the confidence in ignorance will need to be studied in this generation.

You are correct but the common name for the larvae of Cochliomyia hominivorax is screwworm.  As the scientific name does not exactly roll off the tongue, I think that we are stuck with the established misnomer.  By the way, as a large animal veterinarian, I often work with and depend on state and federal officials who…

I absolutely came here to say something similar.  

That to me is the way funnier part of this story. Is this man ordering a Cybertruck the direct cause of him separating from his wife? Probably not!

The dumbest thing in all of this is the guy was forced to downsize his life to live in a crappy apartment with crappy parking, and still decided to go through with buying a $100k+ truck.

I wonder if his pending purchase of the CyberTruck had anything to do with his marital separation?

Yikes. Tesla’s board seems unlikely to stand up to Musk and if they don’t they’re going to be Fisker.

Musk is the thinnest skinned, fragile snowflake out there.

It was simply Musk getting mad at someone for pushing back on what he was asking for and punishing the entire team as part of his tantrum.

There’ no fucking way I would go back to a company that fired me on the whims of a child. This is the kind of business strategy you get from a guy whose reaction to opposition is ‘Go fuck yourself’, or as he put stupidly put it, ‘G. F. Y.’

“Stable genius”

Cocaine is a hell of a drug.

When exactly did the government mandate the killing of small hatchbacks and sedans?

No, the manufacturers are run by shortsighted people who chase quarterly profits. The government didn’t have much at all to do with it.

The government didn’t mandate that Ford kill off all of its affordable offerings. Ford was simply following the cynical “build less, charge more” pricing model that a number of car manufacturers thought they could get away with in the wake of pandemic supply chain issues.

They all thought they could be Tesla on day 1.

Of course there’s fucking stock buy backs.

In other, completely unrelated news:

100%. I work for a fortune 500, and it is the same cycle every time. Our economy is dependent on the myth of unlimited growth. When you lay off all of these people, it frees up reporting cash for shareholders to see. Which means when they actually do have growth, they will need to re-hire anyways and have massive…

These are videogames. The point of this medium is not to efficiently get thru a plot, it’s to interact and play with things.