Really, I think long term Tesla is going to be a charging and solar company. The cars are just an excuse to build the infrastructure. If you know Parks and Rec, infrastructure could be their dry cleaning chemical transaction holding company to the car division’s Tom’s Bistro.

Mostly ignore them. Jerome Powell, most famous for his diehard adherence to the largely debunked money supply school of economic thought, can be safely ignored on most things related to inflation. He doesn’t understand it as is evidenced by his fairly poor performance fighting actual inflation. It’s further evidenced…

No, they don’t. That’s the problem. They weakly line up at best. The most obvious example is 2020, although that’s a weird case. But it turns out, maybe not. Companies were using the cover of ‘inflation’ to jack up prices in excess of inflation.

Those graphs kinda disprove your theory. Look at the correlations there and you’ll see that oil prices are, at best, incredibly weakly tied to inflation. Sure, there’s a big correlation in the 2008ish range, but outside that it’s pretty weak. Look at the 2020-2021 jump and it’s INVERSELY correlated. Before 2008, oil…

Probably not. The majority of inflation was driven by straight up corporate greed taking advantage of some inflation and stomping on the metaphorical gas pedal to flood more money into their pockets. It’s unlikely that inflationary pressure will get stomped nearly that hard if gas prices go back up. Some, sure, but…

It’s not the girl’s fault some dude high off herding ducks decided to play in traffic without paying attention.

Hey! Ain’t no law against ‘wanting’ to do anything. :)  It’s the ‘doing’ that gets you in hot water.

You equate feeling “uncomfortable” with “I hope this person doesn’t lash out at me violently while I’m trapped in a moving underground, sealed, aluminum can?”

Yeah, I think the market for the cybertruck is basically people who don’t like trucks but want a truck. That’s kinda what SUVs were trying to fill. I can’t see a ton of people already not buying trucks flocking to the cybertruck over their SUVs. Moreover, I can’t see a lot of truck people abandoning the traditional…

Boeberts were the ‘hold my beer’ response to Palins.

My money’s on his son’s girlfriend. 

Maybe it’s Ruppie...? I mean he did call off his marriage a few weeks ago, didn’t he? She could be after a piece of that fat Fox $$$, not to mention an inevitable post-elections defeat (she barely won last time) gig spouting her nonsense on air. I’m sure he could set her up with something, what with being the owner of…

It really is hexing. 

There’s no such thing as a “proven” theory about political discourse. It’s all theory and fairly universally unprovable. Human behavior rarely conforms to empirically provable phenomena. I mean sure, you can measure it and get a number, then run a OLS or a some other statistical model all day and night, but then…

This isn’t a court of law. This is a public opinion. Semantic differences might keep you warm at night, but they’re irrelevant in this context. For instance, Kyle Rittenhouse committed murder too, and there’s literally nothing you or anyone else can keep me or anyone else from correctly labeling it as such. Getting…

Jordan Neely was not one of those people. He has been arrested at least 40 times and some of those were arrests for assaulting strangers on public transit and public nudity.

Because “the guy who killed him” isn’t a mentally ill person who will act aggressively toward random people for no reason.

No, there’s plenty of reality, just Tesla fans like to deny it. Ford’s comparatively niche vehicle of the Mustang Mach-E almost toped both of Tesla’s Model X and S in sales, despite Tesla having 4 and 8 years (respectively) on the market. The Chevy Bolt outsold the Teslas as well, and that’s a small car in an era when…

Pfft, 10 years is the blink of an eye in vehicle development. Marry that with a whole new power train and we’re still in the infancy of the EV market. Tesla’s competitive advantage is quickly dwindling.

Telsa is probably doomed to be bought out by someone else by 2050. Sure, some people are drawn to the “spunky new-commer” mystique of Tesla, but I think they’re in the minority. When push comes to shove, most car buyers want something reliable, safe, and won’t give them any real problems (aka Not GM... I kid!). All…