[-] JayTreeman@beehaw.org 6 points 1 week ago

My thought is that this is a way to hone the north Korean military. They don't know what's wrong until they try and use it.

[-] JayTreeman@beehaw.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

BYD is also a battery company that makes cars. They can afford to lose a little on the car, when they make money overall.

[-] JayTreeman@beehaw.org 17 points 1 month ago

Who in the entire world has stopped and thought, 'I'd like an Ellen special. I loved her standup 30 years ago. It would be cool to hear some new stuff from her' Who?

[-] JayTreeman@beehaw.org 1 points 4 months ago

This argument makes most sense if you're arguing in favor of revolution

[-] JayTreeman@beehaw.org 1 points 5 months ago

I agree, but that's a slippery slope. Lots of countries use slavery to make cheap goods. But yes. Slavery in all forms should be abolished

[-] JayTreeman@beehaw.org 1 points 5 months ago

The US manufacturers get bailed out every 30 years or so, so why there's a specific reason the most recent time becomes less relevant. What makes BYD specifically so cheap isn't the government subsidies, which NA manufacturers also get, but it's vertical integration. BYD is a battery company that started to make cars. They can sell the batteries to the car side of the businesd below cost as long as the final product makes the larger corporation a profit. Tesla for example buys it's batteries from Panasonic. Panasonic has to make a profit. That makes the Tesla much more expensive than it should be.

[-] JayTreeman@beehaw.org 5 points 5 months ago

These NA car companies always get bailed out. They should've been making kei trucks, and small electric cars for ages, but they don't need to because they'll just get bailed out if they fail.

These tariffs are another form of a bailout. Maybe instead of bailing these guys out we should nationalize them.

[-] JayTreeman@beehaw.org 11 points 6 months ago

Please look up 'embrace, extend, extinguish' Meta should be met with open hostility in the fediverse. Mastodon losing nonprofit status in Germany, moving to the states and then appointing this guy leads me to think that mastodon has been compromised

[-] JayTreeman@beehaw.org 14 points 6 months ago

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/anxiety/episodes/voter-vibe-check-why-trump-has-more-support-black-voters-ever

That might be worth a listen for you. There's lots of reason for a lot of people to dislike biden. If your choice is between Trump and a guy that's actively supporting genocide, I can't blame you for not voting.

To be clear, I'd vote biden, but I can't blame people for not voting.

[-] JayTreeman@beehaw.org 4 points 6 months ago

I'm going to jump in here. I've watched 3 episodes.

Some of the dialogue does feel bad, but in my experience it's from the vault dwellers. I think it's intentional.

Goggins playing a smooth af character delivers everything with a smooth confidence. He's a joy to watch.

The other actors do well. The sets and costumes are great. The plot feels very paint by numbers, but that's the era we live in.

[-] JayTreeman@beehaw.org 1 points 6 months ago

Are you referring to prison labor?

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