This is a bad marketing idea to compare a golf cart like this to a Toyota Tacoma. There is practically zero ground clearance and a unibody frame, this will high center in places where I regularly drive my Tacoma. Tacoma wins on ruggedness, lower total cost of ownership thanks to a significantly lower price and having limited depreciation.
Unless these are priced at under $30,000 for the AWD, these will flop commercially.
If the CAFE standards could be fixed, we could get ICE and hybrid trucks that are smaller and more affordable, the EV route is too expensive and the products are strange.
I know the CAFE standards are bad, but isn't it just a tax if you miss the target? Anyone know how much would it cost a car company per vehicle if they made a modern version of the '80s Ranger or Hilux?
At work? Sure. Especially infront of your boss. If your friend is a bad cook, do you critique their cooking? Or politely eat some and next time come just for coffee? When you need some government permit, and the person there is playing solitaire, do you say that they're lazy aloud and risk your form "getting lost"? If there's a group of young men playing loud music on a bus, do you tell them that they're idiots, who don't care about other people around them? What about if you have controversial political opinions and work at a workplace where most people there don't agree with them, do you say them aloud? What about at college, if you think your professor is an idiot, even if true, would you say it aloud (before you pass that subject of course)?
Yes, most people don't say what they think in person.
But on the internet, you can say that your boss is an idiot, that the company produces crap products, that you eat before visining a friend, that the government worker at XY office is incompetent and lazy, that peopl playing loud music in public are idiots, that men should have legalized paper abortions, and that the professor has no idea what he's teaching, because his knowledge was outdated in the 80s when he got his tenure. All of that because you can be ghusto here and not "John Smith" with your real name and anyone being able to google you. Or more realistically, even if you're alloed to use nicknames but have to register with your real name, you'll never be able to safely critique the government, because they'll always be able to get your data.
You're examples fall into the two categories I've talked about: Those where I believe you should stick to your convictions and say it as yourself, and those where privacy options would be available (again, as in real life).
For example:
> If there's a group of young men playing loud music on a bus, do you tell them that they're idiots
Why would you tell them they're idiots? How would that help anything. If you do that online anonymously, are you trying to better the situation, or vent your own anger and thus making the world that much more negative?
This is nonsense, you could buy a nice car and a home 50 years while working at the post office. Because we have faster computers and smartphones does not make us wealthier.
Google has been doing the same thing. The fact is that these companies simply have too many employees and they aren't able to properly utilize everyone.
It's the same deal in Seattle, I don't even bother reporting this stuff to the police. Elsewhere, the police would respond and it would show in statistics.
Depositors failed to do their due diligence, the bank offered 'sweet heart' deals to get customers. Depositors should lose their pants and have to wait for the FDIC to liquidate before getting any funds.
No one deserves free, unlimited, zero risk access to depositors. If you want to do that, you should buy bonds, short eurodollars as hedge, and get loans against the bonds. None of this is free.
Funny thing is, part of why SVB blew themselves up was they bought a bunch of long term mortgage backed securities paying low rates so now those securities have lost a ton of value if they were to liquidate them (which the FDIC will be doing shortly).
But I don't think the Fed engaging in QE constitutes a bailout.
It will be interesting to see who else is struggling as I doubt svb are the only bank that went long duration to try and eek out some yield.
Here in the UK there was a pretty explicit choice to watch medium sized (still huge for a mere human like me) banks fail but to bail out large ones. I guess that's fine from a short term, pragmatic sense. Not sure what it does for long term competition but c'est la vie.
I believe bailouts are usually kept secret as telling anyone (a) makes banks less likely to ask for one and (b) then causes a run pushing up the cost of the bailout. The conspiracy theorist in me wonders who has been given a below-inflation "loan"...
Unless these are priced at under $30,000 for the AWD, these will flop commercially.
If the CAFE standards could be fixed, we could get ICE and hybrid trucks that are smaller and more affordable, the EV route is too expensive and the products are strange.