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  1. She was in an X model, so I read. Proposed addendum: If you are sliding into or careeing toward water be careful to keep your car from reaching 5 mph. Commit this to memory in case of accident. Also in case of emergency, be certain to also commit the section How to Shift Using the Center Console to memory. Honestly I would be impressed if someone in a panicked emergency were able understand this, if they were able to read it while their car was submerging beneath thousands of gallons of water. Seems complicated? Also - nothing about how to open the windows in case of emergency. Nor does it note that breaking the glass if submerged under water is very difficult. The challenge with breaking many new car windows is universal: (example from a near drowning in Austin's Williamson Creek)
  2. Hatred up, Profit down Back in 2019, Elon Musk made an astonishing claim for Tesla vehicles. Tesla cars, he said, would go up in value, not down, after purchase. The reason for that is Tesla’s full self-driving capability that, Musk has said, requires only some additional software updates and regulatory approval before Tesla vehicles on the road today will become fully independent. He repeated this claim as recently as June 2023. “You can think of every car we sell or produce that has full autonomy capability as something that in the future may be worth five times what it is today,” he said in the company’s third quarter, 2023, earnings call. And not only would the price of a used Tesla go up, but Musk also predicted a world in which Tesla’s driver assistance suite, which the company calls “Full Self-Driving” despite not fully self-driving the vehicle, would on its own be worth $100,000. Because, with regulatory approval, your self-driving Tesla would be able to go “work” as a taxi on your behalf. All you’d have to do is sit back and collect the cash. But four years after Musk’s 2019 prediction, the average used Tesla Model 3 is selling for $29,000.
  3. A heaping pile of cow dung would have been appropriate. Also redundant.
  4. Sports betting is socially acceptable and therefore easy for online casinos to use as a hook. But has less favorable odds for the 'House' when compared to 'games of chance' like cards or dice.
  5. I also find it annoying esp the onslaught of advertisements. Apparently -- in states where it's legal or legal-adjacent the gambling companies are using the popularity of sports betting as a hook to other, more profitable, games such as urging those with the apps to play a couple quick hands of blackjack or rolls of the dice.
  6. Here's the good news about the difficulty in setting up the tent. Taking the tent down is almost as difficult as setting it up. Plus it's easily damaged so the first time of use may be the last time. Also a huge plus: The tesla basecamp is among the least stolen tents in the US.
  7. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. went on sale at the end of November when the production models were unveiled, just started shipping to the lucky first few to snag one.
  8. I still can't believe that thing is real. Jalopnik has a review in case, like me, you're a basecamp skeptic. https://jalopnik.com/tesla-cybertruck-s-basecamp-tent-is-a-3-000-disappoi-1851319488
  9. fwiw I think that article would be better in the opioid thread because the med is to break addiction to opioids. Unless I misunderstood. Of interest in the heroin study article (for use for general anxiety disorder and depression) is they studied different dosage levels and also discussed the lack of "bad trips" when the drug is manufactured to a pharmaceutical level standard.
  10. Attempt to save $200M in a $45B deal through outright breach of contract. That's less than half of 1 percent (.0044) - reneged on by Elmo, and now he'll get to go to court, likely pay their attorneys' fees, and perhaps damages. The lawsuit describes the lengthy details Mosk went to...it's repulsive and tedious, though of course involves using spacex workers to carry out Mosk's own dirty work. Paragraph 90 is a lovely dig by Plaintiff's (Argawal, et al.) attorneys.
  11. The rantings of an angry moron come back to bite him in the ass. Parag Argawal and 3 other top twitter execs filed suit against elmo this week because he stole their $$$$ (refused to pay severance). link to lawsuit https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24457674-twitter-exec-lawsuit
  12. Unearthed this thread for breaking news. Updated 8:16 AM EST, Thu March 7, 2024 https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/07/health/lsd-anxiety-fda-breakthrough-therapy-wellness/index.html edited to add this para from the article - “While prior research has documented the benefits of combining LSD with psychotherapy to alleviate anxiety associated with life-threatening conditions, this groundbreaking study is the first to show that a single dose of LSD … can effectively treat generalized anxiety without the adjunct of psychotherapy,” said psychiatrist Dr. Gabriella Gobbi, a professor and scientist at McGill University Health Centre in Montreal and Canada Research Chair in Therapeutics for Mental Health. She was not involved in the clinical trial.
  13. Pretty sure I've mentioned to you before that imo Galloway only says the most obvious things that any idiot could come up with. Exhibit A bolded, below.
  14. Your daily dose of Elmo being a piece of shit. edit oh wait wuuuut sorry @Hank Kingsley I guess I should've written second daily dose. tldr - elmo wanted majority equity, to be named CEO and have OpenAI folded into Tesla.
  15. DE Court discussing whether the Board is independent. ELMO: HOLD MY BEER. https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-x-twitter-advertisers-ad-problems-solution-tesla-2024-3
  16. It's one of the reasons why I get particularly pissed off when I read or hear someone dismissing the victims as dumb addicts, or a form of low life. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/musics-fentanyl-crisis-inside-the-drug-that-killed-prince-and-tom-petty-666019/ Fuquan Johnson. Logan Williams (The Flash). Michael K. Williams. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/dealer-charged-actor-michael-k-williams-overdose-death-pleads-guilty-rcna78430
  17. To summarize your line of bs: "But but but under an entirely different set of facts, the court reached two different decisions. They should have reached the same decision because they both involved Elmo." Wholly illogical. Your grade is F in both law and logic, but I'll willingly cede you an 'A' for plainly expressing your strong desire to fellate Elmo. Courts apply differing facts to existing standards and reach different conclusions every day in the US. This is not news, nor is it controversial. For example, the same logic you used could easily be used to reach the opposite conclusion from you - the court sure did fuck up with that solar city ruling. Now go away for another few days, do your best research on your favorite site, elonmusksexdollowners (EMSDO) and come back with a better argument. Although I don't think you can. For the record, the ruling you noted was an APPEAL. Your boi will have his opportunity to appeal, don't worry.
  18. Yeah fully agreed, seems pretty short-sighted to get the article canceled and just draw more attention. See: The Streisand effect.
  19. This article was published on March 1 by Road and Track, and someone was able to get them to bury it by March 4. https://web.archive.org/web/20240301170542/https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a46975496/behind-f1-velvet-curtain/
  20. Not sure where else to post this but it seems worthwhile. Jason Bailey is an author, film critic and NYC film historian.
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