I'm aware. I was addressing the claims of the person I was responding to.

That has never been the case. Basic cable has always had commercials outside of a few rare exemption. Here's an article literally from the 80's about it that the NYT digitized https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F1981%2F0... . Hopefully you haven't hit your limit on articles with them before you hit the paywall.

It's not something police will search out but they should be doing something if it's reported to them regardless of your anecdote.

In other words conservative parents are pulling their kids out of public school because of right wing trans panic (apparently it's just awful for kids to find out trans people really aren't at all scary in real life) and other right wing scare crap based on individual anecdotes and not broad trends.

Different people's brains are wired differently. I know a few people who are generally pretty intelligent but are awful in a single context like math or English writing skills for instance.

I'm not necessarily saying it's the way grading should be done but I think the point of grading on a curve is to control for the difficulty for a course. If a class is super hard and no one gets above a 60% it's not really fair to the kids who got the highest scores in the class to get a D-. Likewise with easy classes, if everyone in the class got over 95% does it really make sense to give the students who got exactly 95% an A in such an easy class?

Given that scalpers will no longer be able to sell their tickets online (as the police would notice) and will have to go back to selling them off street corners this will in fact do a lot to alleviate the problem

I was just a kid in the 80's but everything I watched had commerical in it. On a Google search I can find that a very small number of networks didn't have them when they launched at the very beginning of the decade but then switched to having them a few years in. The biggest of them being Nickelodeon.

Maybe you're remembering premium stations like HBO or something because the vast majority of regular cable TV channels had commercials and by the decades midpoint everything did. Or maybe as the above suggested you didn't live in the US in the 80's?

Anyone who takes a lower division intro to economics class in college gets taught this. I might have even picked up on this before then but economists definitely say this when the topic comes up.

The term "cable" is regularly used by every company offering traditional TV packages for both old coaxial connections as well as fiber. This is incredibly common usage, no one says "I have fiber" when telling someone they subscribe to Comcast's TV offerings or any similiar service (they might for their internet service though).

Good point. Coins are still a pain in the ass though.

Why? Bills are cheaper to make than coins. They also aren't a pain in the ass to carry as they easily fit in my wallet.

Yes, as I was saying there's little need to protect ones karma score.

You should read your own source. Ford is struggling in Europe which is why it's making such a big investment. None of those auto companies have meaningfully large presences outside the US either. Show me a citation if I'm mistaken.

So what? SUVs still sell very well

Of course what I'm talking about is these companies make the type of cars Americans do buy. No one over here buys those little budget Euro cars but the whole world buys small and midsized sedans. You know, like the Asians sell to us

It would be the same risk if they weren't all in on a vehicle type likely to plunge in sales when the next recession hits? Nope, that's not how reality works. If they had a robust car lineup that people knew they could have pivoted in that direction. Regardless of what you're telling they did not and still do not. There isn't a legacy auto company in America that has a robust car lineup and that's been the case for a couple decades now.

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