He wants them to help the next time. That’s a pretty tangible benefit

There is a possibility that Elno gets EVs mandated, or at least promoted to a greater extent. Of course this will only be for Tesla, but there would be a ripple effect on other brands.

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Wages rising? Not if they can help it. Other people mentioned prison labor. But they’re overlooking child labor, which is already being brought back in multiple states. Throw in some pretty weakly disguised slave labor in the form of company stores, and there’s no reason to pay actual workers what they’re worth.

If they didn’t already know about it, they’re pretty shitty execs. It’s been SOP for decades

Repeated ad nauseum? Only in the furthest left areas of the Internet did I hear it mentioned more than in passing. It was a very brief series of news posts. It came up in the debate, and he managed to brush it off as not being his. And everyone just let him get away with that answer.

Do you have any idea how many mailers I got about “stopping the liberal agenda”? If there had been as many, or any at all about P25, maybe people would’ve been appropriately concerned

I think you’re massively downplaying how much of a hit this will be.

Let’s say you make $100k/year. Think about the lifestyle it allows. You’ve just been informed that it’s now going part time, and you’ll only be making $15k/year. How far does that get you?

Now, you’re expecting someone else to pay for that advertising spot, so it won’t be that bad. But who is even eligible? Microsoft’s Bing is the obvious answer, and probably DDG. The rest of the default search engines aren’t even general web searches.

Do you really think that either of them are going to pay any significant amount to be the default? Especially when most people are going to change it back to Google anyway, since these are automatically people willing to change to a different browser?

Sure, they might be willing to pay something. But it won’t be anything close to what they had before.

It’s little solace, but not all destination countries will care about that. It might force you to stay away, which creates its own issues.

You forget how close it came to passing. You can singularly thank John McCain for stopping it.

I don’t think there will be another one to stop it this time.

You’re not wrong, no /s needed. You can look up “campaign donations” and cross reference their undying support. Most politicians are bought for around $10k/election.

I want to believe this. I really do. Maybe the surprise will be that it really did happen.

But I’m not confident. I’m expecting it to be razor-thin, with results unclear even days later.

Some places tried calling him “The Artist”, but it never stuck. Not even “The Artist formerly known as Prince” stuck. But “Prince” has endured to his grave and beyond.

Beggar’s night is not the same thing as Halloween. Some areas designate a specific date and time for the kids to do trick-or-treat, not on Halloween. This is beggar’s night.

While misrepresenting yourself or your credentials can be fraud, the title of PhD/Doctor (outside of MD) is not regulated, at least not in the US. It’s almost like an endorsement from the university that you passed their tests.

But that’s not very regulated either, and there are countless certifying boards (Boards of Regents, typically).

Falsely claiming to have a PhD in Neuroscience from Harvard, or an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Knox College, would be fraud. But just saying that you have a PhD without specifying anything more specific is not.

And it comes up regularly - an easy example is the author of Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus.

Leaving you with 80% of the revenue you, yourself, directly generate is unheard of in this day and age. If you have anything like a 9-5, you’re probably getting around 10-20%. The rest goes to all your bosses, and most importantly of all, the company shareholders.

At a recent (niche) music festival, they said it takes 50,000 streaming songs to pay the artist as much as a single CD sale.

As the saying goes, Steel wins battles, gold wins wars. That’s why I’d bet on California.

Ohio here. The vast majority of nonvoters that I’ve met hold generally left-leaning viewpoints. If they were forced to vote, and did even the most basic research, they would overwhelmingly vote Democrat.

That said, I acknowledge that my experiences have a skewed demographic, and may not represent the population as a whole.

Music and right-wing politics are weird. I can’t even begin to count how many bands were proudly anti-war in the 70s. Then there’s the punk movement, which was highly critical of Reagan and Bush.

I guess music and a message of hope/protest works better than a message of oppression, especially when appealing to youth.

Many items are already packaged to protect them from damage in transit. If it’s already in a box with Styrofoam inserts, there isn’t as much value on wrapping it again.

That said, there are countless items at Amazon that are not protected like that. Amazon also won’t pay their employees enough to care, nor give them the time to make any such decisions.