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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

Most groceries here don’t post prices online, but …..

Boston Metro West - Amazon Fresh eggs from “Whole Foods”, not the cheapest grocery, $4.49/doz grade a large brown. My regular grocery is much cheaper than “Whole Paycheck” for most things.

No taxes on food here, although Amazon Fresh has a delivery charge.

I imagine the huge disparity of prices is that culling due to bird flu must be regional and our chickens must not be infected yet

In any sane world, would something as specific as eggs drive politics? They also didn’t weigh in on how many licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie-pop. That’s fine, they should be concerned about bigger things

We’re only talking eggs here, this is not an indicator of general inflation.

We had that too so prices are higher over say five years, but as far as I know, general inflation is under control. The biggest problem there is all the price increases blamed on “global supply chain disruption” from a couple years back: why haven’t they gone away since the disruption has?

At the very least it’s another fact that will join him down into history. It’s not enough that he’s the worst president ever, we can tank his stats so no one ever comes close

He’s the only one with a flat screen: serves him right

Does anyone know how big is Guantanamo? It takes a lot of space to imprison 30,000 “worst of the worst” children and other people, along with guards and supplies to keep all of them alive.

Aside from the other glaring problems with this idea, is this even physically plausible?

Edit: I came across an article stating:

• the original detention center built by Clinton for terrorists, could hold 12,500, in poor conditions even for terrrorists
• 30,000 would be quite a bit larger than any Nazi concentration camps

TCAS is … suppressed at low altitude by design,

Yep so that may not have helped

and city lights do not interfere with it.

But they do interfere with what you can see, and they were told to see and avoid

Every runway at washington national is in a different direction, it would be a different approach entirely and not a last minute change

Jets head toward their expected pattern from quite a few miles out. Tower changed their runway, so they needed to adjust. You’re right that there’s no indication it was last minute, but it was a change from their plan and change brings risk

The helicopter pilot seeing the wrong plane is a likely explanation. There were other planes in the area. The controller warned of the traffic. The pilot confirmed having the plane in sight.

Distance and heading can be difficult to judge, especially in the clutter at low altitude. Maybe they saw a different plane. Maybe they saw a parking lot light

Autocorrect is actually less convenient for punctuation. I’ll fight autocorrect when it substitutes random words but it can have my periods

Leave that argument back in the 1970s where it belongs.