What you asked is the million dollar question. I’ll spitball here since I’m not an engineer.

Economically, Tesla is constrained by the input costs relating to the batteries they use. The materials have to be mined and shipped to intermediaries who can then manufacturer certain elements, then shipped to Tesla who can do…

Unfortunately, he’s the largest individual shareholder, so unless he undertakes some absurdly stupid malfeasance or does something plainly illegal, the company (and the board) are basically handcuffed to him.

What would have to happen is that the institutional shareholders would have to essentially team up and push…

I’ve been thinking about this far more than I need to, but an interesting thought popped into my head.

I think a lot of these comedians are afraid, because they realize that being “edgy” or “controversial” doesn’t really mean much (and doesn’t necessarily garner the eyeballs and the ticket sales) in a world where so…

Concerning their vehicles, I’ve never had one nor would I buy one if I could, for the simple fact I don’t find them compelling vehicles. I’ve ridden in all of the models save for the original Roadster. They’re fine vehicles, but I don’t care for the looks and I don’t find them interesting to drive.

To your first point,…

I never said the “only” reason they had a profit was because of selling energy Credits and Bitcoin. I said, correctly, the only times they’ve made a quarterly profit is by selling energy credits and Bitcoin. Which is absolutely true. They’ve said as much. It’s been documented that they did so specifically for a period…

As someone in the category of a non-Latino black, I agree with you.

On a personal level, I don’t know nearly enough the about the historical aspects of this discussion to add anything of intellectual or ethical substance, but what I can say (merely from personal experience) is that a lot of friends who would fall into…

Driving without headlights it’s distressingly common down here in Tampa. Not sure if it’s a combination of intoxication, street lamps and traffic that can make it difficult to tell when they’re off (much easier if you’re on a quite road with little-to-no traffic), or people not trusting/not having their lights set to…

I don’t need a breakdown of the concept of reinvesting earnings (not profits) into a company of growth. I studied economics for long enough to know what Tesla is doing.

And even before I could see your full reply, I knew you would bring up Amazon. There’s a distinct difference. Amazon caught their competitors off-guard…

Thanks for your reply.

You’re right that it needs to be discussed (like we’re having now), but unfortunately, the dog whistles and the abject BS that’s coming from one specific side of the argument is what makes it difficult.

To your second point, that’s entirely my point. We have those subdivisions because we realize…

Wrong old, black, Republican. That was Herman Cain you’re thinking of (unless your reply was a joke, in which case, that’s on me haha)

Bernie is in my top 5 (along with Eddie, Richard, Dave, and Ron White), but this biopic would be hard to watch if for no other reason than them sanitizing some of his best jokes.

I’m gay, and while “Milk and Cookies” is a legendary riff, and “happier than a sissy with a bag of dicks” is a line I need to find more…

Being in the LGBTQ+, I’m a bit biased, but I’ll frame it like this.

The percentage of trans kids who actively transition during their middle and high school years is absurdly, and I mean ABSURDLY low, if not for any other reason than they’d need a parent to sign off on hormone therapy and surgeries. Not only that, but…

I wouldn’t be surprised if it boils down to the economy and taxes.

As someone who studied political science and economics at university, and has friends who are deeply Conservative/Republican/GOP (including some active politicians), I can’t minimize how widespread the mindset is that every social or cultural policy is…

Some years back, my now ex picked up a used Mercedes S600, model year 2005 I believe. So around 490 HP, 590 lb.ft of torque. I was driving a G35 coupe, which was plenty fast. Driving, hell, just riding in the S600 was a totally different experience. Even though it was used, the speed and accelaration were effortless,…

With a lot of newer cars, they’ve taken the step to move things like the navigation from the center console to the dashboard. Not saying it’s a major percentage of the cars on the road, but if the goal is to avoid having to shift your head and/or your eyes from looking straight ahead because the navigation and the…

The beauty of videogames like this is that much of the worldbuilding that we’d expect from someone like GRRM is supplanted by the visual aspect, something that isn’t in a novel. Or, to put another way, GRRM doesn’t need 300 pages to build a world because we aren’t reading this, we’re watching and playing in the world,…

I remember when Mercedes first released the latest generation of S-class, it had a two-spoke steering wheel specifically designed to allow a clearer view of the dashboard. Unfortunately, it was painfully ugly and they soon got rid of it.

With Tesla, this seems to be a bad solution to a relatively minor problem. One way…

Tesla is running into a problem that they can’t necessarily control, and that’s the ceiling of available technology relative to the various regulations they have to (and should) follow.

A lot of the innovation was due to the technology either not being available, researched, or scalable, with the expectation that once…

Both systems have their merits.

The Miami-Dade system, by setting a hard ceiling of a 6.0, makes it simpler to tell, on the high end (towards a 6.0), who did well in difficult classes versus merely the people who took a lot of difficult classes and didn’t do particularly well. However, that does result (unless I’m…

That’s definitely an interesting system and significantly different than what we have (which is why it might be better if these systems were state- standardized).

So we work on a 4.0 system. F is a 0.0, D is a 1.0, C is a 2.0 (the minimum to graduate), B is a 3.0, and an A is a 4.0. That’s unweighted, so if you took…