If you want any color other than black for a Model 3, it’s $1000 more than the base price of $35k. If you want autopilot, that’s $5000 more. It has 18 miles less range than a Bolt, unless you pay another $9000 for an upgraded battery. That’s $50,000 for a car that will most likely no longer qualify for any tax…

But Henry Ford never blew through the equivalent of over four billion dollars.

It’s all based on that last one. If any other company blew it’s production goals as reliably and as badly as Tesla does, they’d be fucked.

I’m certainly not saying it’s impossible. I’ve just done a little research and found two quarters where Tesla actually made a profit, one quarter making 22 million and another making 15. So 37 million profit with 4.286 billion lost. I mean... there’s nothing to brag about there. And this company is somehow worth 50…

Q3 2017 had a loss of 619 million according to this CNBC article.

Actually, in looking at the sources I used in my post, Tesla *hasn’t* made a profit on a yearly basis. I didn’t get breakdowns for individual quarters, so it’s possible they turned a little profit here and there, but year over year they’re still way, way down.

From 2008 to Q4 2017, Tesla has actually lost 4.323 billion dollars. They’re bringing in more revenue, but they’re also still burning cash like there’s no tomorrow.

GM’s problems were many fold, compared to Tesla’s rather straightforward “We’ve never turned a profit, ever.” problem. If people thought about GM in the same way they think about dotcoms, GM would have investors crawling all over it just like Tesla does.

Oh man, the worst part about all this is that knowing exactly where that location is and having had my first instinct be “Oh my god, you don’t put anything valuable underground there.” because I know how often that part of Bangor floods and has other issues, having been a city native. It’s right across the street from…

The part that gets me about all this is that we’ve read her probably-too-detailed side of the story, but know nothing about how he saw things in the moment. Even without inferring anything from how she presents the situation, we all know that there’s usually a bit of a jump between any one person’s retelling of a…

So fucking true. I recently had a small panic attack when I was presented with consent that *wasn’t* enthusiastic, and it absolutely paralyzed me into inaction. If I don’t get enthusiastic consent, it doesn’t even turn me on, let alone encourage me to make a move.

I haven’t laughed so hard in months, awesome.

Gives even fewer fucks, has a sense of humor and is actually at ease with knowing his life is a mess and that he lives in basically Gotham city’s armpit. He’s got his friends and doesn’t think big because thinking big is what stupid people in costumes do that gets them killed. And brought back. He’s fully aware of…

My second car was a a previous generation 1991 929S, I loved that thing, with the really nifty automatic “swinging” A/C vents in the front.

I guess his ass just couldn’t cash them.

Those aren’t what I’d call a typical SUV. Those are what evolved into the monstrosities we see today as SUVs. Modern day SUVs have plasticy, bloated interior panels, big comfy rear seats that don’t fold, and enough fake-luxo bits to make anything custom look like crap without a lot of work. An older wagon has a much…

Only with style, a more usable interior, a lower roofline and a cool factor off the charts.

Vans are great ideas, but if you want something *truly* ready to carry you to Valhalla, go with a ‘70s station wagon. Any 70's station wagon will do. You get massive engine compartments, huge frames, and a giant canvas to paint your own fume filled fever dreams on.

I think you’ll be happy with it, as long as you’re never running it on battery power. :)

I’ve always built my own desktops, and only a couple weeks ago bought my second “gaming” laptop. The first was a Sager model (basically, think of every “gaming laptop” that looks like a big black slab of blandness and get it directly from the actual OEM instead of a reseller that slaps a label on it) in 2011 that was…