That’s the fun of it. He’s the obvious choice for who did it - so obvious that it seems too obvious both to us and Blanc, like there should be a twist there. I found it pretty entertaining.

I successfully managed to see both Knives Out and Glass Onion in theaters, and I hope I can do the same for this one as well during its limited theatrical run. 

The defense I’ve hard is that it summarizes results, and some of those prominent results are reddit joke posts. But that just means it’s too dumb to tell when a search result is a joke and should be excluded.

Aside from Tesla’s Chinese sales in general, the Tesla supply chain depends pretty heavily on processed Lithium from a Chinese company for its batteries. 

Because it is astonishingly cheap. 

Came up in the video - people have complained about it, said it’s more like a glorified Star Wars themed mall. 

It’s so wild. As she points out, you’re paying the same price as the top suite on a Disney Cruise, but you’re getting something so much worse. 

I loved the tidbit in there about how you can almost always spot a paid Disney influencer shill because Disney makes them awkwardly use the exact names for all the attractions and park. It’s not “Star Wars Land” at “Disney World”, it’s “Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge” at “Walt Disney World Resort in Florida”.

I can see why NASA turned it down. It’s a good offer, but I’d be nervous too about having Isaacman and his crew trying this stuff on a second space-walk without a lot of the other stuff that the Shuttle astronauts had to do the repair.

I love the idea that he’s pushing out talent at the top so he can make himself seem more essential, the better to get that $50 billion pay package.

IIRC the Tesla cars do have lower maintenance costs, but are much harder and costlier to repair if they take any serious damage - more likely to be written off as a complete loss (especially if the battery is damaged) by insurance (driving up costs), parts and service are harder to come by, and so forth.

Probably even a higher percentage of old folks on this cruise than the usual. Also massive amounts of on-board swinging. 

There’s not a huge benefit to using CLEAR if you have Pre-Check.

The supposed rationale for dealership exclusivity is that they’re required to maintain a bunch of service centers all over the states they’re in . . . but since you can usually just get your car repaired at a regular auto shop and use the manufacturer warranty anyways, it’s bullshit too. 

If it meets the qualifications, why do we need the rigamarole with the case manager? 

It’d be more about the self-driving aspect of it in practice (if it worked). That would be tremendously useful for people with disabilities that make it impossible for them to safely drive (which heavily limits you in the car-centric US layout), and it would be a godsend for tedious commuting and long-distance car…

An actual self-driving car would be fantastic - no more having to drive on either tedious regular commutes, and you could do some long range car trips much more easily.

I think prospects are promising for the European auto plants, although you might see Republicans in the South become much more alarmed and hard-edged in pushing anti-union opposition with the UAW success at Volkswagen. They usually have unions back in Europe and even some governments pushing them to be neutral…

They could have made the crossover or small SUV that EV buyers say they want. Hell, Tesla itself benefitted from having the most affordable EV models and a bunch of sedans at a time when the other US automakers were wasting money and time on expensive EV pickup trucks as well. 

Waymo’s self-driving taxis are getting pretty good, so it’s not totally out of the question that Tesla could rush out a cheaper, less safe version of that by later this year (although I don’t envy any Tesla engineers working triple-time under that with Musk constantly riding them over progress). Enough that if the…