“There, Tesla employees instructed Slattery to contact his bank to reverse the charge — a plan Slattery found unacceptable as the bank informed him it could take up to 10 days to return the money to his account.”

Easy. You quickly grab all domain names approximating the new cars name and install some basic forum software (so you’re not technically domain squatting.) Then install AdSense.

Picture of Mercedes research process

I too hate social responsibility. The world should die with me after I’ve extracted everything I can from it over the course of my life.

On one hand I understand that the administrative parts of the state could potentially get this done faster if properly motivated. Especially since, without the filibusterer reforms, getting something like this (and a lot of other necessary legislation) passed would be annoyingly hard.

Oh my god, my 2011 Mazdaspeed3 is almost the exact same procedure, but with the bonus that it’s a 2 piece filter assembly that requires pushing up the top half then somehow blindly interlocking the lower half. Took way longer than I’d like to admit the first time I did it.

PA DCNR will probably be reviewing those now that it’s come to their attention then.

I can only ever see that scene from The Matrix where Agent Smith seals up Neo’s mouth when I look at the Model 3 front end.

Citations Needed just did a great podcast episode solely devoted to pulling apart the political dog whistle that is the word “taxpayer.” I never really paid attention to its use before, but this minor youtube celebrity just embodies everything they were talking about.

I would not even mind the subsidies if there wasn’t the very loud hypocrisy of “nobody owes you nothing” and “bootstraps” and all the other mountain of bullshit that goes with it.

I’ll bite.

Pft amateurs. Each store Walmart operates was estimated to cost the US social welfare benefits programs between $904,542 and $1.75 million per year, with an estimated total of $6.2 billion/year over all their stores, in 2014 money.

Also, prices for used have been moving upward since the start of the pandemic. Here’s an article from August 2020 for reference (https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2020/08/05/car-prices-coronavirus-pandemic-new-trucks-suvs/3297869001/).

Could have been purchased through a darkpool.

Some systems are better than others and I’ll admit that several of the newer ones I’ve driven aren’t quite as aggressive.

It still manages to start at $30k before credits though.

Blind spot monitors with a light on the side view mirror that also beep (like the one pictured.)

I’m looking out my office window at my Xterra sitting in 3 inches of snow with it still coming down. I don’t have a single worry about my trip home because I know it will make it. It’s easily the most capable vehicle I’ve ever owned and it’s fairly easy to keep running.

It pains me to say this but the SUV strategy worked out swimmingly for Lamborghini.

I think the only brand of anything for the cars that I buy with only a slight bit of skepticism is Moog parts. I haven’t had a bad experience with them yet despite the internet thrashing they seem to get. But by the time I’m putting Moog components on the cars, I don’t expect them to go more than 50k miles more, so I…