It kind of reminds me of those house buying shows: “He works part-time at Trader Joe’s and she’s starting a herbal soap business. Their budget for a house is $900,000.”

GM seems to have a history of pretending to be serious about EVs and then not actually being serious about them.

Sounds like the issue is with the car writing logs too frequently to the /var/logs directory, thus burning out the flash memory. This can be “fixed” with a patch, but it doesn’t restore the memory or fix the nearly burnt out modules.

I can’t be the only one who read this in Danny Devito’s voice.

Exactly. I am baffled by some people’s encouragement of our continued race to the bottom.

It’s really shitty when people say, “Well I pay a lot more so they should as well”. Bullshit. Companies have been eroding employee benefits for years now, while shareholders profit handsomely and none of this “trickles down” to raise wages, which would help at least offset higher costs.

Unions are the only way to even approximate something of a level field between labor and capital. When you boss can just drop your healthcare, how much bargaining power do you really have?

Don’t begrudge others their benefits. Instead, ask where yours are. If you’re like most people, you’ll find them located in a rounding error at the bottom of an executive’s pocket lint.

Can you negotiate rates? Do you have a clearly set list of responsibilities, including who you are picking up, where they are going, and how much you will receive, prior to accepting the pickup? Then not a contractor.

You know, Boonie is on to something here. For as Rousseau said in his Discourse on Inequality, “In fact, the real source of all those differences, is that the savage lives within himself, whereas the citizen, constantly beside himself, knows only how to live in the opinion of others.” That is, in “the box” the batter…

I’ll mark you down for a 2 on that one.

The one good thing about the CT200h, and why I recommend it over a Prius is it gets most of the Prius fuel economy(40 or so), but it drives and has the comfort of a Lexus. it also doesn’t look like a new Prius which is always a plus.

The problem is, it is for taxi drivers. While I hate taxi companies for all the obvious reasons, they were able to support themselves doing it because the rides cost the amount of money necessary for that.

Fun fact: “The Touching is, To Me, Off Limits,” was the original title of MC Hammer’s 1990 breakthrough single. 

“delicious-ass fucking meat”

Behold the power of the correctly-placed hyphen. 

The people that are the most displeased with Tesla are the people who don’t own them.

NO NO NO I HAVE A 500 MILES COMMUTE AND NEVER STAY ANYWHERE MORE THAN 3 MINUTES EV HAVE NO FUTURE AND THERE’S NOT ENOUGH LITHIUM CANCEL EV TESLA PANEL GAPS

If you’ve ever been to Hawaii you’ll know the answer is a Toyota truck.

Yeah, it’s not that hard to understand. In fact, I’d say it’s about C4 level of hardness.

Sir, this is an Arby’s drive-through.