Guess I’ve been Livin’ the Dream. My local Volvo dealer walks the car with me before they take possession for any servicing. Write up the obvious points of concern (Small scratch on the passenger door that paint covered but left a small dent I barely noticed) and send me on my way.

Musk is facing 21 lawsuits at his various companies. Everything ranging from discrimination to pay issues to a defamation suit by a dude in Texas, Ben Brody, who dipshit called a masquerading Neo-Nazi Street Fighter? (Turns out the gentleman is a Jewish man in California, but Musk loves him some name-calling BS.)

My father fed his dissertation, written in 1974, into GPTZero and it flagged as 80% AI. So he did a little back and forth with MIT to find out if his work had been cited in any other work. Which it had, about 200 times since he published.

If this were truly about ChatGPT, Idiot-boy would have also banned any cellular device or the use of it on company-owned devices. But by name-dropping Apple, Musk gets more headlines and breathless comments that feed into his ego about being the ONLY PERSON WHO MATTERS.

Elon Musk is a garbage human being, but it doesn’t negate the practice which the author was positing a half-assed question... which I have repeatedly pointed to as the topic of my reply.

It’s a response to the author’s comment regarding the difficulty in removing phones period. It’s a common practice, even if Musk is throwing a tantrum about Apple devices. So those “obvious reasons” are meaningless without specific examples, right? Even then, it falls on deaf ears to most employers in this situation.

Guess you’ve never visited a US Government Facility? Typical behavior to require personal electronics be left in car or locked away upon entrance.

Please correct my non-medical training... Oxygen introduced into the vagina is what I was told raised the risk factor significantly (along with a Strep infection), so pads would be a preference in all situations?

Home insurance costs are up 20% Y/Y.

I’ll go $2 if I can stop having to order through a damn terminal 3 feet away from the person handing them over the counter. (rarely would I swipe a CC for a $1.50 purchase! I really miss simple cash transactions.)

Oh, we could throw in insurance costs, material costs for upkeep, proximity to public transit, local job opportunities... educational standards.

That’s a vast over-simplification of zoning laws and per-unit cost in most large cities.

Having had an opportunity to ride in a Cadillac Lyric, the more platform sharing with Honda/Acura is really going to eat into his sales.

Musk is actively diverting resources to other entities and screaming about needing to be “gifted” more shares to hold his interest.

I think the number of 3-point shots has a higher weight in the outcome than home court advantage?

No...

The local Volvo dealer also owns the Subaru joint. Both have had long-term employees in both the Sales and Services sides. 30 years with this particular Volvo location. I like the simplicity of the same person selling me a car, knowing I’m just writing a check and driving away. No finance people screwing around and…

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The study used the generic “Our takeaway - if you’re buying a brand new EV - be it a new make or a new model - there’s a higher potential for a battery replacement, but you should expect it to be fully covered by the vehicle warranty.”

It’s their version of 3M wrap... Lexus charges $500 from the factory with that option clicked for Hood, Door handles, and Outside Mirrors.