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Tesla's value plunged nearly $200 billion since mid-July – and the EV maker faces a bumpy road ahead

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Probably not. Tesla is very dysfunctional as an org. He flattened it so much, and hasn’t appointed a real leader, while he’s distracted I bet they’re basically in a holding pattern.

He motivated them by setting insane goals then driving them insanely hard and sleeping in the office and shit.

If he’s not doing that, the company is, pardon the pun, on autopilot. Watch out for stopped emergency vehicles.

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How reddit crushed the biggest protest in its history: Did it, though?

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I’m actually on the TestFlight for Memmy and it’s getting much better very quickly.

But I was an Apollo addict and that is a very high bar.

Wefwef reversing the colors on upvotes and downvotes triggers me, and at least on iOS it has a pretty annoying WebKit related bug where it stops scrolling until you tap something.

Memmy is quite good though, the functionality is there and the polish will come!

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I need Rule

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Exposure to other viewpoints is good. No need to debate. And if you’re on a large instance, you’ll see that. Not everyone thinks alike, there are shades of gray. Discussion is allowed to happen but intolerance isn’t tolerated.

The tankie instances ban anyone for even asking questions politely that they don’t agree with. It’s a total monoculture and I assume they’re mostly still kids, because everything is black and white and can be solved without any nuance at all.

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Dallas-Fort Worth airport

While I agree with all of that, if you’re local, you can get dropped off basically at your gate.

This was modeled after the Airport of Tomorrow in Kansas City, which was heavily influenced by TWA who demanded “drive to your gate”, which was in itself heavily influenced by what TWA did at JFK with Eero Saarinen.

That was basically doomed from the start as planes got bigger. And the nail in the coffin was security added later on and basically trapping you in a tiny, crummy gate area at MCI (can you imagine no security at all??) and finally destroyed by the post 2001 security enhancements that made it even worse.

They’ve recently opened a new MCI terminal that replaces the airport of tomorrow and looks like an airport of today.

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Peasants

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Lots of people fly overnight flights places… it makes a pretty big difference to overall comfort to have your own space and something that turns into a bed.

I’m going to guess there’s a lot of things in your life where you spend more money for something that is better, more comfortable or more convenient.

But the value of money is relative. Spending another $2,000 to sit in business class feels unthinkable when you make $50k/year. When you’re making $500k/year it doesn’t seem like such a big deal.

Also, lots of people get a lot of frequent flier miles from working jobs with travel, so the actual cost might have been lower.