Haas scoring 20 points in two races. Didn't expect that to happen. Also didn't really notice them during the race, maybe should watch different commentators.

Perez usually performs a bit worse after a contract extension, no? This was predictable. He brings in loads of money. The teams nowadays are really profitable. I guess they value money over performance. Or gambled that Max will bring in enough points on his own.

over the top cartoonish DEI

Suggest to consider why you're highlighting DEI a an issue. I only see such stuff from pretty right wing media.

A common trick is to blame problems on a group. E.g. black people, gay people, trans people, etc. DEI fits right into that.

It's really hard to explain their actions as being profit-driven.

Why are people outraged? Currently the blame is on trans and DEI. You're blaming Disney instead of the ones promoting yet another group as the cause why stuff is bad.

I can now get AS splits for less that 400 (500-600 installed)€ in Spain, where AC is common.

In Netherlands there's a crazy markup on that. You need a local installer. Local installers get huge kickbacks from Dutch sellers. As a result pretty much all installers refuse to install anything bought yourself. Meaning, it costs thousands per AC instead of what it should be.

That's news to me considering the EPA-rated fuel economy of vehicles with both hybrid and pure ICE drivetrains is universally higher for the hybrid versions.

Because they make certain assumptions. Fortunately the EU mandated that cars measures those things since various years. That caused a review of those hybrids. They're usually not charged.

Interesting that Putin went to North Korea. Especially as he didn't go there for 25 years. The meetings they had during this 25 years, NK had to go to Russia.

Anyway, more shells and do on for Russia is not good news. The support for Ukraine really needs to be stepped up.

"As the journalist who spent the most time with him, I have to say, he couldn’t remember things. He couldn’t even remember me.

That's from the article. It's not any random person as you somehow want it to be.

Yet you back up your claim with nothingness. Not quite sure how living in a country makes you an expert on regulations. Why didn't you add substance? The compliance department in the companies I worked for wouldn't be experts btw.

You don't know the Ape? It's really everywhere in Europe.

I haven't seen those in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany except maybe once in 5 years. Further, it's seems not comparable. In Netherlands it likely wouldn't be considered a car. It likely would fall under the max 45 kmh regulations.

Ah, so you can exclude gays. And that means:

Republicans don't by default have anything against gays.

Because hey, every time they do everything against gays there's an excuse! There's been loads and loads of excuses over the years, but hey, they really don't have anything against gays!

Jeez, done critical thinking would be good.

They say migrants, but mean asylum seekers. While actively encouraging as much as possible foreign workers for e.g. ASML. Asylum seekers only make up a tiny portion of the migrants. Knowledge workers however, ...

Far right thrives on stuff like this.

Do more for the poor.

It's really that simple.

Netherlands had a right wing government. They messed up greatly. People voted even more right because "obviously" the previous government was actually left wing.

Perception matters a lot for a large group of people.

And it's funny because when certain parties make promises there interpretation differs depending if they like the party or not.

E.g. making promises to improve things: who will pay for it? E.g. left wing is spending money they don't have, or they care too much about lazy people.

If a right wing party makes a promise to improve things and financially it is pretty much certain it'll not work out: don't be negative, just saying that because of x/y/z.

It's too easy to blame left wing parties for what is happening. Pretty sure there's various causes, and people often aren't logical or rational.