At an eduguess? Tesla isn’t a new unknown anymore; they don’t have to work as hard to persuade people to consider buying one, so it made more economic sense to quietly switch to offering test drives if people want them. I also eduguess that most people buying a Tesla are not as concerned about test driving a car the…

From the update, it sounds like he was sexting (I don’t care if it was Zoom, I’m calling it sexting) with someone other than Mrs. Toobin during a break.

This. Try pointing them to that passage where Jesus says that some of y’all in for a big surprise on Judgment Day. They lose their goddamn minds.

The only true values in evangelical Christianity, as it’s widely practiced by white Americans today, are obedience and loyalty. If you point out that they are not following (or are actively contradicting!) the teachings of Christ, they get upset and parrot something back like “nobody’s perfect” or “we’re all sinners”,…

You can’t actually be taking him at face value.

The return policy was created because they didn’t offer test drives - really it pushed the test drive until after you bought the car, with the promise that if you hated it you could change your mind.

Sure, but the 7-day return period wasn’t a hip idea or a glorious consumer benefit, exactly; it was a response to consumer concerns that they couldn’t test-drive the car first (since Tesla has no dealerships and can’t even have “showrooms” in a lot of states).

It’s true of evangelical Christianity; they’ve ceded the moral high ground they pretended to stand on, and they’re steadily losing power and followers. They’ll never admit that their own rejection of Christ’s teachings is what’s killing them, though.

It won’t matter to his faithful, but it will to his lawyers, who need to be able to make up lies about Trump’s intent and meaning on the fly, and as the need arises. Having Trump say something under oath not only subjects him to penalty of perjury (paging Bill Clinton) but makes their jobs even more impossible than…

My carrier has a decent trade-in deal, but a friend (who is not normally a tinfoil hat type) claims that one should never buy phones from a carrier because they come with spyware and bloatware. Is there any truth to this?

Paleo and keto serve the same functions as calling dolls “action figures”; it allows men to follow fad diets and bizarre eating patterns while pretending that they are doing a manly thing, not a girly thing.

There are class-action suits going on right now over the ‘flushable’ lie, and if I recall correctly, at least one of them is from a municipality having to deal with the result of clogged pipes.

She totally saw that fly:

No, committing a misdemeanor is plenty. But you’re right that this ICE isn’t bothered with deporting white women from “nice” countries.

It’s ridiculous to claim that Facebook never thought about the possibility that Trump might lose until a few minutes ago and are now panicking. Of course they have plans for multiple outcomes. They do want Trump to win, though.

I took you at your word when you said “playing devil’s advocate” and assumed you meant what you said, rather than doing the thing where it’s a magic phrase (like “just a thought experiment...” or “Just asking questions....”) to seem detached and fend off criticism. My bad.

Christ. No. Stop with the “oh it’s just an ACT so it doesn’t count” crap that people like Rush Limbaugh and Alex Jones pull out of their asses whenever anyone calls them on their crap.

The shitting on LGBTQ+ folks was just a cherry on top for you?

Look, we get it, you like the guy and you like that he kicks people you don’t like.

Sloppy and superficial how? The point of her article was that the article about how to chop wood... really isn’t about chopping wood, it’s an example of how the website as a whole is aspirational lifestyle stuff for guys who want to be reassured that reading a lifestyle blog doesn’t make them girly.