“EVs would sell better if some of them had actual controls - on the dashboard...” Not all EVs are Teslas. Most of them have at least some kind of (digital, of course) instrument cluster. And of course, plenty of ICEs these days have digital instrument clusters and/or nasty cheap tablets glued to the middle of the…

I agree with your post (except maybe the last sentence), but my star is purely for your profile name.

“Q: what could Tesla have done with $56,000,000,000 in assets to improve the quality of their cars? A: a lot.”

“Much of these gains likely come from the non-vehicle AI industry, which is absolutely totally going to revolutionize the world with its ability to (checks notes) summarize articles badly.”

Sag Harbor’s really making the news these days, eh?

That too.

The phrase you’re looking for is “pour encourager les autres”. More completely: “Dans ce pays-ci, il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres”.

Of course it is. The key is to make it hurt to do business in a harmful way. This fine should be billions, not millions.

Compliance officer, you say?

Bando rhymes with Lando. Just an observation.

Do you think anyone who writes for Gizmodo sites is old enough to know what the AFL was?

Voting Biden (read: voting against Trump) won’t make America the shining light on the hill... but it least it won’t continue to get darker nearly as quickly.

“If you attended Donald Trump’s latest rally in Virginia, you’re probably a touch dumber than you were before” Which is saying something, considering how dumb you probably were in the first place.

“which, unlike the Patriots’ stadium, is actually in Boston” Why would the Patriots have to be in Boston? They’re not the Boston Patriots. They could be in New Haven, or Burlington, and still be in New England.

Need to know who’s going to play Armitage, too. And 3Jane.

What “weird space metals”? All its parts were built on Earth, you know.

I repeat: “though maybe if all waitstaff were making the $15 minimum wage, maybe the expected tip could be somewhat less, but I’d still tip”.

Duck... and... cover! But - in SPAAAAAAAACE!

“Kyle’s Mom” - hey now, don’t bowdlerize “Kyle’s Mom Is A Stupid Bitch in D Minor” like that. Show some respect.

“I don’t know if Gizmodo will be allowed to say anything about Project 2025” - Would that be “Catch-2025"?