Posts by Simon

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Electric Vehicles ... or Auto Unions?

by Simon in

apparently biden had an electric vehicle summit earlier this week.. tell me the first name that comes to mind when it comes to electric vehicles?.

tesla ... right?

they have practically defined the segment after all.. but which company wasn't invited to biden's electric vehicle summit?.

Simon

I remember when Musk promised he would have an affordable electric family sedan (under 35k) within 3-5 years after he launched the Roadster.

That is now more than a decade ago.

VW made similar promises, as did Toyota when they made the Prius and Nissan when they started their Hybrid program.

The reason electric cars are all priced within a certain price range comes down to politics: when people start handing out subsidies for car-buyers to buy them as long as they cost a certain amount, what do you imagine that does to the price?

If the limit to get a subsidy is $60,000 guess how much the car is going to cost ...

Because car makers are not stupid, but politicians are.

Why kill yourself making low-profit, mass-market products when you get government handouts to make luxury items for the wealthy that the government is going to subsidize the purchase of.

BTW: Tesla don't make money selling cars. They make money by being given carbon tax credits. Coupled with the subsidies, we're effectively all paying for someone's Tesla - we just don't get to drive it.

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On the current migrant crisis

by LoveUniHateExams in

thousands of migrants have come to england this year, already beating last year's total.. some may have fled syria and other war-torn countries; others are economic migrants.. let me try to get my head around this phenomenon: migrants are relatively safe in france and other countries.

they then leave the relative safety of continental europe and risk their lives and that of their children by crossing the english channel in rubber dinghies.

there's just no fixing stupid, is there .

Simon

Billionaires tend not to go round shooting, raping, beheading and planting bombs.

Uncontrolled immigration of dangerous populations IS a massive risk to everyone's way of life and well-being.

It has to be controlled and it's not racist to say so.

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Electric Vehicles ... or Auto Unions?

by Simon in

apparently biden had an electric vehicle summit earlier this week.. tell me the first name that comes to mind when it comes to electric vehicles?.

tesla ... right?

they have practically defined the segment after all.. but which company wasn't invited to biden's electric vehicle summit?.

Simon

These guys just lowered their car gas bill to nothing, that saving is now going to the financial loan/lease for those vehicles. ......and they aren't polluting the air in the process.

The cars were created by magic, and the power they use comes from unicorns dreaming of rainbows.

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Electric Vehicles ... or Auto Unions?

by Simon in

apparently biden had an electric vehicle summit earlier this week.. tell me the first name that comes to mind when it comes to electric vehicles?.

tesla ... right?

they have practically defined the segment after all.. but which company wasn't invited to biden's electric vehicle summit?.

Simon

Apparently Biden had an Electric Vehicle Summit earlier this week.

Tell me the first name that comes to mind when it comes to electric vehicles?

Tesla ... right? They have practically defined the segment after all.

But which company wasn't invited to Biden's Electric Vehicle Summit?

Testa ... WTF, right?

The companies that were invited all have union workers, Tesla does not. Representatives of the United Auto Workers union were also invited.

So, is it about the climate, the environment, and a genuine desire to promote electric vehicles ... or is it really more about the unions and rewarding political support?

https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/08/06/why-tesla-stock-slipped-today/

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Dems and useful idiots take private property.

by mickbobcat in

this is nothing but illegal.

telling people that they can not evict a dead beat renter for not paying rent while the land owner has to pay for repairs, insurance, taxes and a mortgage is such a private property grab.

any one who votes for these assholes is a total idiot.

Simon

The government has no right to give away other people's money and property.

If it was about genuinely helping the unfortunate, that would be one thing, but you know it is abused and you see it appearing now in episodes of Judge Judy, where someone has been working and just decides they don't need to pay rent.

What about the income of the people who invested in property? Do they get to not pay their bills and taxes?

It's about buying votes, and the work-shy and feckless tend to vote dem.

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Optimum human Order, the Olympics

by waton in

anybody watching the olympics here?

bodies perfected, minds steeled against pain?

amazing performances in sailing, running, jumping, throwing.

Simon

but by cutting down the top, you are not going to help the lowest.

some in the bottom are beyond help, and there is also the trickle down effect. the human race has been lifted up most by it's top performers in every discipline. science particularly.

I don't think Olympics particularly helps people. It doesn't even help most of the athletes, physically, as professional sports take a toll on the body and are different to regular fitness. What you don't see are the wrecked bodies of the people who didn't make it.

And "trickle down" to help the poor? Sounds more like they are pissed on. Maybe helping them directly would do more good than spending obscene amounts on a spectacle.

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Optimum human Order, the Olympics

by waton in

anybody watching the olympics here?

bodies perfected, minds steeled against pain?

amazing performances in sailing, running, jumping, throwing.

Simon

on a different note.

Women's soccer gold was given to Canada by a Swedish player, who rolled the ball in the shootout into the hands of the Canadian goalkeeper.

The main thing is that annoying US woman didn't win :D

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Optimum human Order, the Olympics

by waton in

anybody watching the olympics here?

bodies perfected, minds steeled against pain?

amazing performances in sailing, running, jumping, throwing.

Simon

It's hard to describe quite how boring and uninteresting the Olympics is to me.

A bunch of overpaid people enjoying their hobby ... all paid for by taxpayers who are then expected to applaud them? No thank you. The original ideal of the Olympics being an amateur athletics competition have long passed.

Also, your posts are gibberish. Remember kids - don't do drugs!

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Logical Fallacy… can I get some help here?

by DATA-DOG in

dr. leanna wen is currently spreading the fallacy that unvaccinated persons should have vaccines mandated because they are like drunk drivers… they have the right to be drunk at home she says, but wanting to be part of society at large without being vaccinated is like driving drunk and putting others at risk.

besides ignoring the science proving that persons who have had sars cov-2 have natural immunity that equals or exceeds anything that could be imparted from the mrna shot, without the side effects or need for boosters, ( sorry big pharma, you’ll be losing $$$ ) this illustration just smacks of illogical reasoning.

it reminds me of the borg comparing getting baptized to getting your driver’s license.

Simon

if there was drugs that be given to people who are having severe symptoms and have them relieved in a couple of days, they would be used in most hospitals today as viable treatments

Would they? for certain?

They could be used, but there are often other factors than purely medical reasons for certain drugs to be used or not used.

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Homless in Seattle raping and assulting people, the dems don't care.

by mickbobcat in

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/democrats-seattle-homeless-resident-homicide-attempted-rape-jason-rantz.

Simon

Why are Real Estate prices so high, and why can’t folks pay their rent? Any ideas?

Because of policies that make housing more expensive!

Rent control for instance is a favourite tool of the left, and has the effect of depressing investment in housing. Not granting permits to build more houses has a more direct effect.

The left usually run the cities and they are invariably shit-holes. Recently things seem to have gotten a whole lot worse with the bat-shit crazy of allowing "homeless" to set up their tents anywhere, and drag neighbourhoods down.

These "homeless" are just druggy criminal losers who don't want to work and they are increasing in number as the message being put out is "why should you work!"