It really frustrates me when sell-side analysts like Dan Ives fall for his bullshit. I get why hedge fund bros and individual investors get excited about the short-term highs and lows of TSLA stock, but when you’re selling research to said bros AND the (theoretically) more responsible retirement investment companies…

To be fair, Jalop writers themselves are pretty pro-EV. I see the issue more as the news media repeating (especially in headlines) the doom & gloom coming from auto execs without adding any critical context.

I loved that Mustang too. And the fourth-generation overhaul. We used to toodle around the church parking lot in a cherry-red Mustang convertible, blasting Nelly before youth group. If that doesn’t make sense, I’ll add an even more confusing factor: one of the assistant youth pastors was the owner of said ‘Stang and…

I wanted a Lincoln Town Car SO BAD as a kid. Absolutely no idea why, but those curvy late-90s models (not the boxy early-90s models) had a chokehold on me.

I believe that Gene Wilder would both hate and love this meme.

Right? Way more metal than plain ol’ burial at sea. So fitting for a field scientist who hunted freakin’ hurricanes.

I watched video today of people on a big cruise ship in the Gulf of Mexico - the waves look crazy and the wind is worse, but most ports in Florida are pretty much closed now so they just have to ride it out and hope for the best. You’ll never catch me on a boat, no matter how big, during hurricane season. I might…

Man, I thought throwing my dry old Xmas tree out my second-story window was bad! We did yell “look out below!” before we heave-ho’d, for what it’s worth. Sounds like you had yourself a proper Office Space moment.

I lived in NYC for a long time and naturally did not own a car, so I rented whenever I went on vacation. I went to Sedona/Phoenix/Tucson back in 2019 and was given a Buick Regal sedan. My only real impression of Buick at that point was that they were a fuddy-duddy brand for old people and attempting to rebrand for a…

With any luck, in 50 years when most vehicles are EVs (a premise I generally disagree with, I think it’ll take longer), the highways will have chargers embedded in the pavement so you can charge while you drive. They’re experimenting with that technology in Detroit right now.

Apparently people were getting calls, three days after Helene ruined their homes, from people interested in buying the property. For some reason people just don’t care. Won’t care until Miami literally crumbles into the ocean, and even then they’ll probably just relocate to Ft Lauderdale.

I was looking at helicopter footage of the traffic jam and they’re not using both sides of the highways. People can still drive south in Florida. They need to restrict southbound traffic to just one lane so the other 2 lanes can be used for northbound overflow.

Oh god, please let this be true. I love it when Tesla absolutely falls on its face during press events.

Ehhhh. It’s his wife’s car for hauling the kids around. When you’re as rich and famous as Zuck, I’d think you’d want your family to stay as low-profile as possible. I’m 99% sure all pics of his kids have emojis over their faces; a neutral-colored minivan is probably in the same vein. There’s a reason rich people have…

This post includes a statement from Geico saying that Tesla offers private insurance for CT owners.

I had to use the parking brake a couple weeks ago while in reverse - I was backing into my parking spot at home but the brake suddenly failed. Granted I was going, like, 3mph, not 100, but I was able to use the e-brake before shifting into park.

When I worked in clothing retail, I (an introvert) would beg to spend large chunks of my shifts managing inventory and dressing the store, rather than aggressively upselling our customers. One day I was reorganizing the stock room and uncovered an entire box of beautiful dresses that I’d never seen before, not even on…

Can’t wait until they bring the simulator to the public, and the public overwhelmingly looks the other way and ignores the people evading fare. When the choices are “let someone jump the turnstiles” or “open fire in a crowded, confined space,” the answer is obvious to everyone except the goddamn police.

People in the Rust Belt are aware of the consequences of not washing their cars during the winter. We’ll just need an extra couple reminders from the dealer or manufacturer when winter begins.

I’m guessing it’s sort of like a drag race, where people gather to do illegal stuff with their cars, but instead of racing on an open road, they’re finding empty parking lots to do donuts & other stunts in. I live close to a strip mall with a gigantic (and crumbling) parking lot, and sometimes at night I hear tires…