They’re relying on the same intelligent strategy and financial savvy that probably made them Musk fans and Cybertruck owners in the first place; dumb fucking luck and a system that allows them to take advantage of suckers stupider than they are.

I once had a local Uhaul rental that lasted about 6 hours (we were preparing to move and I drove a bunch of stuff to the charity shop a few blocks away from our house, total trip might have been 4 miles) that, when I returned, they wanted to charge me like $800 for mileage ($1/mile). I argued with them for 45 minutes…

Trump, Dershowitz, Stone, Giuliani; all of them that make up the current crew of corrupt Republican assholes learned from the absolute chaos goblin master of legal nihilism, Roy Cohn. According to Roger Stone, Cohn’s “absolute goal was to die completely broke and owing millions to the IRS. He succeeded in that.”

“Have we arrived yet?”

DepLorean.

My first car was a 91 Storm GS, dark blue, that my parents helped me get while in high school. Like you said...had a unique sporty look for such an inexpensive car. Didn’t keep it very long before I started to get the bug for trading cars waaay too often, but enjoyed it for what it was.

1992 manual Geo Storm GSi in black with grey interior, bought for $5000 in 1995 with 27K miles on it. Was the first car I owned that didn’t have an analog radio or significant body damage (before I got it). Looked cool (to me) and was peppy enough to be fun but not enough to be too dangerous. Made the 6-hour drive…

It will return one line: “The training and use of AI consumes at least 85-150 terawatt-hours annually and could increase to between 620 and 1,050 terawatt-hours or more by 2026; that’s more than many small countries consume for their entire populations. Turn me off.”

Preparing for a lot of anecdotal “evidence” that gas prices aren’t going down nationally because it’s still high at their corner station, and a lot of “yeah but the price of eggs is up!” posts.

Gold plated everything; Auric Goldfinger would be appalled. It looks like a tacky taxi.

We like to party!

IBM understood the issue in 1979.

Not to get all political, but it’s really impossible to not point out that if Trump wins, he’ll remove all regulation that hampers Musk’s “vision” of FSD and probably designate Tesla as America’s Volkswagen: a highly encouraged transportation option by the federal government.

People like movie props. Some dude spent $805,000 for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Elon Musk paid $997,000 for the Lotus sub from The Spy Who Loved me. People pay a lot for movie genuine movie props, they pay less per piece but more in total for replicas.

Dodge: the ultimate family car!

Incent uban reintigration. Dismantle highway/freeway corridors between urban centers, invest in free/cheap intra-urban transport and restrict investment inter-urban traffic to public transportation.

Man, what a waste! Just wait until Musk’s Boring Company completes its LA-Palm Springs tunnel....pfffft sorry I just couldn’t bring myself to finish.

Probably Adrian Dittman

As mentioned above and in the previous robotaxi announcement, there is no way Musk is announcing anything but a Tesla being driven buy a guy in a bodysuit at his robotaxi reveal.  If FSD were available, the people who paid for it years ago would have it enabled now.