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  • The supply chain for most "local" vehicle manufacture in North America winds back and forth between Canada, the US, and Mexico. None of those countries can assemble a finished car without parts coming from both of the others. Trump hates this and has been doing his utmost to torpedo the system.

    The risk with Chinese cars has less to do with the cars themselves and more with getting too deeply enmeshed in, and dependant upon, trade with China. ~50000 cars a year isn't going to do that in Canada, though, since at the moment we're wary of putting too many eggs into any basket.

  • when there’s currently a tyrant in charge in the US, nobody’s doing anything.

    Because anyone who's realistic enough to want that guy out of office is also realistic enough to know that a gun, or even a few thousand guns, won't do much against rocket-armed aircraft and exploding drones, even if they were willing to escalate to violence. The last time a group of citizens with ordinary firearms had a real chance against an army was around 1880 (just before the invention of the automatic machine gun). It kinda-sorta-almost sometimes appears to work in spats in the developing world because the objective there is to get the army to decide holding the area isn't worth the resources and it should go home. That ain't gonna happen in a civil war in the States.

    Of course, the fact that the American "right to bear arms" is a joke just makes it all the more infuriating.

  • Unusually, though, these ones were being bastards even to other cops. So they might actually get punished.

  • Yeah, but he does that randomly anyway, so why even bother paying attention?

  • Besides just ignorance and Fear of the Different? In my experience, there's a tendency for small-c conservatives to have a high degree of emotional attachment to traditional gender roles (especially toxic masculinity). LGBTQ+ people don't adhere to those roles, and show kids that it's okay not to adhere to those roles. End result: conservatives blame LGBTQ+ people for eroding one of their beloved shibboleths, because the alternative is admitting that they're wrong.

  • The thing is, the science points toward harm reduction and related strategies as the most effective. But those strategies are not politically popular, so getting them implemented is an uphill battle. It's the same all over the country.

  • My question now is, how thoroughly does one of the Yuris have to be destroyed in order to prevent the universe from collapsing? Is erasure-by-gnosia the only acceptable method, or would it be sufficient, say, for bug-Yuri to throw themself into a sun before real-Yuri wakes from the healing pod?

  • It almost became my Christmas rewatch this year, but in the end I decided I needed something with a stronger adventure/action vibe to distract me from the world we're now living in. 🫤

  • Yeah. It's pretty much a half-assed attempt to grab onto the coattails of the much better Madoka Magica.

  • I think it's just a one-shot special, set to air a couple of months from now.

  • Trigun Stargaze - still more or less following the original story, so now we’re moving into Legato and the Gung-ho Guns (though I don’t think that name has been used for them, and I assume at least the cheesier ones from the original aren’t going to appear in this more serious reboot).

    Most of the Gung-Ho Guns in the first anime were taken from the Trigun and Trigun Maximum manga (the exceptions were Caine the Longshot, who was a pure anime-original, and Chapel the Evergreen, who had been mentioned but not depicted in the manga at the time, so the anime team created their own character design). So the rest of them—Midvalley, Zazie, and so on—may well show up in the rebooted anime.

  • Sounds like a good reason to open a credit union.

  • At that point, you've put multiple man-hours into analyzing the response required to placate it, and it isn't a "cheap" device anymore. Easier to return it.

  • Well, we know now why one of the "heroes" has a Japanese name. I'm currently trying to decide whether Tatsuya ended up with the worst isekai experience I've ever encountered, or not. (The biggest competition, currently, is the guy who got offed in the first episode of Shokei Shoujo no Virgin Road without ever understanding what was going on.)

  • Oh, that's what he was trying to get at. I thought I'd just gotten misdirected to the Beaverton again.

  • Some of those just seem to require conspiracy, not overt action. If they ever discussed those possibilities, even as contingency plans, it might be possible to make a charge stick.

    In the end, if this makes it to court, it's likely to come down to the judge.

  • Double your traffic congestion, or your money back!

    . . . or not, since I've never heard of Tesla voluntarily refunding anything.

  • Probably is actual treason this time and not just sedition, given the conspiracy part.

  • If they're auditing that many of them, there will be a queue, too.

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    Shadows of the Past

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    Chair repair--looking for advice