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  1. Superhero could've met the love of his life and ya'll scared him out of it.
  2. The Executive Office isn’t something you made up and get to define. The EO has been established for almost 100 years, and includes Offices and Entities like the Council of Economic Advisors…of which Howard Lutnick is not a part. Dept of Comm wasnt in the EOP of Obama, or Trump 1, or Biden, or now with Trump 2. You hate Elon, which is fully your prerogative. It’s too bad you let your emotion overwhelm your capacity for logic. I said Elon’s motivation for dipping into politics is not financial. Elon’s primary business of EVs, solar panels, and battery storage was 99% “liberal-coded”. Do you think declaring support for the GOP in the most divisive race in America was a move to grow his financial position? Ohhh but there was a line in a Dept of State spreadsheet earmarking $400M for some armored Cybertrucks. Ah ha! The purchase thats neither commenced nor confirmed, that’s worth about 5,000 Cybertrucks. Or in the context their 1,800,000 deliveries per year: 1 day of sales. Complete void of any stake in Tesla, he would still be around the wealthiest person in the world. It’s definitely the money that’s steering his ship. Tim Waltz is prancing on stage about his state’s pension fund losing money, but it’s “not improper”. Furthermore, you “dont think he was acting in capacity as governor”??? The fuck you mean the sitting governor was acting as? People came to the politically-organized event to see Minnesota’s preeminent duck hunter? Would you concede Howard Lutnick made his comment about Tesla stock while “not acting in capacity” a cabinet member, but instead as a lifelong business executive of a financial services firm? (No you fucking wouldnt.) You only spew hypocritical shit because you tricked yourself into believing it.
  3. Stayed at home this weekend and look what happened.
  4. yup. fuck switching modes of transport with luggage and especially with multiple people.
  5. Is it not improper for the govt to gloat over dropping stock prices? (of which his state owns half a billion). It's improper for seccom to promote a domestic car brand's stock, but not improper for potus to stage promotion opp of a foreign car? What's the difference -- in *your* definition -- between 'improper' vs 'political unwise' here? Is it a consequential legal thing, or are you just weaseling with the words? The fact that you don't know that Dept Comm is not part of executive office should give you pause...
  6. A current state governor who just ran to be Vice President. Is a politician of that prominence shitting on an American company as egregious as SecCom boosting an American company? (The funny thing is while he was gloating about this, his state's pension fund owned 1.8M shares of the company...) How about an analogy that you'll understand: Biden celebrates the energy beverage industry, it helps keeps him awake for 2 hours a day. He brings a can of Red Bull (Austrian) and Celcius (US) to the podium. He signs an executive order mandating the government buys more energy drinks. And then he says "Thank you Celcius, you invented the energy drink industry; you started it all". The thrust of this conversation started on accusation of cherry picking of winners and losers. Do you think that was not a deliberate cherry pick against Monster, and a perversion of obvious facts? Cool of you to bring up Soros. He donated a minimum of $200M since the last midterm to his preferred party. Do you find issues with his access to levers of power in government? Has the Republican party provided massive finance assistance to Elon's companies? Tesla's govt loan (which it was the first to pay back) was under Obama. The bulk of SpaceX's contracting was under Obama and Biden. The EV policies were all Dem pushed. Trump campaigned on repealing EV mandates and the federal credit. And while he's now chums with Elon, that remains his policy aims. You Elon's involvement in politics is motivated by money? Do you remember people burning up Bud Light factories and store displays? Maybe bring up a point of discussion that won't backfire...
  7. I know you have a blindspot but can you comment on a govt official on stage celebrating a domestic company's value going down. Can you compare the egregiousness of that to a govt official cheering for 1, but not all domestic companies? That was last week, w/ a current governor and ex VP candidate, not the ex President. The Biden WH event was not a union event, signing a jobs order. It was an EV event, signing an EV order. Don't need nuance to figure that one out. If you want to argue the manufacturing and employment angle -- which is the right thing for the POTUS to promote-- which company employs more workers in America, the American one, or the Dutch one?
  8. Kinda helps when you build 5-10x the supply.
  9. You didn't answer the second question. A politician (whose job is to boost US businesses) promoting a specific domestic company's stock is bad. But a politician who actively cheered against a specific domestic company's stock is...what?
  10. I agree, politicians should be more promoting entire domestic sectors and industries than cherry picking single companies. But since you guys brought up the cherry-picking (I never posted on it before), what's your stance when the last administration did it? And since a govt representative advocating a single stock run such afoul of your morals, what's your stance when one antagonized that single stock just last week?
  11. Ah yes, if only your party had more billionaire support, it could have won. I think maybe you need to stick to the topic, instead of sticking to me. This is the statement from the Department of Commerce Why were you unmoved when POTUS flaunted a Dutch car in front of the white house, but aggrieved when the Sec of Commerce promotes a domestic company?
  12. Are you confused perhaps by the offices of a regulator like the SEC or an economy stabilizer like the Fed, with implicit neutrality, versus that of the the *Commerce* office, whose job is as an advocator? When the Biden administration invited manufacturers to bring electric vehicles to the WH lawn for the signing of his executive order mandating EV sales, but specifically excluded Tesla, was that “choosing winners and losers”? When he credited the GM CEO with “you electrified the entire automotive industry; im serious”, for having sold 1 electrified car to Tesla’s 100, what would you call that? An anointment, or a gaffe, or both?
  13. Nice little rally since i was on a minication. Correlation is not causation but maybe i should go on more minications
  14. The Jeep is majority European-owned, btw.
  15. 100%. I still love driving my own car around and going to smaller cities or the country side. Just the hyper cities are not good for dragging a kid too big for stroller, too small to walk everywhere We were meeting my family, who visited for the first time. They started in Milan and said the more south they went the more hectic it got 😆
  16. So uh this Rome trip was a debbie downer. Official Roma taxi from the airport ripped us off with meter fare instead of flat fare within the Aurelian walls. (We pointed to the literal walls at our stop). Official taxis hailed in the city using their official Uber clone app overbilled us after the rides. All the drivers were intrusively chatty. We took the train back to airport to avoid traffic and all this taxi distaste and the train had a billion people on it. The bus in the city was a joke. Schedules meant nothing. Literal hour go by for stops that were meant to be every 15 minutes. (We spotted from our apartment balcony). I shouldve known that from walking along a narrow street, seeing a line of 50 backed up and honking cars, to discover the head of the line was a stopped/broken bus. The one time we did ride a bus, it drove literally off-route. Bonci didn’t taste half as good as I remember. Went to some nonna-owned trattoria raved about on Eater and Timeout and etc and it was meh. Rest of the eating was just okay. (tbh ive always had that opinion) There was a trillion people at Trevi fountain and all other attractions, despite not officially being Spring season yet. Its not too family friendly as there werent many parks or greenery for my kid to play in, and the ones we found were like nasty. Im just too spoiled by sleepy northern europe that I find much of this city chaotic and filthy. I still marvel at all the great ancient architecture everywhere but its tragic to juxtapose what that was to where the modern Italian state is today.
  17. Yall need these knipex pliers in your lives
  18. 52-80

    Sonos thread

    Turntable just needs to hook up to any compatible sonos device, ie speaker with aux or port/amp. Once its there it can rebroadcast across sonos net. mines connected to Five with signal autodetect but its sorta janky and autoplays half the time. getting slightly fed up with sonos voice features as it randomly plays shit or has false triggers. turned that off.
  19. Today this hit home today like a predator drone. Plan: stay in hotel near airport tonight. take 6am flight tomorrow morning. meeting my family whose already established at the vacation house. short weekend trip, sunny destination (ie minimal packing required). because i already do 95% of vacation planning and booking, and we’re flying from *her* family’s place, she agreed to take care of the hotel for tonight. this whole week, i “gently” remind her we need a hotel. “okay yeah ill look at it”. this whole week, she continues to work from home on-and-off into the evening. (its mostly voluntary, because she wants to show off). tonight, 13 hours from departure, she runs over exasperated. “i havent packed anything. i dont know if we can bring kiddos medicines [uh yes we can]. i didnt buy ziplock bags or portable containers for my liquids [uh, we can buy another $3 bottle of shampoo at destination, if its not already at the airbnb]. i havent even thought of what to pack. …and…uh…did you book that hotel yet?” i tried not to answer.
  20. Today i watched a korean guy speak english in an italian style
  21. 3. Unrelated but were acquired around the same time at similar ages. I think they had some Star Wars Queen Padma type of bond amongst themselves so after the first one died, the others got sad and dragged down soon after.
  22. Wife had 3 of her Beagles from youth put down in the same year. Degenerative cancer stuff. Devastating stuff
  23. i would kill.
  24. i got just the thing fam
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