Do you think the democrats would actually limit Trump in any meaningful way? Last time Biden didn't do much to reverse what Trump did, even carried on doing some of it.

They don't staff them in China anyway, robots make a lot of stuff now. Don't even need the lights on in the factory.

China has the supply chains. Anything you need, from raw materials to completed OEM goods, you can get in a few days max. You can innovate and iterate so fast, and it's all competitively priced because they do capitalism better than capitalist countries.

I became sensitive to synthetic materials so switched to cotton and whatever Uniqlo make their Airism stuff out of. Lately it's got worse so I tried bamboo and silk.

So my main concern here is how will this stuff affect me?

And certainly not in Japan. It is common for anime and manga copyright holders to allow a large amount of use of their characters, but still enforce copyrights on things like piracy.

It will be interesting to see if any mergers/takeovers happen, because anyone attempting it will be gambling that the next Democrat administration (assuming there is one) won't reverse it and force them to break up their media empire.

Could SCOTUS also force it to happen too? Not that it is likely at the moment.

Ah yeah, I get that. Can't sit still, destroy office chairs in a few years. It's exercise I suppose.

I'm sorry to hear that. I have CFS/ME which seems to be similar, so I know a bit of what you are living with.
At least in my case things did get better eventually, so don't give up hope.

I have auto immune issues, and it seems like the exact nature of the response is different enough that it doesn't affect me as badly. I'm not a biologist but my understanding is that mRNA vaccines bypass a step in the process of creating immunity, so maybe it's that step that is causing me problems.

If my car showed me ads I'd return it and get a refund. It's a separate issue.

In my personal experience, for what little that is worth, the traditional AstraZenica vaccine really screwed me up. Badly enough that I couldn't work for a while.

The mRNA COVID vaccines have been fine. Maybe a day or two of feeling off, some shivers the first time. The traditional flu vaccine is much worse.

If they could create a generic flu one that would be great, so they don't have to predict it every year.

It's mandatory on all new cars, but you can disable it yourself if you want to. You are also allowed to replace it with your own system, although I'm not sure why you would want to. The eCall system is heavily regulated, so it only triggers in the event of a serious crash (usually only when the airbags deploy) and then calls the emergency services on speakerphone, as well as sending your location and direction of travel (using GNSS). It works in all EU countries and the UK, and there is no subscription cost.

The cost to the manufacturer is the hardware and some tiny per-vehicle fee to the mobile networks. IoT SIMs start from cents per month for small amounts of data in single quantities, for consumers, so the deal that the manufacturer has is going to be much better.

Sorry to hear you have those issues. I have some auto-immune issues too, though not that bad, and I was really worried during COVID.

Even now I usually get a private COVID and flu vaccination every year. I'm not in any of the categories that get them for free, but aside from the safety they provide, I usually travel over the new year and I don't want to get sick while I'm on holiday.

Darwinism at work.