John Rosevear

It might be pulling NWS data from the nearest airport. How close is that?

Because somebody's kid didn't get into Harvard.

Yup. Regularly saying "Look, here is why we have to do this stressful/absurd thing" is good management.

Don't underestimate the extent to which these dipshits are injecting truly absurd amounts of testosterone.

I get the sense they don't want him hanging around the White House.

Tell Jonathan that it would be great if he was more active on here!

As JB Straubel has often said, Tesla had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. They stumbled for a while but they had room to stumble. Once the big global automakers started to enter the EV fray, it got a lot harder.

Lucid's troubles make me sad -- the cars are SO good -- but they don't surprise me. $LCID

As I used to say on the old bird site all the time, making cars is hard and manufacturing at scale has always been the moat.

Especially if the federal government is ordering them to pay.

And the six remaining NYT reporters who keep insisting that Twitter is still the REAL audience.

Absolutely agree.

It has arrived in Providence. Blah.

Keep the flame of liberty lit, as someone once said.

In its home markets it suffers from comparison to the EV Explorer, which doesn't exist here. Price would be key.

Same, same.

This should be devastating. It would be devastating for just about any other automaker.

But it's Tesla, so... *shrug*

Like as a one-size-down from the Mach E.

If you could get a decent one for Ioniq 5 money (low $40s), it might have done okay.

The small postindustrial city I live in goes like this:

Activists: WE NEED MORE HOUSING
The city and developers: Okay, we'll build housing at site x. Here are the details.
Activists: WE MUST BLOCK THIS TERRIBLE GENTRIFICATION

Liam Denning is great, though.

BMW doesn't need to be revolutionary, just competitive.

He's playing a character. If he goes, they get someone else to play that character.

As with the earlier WSJ story, I wonder what else the Times knows and can't write.

That's not bad. I like the boat-tail rear, a nice nod to Buick's history.

A Look Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan Lair

Top story at NYT right now.

I keep thinking the source for these stories has to be someone in Ghislaine Maxwell's camp. They feel like a series of warning shots to... someone.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/u...

You can always change the oil (unless it's an EV). But anything much beyond brake pads is more complicated than it used to be.

Same. As a kid I was taught to do weird stuff like changing oil and basic woodworking. Seems like superpowers now.

Absolutely. If I remember right, my parents told me I could apply to up to eight schools because it was expensive.

At least "GLC with EQ technology" is more promising than "it's sized like the GLC but it's electric so we covered it with blue lights and made it all weird looking".

It smells like Gauloises and victory.