This was/is a Chinese company is South Carolina. They have no clue how to relate and try to push the way they do things in China here as well. I spent three years there. No wage increase 2 weeks a year vacation

Better to negotiate with the body shop. They’ll make it work out.

I don’t disagree with you about Silicon Valley (or startups in general). It’s easy to ship products at losses when investors are paying the bills. I’ve worked at a couple of startup companies (though not in Silicon Valley), and in those experiences it was the sheer stupidity of the founders thinking that they had to…

Insurance companies generally make pretty good money. Tesla could make more money selling the insurance than they do just selling the car. Insurance could prop up their unprofitable car business.

I’ll be interested to see how fast they get in trouble for steering customers to Telsa partner body shops.

Tesla/Elon will lose money on insurance in order to help sell cars.

That’s for the courts to figure out, obviously.

Yeah, ‘til uncle Eddie shows up with a can of gas, offering to light the fire and says, “hold my beer.”  My eyebrows will never be right.

Disruptive innovation is launching a product which meets the needs of an under-served (or unserved) part of an existing market, because the established companies are focused on meeting the needs of their mainstream customers. Often the price of the disruptive product is lower, but that’s usually because it’s not as…

I just cut cable and opted for Prime video, Pluto TV, Roku Channel, and an OTA antenna. The stuff coming in on the antenna is digital, so the picture is perfect. Newer TVs will even make a guide for you for the OTA stuff, so that you can see what’s on.

If you think that’s bad, you should try Chipotle.  No flavor at all whatsoever.

If you are not a person of color (and I am not), it is not your place

The choice they get is, “you can put on your jacket yourself, or I can help you put it on. Either way is OK with me.”

In Mother Russia, airplane flies you.

This would be much better received if they just raised their prices and offered a cash discount.

Banks do it too.  Any time money moves electronically, some percentage gets skimmed.  THAT is why Bitcoin was demonized in the beginning.

That’s $7000 a year. That can be the difference between a bar or restaurant making or losing money.

No worries.  I’ll just tip < 10%

For less money, you could drive away in a TRD Off-Road Tacoma, which won’t self-immolate.

I wish I could star this twice.