I got a letter from the dealer I bought my Durango from. It said that I’ve only got 5 payments left and now is a great time to start looking for my next car. Of course they could help with it.

Yeah.  Hard to dredge up sympathy for that when you’re driving an 11-year-old Chevy.

This is what BAT used to be for.

“Oh dear, what to do with this PORSCHE Cayman S sitting in our driveway?”

I always think about the fact that the lowliest benchwarner on any given professional team was The Guy With The Ball at every other stage of their career. It’s so easy to forget.

We’re just trying to have a good time, narc

Gotta love commenters hating on people actually doing something with their lives while working a dead-end 9-5 office job.

Where are these subsidies you’re talking about? If you’re talking about Tesla, it’s EV credits that every manufacturer can claim if they make the effort. If you’re talking about SpaceX, out-competing inferior competitors to win market share in government contracts and saving the government money in the process does…

Lutz would have found a way to squander ANY large amount of money given to him. But with the $36B you mention, his golden parachute would have been larger.

LOL, Bob Lutz was a CEO of a battery company, Exide. Did Bob Lutz see the GM EV1 and be like “Yo board, Exide could be a supplier to a $10,000 per car component” ? Nah, He ran Exide into the ground.

How many times does a man have to be ground-breaking-ly right before you think he can figure out how to integrate one of the oldest industries? They’re literally going to be writing business textbooks off this one man’s financial engineering.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/11/elon-musk-tesla-insurance-coming-waiting-for-acquisition.html

You do realize they ACQUIRED a company to get here. Not starting a “complex” business they “know nothing about”. They basically bought a company and brought it in house the same way GMAC used to resell insurance to GM…

Pssht. That’s all black magic, they sacrifice small animals and whisper spells over bubbling cauldrons and rates get whispered back from the ether.

And yet Space X and Tesla are both house-hold names and providing services/products on a global scale, Musk 100% needs to be reigned in but the thing about being the only voice in the room is that stuff gets done.

Kinda like dictators. 

I worked in the insurance industry in home office corporate IT for years. The smartest people in any insurance company are the actuaries who determine the rates. Way smarter than EM. 

It, not baseball, is the truly American sport.

Football is the perfect sport for America because it’s manufactured tribalism that allows us to blather a lot of meaningless nonsense about fake combat none of the fans have any actual involvement with, while scrupulously hiding all the real-world consequences and in the process making a handful of billionaire…

Even as a Chrysler fan, that got progressively worse.

300 is alright
200 is shit with the 4 cylinder, alright with the V6
Compass is shit. Full stop.

There are areas of the US that are shockingly similar to a 3rd world country.

With all due respect to the US, you make sound like it is, in some places, a third world country