Ford Shedding 3,000 Salaried Folks to Reduce the Cost of Transitioning to EV

Transitions.

 

I like big, loud, powerful American muscle cars - but - that war is lost. This administration has enticed or threatened American auto companies and old Springsteen songs into the historic abyss. 

Every shift in technology has collateral damage; from the Luddites of the 19th century to paint booth operators of the 80s - when new tech evolves, labor shifts into other areas.

Railroads, looms, computers, typewriters, newspapers, department stores, shopping malls, Beanie Babies, Saturday Morning cartoons,  - gone.  Next, the V8, filling stations, and auto dealerships.

That's right, the American staple of automotive nirvana, that one place nobody likes to go, but everyone does, the car dealership follows the internal combustion engine into oblivion.

It was a good ride

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Lively, informative, entertaining, salty, contrarian discussion. 

• Robot dogs are real
• UFOs are real
• A3 or A4? Neither
• Print is evaporating
• OEMs have a huge blindspot
• Nobody wants another reason to stand in front of a copier
• Don't be so negative
• Don't be a bully
• Selling 'soft-close' paper drawers
• Sell the basics
• Criticize but have answers
• There once were 8,000 dealers
• Luxury Submersibles
• The Clouds
• The Fermi Paradox
• Etc.

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Hunger Stones Reveal 'Ominous' Warnings #ClimateChange

Dropping river levels in Europe are revealing historical artifacts while here in the States, Lake Mead gave up the remains of five folks 'sleeping with the fishes'.

A recent article in Morning Brew states, 

"Perhaps the most ominous findings are the “hunger stones” etched along the banks of central Europe’s rivers. These inscriptions date back centuries, and generally offer the same message to future generations: “If the water is low enough for you to read this, prepare for pain.”