Are they still doing the 2-seat cars? That seems rather limiting as a taxi service.

They should definitely rush it as fast as possible. Truly it is implausible and would be an awful (TRULY awful) tragedy if they introduced a shitty Air Force One replacement too soon, and it were to crash with Trump, Musk, Marc Andreesen, Peter Thiel, the entire leads of Project 2025, and such on board*.

Reminds me of when I left a sparkling cider bottle in my trunk overnight with an outdoor car. I came out and it had exploded - and then froze into an ice blob around the cracked remnants of the bottle. 

I don’t think the timing on this is right. The Great Society legislation was all passed in 1965 with the most expensive items underway by 1966, and NASA’s peak funding year was in 1966 a year later - clearly the major ramp-up in social spending didn’t restrict further spending on NASA.

Bezos has Congress on his side, who won’t necessarily do everything Trump wants on this (especially in the Senate, where there are Senators who can literally outlast his second term because they got re-elected last year).

It might be impacting the Tesla share price, finally - it’s down about 11% over the past month after the super-rush-up after the November election. 

I like that Grima Vancetongue VP Vance is basically a non-entity in the discussion of the Trump White House. Like we never hear at all about his input into anything, or even whether he’s hanging around awkwardly with Trump and Musk.

This. The actual rate is really low.

First Gear: Democrats need to keep jabbing Trump about this, since it’s clearly annoying him. Although what would really get him riled up about it would be if Obama made fun of him over it in a public speech.

Why would you need decades of air filters? Nuclear winter* doesn’t last that long, and the fallout won’t be that dangerous for that long - look at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

I suppose in fairness, he gets punished when the Wet Bandits loot his family’s house and cause god knows how much water damage to the it and the foundation.

He brought the Tesla-in-China guy for a while to effectively run the whole company on his behalf, but I think that guy got tired of Musk’s antics and quit a few months ago.

It also said not to blame union members if your packages are delayed.

I think it’s every three years we get another wave of airship hype.

That’s what I’m thinking, too. Airships in practice tend to require some dedicated facilities for docking/refueling/etc, which undercuts the value of them ostensibly being able to go anywhere to deliver stuff.

Technically, Air Nostrum signed an Aircraft Reservation Agreement, which is basically a lease rather than a purchase of the airships. Still an improvement over previous cycles of airship hype and promotion.

If we had a sane court system and SEC, it would be a good argument for imposing restrictions on the trading of Tesla shares - they’ve pretty clearly detached from reality and are being driven overwhelmingly by Musk’s cult of personality and social media hype. 

Still, Tesla’s stock is just about higher than it’s even been, so who knows what really matters anymore? The age of reason has ended.

It sounds like Tesla’s main business is starting to slip up a bit in production, with the boss off doing other shit and talking up the company as a robotics-and-AI firm instead to boost the share price. 

A bit of an “L” for the antitrust folks - the company was shaky enough that it was either bankruptcy or merger.