This is where you lost me. I live in Charlotte, and I still don’t want to see that. The story just doesn’t make any sense, the man must be innocent.

Zinke is from Montana, which ranks top 5 in funds received. This dude should thank Christ for the urban dwellers supplementing his state’s viability.

so he’s pissy-tweeting because he doesn’t get a taste?

God it’s pathetic how “urban” gets tossed around as an insult. Cities power the American economy and send billions of dollars to rural areas to support them. We should acknowledge the contributions rural America makes to the country, but acting as though people who live in cities (i.e., a substantial majority of the…

That is why I didn’t buy one.

That’s your take? A guy voluntarily sticks his head in a microwave, fills it with an expanding, hardening substance, and then films it with the intention of profiting from it... and you come away from all of that saying that the FIRE DEPARTMENT should be ashamed of themselves for calling out his idiocy?

Sorry but I have no sympathy for him. I won’t say that “just following orders” is never a defense, but when those orders involve a grand conspiracy to commit the same crime repeatedly over many years, deliberately defrauding both the government and consumers, “just following orders” is not a defense.

Why should he be treated different than other organized crime? Someone has to take responsibility and if they can build a case against other execs and employees I’m all for that too.

As an IT guy who has left more than one job over requests to do something I thought illegal, I have no sympathy at all. I only hope that VW’s board members face the same should they decide to come for a visit.

oh my tesla workers, getting paid holidays, overtime pay, vacation time off, health benefits, retirement savings.... not to mention a decent wage for the job (just not the state/area the job is in). all with out the union.... The horror. - source from a friend who works for tesla, and has tried to get me to come work…

The UAW stirring up shit to make sure they get their foot in the door to more cash from a growing automotive company? The UAW operates under a money motive - just like Tesla does.

Glad to hear they are taking this seriously. Now, if only the Oil industry would do the same. The Oil industry’s record in Africa is a horror show of murder and corruption. Shell, Exxon, and others have done some terrible things there.

Sounds like oc speak for get ready for 2000 more years of gasoline while we figure this out.

No mention that Tesla is already well ahead of the curve on this, Ryan?

Good, hopefully they will also “tackle” child labor in the petroleum industry.

Elio’s mistake is a classic engineering one that damn near every technical department makes at one point or another: “We didn’t invent that here, so it must be crap”.

Event Horizon would be a hell of a name for a car, come to think of it.

Man, I really look forward to reading this article in two months at my dentists office.

First Amendment rights refer only to government sanctions, not to consequences enacted by non-governmental bodies; and she did not work for the government.

Your cornflakes must be extra pissy this morning.