when he says that trump wouldn’t win election without him, I wish people would respond that he is full of bullshit and trump alone would win anyway, pushing him to say more.
I believe that Trump may not have won without him. He weaponized twitter to push misinformation against the Dems and in favour of Trump. I don't know if the result of that can be quantified in such a way that we'd know for sure whether it changed the outcome, but it certainly had an impact.
It's not organized by left and right. It's organized by percentage of people who have an unfavorable view of Israel.
It would be weirder for 0% to be on the right and 100% to be on the left. Also, in theory, it's possible for those three dots to be in any order on the line.
About the same price as PP's forced byelection will cost.
Did you read the article, or are you just complaining about the headline?
"$X per Y" is a very normal way of phrasing things in financial reports. Like, Xiaomi had an earnings per share of $0.15. That doesn't mean that the shares are what earned them that money.
Losing $900 per car is just a shorthand way of saying "Xiaomi Group released its Q1 2025 financial report yesterday. The report shows significant progress in its electric vehicle business, with 75,869 SU7 series vehicles delivered during the quarter. The company announced plans to expand production capacity, with cumulative deliveries of the SU7 series now exceeding 258,000 units. In the first quarter of 2025, Xiaomi’s smart electric vehicle and AI innovation business segment generated total revenue of 18.6 billion yuan (2.58 billion USD). Electric vehicle sales accounted for 18.1 billion yuan(2.51 billion USD), while other related businesses contributed 500 million yuan (70 million USD). The smart electric vehicle and AI segment reported a gross profit margin of 23.2% for the quarter, with an operating loss of 500 million yuan (70 million USD). Based on these figures, Xiaomi’s electric vehicle business posted an average loss of 6,500 yuan (903 USD) per vehicle in Q1 2025, a substantial improvement from 2024 when the company’s EV division recorded a net loss of 6.2 billion yuan (862 million USD) on 136,854 delivered vehicles, representing an average loss of approximately 45,000 yuan (6,250 USD) per unit" which is a bit wordy for a headline.
I think adjusting by municipality is a bad idea.
A flat basic income across the country promotes migration to lower COL areas. An adjusted basic income promotes migration to higher COL areas in order to get a bigger income. While different areas having different COLs is pretty unavoidable, I don't think making high-COL areas more attractive is a good idea.
I'm also not a huge fan of adjusting for couples vs. single people. I get why they do it, it's an easy way to save money. But the actual expenses of you living with a roommate (as you suggested) compared to you living with a roommate that you're also sleeping with, don't change very much. (I have similar complaints about household income being used for basically everything except taxes, but that's a little further off topic.)
Meld cards all have the restriction of "own and control", so while your scenario sounds fun, it's unfortunately not possible (yet).
It's text on the card, rather than a built in restriction, so in theory it could be possible in the future.
If I understood the article correctly, they're not actually losing money on each sale though. Their vehicles have a profit margin of 23%. The loss comes from the initial costs of building the factory and tooling to produce these vehicles.
It's news because these two mean girls are in charge of the two largest nuclear weapon stockpiles in the world.
Sure, but for a number of customers (and increasing year over year), that's not an option. I'm not choosing between an ICE Honda and all the other non-Honda. I'm choosing between an electric Honda or an electric non-Honda.
If they don't want my money at all, then sure. But this is the sort of decision making that killed Sears and Blockbuster. Society is moving in a particular direction. They can keep up with the trends, or die.
Drive forward, drive forward, reverse, reverse, left blinker, right blinker, left blinker, right blinker, Brake pedal, Accelerator pedal, honk.
What did they expect? They made this decision during the holidays. Then they need to design, build, and deploy a website. If they have employees capable of doing this, they probably already had plans to work on something else. And if they didn't have the employees, they need to hire them.
Unless the whole idea was to just throw up a Geocities page titled "Dead People", these things take time to do properly and respectfully.
Sue them for what? They are fully within their rights to run anti-abortion ads and reject pro-choice ads.