Oh sure when Lotus forgets the seats in my Elise and charges me extra it is cool, but Tesla does it and you call it quality issues? Where’s you integrity??

#fakenews

The Model 3 has a wiper stalk.

This.

I’m just waiting for cars like the Porsche Mission E or whatever BMW, MB, Volvo, Audi, etc have tucked up their sleeve. I think it will be very hard to Tesla to compete in a few years, but props to them for starting the trend and continuing to stay afloat.

Dodge is already doing that and you have the option of buying them back for only $1.

Neutral: electric cars will become largely irrelevant when the imminent second steam revolution happens.

It is a TAX CREDIT, not a subsidy.

You think people who can afford the loan on a $40k car are wealthy?

No, the middle class people who want to pretend to be wealthy lose their tax subsidies.

Wealthy people don’t pay taxes.

I’ve been working with an accounting firm, and seriously the “wealthy” people we deal with are 0-1% effective tax rates, despite having hundreds of millions of dollars.

Its the people who are making…

Neutral: electric cars will become largely irrelevant when the imminent second steam revolution happens.

There’s more than Tesla’s that are eligible.

“Captain’s Log, Stardate 3440.5: Nothing untoward happened today. Everything went swimmingly. Nobody died and we didn’t violate the Prime Directive at all. Not even a little bit. We certainly didn’t start a shooting war with the Romulan Star Empire. No, sir. Not us.”

What could possibly go wrong on a ship that even the base taxi drivers called the U.S.S. Bread and Water? No morale issues there I tell ya.

You mentioned sleepless nights. That’s where the fat is trimmed - sleep. I thought OCS was sleep depravation, but it was just practice for all those two- or three-hour “sleeps” I got on the ship.

The saddest thing about this is that ultimate responsibility lies with us, the voters. Again and again, we elect leaders whose “tough talk” results in unsustainable pressure on people, soldiers and sailors, whose lives are damaged or lost for some grandiose BS rhetoric.

Perhaps death by acronym overload?

I think you have it backwards right? The Fitzgerald incident is so painfully bad, it is shocking. As bad as the bridge watch situation was, that line about the CIC failures was even more terrible: “watch team members were not familiar with basic radar fundamentals, impeding effective use... [Team members] failed to…

Non-Navy vets often have a hard time understanding how absolute the command structure is at sea. It’s a legacy of the fact that in the old days, the captain truly was the final authority because there was no way to communicate with anyone once you were over the horizon.

How much of an impact, if any, do you think the proliferation of “death by powerpoint” (annual/quarterly recurring training for matters unrelated to core operational competencies) courses has on readiness? Specifically, as it pertains to the type of “expired training certifications” mentioned in the article?

this is why the EPA exists, kids.