Except the flight records are public information, as they would be for anyone else. The only difference is that Musk gets more attention because he is constantly seeking it. Sometimes that attention is going to come in a flavor he dislikes. If he'd learn to shut the fuck up once in a while, he could could live his…

Beef can be raised ethically and in a carbon-neutral (even carbon-negative) fashion. The problem is that most people can’t afford to buy pasture-raised meat and dairy because wages have long since fallen behind inflation. As a result, large corporations have come in and riddled the industry with unethical,…

I think that’s to be expected at this stage. I have no idea what sort of scale they would need to bring that cost down to something that could reasonably replace gasoline, but it’s way too early to write it off.

Guessing the Fisker folks just voted for themselves.

I honestly don’t know why any of these companies are even interested in self-driving. Even if someone were able to get it to work reasonably well (which is still a LONG way off), the legal ramifications of when something does go wrong would give their lawyers nightmares. Avoiding liability tends to be a priority for…

Considering the average transaction price on new cars these days, it would be nice if they’d make ANY affordable cars. There are currently just 9 cars on the market that start under $20k. Most of them are subcompacts, and you’ll be lucky to find them on an actual lot.

It's a nice example, sure, but I don't think a different badge makes it any more special. At least not if you consider it an actual car and not a weird collector's item. Especially since it's been customized and previously wrecked. Give me a standard model without the markup any day. 

Because they don’t WANT to work. They HAVE to work because this country fails its poor on every possible level

I guess I just don’t buy into the idea that a “surviving” Shelby has all that much inherent value. It’s the looks and the performance that make it cool, not a bunch of 50-year-old parts.

1. This is, again, largely an issue with opening borders that have previously been closed. If the concern is sudden influxes due to war, cartel activity, etc, those people are going to flee the situation regardless. Maybe they just don’t get stuck in the squalor of a refugee camp for years if they can go get a job.

Have you seen what GT500s go for? They are not something your average boomer can afford, even the wealthy ones. 

They’re chunks of metal. If customizing it makes someone happy, that’s a good thing. We like to get mad at rich people for buying rare supercars just to keep them in a garage. Yet if someone spends the same amount of money doing what they want with a much less rare classic (around 7,000 total 1st Gen GT500s were…

I do agree that simply abolishing citizenship requirements all at once is a bad idea. The demand for goods and services will increase in equal measure with the supply of labor, but companies can’t expand at the flip of a switch. If you were going to open the borders, you would have to do so gradually so that the…

How? Removing the restrictions on citizenship wouldn’t stop intelligence agencies from monitoring suspected terrorists or other criminals. 

RIP 

I’m sure somebody who is far more educated in economics and geopolitics can explain why I’m wrong, but I have never really understood the purpose of hard borders, visa requirements, etc. The most common refrain I hear is that people don’t want immigrants coming to their country and living off social welfare programs.…

Re: TTRS

Are we looking at the same photo? There are a few wheels that have a wonky spoke that doesn't quite match the others, but these all look fairly standard. Not sure how you decided only a few have regular spokes, or which ones you think are impossible to build. 

I'm never for removing features from cars, but I have to question some of this information. I've lived in rural towns most of my life, and I don't think I've ever purposely tuned in to an AM station. I don't remember ever being in a car with someone who did so, either. I just don't think I would even consider firing…

Aside from the online bit, nothing you listed is different from a normal dealer. And many of them started doing the online part, too, during the pandemic.