No, I didn’t take your comments as a defense of Musk at all. I think, however, you are a bit optimistic about the rationality of institutional investors. Musk has made and continues to make some profoundly stupid decisions that do not bode well for the long-term health of the company or its stock price, particularly…

True, but you can’t imagine that Arizonans will vote him out next cycle.

He’s done things that actively hurt the company, ranging from pissing off the SEC to having no PR department to rotating through multiple general counsel (I believe they still don’t have one currently), and the institutional shareholders have done nothing. I assume it’s the usual dumb C-suite thing where as long as…

Correct. He demanded to be listed as a ‘founder’ in exchange for start-up money, and now everyone thinks he invented Teslas.

I do not want to ‘get used to’ a dumb specialty feature, because I will be driving other vehicles.

The problem Tesla can’t control is Musk.

That’s legalese for ‘we’re not interesting in risking our licenses to practice law over this client’.

SMART business-speak aside, specific tasks rather than vague goals are pretty standard for people who struggle with ADD/ADHD and anxiety, because it takes a nebulous project into small, manageable, specific tasks. 

She’s almost certainly putting her kids in a different, equally elite school. I rather doubt that a ‘hard left’ turn had to do with her decision; she probably moved, or had conflicts about the kids’ grades, or some other shit that she’s spun into a principled stand.

Not as they age - as they get rich. 

Because it’s an excuse to act like an asshole. That’s it.

We’re also going to grocery stores less. It’s kind of hard to set up a table to accost shoppers with Thin Mints when the shoppers are the same few Instacart gig workers.

You’re trying to square a circle. Miniskirts are by definition just long enough to cover your ass when you stand up - meaning they don’t cover your ass when you sit down, bend forward, etcetera. That they have to fit hips as well, particularly on a body that isn’t an underfed teenage model, means they’re going to ride…

No, it’s not even a ‘certain perspective’. She’s a tribalist asshole. Anything her “side” does is OK, and lying about lying is therefore OK. 

The cultists will never love you, but if you don’t pledge undying loyalty to King Kombover, they’ll hate you. They may turn on you eventually, but they’re not turning on you now, and that’s good enough for power-hungry sociopaths like the Cruzes.

Funny how all those rants about overprotective helicopter parents and “back in my day we kids spent the whole day on our own, it was great” pivot to rants about “unsupervised” kids when someone hurts a child.

“Flipped over”, as if she just decided to make her car roll all on its own instead of a bored and angry cop deciding to use a highly dangerous maneuver that threatened the safety of other cars on the road.

He wasn’t ignored. She turned on her flashers and slowed down.

Whatever your m.o. may be, the law enforcement agency that employs this cop instructs motorists to follow a different m.o., and this woman followed that m.o. exactly, because she (correctly) thought that is what drivers are supposed to do.

Here’s some fuel for your imagination: you’re on a highway with a very narrow shoulder, and there’s no pull-out or exit for another two miles.

If you’re used to urban environments, then you’re familiar with urban highways where it’s dangerous to stop on the shoulder because it’s very narrow (or nonexistent), and you’re…