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  1. Im a subtitlestan and i dont understand why its such an offensive thing to many people. Like, they *hate* subtitles
  2. An interesting observation is how in a conversation solely about automotive manufacturing and finance you cant refrain from pivoting instead to other men and their assholes. Freud would have a field day with that.
  3. The Cybertruck is about to eclipse the sales of S&X combined, and is still backordered - meaning excess demand on the books. What happened with comparative sales when the government teet wasn’t offering consumers tax credits? And for teet to the manufacturer, look at the governments balance sheet and tell me which automotive companies have a loan with federal bucks? (starts with F and ends with Ord)
  4. Theyve put 6 million battery vehicles on the road. They produced the best selling vehicle globally for the last 2 years. Their vehicles are more American-made than any vehicle from any US brand. But sure, theyre “hardly legit” because… you dont like Elon. Theyve also turned a profit for the last 4 years. Their “slowing” last 4 quarters US sales was 625,000 vehicles. The “legit auto manufacturer growing EV sales”, in 2nd place over the same period sold 80,000. They also separate EV business on their financials. Wanna share how much money that venture made?
  5. i also cant buy this excuse *at all*. you're working on a mega-budget show with CGI dragons and have issues with practical filming and direction with child actors - whose detailed acting and expressions nobody pays close attention to? animate it. use stand-in props for it. film it separate and splice it. a million different ways to get around "we cant have children in gory scenes", as if theres never been horror movies with kids in it.
  6. i get some of the reasons why changes had to be made in the show production. and obv show writers are weaker than book author... but damn... george rr's verstion of the story just embarasses the tv rendition
  7. Interest spotlight on a trading episode in 2017, and example of difference between the physica/real l oil market and the financialized/"paper oil" market. From a column this week at Bloomberg
  8. That was one of the most predictable things ever. The EV market is basically legit EV manufacturer that is Profitable - Tesla; legit EV manufacturer subsidized by Saudis and Bezos - Lucid and Rivian; and then a bunch of scams and pretenders a la Farraday, Nikola, Canoo, etc. Henrik Fisker has a hurrible track record.
  9. very important question: what color ?? i would also kindly request someone start a thread documenting how to commit PPP fraud, just in case the next pandemic hits
  10. ...the aristocrats!
  11. Disingenuous way to spin his statement. He didn't say diversity is bad, but is excusable by a good story. He said diversity doesn't matter, because people care about the story, as exemplified by Andor. That was in response to charges that people hate the show due to 'diversity'. Everybody finds the show shitty. Some believe it's due to servicing of a cultural narratives (ie "pushing diversity") over quality storytelling. Some dont like that those are gimmicks or covers for poor storytelling. Neither of those examples demonstrate bona fide contempt for "diversity" (or witches, or lesbos, or whathaveyous). The root cause is the story is shit, but its not very original to write "the story is shit". You know this. Everybody knows this. Why do we pretend we dont understand basic social psychology here and play along with this motte and bailey bullshit pretending that everyone is a bigot.
  12. the brazilians call brass knuckles 'english punch' (soco ingles). the canadians and french call it 'american fist' (poing or coup de poing americain). and i find amusing the specificity of law that it and other weapons are illegal in many jurisdiction when you could well carry a pipe wrench or other instrument for similar effect. or butterfly knives. illegal in many places. but a pocket knife of reasonable blade length is completely fine.
  13. Me think why save time using few words when many words do trick?
  14. If you're a parent of a kid you understand that when kids call eachother doodieheads it's not motivated by scatophobia nor do the kids have actual feces on their head but the insult is merely a lazy and convenient vector for communicating their dislike (for any of millions of reasons)? You understand that the broad majority of audience also hate this show, many more than the ones using unsophisticated insults? When you cherrypick the unpolitically correct opinions - whose thrust is to criticize the show for being shit - to rail against, despite the show actually being shit, you realize who's being the snowflake in this picture?
  15. I shouldve studied harder in college 📰 👓 🐱
  16. The dichotomy of internet commerce technology is pretty amusing. On one side you have hidden cookies and cross-browser trackers and advanced user profiling where blacklab knows to the decimal point what percentage of visitors clicked-through to a banner for sperm whale oil. On the other side you have podcasts where its like “to get 15% off your first order of unicorn juice enter the code ‘nancygrace15’ on the order form thats ‘n-a-n-c-y-grace-one-five’” cuz theres no other way they know where the traffic is coming from.
  17. Its simple. We just want to see cute animals. Cool villains. Laser sword fights. And, as a bonus, some tits.
  18. My wife, like most women(?), is a bit of a hypochondriac. This has not been helped by her colleague having been diagnosed with stage 3 last month (🤕). Today, she ran down the stairs after using the bathroom, her eyes welling up to critical mass. “Whats wrong,” I asked. The waterworks broke wide open. “There was blood in my stool” ”oh, that can happen someti—“ “No, you dont understand, it was A LOT”. Shes typing frantically on the phone, consulting her personal doctor: WebMD. “Lets just take a breath. Maybe its nothing” “I know sometimes it happens, but its never this RED and this MUCH before” ”…” The negotiations go on for a few minutes. Then she pauses. The faucet start to shut and theres a visible sign of relief on her face. “Oh yeah. I did eat a lot of beet at lunch today”.
  19. Its amusing that every group of people think that drinking alcohol is some unique attribute exclusive to them. At lunch a co-worker said something like “i was in [location] for work once. we did a lot of drinking that event…when [industry group] gets together, you know alcohol is going to be involved” And im thinking….lawyers can say this. And bankers can day this. And writers can say this. And real estate folks can say this. And car mechanics at the NAPA Auto Parts 2024 National Convention can day this. Is there any profession who dont claim to drink hard at an industry gathering? Its so cliched.
  20. Anyone on the fence with the combustion, dont buy at msrp. Sign up for their mailing list because theyve been running sales almost nonstop this year
  21. the bigots must've missed out on their opportunity to complain in the 1,000 post thread about ahsoka with a female lead named rosario, a co-lead with blue hair, and space witches.
  22. brown sheep of the family. i think george muthoot george took the extra dibs.
  23. The middle-aged white guys seem to enjoy Rogue One with a starring cast of a woman; a dark-haired hispanic-accented guy; a blind asian dude; and a black man with droopy eyes. The whitest middle-aged guy portrayed the villain (Orson Krennic). Maybe we don't accuse peoples' motives to gatekeep a television show, and instead accept that people can recognize a turd when it smells like shit.
  24. this family sure loves the name george
  25. even the guy the cow was chasing got pissed off
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