't get to keep the savings!

The insurance industry makes their money off float, that is the investment income they gain from holding the money short term until it is paid out.

I'd disagree, but I'm a former VW diesel owner. They gave me too good of an offer so I sold the car despite reguarly getting 10MPG more than what the car was rated for. US restrictions on NOx are quite high compared to europe.

VW also builds charging infrastructure, their subsidairy Electrify America is building 36,000 stations as part of their settlement over dieselgate.

Your remembrance brought me to tears.

I am sorry for your loss.

That is rather amusing because you can't see beyond the fishbowl. Nearly everyone in the US today believes in liberal democratic thinking.

James Burnham devised a test to distinguish liberal-progressives from conservative-reactionaries in 1965. You will find that conservatives today agree 100% with the liberal point of view on 39 of these questions. That is how successful the left has been in reshaping the values of US citizens. This wasn't true just a few generations ago.

https://www.gotoquiz.com/james...

Historically speaking, the political left advocated for equality. The right preferred monarchy, with a hierarchical relationship between people and classes and supported blasphemy laws.

K-12 and colleges teach the values of the age of enlightenment and the scientific revolution for the 17th-18th centuries. The same liberal values I am referring too of reason, equality, tolerance, skepticism, liberty, and progress. Thinkers like Locke, Hobbes, Rosseau are covered in education at the high school level as part of understanding how our founding documents.

Today children are taught that everyone is equal, that there are no "natural betters" (i.e nobility, the monarchy), and that this also applies to social class, as skin tone, sex, gender, and sexual preference. Today most conservatives would agree and will happily call the small minority who disagrees racist, bigoted and sexist. Most religous figures also teach the same, whereas they did not do so in the past. Hence, in the educational system, biological and genetic differences polite discourse and research are essentially taboo. They would also agree that segregation was wrong. Conservatives widely praise Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King and his vision.

Today, despite most still being on the books, blasphemy laws are no longer enforced, which protected the power of religions. Most don't even understand the constitution allowed for the states of have established churches, religious restrictions on office and that states even had established churches until the 1840's, with the establishment cause's actual purpose to prevent conflict due to different established state churches. Most conservatives today would not support established churches, nor would they call for blasphemy laws to be enforced.

As strange as it sounds, left and right in the USA fundamentally agree on the basic premises because as it stands both conservatives and liberals are... liberal.

If you watch the Grand Tour in UHD HDR on Amazon Prime it looks like the showroom quality demos in part because of how they saturate their colours. Other programming not so much.

I've seen plenty of turbo bricks on the track.

Very rare for a more modern one though.

Current VR setups are awesome, if you are into simulators.

A force feedback setup, VR, and i-racing is phenominal. It feels pretty much the same as being on track and you can judge depth and speed far better than through a screen. It's similarly good for flight sims.

Of course few people are into simulators, so its a small market.