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It's a big deal because it's a bunch of white people who died.

More Lao kids will die this year from unexploded ordinance left over from an undeclared war where the US dropped a planeload of bombs on the country every eight minutes around the clock, every single day, for nine years.

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/11/1186949348/us-cluster-munitions-civilian-casualties-laos

Oh look the loser Biden administration is in Laos right now and refusing to even mention it because "muh China." https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/21/us-secret-war-remembered-as-secretary-of-defense-lloyd-austin-visits-laos

There are other search engines. Maybe Firefox can partner with them.

Large outlet center on interstate 40 in North Carolina between two metropolitan areas needed a Spanish translator. I applied and interviewed, having spent significant time working IT jobs in South America. They asked if I spoke Mexican. I said no, I am working proficient in Spanish. They said sorry, they were looking for someone who spoke Mexican.

Cool, an Oxford study that isn't insulting.

Yeah the Biden administration is going down as a terrible Presidency.

No punishment for January 6th, escalated war, lost reproductive healthcare rights for women, no functional student loan action, resulted in a more focused Republican party and Project 2025. Genocide in the middle east.

Now it's scorched earth on the way out. "But he tried his best" get the fuck out of here.

We would have been better off if Trump just finished his second term. It wouldn't be any worse than right now except the Republican Party would be on their way OUT in January instead of coming back in with determination and a new focus and a chip on their shoulder.

Cutting Trump off in 2021 and letting him come back four years later without punishment is the equivalent to letting a rabid dog out after you finally caught him. You think it's going to be easy to stop him again?

Fuck Joe Biden. And Merrick Garland is a traitor.

Mr. Biden signed a proclamation declaring every Nov. 17 to be International Conservation Day and vowed that the United States would spend millions of dollars across the Amazon on restoring land, planting native tree species, supporting biodiversity efforts and increasing fertilizer efficiency programs. It was the first time a sitting American president had visited the Amazon.

This reminds me of when President Obama went to Laos with a couple weeks left in his Presidency, and vowed to clean up the US bombs that still explode and maim children every year. It was the most heavily bombed nation in history by the US, and they didn't even declare war. Then Trump came in and threw it all away.

The United States eventually dropped the equivalent of a planeload of bombs every eight minutes, 24 hours a day, for nine years

https://www.history.com/news/laos-most-bombed-country-vietnam-war

Because they know they won't get caught or punished.

Of course.

The United States chose: a world of conspiracy theory and hearsay as fact; pseudoscience and speaking in tongues over reason; rule of man over rule of law; whiteness over everybody else; and the promise of crypto wealth over women's health.

The kids who, without a glimmer of intelligence in their eyes, told you it's a fact that Marilyn Manson had a rib removed to suck his own dick, are now grown up and running the country.

Ghosting is a normal part of life. It happens, and 95% of the time it's inadvertent and not a slight. People come in and leave your life. That's just how it works.

If someone isn't worth the hassle, move on. It doesn't even deserve an explanation or second thought.

Only you get to determine how your time is spent. Nobody deserves a monopoly over your emotions or effort, and anybody who demands an explanation is just manipulating you because they don't respect your agency as a person as much as they value their own pride. Don't fall for the toxicity.

There are eight billion people out there. It would take 250 years to high-five them all. Lots of noise, very little signal.

For you TL;DR - Toyota missed the EV market and suddenly finds themselves unable to compete in this space, on the outside looking in.

Their North American lead, a guy named Jack Hollis who looks like any American stereotype named Jack from the 1960s, thinks it's unfair to make 35% of sales EVs. So now that the Trump administration clearly wants to move back to oil wagons, "those plans are pending federal approval and risk getting axed under the new Trump administration."

Hollis is publicly making an appeal to authority with the incoming administration to get them to overrule the California regulation so that he doesn't get blamed for Toyota no longer being competitive.

Also, quick Google search reveals Hollis has a quote, "I work for Jesus, but get paid by Toyota" so you kinda get the idea of who's steering the ship over there. Another quick search shows Hollis donated multiple times to the "Automotive Free International Trade PAC" which contributed 93% of it's funds towards Republicans as of October.

Yeah, better vantage point.

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