FiniteBanjo

It doesn't seem like such a large gap or grey area to me. You can tell a woman "Nice T-Shirt" and that is fine but "Nice Tits" is not fine, it's a pretty clear division to me. What could the Doc say that would qualify him as the monster people are calling him but also not illegal?

They attempted to not pay out his contract btw. He had to sue them to get that, and they payed it out. If they had evidence of such behavior from him then I'm sure courts would agree that his own actions destroying his own public image would have been more than enough reason to cancel the contract.

I'm not defending any potential actions he took, but:

There are laws about sexting minors, so if he had done that then he would have broken it and they would have plenty of evidence of that.

If nobody above 18 is morally justified to be in a chat with anybody under 18 then we've got some serious societal level issues to fix.

EDIT: And btw they tried to get out of paying him 20M, but realized they had no grounds to do so when he started his lawsuit. They had incentive, here. They wanted to not pay him.

He never tweeted that he "sexted a minor."

Link to HIS TWEET

"These were casual, mutual conversations that sometimes leaned too much in the direction of being inappropriate, but nothing more."

Now, I personally pretty regularly say a lot of shit that can be considered "inappropriate," but that does not equate to sexual on its own. I'm interested in seeing how this story develops, but it seems most people have already made up their minds and branded him a criminal.

I am willing to believe the accusations, but I won't take the word of people who tried to weasel out of his contract termination fees.

If they had evidence of sexting in 2017 then why didn't they report it to the police? Why quietly ban him in 2020?

Seems to me like they had monetary incentive to remove the Doc.

Rivian comes off as a tech bro startup that has talked a big game but produced poor results, they've been advertising autonomous self driving since like 2015 or earlier. After shipments started, so did layoffs.

VW has a long history of reliable manufacturing to high standards in Europe. They've had executives make claims that they would overtake Tesla as the world's largest electric car company by 2025. Obviously, VW has been lagging hard on EV and won't reach that goal, but if I had to pick a favorite car company it's between them and maybe JEEP or KIA.

Sucks to suck if you ever need one repaired. Which is very often.

TBH if it weren't for windows I don't think anybody would be dumb enough to use a Mac computer. Microsoft really wasting potential in the OS market, though, I agree.