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Comment What? (Score 4, Insightful) 84

"ship unfinished vehicles from many impacted plants, including Fort Wayne and Silao, to dealers to help meet the strong customer demand for our products"

I didn't realize there was such a strong demand for unfinished vehicles. What could be the use for these? Lawn ornaments in Alabama or homes in California?

Comment Re: The hottest job market in every field (Score 1) 56

I was replying to someone talking about help wanted signs on every business and was specifically talking about dead-end jobs you idiot.
  Nobody said a damn thing about tech workers. If you consider a tech job as a dead-end job, that says more about you than anything else.

It isn't a tin-foil argument as more than half the country (26 states as of June) have already opted to end the program early because it is causing more harm than good. It isn't even a political argument as Democratic governors as well as Republicans governors have been pushing to end it because they are far smarter than you are. But hey, maybe all those states should have asked for your opinion first as you clearly know more than anyone else about everything.

Comment Re: Yes until the red states (Score 1) 100

Again with the false narrative. Low income voters historically do NOT vote for Republicans, as sited here.

Lots of similar studies, but outside of big cities, people earning large salaries typically vote Republican. Despite the talking points on MSNBC, people moving away from cities would be a blessing for Republicans and they would encourage it, not hinder it

Comment Re: The hottest job market in every field (Score 2, Insightful) 56

Only because the idiots in Congress keep extending COVID unemployment benefits. If you typically work dead-end jobs outside of big cities, why work if you can bring home $2500 a month for doing nothing? They just doubled their income by sitting on their couch. The job market won't stabilize until the COVID benefits finally expire.

Comment Re: Yes until the red states (Score 2, Informative) 100

And why would that happen? There is always someone that wants to turn everything into a political argument and they are gullible enough to think that Democrats are night and day different from Republicans, but they aren't - despite your MSNBC/CNN or Fox News. They are all corrupt and incompetent, just in slightly different ways.

But use your brain instead of repeating what MSNBC tells you. Why would Republicans want to stop people moving away from large cities? Moving people away from large cities is exactly what Republicans would want.

Comment Re: Every DA would be excluded with this criteria (Score 1) 83

Do you see the difference between a judge saying they are tough on crime and a judge repeatedly going on record as saying that oh_my_080980980 is a criminal and needs to be in prison? What about if that judge also had the power to START a new trial on a whim and you (oh_my_080980980) were the defendant? Would you have a problem this that judge being impartial now? Hopefully you see the issue now. Regardless of how this plays out, she is a liability for the FTC. If she does recuse herself and Amazon loses, they drag it out for years in court where they will claim (and probably prove) that the chairwoman was managing at least part of the investigation behind the scenes when she wasn't supposed to be. If she doesn't recuse herself, the verdict is immediately tossed out. Either way, this investigation was DOA as soon as she became chairwoman. Biden didn't think too hard about this one....

Comment Stop trying to combine them (Score 0) 469

There are two scenarios.

1. The lab creation theory
2. The lab accidently released a naturally occurring virus into the community

Only people deliberately trying to spin the narrative are combining the two to belittle the narrative. I think most people who objectivity look at the information that has come out could come to the conclusion that #2 is at least possible, if not likely. What do you think would happen if it EVER came out that the virus was created OR escaped from a Chinese lab? To say that this would be an existential crisis for China is not an understatement. Every nation on Earth would be immediately hostile to them. The actions of China up until this point would be everything you would expect if either of these scenarios was true.

1. Prevent outside investigation until a year after the outbreak.. after they have had time to make SURE there wasn't anything left to prove anything. Bonus points for useful idiots taking the subsequent investigation not finding "any evidence" (initiated a year after the lab was closed) as proof that China was telling the truth.
2. Scrub information from all websites that doesn't fit the current narrative
3. Make inconvenient people "disappear"
4. Try to spin any talk of the discussion into conspiracy theories

"Any 'lab leak' theory would have to account for that scenario â" which it simply can't, without invoking a major conspiracy and cover up by Chinese scientists and authorities."

You mean like removing information from the lab's website that proved that the lab in question wasn't following safety protocols? Or actively deleting content that doesn't agree with the official China party line? How about requiring scientists to go through a stringent review policy to ensure that the information wasn't inconvenient for China?

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fvisiontimes.com%2F2020%2F0...

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2Fr%2Fworld...

Comment Based on safety protocols (Score 5, Informative) 131

Oh OK. It is extremely unlikely because of safety protocols...

This is the same lab that has news articles from 2018 through 2020 reporting that they had numerous safety and management concerns right? I'm sure those problems were cleared up in late 2020 just in time for this virus to spontaneously appear in a fish market a few miles away...

Comment What about location services? (Score 2) 25

Why does Find My iPhone get a free pass from the annoying pop-up "this app has used your location X times in the last week, do you want to always allow this or only when using the app"?

Life 360 is a director competitor to Find My iPhone and the app gets that pop-up all the time.
  Another example of Apple treating their own apps differently. This is why governments need to go after them with antitrust charges.

Comment Count your blessing (Score 4, Interesting) 237

Is this really a problem? I would have thought that it would be a blessing to start with a clean slate instead of all the old toxic baggage from the last administration.

Hopefully the Biden administration can move the country in a positive direction, but starting with a crap ton (or is it hellaton these days) of really bad tweets would seem to be a hindrance. In addition I really hope that media just stops talking about Trump 24/7. Like a spoiled toddler, that is all he cares about.

Comment Am I supposed to be outraged? (Score 0, Troll) 31

Law enforcement agencies are supposed to gather evidence of crimes. Since criminals are using phones to facilitate or commit the crimes, of course the FBI would pursue this vector.

Again the ACLU is on the wrong side of logic and justice, favoring criminals over the public safety.

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