From what I’ve heard, pretty much all FAANG company layoffs in California in the past couple years are: turn in your laptop, all company access blocked, you are still officially an employee for 60 days with pay/benefits, and then you are laid off on the last day. This is what the WARN act forces them to do.

Surprised it wasn’t an Elmo bobblehead and a coupon for free supercharging 

In my line of work, I’ve seen many many many severance agreements. And exactly 100% of them contain similar clauses along the lines of “If you accept this severance, you can’t turn around and sue us”. Tesla is shitty, but this is not a shitty Tesla move, it’s an “every employer in the country” type of move. 

“Brutal. That, folks, is why ya need a union.” Yep, but real brutality is not getting severance at all, which is how it is for plenty of US workers. This is high profile though, so none would be big news, but if they thought they could get away with it they would.

I hadn’t actually thought of that.

They should really teach financial literacy in schools.

I didn’t quote the mean, but the median. My point was this — yes, everyone should buy a used car, but if this were the case, H.S. econ tells me the price of used cars would skyrocket, making them as unaffordable as new ones.

Dunking on crypto bros is like punching down on any other differently-abled group. You wouldn’t mock a blind kid for not being able to catch a ball!

Bro, listen to reason! Sell the Tesla and buy more Ethereums, bro! You’ll be rolling in so much Crypto, it’ll pay for itself! Then cars will buy you! I’m genius!

Averages are not always good measures, and can actually be quite deceptive. And for most people making the average or lower pay they should think of cars as depreciating transportation appliances. Not toys, hobbies, or places of comfort/luxury.

No, because you don’t have to buy new cars. 

The reality that a lot of reactionary far-right people ignore to advance their own agenda is that the majority of the population isn’t terminally online and doesn’t know or care what Rowling’s views about trans people even are. Especially since if you try to read an explainer of her history of anti-trans comments and…

The hard part is also getting students to listen.  My high school had a class like this that was actually good, but most people blew it off like any other class not appreciating that of all the classes they took this one had the most value.  To me this needs to be started in elementary school and reinforced at every…

Laughing at a crypto bro before realizing I’m on the hook for a $47k Civic. 

“There are unfortunately still too many shitheads (Probably even more of them, in fact) around and a huge segment of the population that is mostly indifferent to any issue that comes between them and their consumerism."

She also claimed that no one uses a toilet at Hogwarts; instead, the junior wizards just shit themselves and have a teacher magic it out of their undies. So, yeah, her retcons are questionable. 

Sadly Rowling has always maintained a lot of control of her franchise.   The WB can’t cut her out and she is very demanding on many aspects of her franchise.   

At the moment, absolutely. She’s not enough of a liability to eclipse the franchise’s popularity (and frankly, its infrastructure...most of its value is likely tied up in movies, theme parks, and merchandise now.) No, her shitty opinions aren’t going to tank this multi-billion-dollar machine any time soon.

Trans rights are basically at 2004 U.S. elections level right now politically. It’s still an incredibly effect bugaboo for huge swaths of the population, and J/K Rowling can get away with saying “tr*nny” as much as she wants, just like Ann Coulter could call a presidential candidate a “f*ggot” on television back then …

Until then, companies like Amazon and Warner Bros. Discovery will continue to capitalize while the cash is still rolling in.