I live in constant fear of the highside. Even when I’m not riding. 

My dad did a lot more than that.

Nope. I picked up a polestar 2 in 2021. It was better in many ways. Chief among them, it did not put a dime in Musks pocket.

Eh, it’s hard to say if I’d go that far. I mean, sure, on one hand, it’s him having his staff come up with some gimmicky product quickly because He Said So.

But it was still when his public image was one of a nerdy goofball who added a new performance/trim level and named it after a Spaceballs joke. 

Huh, my dad dodged the draft by joining the army. He got to watch wernher von braun play with rockets instead of dig holes in Korea like the drafted got. 

Nope. Elmo has been a shit stan since the late 1980s. Daddy issues and evading the military draft. Sound familiar?

It was more ‘Design propane torch that would normally sell at Home Depot for $50 but make it look like a gun. We’re gonna call it a flame thrower and sell it for $500.” It probably took one engineer a single day to knock that out

I’ve done 204 mph skydiving. Gear, orientation, and control make all the difference. 

Actually, I think it was the year before that, when Musk came up with the Boring Co. Flamethrower gambit.

Also note: a (big) rain presents the most dangerous road conditions at the beginning of the event - as oils and debris disperse across the road, before they are eventually washed away through gutters and drains. This phenomena is most evident the longer the dry spell before the rain.

You cannot. Terminal velocity of a human body is about 180 miles per hour. 

Wouldn’t you know it, the terminal velocity of a human body is only about 120 if you belly flop and 180 if you header it. 

Speed, not acceleration.

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We bought my wife’s model 3 in late Dec 2018. I regret it more each day. But my wife loves the car so we aren’t getting rid of it.  I will never buy another Tesla and won’t help my wife if she wants one.  My thoughts on her car: the suspension sucks, it’s noisy, the wiper controls are dangerous, lock/unlock with phone…

I think what people are mostly referring to with those stickers is the political crazy though. The cave rescue incident was weird, but not “I would never ever associate with someone like this” weird like someone who enjoys giving Nazi salutes. 

But the sticker doesn’t say ‘fascist’; it says ‘crazy’. The cave rescue was, IMO, the final straw that tipped him from eccentric to tissue-paper-box-slippers

I think the article is a bit unkind to people with these stickers. There’s a difference between a CEO not being great on a personal level and the CEO being a Nazi hell-bent on destroying a free and democratic state. If we could only buy cars from CEOs where were great people, there wouldn’t be much to buy.

I thought so, but the article was misleading early on and i was too lazy to look it up.

I suggested a $38 plane ticket as the answer here and was called a buzzkill. If it has to be terrestrial speed, a Shinkansen ticket. If it has to be under your own control, then it’s gotta be the Busa