Anyone who believes in conspiracy theories has never managed any significant group project.

Try getting 5-10 people to not screw up messaging, spill confidential data, etc.  Now imagine trying to keep tens of thousands of people from doing it....

And Tesla’s will let you read the book while it drives you into a wall. Tesla’s system isn’t good enough to let you read a book, either. At least GM recognizes that not paying attention isn’t safe behavior and provides safety features needed so that the “self-driving” is actually safely implemented.

There are safer choices and less safe choices for sure. But none are guaranteed. Every brand has its lemons... and once you get to anything rated average or better on reliability***, its largely a crap shoot they’re all so good anymore. But when I buy, I do pay attention to things like actual service costs for…

Don’t be so certain.  My sister has a Highlander.  Had a front timing cover oil leak.  Twice.  Total labor time was something like 22 hours each time.  Under warranty in her case, but it isn’t exactly a rare failure for them.  I remember the cost for a water pump replacement then was mind boggling as well.  IIRC, a…

I’m even further on the downhill side than you. :)

Take the bright side view - for each extra year you live at your age, you only burn through about 0.9 years of life expectancy.  That’s the same rate of burn as in your early 20s.  In other words, its accidents, random illness, etc, that would imply you’re at the…

OK, Debbie Downer...

8 to 9 months for you and me.  2 to 3 is VERY realistic for hospital workers.  

Well, at 39 you also reach this mark - your remaining life expectancy at 39 is, get this - 39 years if you’re male. That’s the point in your life where, if you make it that far, it technically is downhill from that point forward.

Everytime I see something like this I find it amazing how something as dirt cheap and basic as a Chevy Cruze or Honda Civic today can make an ultra-luxury car like this of the past look like a poorly-built hunk of junk...

Amen.

Wife’s coworkers at the hospital (!?!?!) keep doing stupid things like travelling to large indoor weddings where no one is masked or spaced, going on flights and trips to hot spots, etc.

And what’s really stupid now is we’re likely just 2-3 months out before they get vaccines as they’re front line in hospitals.

Can…

I’m still waiting for the promised report on how the inspection went... :)

The guy who complained his predecessor “only” paid 20.5% in taxes while he was paying 0% is full of shit?  You don’t say!?!?!  /s

First off, remember that the ID.4 will come with a tax credit of $7,500. That means it really only costs $32,500 to start. The CR-V Touring starts at more than that. The EX-L is almost that high. You can push the touring up to close to $37,000....

But the price here really puts it squarely lined up with a CR-V EX-L…

“We cant power the state as is let alone with a bunch more EVs suckling at the electrical supply.”....“Solar plants are worthless when the populace plugs in their cars at 6pm.”

Couple points:

1) There is a crap-ton of spare capacity on the California grid, both in ability to transmit, as well as generate - the problem…

So I have one typo and you have two in your last post... so what, exactly, does that say about you?

Now, after your argument that the immigrants coming into California are all poor is shown to be bunk, you switch to an argument where you admit California’s economy was growing significantly faster than the country as a…

What’s hillarious is how stupid your responses are...

Asians make up ~2/3 of immigrants into California since 2010 - and as your own links show, they are “overrepresented among the highest incomes in California”. That doesn’t mean that the state doesn’t have income inequality or poverty problems. That simply means that…

Totally missed the point, didn’t you?

California’s population is growing as fast as the nation’s, despite net state-to-state migration of existing residents out of the state, because of immigration.  You made the assertion that these immigrants can’t afford expensive housing in California.  That is counter to the fact…

What’s funny is you claim to be from California, but don’t realize that a supermajority of immigrants (including illegal immigrants) are coming from Asia, particularly China, the Philippines, Vietnam, and India.  They’re also overwhelmingly more highly educated than the average Californian, too (ie, higher average…

A lot of people are missing that this can be all sorts of things causing this that are still temporary as well as other details:

1) Wildfires could lead people to pack up and leave with the intention of returning, but not having to lose all their possessions in the meantime.

2) A lot of those young software engineers…

At the same time, there is no indication they will be 100% remote in the future.

And if they are, they’re now competing with software engineers living all over the country, who have accepted lower salaries to live where the cost of living is lower.

In other words, even if they do get to stay remote, they can pretty much…

At the same time, California’s population has still been growing just as fast as the country as a whole.  The state-to-state migration isn’t shrinking the state.