never mind

All that said, I know you’re being a bit cheeky. I also sympathize a bit. 14 year old me (who I still talk to sometimes) would dig the Zephyr mod. 5o year old me has a different opinion.

No, nope nope nope. Imagine trying to put a four wheeler in the back of that thing. Or shoot, just a pallet of mulch with a forklift. Nothing says “I drive this to overcompensate” than a truck with a spoiler that blocks the tailgate access.

Because nothing says cool like a spoiler on a pickup truck. Very handy for bed access, too.

Don’t forget his humanoid robot that is lightyears behind the competition for a near non-existent market. Elon said it “has the potential to be more significant than Tesla’s vehicle business over time.”

Presumably after every time they do this they give it a pat and say “Welp, that ain’t going anywhere.”

Stock options. What’s actually key here is not the dollar number but the ownership percentage. Musk currently owns a little over 12 % of Tesla stock, but he has said “I am uncomfortable growing Tesla to be a leader in AI & robotics without having ~25% voting control. Enough to be influential, but not so much that I…

He was parked in front of his home. Do you hate it when people park in front of their homes?

It is LITERALLY the second sentence: “After failing to offload his old pickup truck online, ”

Tesla’s profits have been steadily increasing, and 2023 was their most successful year. But... that was $14.99 billion in 2023, $12.58 billion in 2022, $5.52 billion in 2021 and $0.72 billion in 2020, for a total of $33.81 billion.

“Are there any dead babies in the car?”

“The helmet law mentioned in the article, permitting those over the age of 26 to choose not to wear a helmet is stupid- full stop.”

Full disclosure: I do live in Georgia. I am also a staunch Democrat and was overjoyed when we finally went blue in the last election. Two senators and a President, woohoo! Now if we could just get rid of our damn governor... Damn asshole thought running for governor while he was SecState and thus running the election…

Do you realize how much like Trump you are being now? When you are proven wrong , you double down. Helmet laws are not what you thought they were, and you can’t admit it.

I am not supporting the repeal of helmet laws. I am, however, pointing out that your generalization was woefully incorrect and biased. I realize this shakes your deeply held prejudices, but I think facts matter.

This is a dumb take, and it shows a large amount of uneducated prejudice. Missouri, which is stretching the definition of southern state, only repealed part of the helmet law. It is still illegal for anyone under 26 to ride without a helmet.

“I’d like to see what other people could do with the CT platform.”

No. Magic school buses are inherently unsafe. A magic school bus is less likely to ensure kids arrive at school safely and more likely to end up on the ocean floor getting fish sperm dumped on it or shrunken down and stuck up some kid’s nose until sneezes. I have video evidence of this.

“Personally, I prefer that the engineers who build my cars give at least a passing thought to ease of servicing them”

“I spent much of college working as a delivery person for an just-off-campus Chinese food restaurant.”