It would appear that ‘exciting’ has different meanings to different people.

Exactly the problem.

Doesn’t help that the cops have been on strike since 2020 because Black Lives Matter hurt their feelings.

I wouldn’t want a Tesla if they were free. Every new Tesla that sells is more food for Mr Muskrat’s ego. There are plenty of other good EVs around.

The crazy thing is that it reportedly took several years and multiple attempts to get the law passed.

Bezos can fuck all the way off.  Get out of my car, you walking, talking dickhead.

1st Gear: “The world’s wealthiest person has used LSD, cocaine, ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms”

I think Musk doing more ketamine would be good thing for all of us. 

‘Billions in government contracts’

Time to go back to school and take macro/micro econ 101.  The economy is far from tanked and some say it is even recovering right now.

If you think the economy is bad now you haven’t been alive very long.

In hindsight, it was genuinely hilarious how the US manufacturers handled emissions regulations in the 70's. They seriously would rather make a big displacement motor as weak as possible than make a not-terrible small engine.

Your headline stating ‘82 Percent Of Norwegian Cars Are Now Fully Electric’ is misleading. Reuters has it correct... “Electric vehicles accounted for 82.4% of new vehicles sold in 2023"

Jalopnik aggregating an Autopian article has a real full-circle feeling about it.

“When that plate gets shared, the labor costs (serving and cleanup) go up without revenue going up. Should be obvious why that’s a problem for the restaurant”

Or you are now getting gouged.

Restaurants, you do what you need to do to make your business work, and I’m going going to order in a way that makes sense for me. If we don’t see eye to eye, that’s OK, I’ll just go somewhere else.

One minute it’s better to eat at home and another it’s cheaper to dine out

Well also the prices of alcoholic beverages have gone up faster than the prices of food, at least at the places where I eat.

I’m afraid the chances of that are below zero.