CA is going to regulate gas prices. Where’s my popcorn, this is going to be interesting.

It’s more like the manual trans I have that also has paddle shifters and a “manual” mode. My mind tells me it’s fake garbage even though it effects how the car drives (poorly I might add).

they are just very special in so many ways.

I have a hard time with the fake shifting = engagement concept. Some part of me devalues the experience because I know in my brain that it is not necessarily doing anything, just added for the experience. But I guess it is like a video game, it’s not real but it is still fun.

you beat me to it. Nitro baby. 1000% correct

Yes, shareholders are naive and fickle. The don’t care until they lose their investment, and then it is already too late. Exactly why the SEC exists.

Good point. Maybe they should consider stiffer penalties then.

Your asking why would regulators care if the share price went up? You have any idea why they regulate public securities?

I still don’t understand how he can continuously lie to shareholders and not be held accountable for that. Is it not material? or do shareholders just never file a lawsuit? Or, is it such hyperbole that regulators brush it off to puffery?

Posting on twitter has now become a corporate liability so you can’t blame them for sitting it out for a little. With Musk letting all of the crazys that spewed lies and hate back on why would any company take that risk. Does GM want their Ad pictured next to a Ye post with a swastika in it? Nope.

I still like it but I totally get you. Christmas music is just a niche with a smaller collection of content so we either have to hear the good stuff on repeat or they can mix in all the other terrible crap. I’m OK with good stuff on repeat. I just don’t want to hear the backstreet boys in their 40s, I can’t, and I…

few people outside this site care that much about electric cars. I think through an automotive lense his contribution is significant. But that doesn’t affect anyone en masse.

If someone would write some decent modern holiday music I’d appreciate it. John Legend and a few others have some good ones that could turn into classics. But boy, most of the stuff put out in the last 20 years is clearly just a thrown together cash grab of awfulness. Have a listen to Winterlicious (no I’m not making…

Jack it up to be less useful, then sell expensive option to return the usefulness. Kudos to them for coming up with a solution though. Can you make it go into “entry mode” automatically every time the truck is turned off? That would be most useful.

I had an exchange with someone touting Elon as “changing the world” and making historically significant contributions in so many industries. What I finally realized is that the other person was taking all of Elon’s claims at face value. When you look at what is actually accomplished it’s not nothing, but it’s far…

GOP loves to own the tree hugging libs and hate on green energy and EVs. They also want to stick it to the tech companies because they are all libs too and trying to suppress conservative free speech.

That’s my biggest gripe. I used to be able to reach into the bed from any side. Put things in and out of the bed over the top from the sides. Now, even at 6'4" it’s a struggle to touch the floor of the bed from the side and I’m definitely not picking anything out of it. Consumers desire for that macho high wasted look…

A good point, maybe. I’m no longer surprised to see $80,000 trucks (king dude ranch lariat leather special edition) driven by blue collar people of modest means that are probably lucky to have a 1 car garage. But, the EV part probably means upper middle class suburban types if I had to guess.

My good friend scraped the top of his truck (F150 4x4 no lift or anything) because of the snow that fell at the base of the garage door and froze. The ice was maybe 1 inch thick and was enough to eliminate any clearance he had up top.

3 and 4 car garages? Definitely not the neighborhood I’m talking about. And definitely not what most people have.