As the intended life long driver of a 1995 car, the safety angle is something I’ve wondered about. I do have standard driver and passenger front airbags and I never intend to remove them, but is it actually possible to retrofit airbags in a car without them?

And I’m saying that I appreciate the recommendation if I want to go deeper into Musk but I don’t. I would not say that makes me uninformed. One book doesn’t make you informed on a matter and not reading it doesnt make you uninformed. This is especially true when there is such a wealth of primary data out there from…

I think I’ve been pretty clear about why Musk begs to be Godwinned. But you’ll note, ofcourse, that I didn’t actually go there. Otherwise you’d be failing to have a nuanced view 😉. (I’m teasing you, in good fun, please tell me you aren’t getting high blood pressure about this. It’s hard to be jocular through text)

I get you admire the man. And there will be people who always admire him.

Sure, and you can find people willing to sell their wives’ and daughters’ organs (no, seriously, look this up). However, Robb was talking about what SHOULD be not simply observing what is. As he is a member of the community in question this shouldn’t be shocking and is far from inappropriate. You telling him to either…

The inextricably of his inappropriate behavior and the specific success story for this exciting company is exactly my point. I don’t think there’s a single magic answer to how we resolve this, but Robb seemed to be grappling with it recently w. R. T Nürburgring and I thought I’d ask if he had concluded anything.

I would be shocked to learn there was only one piece of evidence that Musk is a problematic person. In fact, I think he is rather thoroughly covered and has been sanctioned by the SEC more than once for this character trait. To name but one institution apart from clickbait driven journalists who have evaluated his…

Eee-ata. Or e-ata

Took me years to find this color. House of kolor kbc09 if anyone is interested.. Makes me happy every day. 

This is why the Star needs to be a heart. I heart this comment, especially the sigh that opened it. Absolutely the right response. ❤️

You have got to be fucking kidding. If not, please contact me about an exciting career in test piloting badly design aircraft! 

I loved your whole article and your long comment above but I think this one wins for me.

That’s not what he said.

Love your work Robb, but I wanted point out that you basically just realized that Musk is an ahole because he decided to take a dump on your turf (which is fine, glad you’re here with us, the unions, political economists, and other folks who find him to be more petulant man-child than rugged idealist).

All air travel combined is 2-5% of global emissions (2 if just co2, 5 if you include other ghg)

I don’t think we should ONLY turn them into jokes but I think it’s a great strategy to lower recruitment of disenfranchised (perceived or actual) kids. There are other excellent tactics for monsters like Eichmann but comedy and farce can be a great tactic to prevent people looking to belong to something from choosing…

Even in the heady days of 2014 when we (all) were mostly bullish on Tesla for fighting the good fight, a generally optimistic article from this fine blog noted that Tesla didn’t really offer to share patents, it offered to “suspend enforcement.” we all thought that was cool but it was also observationally equivalent…

The hell is the point of smalltown Ohio?

You don't get to be a crazy rich Caucasian without an eye for the details and the will to squeeze every last revenue stream from your target market 😉

Like Lawl overtaking lol, this is clearly what we should use as in in-group marker. 1337speak for cars!