If 180 miles were sufficient, ICE cars would have settled into a rough 180-mile range average.

They settled into 425.

Great. Mandate WFH and build public transit then. Until that’s done, we need cars.

My work laptop is fine except for how the Windows key fell off randomly after 6 months.

all motorized personal vehicles and their attendant infrastructure should be eliminated

I live in New Jersey, so

Nuff said.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/some

In before a deluge of made up bullshit about how this can’t be true because If ElOn BaD tHeN cAr GoOd ImPoSsIbLe

It’s completely possible for Elon to be a dickhead and for there to be redeeming qualities to the products his company sells.

It’s completely possible for a car to be terrible in some ways (aesthetics, visibility, lighting in snow, many other things) and still be very good in others.

It’s completely possible for a very bad car to be constructed in a way that keeps its occupants safe in a collision.

It’s completely possible to dislike something without making up lies about it (random explosions, crash danger).

Every Tesla model ever tested has gotten a 5 star rating. There is video and photo evidence. The testing procedures are standardized. This is because TESLA PRIORITIZES OCCUPANT SAFETY IN ITS DESIGN PROCESS AND ALWAYS HAS. If you know literally the VERY FIRST THING about modern EVs, you know that.

Elon is a colossal, cataclysmic turd of a man and he deserves any hell that could be created for him, but making up uninformed bullshit about cars out of spite does absolutely nothing to stop him or to harm him. It does the opposite by distracting from what’s actually a problem.

Should you buy a Tesla? Absolutely fucking not. Buy a Rivian or a Chevy if you need a huge EV (you don’t). And then live with the flaws of those executives and their unconscionable history instead of Elon, because we happen to live in a time when Elon’s sociopathy is marginally more relevant than that of other executives.

If my wife has to be in a car in a nasty crash and I get to pick the car she’s in at the time, then fuck all of y’all - I’m picking the Tesla.

What a beta

The USA isn’t particularly functional at the moment, but I’d hesitate to say it’s lost much of the safety it had YET.

Most are still going to work, not being robbed, not being shot in the street, and so forth SO FAR.

Those things may change, but I’d be cautious about calling the USA unsafe until it actually is. I’d still rather be in most of America than most of, say, Syria right now from that standpoint.

No. Good people would refuse to be a part of some groups. It’s definitional that smne groups are entirely comprised of bad people.

They all do.

The rational reaction to this is to assume that the host was introducing a guest to an audience on an audio medium as a courtesy to the listener.

Your reaction and subsequent rants are indicative of a prejudice that you should seek help for.

In the meantime, I am removing you from my life and I suggest others do the same.

As a general rule, nothing curated by an algorithm is genuine.

Iterate that for an algorithm controlled by an American corporation.

Then iterate it again for Musk.

Combine that with everyone having left Twitter who isn’t maga.

No, your experience on Twitter is not representative of the average American.

Why aren’t you creating meaning?

Without a god, there’s only one option left for anyone with agency - us.

The fuck are you doing whining about it? Time’s wasting and you don’t have much. Get out there and build something that matters.

Yes, actually. Rational response. Good on him.

No it isn’t.

Republicans are fascist, eugenicist, lead-addled dementia patients with no regard for human life outside their immediate families and even then only to the degree that they can be exploited. Their core values are narcissism and personal greed.

Democrats are performatively-compassionate cowards who are terrified of change and value avoiding conflict above anything else. Their core values are looking outwardly like they give a damn and not being yelled at by anybody.

The two are incredibly distinct from one another.

It’s called bullying.

They’re bullying you.

And police.

And anti-homeless legislation.

And American healthcare.

Yes.

I approve of the defense of innocent people against powers that aim to kill them.

Violence is justifiable when the alternative is to be killed.

UHC kills innocent people. That’s their business model.