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So it's not free market after all because the big 3 can make vehicles at home and sell abroad while the others have to make them in the US for the US market. In what way is it not a form of favoring the domestic auto companies?

China subsidises industries it wants to dominate in, allowing them to sell for less than cost. It's why the EU also tariffs Chinese cars.

Also for anything the big 3 make in the US, I believe they use union labor? Not sure if they did for Aussie market cars.

The US actually heavily tariffs foreign-made vehicles that could skirt the CAFE requirements the way American trucks do. Light trucks suffer the Chicken Tax and can only be made in Canada, US or Mexico to bypass that. Been that way since the UAW boss asked LJB to do something about the German imports growing.

Well, nearly half a million mostly union jobs would also be lost, causing a minor recession at the very least. Even if the jobs partially come back in the form of BYD plants, they probably wouldn't be union jobs.

What Ford European line? They discontinued the Mondeo and their minivans. Now it's hatch or crappy SUV. Or Mustang. Oh wait. Focus is end of life too now. It's mustang or crappy crossover SUVs only.

Java 8 to 21 + spring boot 2 to 3 brought the need to change a lot of dependencies, but often they were drop-in replacements. That was mostly Jakarta stuff. On the Spring side, a lot of things we used were deprecated, but that was not related to the Java version.

Did not take a huge amount of time to upgrade anyway. But maybe our systems weren't the most complex in the first place, a lot of our applications were pretty small.

I'll have you know I switched to starter after Trump announced his global trade war because it's locally produced and cheaper anyway.

And then several Republicans in Congress were questioning whether the city should be rebuilt at all

Obviously not, it's a black people city. Let them live in cakes or something

It's okay, it's not like red states ever have any emergencies.

Oh we have an appropriate joke for this too. A few decades old now, looking at the names.

After their deaths, Bush and Putin are frozen. 50 years later, technology has advanced and both are revived.

Putin opens a newspaper and starts laughing. "What's so funny?", Bush inquires. Putin shows him the headline: "America is communist"

Bush opens another newspaper, starts laughing even harder, literally jumping around the room. Putin, unable to believe that anything could be funnier than communism in the US, grabs the paper and nearly faints after seeing the headline: "Unrest on Estonian-Chinese border"

I will once they finally build rail baltica lol, otherwise I'd need to fly anyway, or drive which makes luggage more convenient

They will, just not in the US lol

Throwing aside the current administration... There's so much to see in the US. All the national parks and other sights. It's a roadtripper's dream. One of the most diverse countries as far as landscape and climate is concerned. We have Disneyland in Europe (Paris), but there's Disney World in Florida which is way bigger (never been to either, not THAT big of a fan myself, but I know there's loads of Disney fans). NYC, LA and SF are all great cities to visit I hear, though I've only been to NYC (lots of fun - there's so much to discover just by walking around)

Now as a foreigner I'm slightly scared of the current admin despite being pasty white, so I'm not going to visit again anytime soon. But one day I would like to come back for sure. Until then... I do still have a LOT of Europe to discover as well, I've only spent any real time in my neighboring countries, others I've visited very briefly.

I think that's just in the US. They also have franchisees elsewhere that still have to pay for the franchise rights. They're for sure not in the restaurant business though, at least not big time. That's risky and costly so the franchisees get to take that risk.

McDonald's was happy to do it because they're not really in the restaurant owning business. They force their franchisees to use the exact ice cream machine they get paid by Taylor to enforce. It's a literal racket

Now the military part... Yeah, that's fucked up, I always thought Uncle Sam got the right to repair their own shit but apparently not.

I never knew this was a genre. Makes for great background noise though? I wouldn't say it's bad music, it's just not memorable or notable to me.

They left her home because she was a dobber

Only if you want to be left waiting

I mean that's what I do when it's something small, but when it's something that takes 10+ hours, that's a lot of beer and standing.

Though right now I just have an alarm to check it every half hour. Considering wiring up something with an arduino and appifying my meat without any proprietary tech.

Never ask Mr. Kühne where his family's fortune came from, or what their most popular cargo was in the 40s.