Guess what! I don’t care if you believe me even though I’ve mentioned the place where I worked many times here before (well, on Gawker, not here). It’s not difficult to look up past board members. And she’s dead and I’m not, so I win.

Hi, I left a long response to FeckYeahDarylYaBeast that explains a bit (12:17 pm). She wasn’t my boss in any way, she was just a board member (and negative feedback wouldn’t make me cry). She was just a nasty human being.

She was SO MEAN and incredibly dismissive and it was glaringly obvious she expected to be fawned over to the extreme. It wasn’t just me, my entire office despised her. I once tipped over from a crouching position (I was dealing with cables and av equipment) and everyone saw my thong. I was mortified. She complained to…

Interesting, because Maya Angelou used to be on the board at my old job and to this day is the only person who has made me cry at work. Our president used to hide from her because she was such a nasty piece. I guess she wrote this about herself.

I embraced “being a jerk” roughly 10 years ago because it functions as an easy to understand excuse for living in relative social isolation. I do feel and understand emotions. I really do care about the well being of others. I used to be extremely warm and open with people because that would make them feel good (I…

Every single person lies at least occasionally, I don’t know that it makes us all “conscienceless”. Also, sticking to this rule would make it impossible to support people with substance abuse problems and other personal struggles.

My point, though, is that most of the people I have ever known who I suspect would have failed this test, were dealing (or not dealing) with something internal that was beyond their control—whether it be chronic depression, bipolar disorder, etc. I mean, I’m sure there are plenty of so-called “toxic” people who don’t…

I think there’s always a danger with this kind of ready-reckoning selection - as if three is some magic number - hides a lot of the complexity of life. Even with the ‘exception’ disclaimer, there are people, friends, family, acquaintances where 3 is not the right number. It oversimplifies life which is not just a case…

In my experience the internet is basically always produces “The Homer”. Its almost always wrong about almost everything and comes up with the absolute stupidest examples. Look at how much traction that the Hyperloop has produced as an example.

Many other companies fix prices in product areas that you’re not aware of, Apple and Bose for example. If you don’t sell it for the price we tell you to sell it for, we won’t let you sell it.

I have been looking, but I can’t find anything that says that Tesla is forcing their stores (not dealerships) to meet sales quotas but aren’t giving them any tools to do so.

These are not dealerships.

Scion did, it was called Pure Pricing. Supposedly millenials like the idea that everything they saw online was the price they saw at the dealership.

Other than Saturn, has any other mass-market carmaker employed the “no one gets a discount” strategy?

“Tesla will need to get in alignment with normal selling techniques of their product.”

I hope he sticks to his guns so dealership practices are no longer the normal techniques.

Good on Musk for sticking to his guns on this (for better or worse) and hopefully the Model 3 will dissuade discounts with its lower price.

I see me and this gentleperson have a differing opinion on the use of the term “tasteful mods”.

I would have gone with “garish” and “appeal-destroying” but hey to each their own

CP. please delete.

Save yourself from “plastic hell” and buy some real speakers.

Save yourself from “plastic hell” and buy some real speakers.