Huh... I thought dwarves were natural sprinters...

Nope. It’s not status thing. You just sign up, like any airline will give you a frequent flyer number. You enter your personal and drivers license into the account, as well as your coverage preferences. Since they have it on file, they don’t have to enter it at the counter.  Saves everyone time. 

Except they DIDN'T know what cars to take, as evidenced by people taking the wrong cars

Same here with Avis.  There was, however, once a 20+ person, hour+ wait at DFW in September 

Yeah, but they had reservations, NOT assignments. Basically, they thought "well, I got a midsize, this looks like a midsize" and took it.  

Some smaller airports don't have gates.  Those are usually the ones where the keys are kept behind the desk, though

Didn't the initial Roadster prototype/demo units use laptop batteries built into the bodywork?

You forgot Gen Z thing #3: literally the worst slang ever

As long as you don’t drink anything with ice

Short version, yes. Though there are a few extra impediments. Elements too heavy to fuse at the plasma temperatures shut down the reaction over time. Think of it like a fire in an enclosed space burning up all of the oxygen.

No. In a nuclear reaction, *mass* might change, but *matter*, AKA the number of protons, neutrons, electrons (and their corresponding antiparticles), stays the same.

The sun doesn’t so much “store” energy as much as it is “Far too fucking big for almost all of that energy to leave”.

Alternately, they could have sold some Ariana Grande dolls

Those might be valid points....

And didn’t Tesla take over NUMMI, where Toyota used to manufacture cars?!

BYD is in more markets than just China, just as Ford is in more markets than the US.

Nah, fuck that. This is entirely Toyota’s fault.

the tech bro pipe dream of passive income from using your car as a robotaxi

Firstly, I doubt that you would want to move cargo on the Shinkansen line. Cargo trains weigh MUCH more than passenger trains, which means that it would take much more energy to reach bullet train speeds. And we haven’t even talked about slowing down a cargo train going that fast! Or the wear on the rails.