“If America was going to face off against a comprehensive ideology like communism, it needed its own philosophical and aesthetic ethos to rally the West behind. It found one in Modernism.”

Sorry, mobile editing is a super pain. Saw it was a huge block but was just done making kinda and my phone play nice at that point. Sorry! Wish We all (even the authors here!) could have an editor

I guess I just don’t see why someone who is bad at writing a job description deserves outrage. Like of course the listed dream candidate/responsibilities are beyond one person’s capability, something that will become clear in the search and lead them to either adjust expectations for responsibilities or number of…

I don’t get the “outrage.” At all. Sure their dream list of qualifications is daunting, but wouldn’t life be much better if we all could outsource a lot of things we don’t care about/aren’t good at? In an extreme example I’d happily be someone else’s housekeeper and travel planner if they would do the same for me as…

It’s truly absurd. Cincinnati built a very terrible streetcar a few years ago (terrible because it doesn’t go anywhere, I love mass transit), and the worst part is the city was sold trains that ice up in the winter, so whenever it gets to freezing or so the trains have to run 24/7 or the overhead lines will get too…

Honda used to make manual hybrids. They weren’t good, but they did exist

What? People love it in cincy so much they can’t even fill flights out of here? (Kidding, I spend all of the cost of livings savings I get living in Cincinnati on trips away to preserve my sanity) 

um, today. And last month. Basically half the flights I fly. Just get off the biggest hub routes and peak season. I flew Delta CVG to Denver last month and almost no one had to share a row! Felt like pre-9/11 when we’d always fly on nearly empty planes. Oh, and today I’m on a delta CVG to SEA with something like 50…

People In peloton ads don’t work, it’s beneath anyone who can muster up the energy to feel superior over an exercise bike 

That is 100% their brand. Ever seen the “our kind of joy is different” ad, about using your exercise bike Christmas morning , being so excited to do so you’re up before your little kid and then thinking that makes you superior. Ugh. Just the (second) worst!

I’ve seen this peloton one like 800 times in the last month on Hulu, but all peloton ads are cringeworthy, this is just a little worse than most

I assume they meant either “under 12oo rpm” or “1200rpm or less.” but yeah, reading that literally, with no assumptions of the intended meaning is pretty absurd

I’m not anti-Tesla. I’m anti stupidity, anti lies and anti BS. Tesla has some amazing tech and so many advantages, but can’t focus on improving their business and instead expend most of their energy talking about the hypothetical future. I love EVs, and apart from the stupidity association, in many ways Tesla builds…

I agree, but these Tesla guys aren’t the sharpest when it comes to this whole “brand image” or “fixing real mature product line issues” thing. I think they knew it could break and still just want attention no matter how it comes, it’s why I truly can’t stand the company anymore, despite the fact that they still have…

Then I guess it wasn’t so obvious, sorry. To me and people I talk to, we all saw the breaking windows as an attention grabbing stunt, and impossible that they didn’t expect it was likely. But even if it’s an accident, it worked to get press and hype, and this was not a product launch, but a hype demo

Neither? It’s not elaborate, but there’s no way anyone who can engineer even a rolling demo concept car doesn’t know those windows are likely to break, they just didn’t care and assumed that broken windows would make for a good headline grabbing story, maybe even better than “bulletproof mars capable super truck of…

Being a person with eyes, that concept isn’t close to production. I don’t buy the two year timeline, and no one should.

That’s certainly possible with these doofuses. But giving them even a little credit and assuming even one real world test prior to the demo, its impossible that they didn’t know this was a possibility, so I’m confident in saying it’s a media stunt gone right not a tech demo gone wrong

That’s why I said 2024, not 202never. Tesla has never finished a new car on their original release schedule, so only ~2 years late for the highest margin option seems realistic

Yeah, those specs at the quoted price sound wonderful! And between Tesla, Rivian, GM and more I hope we can really get them by 2021/2022