But privatization is goooooooood and everything is better when it’s run by benevolent rich guys who only care about the stock price...

When the revolution comes, its gonna be ugly.

The Feds have actually warned him that if he starts inserting his nonsense into SpaceX his contracts are going to dry up quick.

OR, he’s proving that CEOs are increasingly pointless figureheads that most companies would do better without.

Musk’s end of the bargain, incidentally, involved getting the automaker’s market cap up to $100 billion and meeting a set of strict earnings targets. To his credit, he did hit the market cap goal back in 2020 and the company is now valued at more than $500 billion.

Dear “enthusiasts”-

You are a tiny niche audience in a giant sea of folks who do not care about performance. If every auto manufacturer on earth stopped selling true, enthusiast approved sports cars tomorrow and replaced them all with SUVs, their sales would go up.

I’m pretty sure that “Glass Onion” was about him. He is that dumb, he’s just also bold enough to try it.

OK, I can speak to this because I was there: in the 70s, EVERYTHING smelled like that. All the time. Everywhere.

My grandpa had a hobby farm/grandkid trap way out in the country and we’d go there on weekends and the air was so much better, but even then, a car would roll by and you’d smell it for 10 minutes after.

Add…

Any diesel Bro Truuuuuuuuuk.
Seriously, if you drive one of these things, fuck you.

I remember Car and driver reviewing and suggesting that it would be better if Subaru built it with a permanent truck cap and called it the outback.

Aside from it’s less than stellar gas mileage, the ridgeline is a pretty awesome vehicle. Make a hybrid version that gets better gas mileage and I’d buy one.

Honestly, I’m excited to see how this plays out because either way means lower emissions. And isn’t it nice to see the American auto industry trying to figure out what’s more efficient rather than how to make trucks bigger? (I KNOW, they’re still gonna make trucks bigger. )

If you’re going to let perfect get in the way of better, you’re gonna wait a looooong time.

It’s easy to volunteer others to end themselves. Because again, what you’re saying is “future generations? Fuck ‘em, they’re gonna get what we deserved.” We don’t get to go out that easily. We don’t get to go out like boomers, having made everything we touched worse but profiting all the same. We make things better.…

The humble Volkswagen Beetle.

Hopefully we learn how to be less of an irritant and more of a help.

No offense but that’s kind of a shit attitude, not too far removed from “I got mine, everyone else can fuck off.”

To be fair, it’s been a shit idea for a while. It just took a while for the boomer nostalgia for the wonder of cars to wear off and for us to see what we are really doing. It’s not thunder road, it’s not American Grafitti, it’s Synchronicity- Packed like lemmings into shiny metal boxes, Contestants in a suicidal race. …

It’s not laziness, it’s a knowledge of exactly how much it’s going to cost to fix vs how much that depreciated car is actually worth. They do not factor in sentimental value or anything other than, your 2o20 Tesla is worth exactly X and it’s sustained Y damage. We are totaling it because Y is greater than X. It costs…

This planet is about to start trying to shake us off like an wet dog.

The issue is, 8 people were removed from the flight for smelling bad and 8 of the 8 were african american. The odds seem low that 8 passengers who just happened to be african american also just happened to be the only people who had an offensive smell on this flight.