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None of that makes the JD Power rankings any more believable or unbiased. Their surveys can both be useful for improving your product while also having biased rankings based on the surveys. Never trust any ranking where the people making the list have a vested interest in the result. JD Power isn't going to lose money when they can tweak the questions, the weighting, the included survey takers, etc to make more money.

Strong I can't believe the leopards are my face energy.

AFAIK it's been operational for about a decade.

Same. Although one of my two EGO batteries died this winter after just under 3 years of use. The other battery is still working fine and I love the snowblower otherwise.

JD Power makes its money from the same companies they are rating. There's a not too surprising correlation between the brands that pay them and the top brands on their lists. Plus the awards are based on customer surveys, so how JD Power defines "quality" and the way they ask the questions has a huge influence on what the results look like. I searched around a bit and couldn't find the questions for the Initial Quality Survey, which makes it very hard to judge the value of the questions even before considering the segment of people surveyed.

I don't think that's true. Saban was one of the top two or three head coaches of all time, maybe the top. But Alabama isn't a better place to go for a HC than the other roughly 25 top programs. In the modern era of college football, the NIL collective(s) are arguably more important than the schools themselves.

I mean, that's something Iran has to decide. Iran could decide to get involved regardless of what we do. But not responding to attacks on international shipping lanes because a country might get involved is a dangerous way to decide policy.

That's the speculation, but those targets are in Yemen. Or did I miss something in the reporting that it's actually Iranian military being hit at those sites?

I know that, but the US is hitting targets in Yemen, which is not Iran.

It's literally different countries.

Agreed. Tesla's lack of third-party shops doing repairs is a giant issue. As for Hertz, it's also simply that rental cars are regularly turned over. Hertz is just selling off cars it bought a few years ago. It's interesting that they aren't buying more EV's to replace the ones they are selling but not really much of an indicator of anything. I see this sentiment on the internet a lot, and as an owner of a Tesla I have to push back on it. I have a 2021 Model Y and it's just as high quality as the Honda and Toyota vehicles I've owned. Maybe I just got lucky, but IMO the Tesla quality issues seem overblown. And JD Powers is nonsense and no one should bother with it.

No, teams have a guy or two watching the sidelines during the game. I'm talking about a dedicated team working on it year-round. Since hacking into computer systems is actually illegal, they'll need to think outside the box: pay players on other teams to give them the signals, playbook, etc.

Every school needs to be hiring a team to start stealing signals, filming practices, etc. If the NCAA doesn't care about the integrity of the rules or the game, then neither should anyone else.

I still don't understand why there's a signing day at all. Let players and teams sign when they want.

This is Democrat Utopia or did you put this in the wrong thread?

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People keep saying this, but the Dems since Clinton have adopted a third way policy that tries to be in the middle. The problem is that the right then moved farther right to distance themselves from the Dems. If you look at global politics, surprising to many is that Bernie Sanders is almost exactly in the "middle". So what "middle" do people want? The current middle of modern American politics, which is pretty much Biden? Global politics which is Sanders? Some imagined middle from their youth in America?

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