Thanks for giving me a great idea. I have been annoyed by the toilet-breaks of my serfs, eh, employees, so I’ll from now on lock the toilets and provide diapers and piss jugs. They can empty them outside in the gutter, but we’ll time it, so they have 20 seconds for that before I’ll start to dock their pay.

I bet we can…

There is a lesson here for efficiency minded executives: GM’s CEO Mary Barra makes $11,574 / hour or $192 / minute. So for her to take a 5 minute toilet break costs the company $964. I feel she should just drop a log in her pantsuit and the dry cleaning would only be $20. That’s a 4,822% increase in efficiency.

I hate that you are so right about this.

thats a lot of fast movement, probably would have been shot

That’s for a supervisor. There are places that would give a slime mold a badge if it could hold a gun and go after the “undesirables.”

My favorite lines from my old boss: “you hold a mirror to their mouth and if they fog it up they are qualified”

Car applies brake lights. Car appears to be heading to the shoulder.

TCIAB

That was my first thought, too. The fact that the cops blatantly lied about this shooting is somehow a footnote in many of these conversations.

lunged at the officer with a knife, not just had one. Which still... did not happen

So the cops told the public the suspect was outside the car and had a knife and then was shot?

“This isn’t about all EVs. It’s about non-competitive EVs piling up at dealers.”

I don’t know how it is now with their various electric models, but I worked at a group with a Volkswagen store when the eGolf came out, and they simply refused to sell the car or do the upgrades. Now they did later do the upgrades to add the charging stations for their Porsche store, but the eGolf wasn’t seen as worth…

I can’t afford a $32,000 car, let alone one twice that. And I drive my cars for 10+ years. In a decade will my electric car be as obsolete as an iPhone 5?

That’s the real problem, not to mention that to work on EVs at most authorized dealers you need to be certified in a lot more things compared to an ICE which means more money to pay for those EV technicians. Dealers are doing everything they can to keep people out of EVs because it’s less long term profits compared to…

Let’s also not forget that dealers shot themselves in the foot with the ADM antics last year. Hell, up until ~May this year, the Ford dealer nearest to me was still putting 5k markups on non-GT Mach Es, and 15k markups on the GT variants.

“The dealers have pointed to a lack of demand for less-than-affluent customers”

This is a fun idea that I think I’ll disagree on. IMO, the push-rod V8's of houses are brick bungalows and split levels from right outside major metropolises in the 30’s, 40's, and 50's. A whole different level of compact, but more importantly sturdy as hell. You walk into one of these now and it still feels ready to…

The real bummer is 90% of homeowners will then fill those two bays with junk and leave their cars out in the driveway.

Our first home was a snout-house, and while I get the idea that seeing the garage door represent potentially more than 50% of the front, it is very handy. (Also, it’s not like mid-century homes didn’t…

Either layout tends to be in neighborhoods with huge lots where it’s nearly impossible to walk anywhere.