Well, there was that episode of the Secret Service duct taping a salon’s camera in Massachusetts recently. Spent a few hours using the bathroom and later denied the entire episode even though they are on camera both inside and out. (They have changed the story several times, so I have no clue what today’s version is).

This portion of Maryland is in Howard County, they don’t take lightly to people skirting the rules/codes. They have regulations in place for building heights, the amount of development and the number of commercial buildings within any given square mile.

The rotor warped yet the caliper was intact. Initially I thought the pad has gone bad and the squealer bar was whistling. Volvo couldn’t explain the issue and I trust the tech since I’ve done business with them for 25 years. They only charged me $200 for the replacement and install, which I thought was reasonable.

Having sold my 2005 S60R (Venetian Red), I can’t agree more about bringing back the 5cyl!

They’ve phased out the super-charger in the last two years for hybrid/battery-tech taking its place (even got the serpentine pulled in favor of electronic AC/steering). Removed some of the complexity...

Coming to your kid’s soccer field overflow parking soon!!!

You nailed a portion, a job’s skill gap. Gen Z isn’t being trained in most vocational skill positions and some high schools are placing such a large emphasis on college that they are ignoring other good paying jobs. Simple 5-6 week programs run through the local CC and outplacement in apprenticeships go a long way.

Structural unemployment has always been a thing. An economy considered to be healthy has roughly a 4.5% unemployment rate. The numbers people argued about this week are 18 months old in part and well known to the Fed given they are just State data that was used to smooth out the Household Survey from the BLS. (Trump…

This is why you put banking info, or frankly anything you don’t want easily accessed, in a secure folder requiring a passcode. Last time I checked they need a warrant to access given the 5th Amendment protections.

I think he’s conflating totals - Duke University (9,000 employees) with Duke Health adding 44,000 between campus and the network? No connection with HD at all...

$24K for the upgrades in 2024 money not the purchase price in its entirety.

Not with the Board in its current make-up. There aren’t enough shareholders to even force the issue... 

Doing the math... $24,593 in today money! Maybe if they had thrown in the SHO engine upgrades, but not for some struts and seats.

The perception that Musk is some Tech Genius and saw an underlying value to Twitter others were missing started this mess. Add in the extreme over-valuation he made in the initial bid (which he was forced to pay after the courts were brought in), his backers should have done better diligence.

Credit Ratings...

You were off by the purchase price of any of the cars listed in Erin’s piece! (see other comment in thread)

Harvey Mudd... 2024-25!

Now we have Tesla’s longer-term problem, pricing vs sales. They may never achieve the cost levels needed to not be a 1st World purveyor of vehicles. Model 3s may be a commodity in the US/Europe/China, but South/Central America or Africa? Decades before the infrastructure can support those types of vehicles.

Musk can’t get his car below the reduced tariff $35k threshold without raising questions in other markets.

Secretary of Transportation designate?