The best they can do is probably close their Canadian/Mexican plants if the losses are too great, which would increase unemployment in those areas for not only the automotive factories, but also the ones for the automotive suppliers. Even if a Chinese company swoops in to buy the factories, it’d take time to set things up.

They did that when the TPP was scraped too.

Cheap USBs mean cheap read/writes.

Makes me think of the episode of Batman Beyond called “Shriek.”

If you’re going on a long road trip, yes.

Yeah for the same price as the color option you could get a Garmin Vivoactive​ on a sale.

As much as I love Sync, it has been almost a year since the last update.

It’s usually to promote business investments in their state as opposed to general trade. There are plenty of governors that do that from both political parties.

The governor of my state just went to the UAE recently to do that, and has done several other trips as well over the years. https://www.michigan.gov/whitmer/news/press-releases/2024/11/25/gov-whitmer-to-meet-with-business-leaders-and-foreign-officials-in-spain

Definitely related. EVs are relatively new technology and internal knowledge for engineering R&D, materials, and manufacturing infrastructure all have to be spun up. All this, and you need marketing/planning folks to decide on what sort of vehicle will sell the best against their engineering capabilities.

It’s not winning, it’s about “the libs” losing – and that’s enough for them.

Better marketing, better UI, lots of users, and plenty of non-political content.

Plus, these have to be automotive grade, which requires a higher tier of durability. Not a lot of profit margin to be made on those sorts of devices.

Yeah they even say if you don’t like what they do in the future you can easily pickup your md files and take them elsewhere.

Not familiar with New York law. How does the Governor/state remove a mayor?

The thing that makes me hesitant about a freeze is losing the code somehow. Not sure what to do if that happens.

Sadly true. Christians have interpreted their faith to allow slavery, wars, and genocide. Generally the loudest that claim they follow a faith are the ones that least understand it.

OMG I totally thought this was supposed to be some weird reference to Tobias Fünke from Arrested Development.

I could definitely see that being a right wing talking point at the time.

Looking at how .world did things with piracy community last year, they may have to make some level of TOS changes after consulting with their legal team. I’d imagine other instances might follow their guidelines too.

Yeah I remember Obama wanted to close it, but then the big question of where to move the prisoners to in the US had to be answered, and nobody wanted to hold them. It was politically dead at that point.