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Exactly.

Honestly, I feel seen.

I did a double take on that as well. Is it real? $500 lol

Horrible loss. I actually like the new uniforms now that I’ve seen them in game action *ducks*

Since you obviously missed the point I was making from a brand and lifestyle/luxury comparison, please see the Coach purse analogy instead. And please try to refrain from “Akschully! coach brands is a good company and has fantastic scope 1-3 emissions records and and and…”

I meant in terms of status symbol, which you should have picked up from context. All your points are spot on from a company standpoint. But Teslas, which until about a year or so ago, was considered a luxury brand and it said something as a reflection of the individual (sustainability conscious, disposable income, Techy, whatever). Nowadays it’s a Toyota— decent car, decent price, Indians love them, etc. The handbag analogy is a great one as well.

Yea and the cheaper and more compressed the pricing, the more lower middle class it will be. That and every Indian in your city. It’s the new Toyota.

I've only seen it on twitter so what I'm asking is, is it parody/fake or real. Surely we would have discussed it on this thread and I've had heard of the pushback by now if it were real, is my thinking...the only websites I've seen it on were a screengrab of fox news and this new york post.

Yes, but as he and others have said, her character sucks now. This was a fantastic episode and the only real drag was the Rebecca/Boat guy scenes which were boring and lame and nobody cares about her or the psychic.

Wait, is this real? You pay more with good credit? https://nypost.com/2023/04/16/how-the-us-is-subsidizing-high-risk-homebuyers-at-the-cost-of-those-with-good-credit/ A little-noticed revamp of federal rules on mortgage fees will offer discounted rates for home buyers with riskier credit backgrounds — and force higher-credit homebuyers to foot the bill, The Post has learned. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will enact changes to fees known as loan-level price adjustments (LLPAs) on May 1 that will affect mortgages originating at private banks nationwide, from Wells Fargo to JPMorgan Chase, effectively tweaking interest rates paid by the vast majority of homebuyers. The result, according to industry pros: pricier monthly mortgage payments for most homebuyers — an ugly surprise for those who worked for years to build their credit, only to face higher costs than they expected as part of a housing affordability push by the US Federal Housing Finance Agency. “It’s going to be a challenge trying to explain to somebody that says, ‘I worked my whole life for high credit and I’ve put a lot of money down and you’re telling me that’s a negative now?’ That’s a hard conversation to have,” one worried Arizona-based mortgage loan originator told The Post. “It’s unprecedented,” added David Stevens, who served as Federal Housing Administration commissioner during the Obama administration. “My email is full from mortgage companies and CEOs [telling] me how unbelievably shocked they are by this move.”

Not as funny as the detonation of twitter, but a close second is the impending implosion of Tesla:

At this point one has to wonder was he tanking on purpose, for loss harvesting tax purposes or something. What a mess.

He was fun to watch on Denver.

Trolling Stephen King and LeBron is funny. Thrusting Twitter into unbelievable chaos and losing billions of dollars to do it is funny. Elon is putting on a mummer's farce for us, for free. It's everything we've ever wanted in a) the downfall of twitter b) the downfall of elon musk and c) it's free admission to watch it all unfold.

All 3 games today were sub-par.

The suns disgust me. Nothing will make me happier then seeing them lose a series. Not even seeing Memphis lose will be as satisfying. #Hate #Hate #Hate

Well la-di-freakin-da. We got ourselves a perfect person here.

Preach!

He was (is?) the worlds richest man and he had an outsized infatuation with the trolling Twitter provided and it was his favorite hobby. He spent $20bn (as of yet, maybe the full $44bn will be lost) to tickle himself. Don’t get me wrong I think he wants to make money and make Twitter financially a success, but I also don’t think he will lose sleep if it doesn’t, as long as he can keep trolling NPR and far left.

Not anymore. It looks like Tesla is moving from a luxury with elastic demand to a volume play a la Honda: One day after cutting prices on its cars for the sixth time this year, Tesla reported that all those discounts made a big dent in its Q1 profits, which were down 24% compared to the same period last year. But with competition in the electric vehicle market heating up, the company said it was sticking with its plan to sell more cars for less. It expects to move 1.8 million cars this year, up from 1.3 million in 2022.

This season has been amazing. Baseball is my favorite sport again.

Tesla’s stock price tumbles amid price cuts. Shares in the electric carmaker are down over 7 percent in premarket trading after it reported that first-quarter profit fell 24 percent year on year. The culprit was a price-cutting campaign to defend market share against surging competitors, though Elon Musk noted that Tesla’s price margins remained among the highest in the industry.

This isn't going to sit well if you are already upset about the PE angle: But more evidence suggests that the eye-popping number — which Dominion and its owner still claim as a win — might not be as costly to Rupert Murdoch’s media empire as it might seem. Fox’s stock has barely budged since the deal was announced on Tuesday. Fox can take a tax deduction from the settlement, Lever News reports. U.S. tax law allows companies to write off at least some portion of settlement fees as part of the cost of doing business. (There are some exceptions, including for cases involving accusations of sexual harassment or abuse with nondisclosure agreements; Fox News has paid out settlements involving those in the past.) It is unclear how much Fox will save, though a spokesman confirmed that tax deductibility is at play. Lever News estimated that the company could reap as much as $213 million in tax savings. That’s likely to further infuriate Fox critics, who already thought that Murdoch and his company got off better than expected. DealBook questioned yesterday whether much will change at Fox News post-settlement, given that the network won’t have to make an on-air apology or suffer potentially embarrassing public testimony by Murdoch or stars like Tucker Carlson.

Serious question: Is it that the insane violence in response to random yet banal and everyday behaviors has hockey-sticked OR is it the reporting of said insane violence? I feel inundated. I feel like Tommy Lee Jones in NCFOM when he says, "I don’t know. I feel overmatched. I always figured when I got older, God would sort of come into...life in some way. He didn’t. I don’t blame him. If I was him I’d have the same opinion about [us] that he does."