I can't see it. I don't think the US wants to get involved.

I read far too many books and had never heard of "Independent Bookstore Day".

The entire article sounds like an excuse for cheap shots against Jeff Bezos and Amazon.

I will never buy books from a bookseller or bookshop that thinks it is acceptable to behave like this : "Leah Koch, owner of the Ripped Bodice, in Los Angeles, California, kept it simple: “Fuck Jeff Bezos,” she told Variety."

And here in Australia brick and mortar bookshops tend to carry popular rubbish that I would be ashamed to read.

Dunning-Kruger effect on full display.

Should be "the writer of this article has no idea how street addresses actually work in the real world".

This atheist admired him and read his Encylicals.

And you know this because...

"Well, yes.

I just like that they made up the numbers to get an exact negative 1.

Again, I am a financial columnist, and I have a patriotic appreciation for the US’s export industry of finance, and two of that industry’s most popular products are:

Sprinkling some Greek letters on your work to add visual interest, and

Making up parameters to solve for the result you want.

Even in this tariff announcement, you see the US leaning into its comparative advantage."

Matt Levine at his delicious best !

"Aggressive classification of operating expenses as investment can be used to artificially boost reported profits."

The author of this article is Dan Crum a FT journalist respected for his investigations of financial fraud.

Dan Crum was responsible for uncovering the Wirecard fraud.

https://www.ft.com/stream/ffd38f36-a94c-43f7-8a62-2f45caf1be...

> The author of this article is Dan Crum a FT journalist respected for his investigations of financial fraud

He had to just post a retraction and apology in the FT admitting he was wrong, so not well respected anymore. Of course the media won't report the retraction after regurgitating the original article.

Not the first "expert" to use their reputation to successfully influence the public discourse with falsehoods.

> He had to just post a retraction and apology in the FT admitting he was wrong, so not well respected anymore.

One wrong statement does not make someone "not well respected". Well respected comes from being mostly right most of the time, not 100% error-free.

> Of course the media won't report the retraction after regurgitating the original article.

It won't get the same traction, certainly. This is true of all retractions, and has been for decades (centuries, probably).

> Not the first "expert" to use their reputation to successfully influence the public discourse with falsehoods.

This sounds like you're assuming a deliberate, planned intent to sell the public on what is false. I'd like to see your evidence for that. (Or do you not actually assume that, and your prose is implying more than you mean?)

You are right.

The company is a toy for a cashed up entrepreneur ! ;-)

Unlike Tesla, Toyota makes reliable cars and has excellent servicing and logistics.

And Toyota does not have a politically active, toxic brand ambassador.

Tesla should be trading at 0.5 X Toyota or less.

Needs a new user interface and a new name. Krita is not as excruciating as the gimp.