No my argument is that the data is clear - the kids aren’t alright. We can try to make the kids alright, OR we can continue to ineffectually blame things that aren’t really the source of the problem. We know they aren’t because, well, history SHOULD have taught anyone paying attention that complex problems rarely have…

Since The Police is my favorie band of all time and I’ve been known over the years to go on philisophical waxing that borders on the obessive ranting, I’ll keep my comments brief....

Passwords are a terrible and outdated technology and they need to die already. It’s a failed experiment. 

Not that I can see. I picked the Honda Accord EX and it came to $30,155 with the defaults and destination charges on Honda’s website. Tesla’s website says the Tesla 3 is $32,740 “after tax credit”. Unless you mean the hybrid Accord? That’s $34,085 with destination charges and all that.

Just how cuckoo pants is this nutcase?

No, it’s pretty much spot on. Data doesn’t equal knowledge. We have no evidence that phones and social media are bad to a degree that exceeds, say, TV or Cars when they were initially rolled out. Few bothered to think to ask the question and the tools we had at the time weren’t particularly good for measuring the…

Now the bot isn’t even trying. I mean come on! A ChatGPT API subscription can’t be that much money.

Brand loyalty is irrational, brand disloyalty is even worse.

Bad bot.

I fully acknowledge this is going to be a weird and kinda out there analogy, but it’s kinda the Hybrid Motor of its day. Look, we all know we’re moving towards Electric Vehicles as the norm and the Internal Combustion Engines are going to fade into history. It’s just the timing that’s in question. Hybrids exist as a…

Screens. Before that, it was D&D. Before that, it was any TV. Before that, it was Rock and Roll. Before that, it was comic books. Before that, it was the car. Before that, it was Jazz. Before that, it as the moving pictures. Before that, before that, before that, ...

Probably not much risk. Most salmonella from eggs is from poop on the shell itself. You could always use pasteurized eggs and that will 100% fix any issues from the yolks.

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?”