Oh no doubt that was also a big factor, but even if they were well built high quality cars, it would still be a non-starter as long as Elno has anything to do with the company.
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My partner needed to buy a new vehicle. A Tesla Model was easily in budget. But they opted not to buy one because they want zero affiliation with Musk or any connotations that they may endorse his behavior by owning one of his products.
I think if you were to chart the number of single season series over the years, you'd likely find that streaming media has exponentially more cancelled shows after one series because it's easier for them to monitor engagement of the series by viewers and cut the fat when they think a show won't succeed based on the metric data they have.
Can you imagine shows like Stargate SG1? They most likely would have been cancelled after season1 because the viewer count wasn't there at the start of the series.
I'm honestly tempted to cancel my HBOMax subscription and give peacock a shot - they have TheOffice, Star Trek, and now twisted metal - lots of reasons to make the switch since I'm not using HBOMax as much as I thought I would.
What most people outside China don't understand is that real-estate has been one big scam. See, developers have been building skycrapers filled with condos. They tell the chinese people "Westerners are investing in second homes - it's a great nest egg investment for retirement! The property values will increase over time!"
The problem is that in the Chinese culture, people do not want to move into homes furnished by someone else. They want to customize and build the home to their own needs. As such all these condos are essentially empty - just bare walls with no trim, no paint, no furnishings, no kitchen cabinets, appliances, etc. It's not a "home" it's an empty canvas to build whatever you want......
Except it turns out nobody wants to live in an empty ghost town filled with shoddy constructed skyscrapers.
So that's how you end up with households that own 4-5 'homes' which are really just empty condos in empty skyscrapers that nobody wants. And now many people are waking up to the ruse and simply refusing to pay their mortgages on these second/third/fourth homes. Which is resulting in many major developers going bankrupt. (There have been multiple, but here's the latest developer in china flashing warning signs - https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinese-property-developer-guangzhou-rf-faces-bankruptcy-restructure-demand-2023-07-13/ )
You can read more here - https://www.wired.com/2016/02/kai-caemmerer-unborn-cities/
Oh and fun side note - many venture capitalists inside America saw these developers building all these skyscrapers in China and decided to invest in these huge corporations. A fair amount of large financial institutions have bet big on these developers in China, and are going to lose their asses as these developers go bankrupt. It is already having a ripple effect on the US Stock Market as well.
How are you seeing gifs in kbin? All I'm seeing is a url link to the gif and have to click the media icon button next to the URL For it to load...... is there a setting I need to enable to load pictures/gifs automatically?
Funny, during the boycott of Reddit when squabbles was growing, I signed up and created two new communities - one for earbuds and one for vaporents (dry herbal vaporizing).
My earbuds community was quicky approved, but the vaporents group took almost a week before it was approved. It's almost like the site's owner (since back then he had no mods or admin team) was hesitant when it came to something possibly clandestine in nature. I guess drugs aren't cool, but hate speech is?
Sounds to me like their whole argument is "it's too difficult and expensive to bring trump to the specified secured facility. His lawyers are basically suggesting that since Trump was former president, him and his residence are "secure" because he's protected by secret service agents and surely that must be "secure enough" for these top secret classified documents
Well, you can bet he wants to change that law weeks before the next election and declare himself ~~emperor~~ governor 4 life.
Feinstein isn't the only problem here. In fact the 118th Congress average age is the third oldest since 1789 .
I cannot understand why people continue voting for the same incumbent year after year. Not once have I voted for the a politician, then thought to myself in the next election "they listen to me and deserve my vote again". I refuse to vote twice for any politician unless I actually believe they care about the average person and I'll be honest that has never happened. Maybe I just grew up in the wrong era and didn't get to appreciate these politicians when they were in their prime twenty years ago?
I just don't get it. Are we voting based on a popularity contest of names we recognize on the ballot with a D or R next to their name? How f*cking pathetic. Look across the asile, both ways - maybe there's someone decent out there. Unlikely, but maybe they're better than the current guy who's been there for thirty years.
Politicians like diapers should be changed often, and for the same reason.
A windows10 update broke my start menu and taskbar. Literally can't even type to quick-search for an installed application in the start menu.
Finally I broke down and installed open-shell which gave me a custom start menu that actually works and I can customize it to my style preferences. It's also faster than the other start menu. And now that I hear Windows11 will have ads in their start menu, I'll simply install OpenShell if I'm ever forced to Windows11 (unlikely, I'm moving away from windoze).