Slapdash

Show me a country where pepper spray is legalized and it’s a societal menace.

Sorry - how do you get cut from 10+ feet away?

I genuinely don’t get the pushback to legalizing it. It’s non-lethal and effective.

Why doesn’t Congress have to approve this bailout of Argentina?

Thanks for this. I was a cross country/track athlete and have always bonked past 60 minutes of exercise. I just assumed I have very limited glycogen reserves.

It’s an amazing experience to dine in some of the old school restaurants in NYC that still have sound deadening design elements (big velvet drapes, lots of upholstered surfaces - including ceilings, etc.). There are still a few of these in the upper west and east sides.

I don’t see these prints on Kalshi. Still offered @ 10c.

JB Pritzker Polymarket odds for 2028 Dem nominee are very cheap at 2% if this happens.

Curious for @montanaskeptic.bsky.social's take on the timing here. Schreiber says his next case (Maldonado v Tesla) is in 75 days. Is that the start of the actual jury trial? Or just initial hearings?

Maybe @andyjayhawk.bsky.social can weigh in?

Isn’t Waller the obvious pick? Powell will likely step down and he’ll get another governor seat to nominate.

Additional issues include meeting anti smog standards, etc. Ethanol is hard to beat.

Source?

Are you suggesting that gasoline doesn’t require an anti-knocking agent?

Ethanol is a great anti-knocking agent, replacing (very toxic) tetraethyllead. 100% gasoline blend isn’t an option. It’s also cheap, efficient, and can be integrated with carbon capture & storage.

Using half of our soybean crop for fuel (biodiesel + renewable diesel) however, is the real scandal.

Biggest question in my mind is if these shares will ever vest.

Is the stock price going to be above $23 in 2027? The company could easily be kicked out of the s&p 500 by then after accumulating >1 year of - p&l

Go Randy!

What did you make of the DMV stating that “FSD (Supervised)” wasn’t an issue in their case?

Why would the optimal tariff rate be anything other than zero?

I'm really surprised by this. The video was brought up by the CA DOJ attorney during oral arguments for the pre-hearing conference held to address Tesla's 1st amendment objection to the case.

Good morning from Oakland and the Office of Administrative Hearings, where we are resuming the hearing in the matter of the California DMV's complaint against Tesla for misleading advertising of its Autopilot and "Full Self-Driving Capability." First up we will hear from witness Bryant Walker Smith.

Also meanwhile, screwworm is marching north

Great recs

The hearing is scheduled for 7/21-25, and the presiding judge tends to deliver decisions quickly. However, Tesla has asked for final post-hearing argument briefs to be due as late as mid-October, which I expect they'll get.

Still, probably a decision before year-end.

Hard to believe that the CA DMV false advertising lawsuit against Tesla is actually getting its hearing with the OAH in just over 1 week.

As a reminder, the remedies that DMV is seeking here are 1) suspension of Tesla's dealer license, and 2) restitution for harmed persons.

Pretty darn close to free $ available on quite a few Tesla related betting markets.

Liquidity isn't great, but you can deploy a decent amount of lunch money across a few of these.

Also nice to get paid for making bets on Tesla failures, which is decidedly less rewarding in the stock market.

He's probably talking about termination of ACCII in CA here, right? 🤷‍♂️

Yeah but Boston is the first city they’re deploying to with real winter weather, snow, ice, salt.

I’m sure they can do it. Just surprised they picked it over any number of other cities, given that they’ve deprioritized places with winter so far.

Wild to me that they are doing Boston before some of the more straightforward grid layout cities in the Midwest, where roads are always well snowplowed in the winter (e.g. Chicago).

Special government employees can only serve for 130 days (~4 months) fwiw. He would have had to have been officially appointed to serve beyond May anyway.

Senate will vote on nixing California clean-air waivers, Thune says The decision is set to infuriate Democrats who have seized on a parliamentarian ruling questioning the move.

Republican Senators are overruling the Senate parliamentarian for the first time ever to delete California's Advanced Clean Cars II waiver, which empowered the state to implement its ZEV mandate.

$TSLA

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Amusing hang up for Tesla counsel in the CA DMV lawsuit.

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