The key to understanding this is two things:

I live not far from this particular Supercharger station, and this does not surprise me at all.

I’m not defending Musk or Tesla, but with battery capacity being a major selling point and cost element for any EV, it makes sense Tesla would want some flexibility here.

The R1T is what Tesla should - and could - have made. It looks like an EV and has some cool EV bells and whistles, but it’s still recognizably a truck and does truck things competently enough, unlike the CT. It’s expensive, but there’s enough of a market for $80k pickups that Telsa could have made it work just by…

The Cybertruck is going to be a business school case study for the next 100 years.

The law of maritime salvage is so complicated you’re better off buying a lottery ticket. If you want to attempt it, you’d better hire a team of lawyers first. 

A bunch of old, rich, unvaccinated people on a cruise ship, what could go wrong?

Yeah, I only served on a nuclear powered carrier, so I’m not sure of the setup here either, but I do know how these big reciprocating engines work in power plants. When everything is working well, they’re supposed to be able to go from cold start to full power in a couple of minutes. But the ship had just suffered a…

Yeah, for people who are not familiar with this class of diesel engines, the ones that push big container ships are nothing at all like the one in your truck. The pistons alone are bigger than that truck. 

Wake me when it comes with a minigun.

Imagine the Depends that will be soiled by this thing. 

I think you have to start with the understanding that everyone knows gas pumps are not supposed to dispense gas for free. It happens once you can call it a misunderstanding. Here, she clearly knew what she was doing. The crime here “theft by unlawful taking” has an intent element that would be satisfied by how far she…

It’s typically the way fraudsters get caught. They get away with something once and assume it will keep working. The longer it works, the more they push it until you get situations like this one.

I need to know more about this 98-octane gas all the stations in NZ appear to carry.

NGL clicked on this thinking it was some Russian hack job like this:

He’s been on paid leave (@ $204k annually) since early Dec. Nice gig.

I get the impression that this guy has the money to just replace them if it becomes an issue. 

Interesting that only a narrow range of Teslas are compatible.

100% she was texting and driving or scrolling Instagram.

You have to start with the same delusions most GOP voters currently suffer from, which is that Biden stole the 2020 election. Under that view, his inauguration was a coup, and thus an insurrection against the rightful president (Trump). I don’t know what MTG believes, but plenty of their voters have adopted that as…