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Out of curiosity, what do they do for public service?

I’m a bit ambivalent: I would have hated it, and there’s no immediate benefit. I’m also well past the point of being affected, so yes, you should have compulsory service.

Compulsory service can’t create an effective military force, but what it can do is widespread experience with discipline, working together, basic weapons familiarity. There are many emergencies where having this widespread experience might be useful, over a herd of random citizens in an unruly mob. Heck, make it part of national guard or have fema run it.

For the military, you might get a head start on getting people ready, should you ever have to call them up. In recent decades we always assumed war is fast and you can only use what you start with, but Ukraine demonstrate there can still be protracted wars.

But I’m picturing more of an organized force to help in a large flood or fire for example. Or it helps to have some sort of goal, so build it as a modern WPA.

He seems to understand shell companies, tax avoidance, cheating your contractors, and strategic bankruptcy. He understands shilling for sponsors buying and selling favors, fleecing the rubes. I guess those are business strategies but there’s no evidence he understands ethical business.

I finally got up to at least three months, but then had to fill out FAFSA so I can give it all to my kids college. Back to paycheck to paycheck for me

As someone who is not elected and does he even have an actual position. In the government I mean, not one involving Cheetos dust on his lips

It’s also worth noting that pseudo-layoffs like this often lose the best people first. Those who have the most options

TIL;

https://www.rocketlawyer.com/family-and-personal/general-legal-matters/legal-guide/what-are-the-rules-for-presidential-pardons#:~:text=A%20pardon%20does%20not%20expunge%2C%20or%20erase%2C%20a%20criminal%20record%20or%20a%20finding%20of%20guilt.

A presidential pardon excuses a person who has committed a crime from serving punishment. A pardon does not expunge, or erase, a criminal record or a finding of guilt. However, if any civil rights were lost due to the criminal conviction, those rights will be restored.

Historically they were technically right. Tesla has always been priced by emotion rather than fundamentals. However it’s not enough to be technically correct when you lose money on that bet. And they almost always lost money.

It’s always been a bubble but that has lasted much longer than most bubbles and no one can predict when it’s pop

All too often neither the size of the profit nor percent profit really matter. The important criteria is “compared to plan”.

The stock has been priced according to what the company said it planned to do. If it didn’t meet its plan, stock usually decreases. If it keeps not meeting plan, shareholders usually lose trust and stock decreases even more. Tesla is “special” so who knows

As an owner of a recent one, but before Musk’s issues got so hard to ignore, it has good quality, as did everyone I look at. Tesla had some very well publicized quality issues, when they were hand-building the first vehicles, scaling up the model 3, and trying to build the very different technology of the cybertruck, but their normal, recent cars seem fine

As a gadget freak, teslas have many features that just don’t exist on other vehicles. Has any other manufacturer even gotten over-the-air updates right?

Several of the other vehicles you mentioned aren’t available in the US. We can expect increased protectionism so they never will be.

At least at the time, my Tesla was the lowest price EV with capabilities I wanted. The incentives made a huge difference but I don’t think it would qualify anymore plus they appear to be getting cancelled

We did have a wave of vehicles expected over the next couple years that may give some competition, if those legacy manufacturers don’t retreat to selling ICE trucks and SUVs only. However GM botching the Trailblazer, and Volkswagen screwing up the software on their attempts do not bode well. Hyundai/Kia has some good possibilities. The high end has several good possibilities but for too high a price and too low a volume

Yeah but then it’s not teslas fault. That employee didn’t do their job and can be fired

I’m not going to be picky about that when I see way too often that one thing is different then another