For context: a cross-country economy-class ticket before deregulation cost $1,600

“as shitty and expensive as they please.”

Absolute rubbish. If you want it, you can make it work. I’ve raised two kids in 2+2's and Miatas. Though, yes, my spouse has an SUV.

Or, you can buy a used Miata, and end up with an even cheaper car that will be far more reliable than an out-of-warranty BMW!

Does it come with white tube socks and white tennis shoes for my midlife crisis? 

Does it still look like it was styled by a 13-year-old in study hall?

Is Polaris in legal trouble for stealing Toyota’s Ugly Stick?

Is that a jab at David Tracy?

Part of what conversation though?

Nah, take a look at that article published alongside this one about the worst CEOs in automotive history and then read the linked article about Ford. Dude was posting anti-Semitic screeds in his own newspaper, getting blasted by rivals in other publications, publishing rejoinders in his own newspaper, rinse and…

+1 for correct spelling of “lede”

Also, it says “3 customers on 3 continents”. The linked document doesn’t clarify, so that could easily be: Tesla Austin, Tesla Berlin, and Tesla Shanghai.

Deep down he's still just a South African teenager getting swirlies in the locker room.

Twitter could be worse.

There’s more: Tesla’s Austin factory is getting $14.7 million in tax breaks

You don’t get to be the richest person in the world by being well adjusted.

Or—what if we could incentivize people to drive less? As we’ve seen, a ton of jobs that companies were saying could never be remote prior to the pandemic...suddenly were able to accommodate remote work, and now the infrastructure is there.

I used to work for the largest and well known name in oscilloscopes, a measurement tool used by electrical engineers. We had a huge infrastructure to build analogue oscilloscopes. As digital oscilloscopes started to gain traction the company resisted the transition because we had amazing capabilities to make analogue…

“break international trade rules.”

2nd Gear: It appears IDRA calls it the Gigapress from your own supplied link so I dont see a problem with Tesla calling it a Gigapress. It is a Gigapress.  In addition is still is the biggest.  Why is this a gear?