As a US citizen with long heritage here, it saddens me to say that the divorce is earned. Let everyone who voted for this feel economic pain that they thought wouldn't happen. There is no functioning "we" here larger than 1/2 the number of voters. Divided we fall.

America is the way it is because of its people. It’s unfortunate to understand reality. The world will go on without the US.

Overall, yes, but not solely. Rupert Murdoch has a lot to do with the current state, Putin wouldn't be nearly as far in without Fox.

Most important US car so far. Xiaomi and BYD cars will be far more important and for the entire world.

Fyi: This looks like a random help-wanted ad in some doc form. Hope it doesn't deliver a malware payload.

Perhaps the poster's curiosity is "Why is the Dallas Morning News hiring a faith reporter?"

I follow Ryan Burge and his https://www.graphsaboutreligion.com/ Substack to track the decline of religion in the US, so I am very curious about this reporting position, for example; he was also the subject of the piece submitted as Scholar of religion's decline faces his own church's closure - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41021872 - July 2024 (2 comments)

(his book "The Vanishing Church" is also very good, highly recommend: https://bakerpublishinggroup.com/products/9781587436697_the-...)

> Perhaps the poster's curiosity is "Why is the Dallas Morning News hiring a faith reporter?"

Indeed, thank you.

Happy to help.

It's a Dallas paper. I assume that unprovable assertions are part of their mandate.

Try again? I got through.

Just about one year into this madness, three more to go, and he will continue to descend slowly.

Remember the "he's being sarcastic" from his first term. Despite sarcasm not being appropriate, "facetious" maybe.

While Canada might have taken a step like this eventually, Trump being Trump made it far more likely due to his desire to alienate Canada.

Now it is likely that Chinese EVs will drive on US roads from Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto into the US and US citizens will see for themselves. I'm not a fan of cheap cheap labor in that it reflects poverty that shouldn't exist in the modern world, but the strategic insistence of Detroit to produce expensive, low-efficiency, low-capability SUVs will start to backfire.

Agreed on the labor aspect, though Chinese manufacturing is increasingly becoming very automated, sophisticated, and less reliant on exploitative labor.

> Now it is likely that Chinese EVs will drive on US roads from Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto into the US and US citizens will see for themselves.

It is not clear they will be allowed to cross the border in these cars.

These cars are street legal in the US. Ford's CEO used one as a daily driver. Unless the car stays permanently it wouldn't be counted as an import.

Aside from everything else, Ford's CEO is not going to be subjected to the same rules as you or I.

A reality of all gov regulators is a degree of flexibility with respect to people undertaking genuine R&D in an upfront and responsible way.

I wonder how different street legal in Canada is from in the US, given the connectedness of manufacturing and markets.

Maybe they will be banned for "national security".

EDIT: specific statements here: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46651051]

Yes, I should have linked that story myself, it's one of the things that provoked the comment.

There are differences for street legality mainly around importing older cars which meant at one point the JDM scene in Canada had access to a lot more cars than the US did.

A boom in manufacturing output in the day of automation wouldn't mean increased headcount anyway. More automation instead.

There is now the opportunity for flat-out lying to be excused as a "Copilot hallucination" too.

It’s worse. The guy in charge, and the folks working in the FOI response department repeatedly asserted that the force do not use AI, and did not use AI on this occasion.

Not sure you can pass that off as a hallucination.

Yeah well there's the whole UK post office/Toshiba scandal that cost suicides and jail sentences for wrongly accused postal employees but the cause was Toshiba's faulty software and the lies of the UK postal service.

> no congressman, no senator, no governor has ever come out of Silicon Valley’s great technology industry.

Silicon Valley tech leaders aim to rule, not to lead. Principles of Silicon Valley are antithetical to actual government. Would you trust Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg or Ben Horowitz to run your state?