Endgame was terrible.

The problem is that they dove into time travel and multiverses too soon.

Now, nothing matters in the universe anymore. They can tell any story they want, and it’s all completely inconsequential because it can easily be wiped out by another universe and/or time travel.

Are you trying to say Boeing? Cause you’re hurtin’ my ears here!

Kind of random, but this why I think arguments against capitalism should be nuanced and measured... because its so goddam easy. You don’t need to look that hard to find cases of a “free market” creating problems for itself that its either unable or unwilling to solve.

When I read “coolest version of the most boring car” and saw the shape, I immediately thought it was this at first:

If the EV depreciation hammer also hits these, I might be able to talk myself into getting this gently used at $40k. I’m reasonably well off-ish and no kids, but students loans and housing prices are dragging everything down. 

The sad part is that you’re right. Yay capitalism.

A friend of mine had a lime-green Asteroid back in the day. He had to keep changing gas stations, because everywhere he went, the thing spewed oil everywhere. If he filled up, by the time he left the station there was an Exxon Valdes oil slick under it. He had to keep a 6-pack of Castrol in the trunk.

As is often the case, I have a few.

Rule #1 DO NOT CODESHARE!

Flew out of London to Cincinnati by way of Paris. This was a Delta flight code-shared with Air France. They never got that. When I tried to check in I could not. When I called, they said, just check in at the gate. Silly me. I get up in London at 3:40 am and…

Glad my “worse” story isn’t so bad. Back in the late 80s, flying back from Europe to New York. I don’t remember if it was thunderstorms in New York or the remnants of a tropical storm but they divert us to Philadelphia. We sat on the ground in Philadelphia for six hours before they would let us leave for New York.…

They put two races between Austria and Hungary this time! The teams could just about push the equipment from Spielberg to Budapest if not for the mountains (fun halfway at least, wheee,) but nope, let’s layover in Silverstone and Spa instead.

hmm, wouldn’t it be great if you could take all these fractional pennies and deposit it in a bank account. it’s a rounding error for the companies, they’ll never miss it.

Me, driving a Morgan Aero 8 at breakneck speeds through the countryside:

I want to say it was Freshman or Sophomore year of high school (~1997) but one time someone blew through the bus stop sign only to turn down a side street. So obviously the bus follows the car to get the license plate. Meanwhile the entire bus is screaming out of the windows of the bus giving the driver of the car all…

Came here to share your shock.

Yeah I keep reading articles referring to “Black swan” events and it’s like, no baby, that’s just late-stage capitalism. There’s only so much you can suck out of the husk before the well runs dry.

Keeping the stock price propped up is his priority. A less expensive model with small profit margins is something that analysts will be able to value, and the value they come up with will be underwhelming. A “robotaxi” is something that can be just promising enough to the right kind of people with enough time before…

It definitely is 100% to do with "owning the libs," despite it being entirely unclear how this decision, you know, does that.

I’m guessing Musk sent some late night drug and sleep deprivation induced emails and this is the result. Especially since Reuters has secondary confirmation of some of the story. Once again, something he would be much better off having a PR department handle

To me, it’s probably true. Only limited profit potential per vehicle in a lower cost model. But if he can make a robo taxi work, then he can make his claim his cars, and Tesla owner cars are worth more money because of automation and as such charge more than competitors . People will buy them and rent them out like…