It’s because some people despise the idea of inspections.

Because ensuring the basic safety of a 2-3 ton hunk of metal flying down the road at speeds up to 80mph is apparently government overreach. Or because it’s an inconvenience to have to take it in once a year. Or whatever other bullshit reason they try to justify in their heads that basic safety inspections are a waste of time and resources. You know, shitty people.

Ah somehow I missed that sentence when reading it before.

He claimed the figure was misleading because companies had stockpiled imports ahead of his imposition of tariffs.

I mean he’s probably right… Except if they were importing ahead of time to avoid the tariffs, you would assume things to either be the same or have a slight increase… Not contracting.

I get the issue makes total sense. Slower charging you have no control over means you get charged more per kwh. However, since I don’t see it addressed in the article… Are they legally able to charge for the electricity itself there?

I know in some areas only utility companies can charge for electricity, so charging for the time connected is the only way they can legally charge you for the power provided.

So a few possibilities.

1. The board started looking and are lying about looking once it leaked.
2. A member of the board started and that leaked, possibly on purpose.
3. Someone leaked that they started looking just to gauge what the response would be from shareholders and the general public.

At least you can buy a house in Detroit. May not be a nice one, probably abandoned a decade ago, but there are options available.

Unlike the average new home price being $1 million or some shit Nationwide now that was reported a few days ago.

There are several states already that require safety inspections.

Hell emissions tests are required for ICE vehicles in nearly every state, and guess what they do when those roll through for emissions testing? They record the mileage.

There’s no additional red tape here, it’s the same red tape that was there before it was an EV that didn’t need emissions testing.

Antique and Classic plates usually have pretty restrictive use policies associated with them. Assuming you don’t ignore them and risk a ticket every time you drive outside those uses.

For Oklahoma for instance:

Affiant further states that the vehicle described above will travel highways of this state primarily incidental to historical or exhibition purposes only.

From the application form: https://oklahoma.gov/content/dam/service-oklahoma/Documents/mv-forms/license-plate/763 Classic Vehicle Plate.pdf

Given the antique registered vehicle is supposed to only be used on public roads in very limited scenarios, the small cost is appropriate, regardless of the specific vehicle.

Is it easier to implement? Maybe, but not really.

An alternative and would just be an annual inspection. Some states already require this, many just emissions. Just have it as a blanket annual safety inspection requirement for all vehicles, including emissions for the necessary vehicles.

FYI, this is one of the major reasons to use digital wallets. Like Apple Pay and Google Wallet. They don’t use your actual card info when paying, but a generated virtual card instead.

Likewise one of my accounts provides both a physical card and a separate virtual card, so that’s what I enter whenever making online purchases. Easier to cancel and reissue a virtual card if there is fraud.

And again the white house shoots themselves in the foot.

They could have spun this as a transparent way for Americans to see what products they are purchasing from overseas versus American. It would have still been filled with lies, but they could have made it sound like a good thing. Instead they just look like idiots and Amazon leadership just look like cowards. Amazon is large enough and ingrained in the economy and everyday lives of people to tell the Trump admin to go fuck themselves on this and have the back of Congress and the public, especially if they spun it right.

No it’s not. There’s an absolute metric fuckton of evidence of Russian Disinformation and foreign Propaganda programs have targeted nearly all Western countries. Some more effectively than others.

Even if you choose to completely ignore the direct evidence of not only Russian leverage against high level politicians, but even full intelligence asset control, the fact that Russia has teams manipulating online conversations with fake information is a known fact with no basis for denial.

Unless you have no capability of critical thinking like the antivaxxers that is. But if that’s the case you have bigger problems like probably being one of the many idiots that fell for the obvious bullshit.

It was intentional until it leaked. They’d rather look even more incompetent with classified info than just admit whatever the real reason is or make up something fake to cover.

Looking even more incompetent is the best option they thought. That should be extremely worrying. Having yet another classified information scandal is the best option.

God I hate this click air partial truth bullshit.

A reminder, since it is cut off in the image… That comment from her is from 2019. A lot can happen in 6 years to change a person’s mental state. COVID for instance happened after that comment was made.

Not to mention she was apparently in a bad bus accident a month ago.

On Sunday, March 30, Virginia said on Instagram that she was in the hospital and near death after the car in which she was riding on March 24 was struck by a school bus going more than 49 mph.
“I’ve gone into kidney renal failure," she wrote next to a photo of herself lying in a hospital bed, with her face covered in bruises. "They’ve given me four days to live, transferring me to a specialist hospital in urology.”

And she recently came forward about her husband allegedly abusing her. Much more likely he did something than anything related to Epstein.

In an exclusive statement to PEOPLE, Virginia said, “I was able to fight back against Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein, who abused and trafficked me. But I was unable to escape the domestic violence in my marriage until recently. After my husband’s latest physical assault, I can no longer stay silent.”

Assuming that’s even accurate, because her husband has recently gotten a restraining order against her.

Robert recently filed a family violence restraining order against her, alleging that she had become violent with him, they say.

So this is far from a clear case, and trying to claim this is in any way related to Epstein means ignoring a ton of other shit.

You’re trying to figure out what a 5 year old with dementia was thinking.

Basically, except the newspapers of today no longer care about reputation. They only care about clicks, the bottom line, and speed. Accuracy is no longer a primary focus.

The sharks were just trying to do us a favor by getting rid of the New Jersey population.

They never are. They all know they are inferior in every way, so they overcompensate by claiming their genes are actually better than everyone else.

To be fair, that was also 6 years ago. A lot can happen in 6 years. That was pre-COVID for instance. I think just about everyone can say we’re in a totally different place now than we were then, even without the Epstein aspect.

That being said, I always have pause when there’s any sort of whistleblower or accuser of a powerful individual that commits suicide. Even if the suicide itself is accurate and clearly intentional, the circumstances surrounding it are always murky and questionable. Especially questions of threats and coercion leading up to it.

No you’re thinking too small. You use the billions of images and hours of video of Musk and Trump and use that to deep fake a very long and passionate gay sex tape scene. Fuck, you could probably commission two actors to make a new scene for free given those bastards views on non-conformative sexuality, then you wouldn’t even be able to match it to a non-deepfake original.

We know there’s nothing more directly personal that those two think about than sex.