OK, there seems to be some misconceptions so here is what happened from the original NY Times article.

The general point was that in a job like this, why not provide every customer the best possible service, because you never know what opportunities a poor attitude might cause you to miss?

This isn’t charity, it’s a marketing stunt. But it’s a marketing stunt where a student and her coworkers walked away with a little extra money in their pocket without getting exploited, I really can’t hate. Honestly, that should be the model

Not only this,I thought that it was mentioned a while back that folks who were trying to sneak and unlock the thing to get the extended mileage out of the battery were having the cars bricked by Tesla;couldn’t Tesla just do the same thing here and immobilize the car as soon as it is reported stolen?

In related good news: some other Tesla owners won’t have to wait months for their Service Center to get parts in now.

I live outside of Seattle and same thing. They’re everywhere. I even saw one on the back of a tow truck and was trying to figure out what happened to it.

Wait wait wait... Tesla’s keys are vulnerable to a man in the middle attack and they still want $150 to fix that? Elon has some fucking balls.

a Tesla is still an extremely conspicuous car

Some of the current GMG sites are awesome. I love that Weighted Blanket site.

“For family and friends of Teresa Halbach, the commercial success of the series dropped them into a level of hell where they’re forced to re-live the trauma for as long as paid Netflix subscribers want to hear about it.”

I also feel there are a couple major sites missing:

Boing Boing was definitely one of the forerunners of everything internet culture.

I wondered this myself. You have all these other newsites but not the king Slashdot? Also thought it was weird they had Github on here but not Sourceforge.

I still visit Fark.com at some point during most work days. Also totally missing Slashdot.

It justifiably got a lot of hate, but it was murdered publicly by a billionaire with an axe to grind while the rest of the media just kind of watched it happened. Sure, a few outlets did defend Gawker, but most defenses were tepid or reluctant. It is a martyr in the fight for a press in the 21st century.

Gawker Was Good 

I will add Boing Boing to that as well 

No Slashdot?  Back in the late 90's/early ‘00 it was the go to place for nerdy news and fully capable of crashing webservers with traffic.

Mostly good choices on this list, I think, but some baffling inclusions/omissions. HaveIbeenpwned.com? Really? Sure, it’s a good site, but shaped the internet as we know it? Hardly. Likewise, I adored The Toast and its loss is still hard to swallow, but I feel like it was always a niche site even at the height of its…