Particularly as risk is SpaceX, which operates on federal contracts and is subject to strict anti-drug policies. Elon’s government security clearance is at risk, likewise.

If Musk goes to his board and tells them he wants them to approve reincorporating in Texas, they’ll do it - that’s the whole point of the trial, that the Tesla board is completely in his pocket even more than most boards of directors.

So basically they’ll all just age-gate social media, and anyone under 18 either can’t form an account or gets shunted into some protected corner of the sites? Not the worst thing, although there’s some real privacy risks if the age-gating actually requires ID verification. 

What’s the Over/Under on Kelce proposing to Taylor Swift at the Superbowl? It’s got be at least a 20% chance I think. 

Definitely overpriced - it should be closer to $100/share. It still dominates EV sales and has good profit margins, but the high valuations were always based on nonsensical expectations of stuff like “Tesla’s OS will become the new Windows for EVs” and so forth. 

As of this writing, Tesla’s fall-off after the earnings call sat at over 12 percent, though shares have started strong with a one-percent jump this morning. We love the wild swings of The Economy, don’t we folks?

They need to drop the structure from the game and just have an expanded version of the flashbacks plus events in Ellie’s journal be the second season. Alternate between “Ellie” and “Abby” episodes, end the season with Ellie estranged from Joel and Abby and her crew starting the trip to Jackson. 

They want to keep their contract with the city and the NYPD has enough clout that it could jeopardize that. Or they made it clear when the cameras were put in place that they wanted certain cars to not get tickets. 

It’s probably because the cars belonged to NYPD or their friends and family. They can wave their get-out-of-traffic-violation-free to any traffic cop, but you can’t do that to a speeding camera. 

I wonder if that will be a bigger hit than Deadpool 2. It really is an “event” movie this time around, because there’s no other Marvel Super Hero Movies coming out. 

I’d watch a prequel movie (or mini-series) about the lead up to the park, with a more book-faithful Hammond and centered on the staff trying to make it work in the face of Hammond’s impatience, cost-cutting, and the sheer technical challenges. Show Nedry trying to make the impossible automation work and then getting…

It’s a lot of fun. You just get to chill* in a big floating hotel where you don’t have to constantly pull out your wallet for food and drink, and it takes you to cool places where you can do stuff.

Draft is about 31 feet. I guess that’s shallow compared to a supertanker, but still seems like a lot to me - anything above a draft of 10 feet doesn’t seem shallow to me (steamboats of the 19th century had drafts in the 3-4 feet range, meaning they could move in some very shallow water - sometimes even jumping over…

Is the existing system popular with folks traveling in it, with decent traffic? It sounds like it might be, even if the system sounds kind of dumb with high operating costs (all those drivers). 

The issue is that it’s a lot cheaper to make a robot version of a tool than a robot that can use a human tool.

You could do a quadruped (or something else), but something vaguely humanoid makes a lot of sense because you can use it more easily in spaces designed for humans. Instead of needing a bunch of specialized robots designed for each task, you could instead just have the humanoid robot operate a vacuum cleaner, use the…

If you can actually make them competent at tasks, then humanoid robots are often a good idea because

Second movie (which is great) already did the whole “bring him back for one last ride” schtick.  What’s the third one going to do? Especially since I can’t imagine Cruise being a minor character in one of these. 

Big emphasis on the “beverages”. I left a sparkling cider in my trunk once with my car outside in the cold, and it literally exploded. 

Where did they say? An actual source, not CSS, who has been blatantly wrong plenty of times on SpaceX and clearly is nursing a grudge.