I don't know anything about the shooter and cannot make that conclusion. The MAGAs, on the other hand, were very quick to characterize the shooter.

I have a couple decades of experience in mass production supply chain. For something complex like an automobile, you could have 4 or 5 "tiers" of suppliers. Tier 1 suppliers are those who deliver directly to the production line, usually in sub assemblies. Tier 2s deliver to the Tier 1, and so on.

The lower in tier, often the more competitive the market can be because you're only supplying pretty basic components with no assembly. Increasing cost to increase profit margin could be the difference in winning a big contract or not. The companies bid on contracts that last maybe 3-5 years and are out in the future a couple of years. They operate on a very slim profit margin but are still making money.

You take that concept and add a bit more complexity for each tier it moves up until you get to the tier 1 where labor happens to be a big part of overall cost due to the sub assemblies they are putting together. If you're not producing anything, you're not selling anything. These companies are not sitting on a huge cash reserve.

Every slight change to the cost structure simply makes the end product more expensive, then you likely sell less vehicles.

So their part suppliers who probably have a very small profit margin should charge more? Then they would likely lose the contract bid.

Being down for days is a very big struggle, bring down a whole month can wreck the supply chain.

I'm not a fan of AI at this time because it has too much 'artificial' and not enough 'intelligence' to be of use to me. Other than changing the tone on an email, I'd found it to be less efficient at daily tasks than simply doing it on my own.

Robotaxis - honestly most of the places they would operate efficiently, society would be better off with increased investment in mass transportation.

It should be obvious why private/charter schools do better with less funding, they can be selective about who is enrolled.

When I was in high school in the 90s, the top football teams in the state were all patriarchal schools because they could actively recruit and give out scholarships. While these schools may not be very expensive, they are far more expensive than the $50-$100 in fees a family would pay for this child to be in a public school.

When private/charter schools cherry pick from the best applicants, it simply leaves the public schools with the leftovers.

Here in GA there is a proposed data center in the site of a logging operation and they have asked for a much power a the local utilities can provide. But I'm pretty sure charging my EV overnight at home once a week is the problem.

I'm more active when there's more sun in the evening.

At this point it's basically dark at 8pm and I'm on the western portion of the time zone. It would make me sad to lose all daylight after dinner for 6 months of the year.
I'm all for eliminating the time change, I'd simply prefer to have the extra hour of sun later in the day when I'd get a chance to enjoy it.

Or interstates often have 70mph limits unless close to a larger city where traffic picks up. The 2 lane highways normally top out at 55mph. Most places the police don't care if you're going around 7mph over the limit at those speeds.

My home town had one downtown where entrants had right of way. When I learned to drive, that was the only experience I had. It had been that way for decades. Luckily a few years later they changed it to reflect the more common pattern.

I think you have to also place blame on the politicians who refuse to find common ground on assisted suicide.

We're allowed to euthanize our pets when they suffer but it's murder if we make that choice about grandma.

All GOP members that had morals were forced out during the last couple election cycles. I may not have agreed with many of their stances but I could at least respect not selling out.

Not true. Anyone with ad blocked has to figure out exactly what disabled teachers is required to stream from any site, legit or not.

As broadcasting has become more segmented for sports, i watch less. I enjoy watching football and hockey on TV but I'm not going to pay for 4 different streaming services to catch games. Luckily my work paid phone plan includes MAX which helps out some.

Isn't this just a bunch of rejected crypto bros? What's the chance there even is a 2nd generation?

Yes - quite aware. And as someone who has taken a reasonable amount of flights over the past few years, I've never seen someone openly listening to music or taking a phone call while the plane was in the air.

Just calling out BS when I see it. "We Canadians would NEVER be impolite but we'll definitely pretend we're better than everyone else"