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[quote=The-Shoveler]Should be interesting, either they will need to add planned obsolescence or lease only on EV’s or just add bunch of cheap plastic parts LOL.
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Technology is changing so fast in cars right now that it makes the most sense to lease – we’ve leased my wife’s last two cars because we knew that a host of new features would be available in the near future.

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Wow.

Maybe we’ve just been lucky, but we’ve had a Bosch dishwasher for over 12 years now and loved it. No problems and super quiet…can’t even tell its running.

Model SHE55M05UC

Our 2007 Bosch double oven, on the other hand, is not to my liking. The clock has consistently lost time since new, and the touch-controls are confusing and not intuitive at all. On Thanksgiving, the bottom oven apparently was turned off by folks in the kitchen by accident – twice! – causing a hours-long delay in our finished turkey. We didn’t eat until about 6 PM. It was an odd day.

Model HBL8650UC (and it wasn’t cheap!)

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[quote=FlyerInHi]PC, I am currently in Vegas. You know, Vegas is Hawaii’s 9th island, Just a little factoid about real estate.[/quote]

Except for the climate, the vegetation, the water, the surf, and the native culture.

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[quote=FlyerInHi]Actually doing away with single family only zoning in the city is very good compromise and 1 step in addressing the housing shortage.
People can still build single family houses, if they want. But lots will not longer be limited to single family only. It’s actually better for consumer choices and property rights. Let the market, not the zone and bureaucrats, decide what is built.[/quote]

You could make the same argument for doing away with ALL zoning.

Not sure that’s a good solution in the long run.

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[quote=outtamojo]Big thumbs down for Bloomberg and his paychecks decree.[/quote]

Well. He kinda had to do that, or be accused of using his news outlets to stifle his presidential competition. (I’m assuming you’re talking about his stating those getting a paycheck from him can’t investigate Democratic candidates)

It would have been a stronger statement to say his media companies wouldn’t investigate *any* presidential candidate from any party. That would have sent a stronger ethical message.

After all, there are plenty of other news organizations investigating the politicians currently in office.

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[quote=The-Shoveler]250K pre-orders on the new truck, someone likes it.[/quote]

“We don’t want to comment on the granularity of deposits—again, people just read too much into those,”
– Elon Musk, April 2019

Then he lowered the amount of required deposit to $100.

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[quote=flu]As a small start-up with limited resources, developing a new engine for the WhiteStar would obviously be problematic. Tesla Chairman Elon Musk let slip in an interview with Fox Business News that the company has reached a technology deal with German giant Daimler (formerly of DaimlerChrysler infamy). Without any official comment from Telsa yet (we'll update you when we here something), one possible scenario for the deal is that Daimler will provide engines for the range extended WhiteStar. Daimler has always struggled to make money from Smart and the micro-car builder has a 1.0L three cylinder engine that might make a good range extender. If Daimler supplied 10,000 or so of those engines to Tesla, it could help drive down Daimler's costs. The other possibility is that Tesla might be licensing battery management technology to Daimler, but that scenario seems less likely.[/quote]

The above was the situation just eleven short years ago.

Look how far Tesla has come since then, with the Model S, Model X, and Model 3 all out and on the road. That’a pretty impressive for a startup.

I get very frustrated with Elon, but his record speaks for itself.

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I’m not saying I hate it – there are very few cars I hate.

I admire that they did something different – I’m all for variety.

But it is not something I would ever buy, in the same way I’d never buy a Hummer. And I think most truck buyers would never consider buying it either.

It is basically a work of art, whether it is good art or bad art is in the eye of the beholder.

It is definitely form over function.

I noticed how they showed the video of it pulling a F-150 uphill in a tug of war event…seems legit to me given the likely weight and torque of the cybertruck.

At the same time, I notice there was no mention of how it does in mud or sand – that same weight that helped in the tug of war will become a severe liability in those conditions.

Not sure I agree with you on the ease/lack of repair. Delorean owners report that scratches are hard to repair and repairs are very noticeable due to the lack of paint. And that seam where the tailgate meets the side of the bed? That looks like an alignment nightmare.

Given that the Tesla fanbase is filled with greenie eco-weenies, this seems like a very curious choice of implementations. Something that big and heavy will use a lot of electric resources and, no matter how that is generated, it is not the most efficient use of those resources. How is his base going to get behind this without looking two-faced?

But again, glad to see someone try something truly different. I like seeing Hummers zipping around because they are different and the cybertruck will no doubt catch my eye around town too.

We are going to the LA auto show in a few days and would love to see this there. I’m hopeful!

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Any see the Tesla Cybertruck unveil?

Holy s&&t!

https://jalopnik.com/a-deep-look-at-the-design-of-tesla-s-cybertruck-1839993654

This obviously a niche vehicle as it won’t be widely accepted in the foreseeable future.

It definitely makes a statement.

I doubt it will ever hit the $40K starting price either.

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I’ve been almost completely stock for a long long time, it served me well. Yeah it hurt in the downturns but more than made up for it on the upswings. And I knew it would be decades before I needed the $$ anyway.

Now that retirement is inching closer, I’ve started listening the 401k mgt nags saying I’m being too risky, so I moved 10% to stable/bonds and then another 10%.

Still for the year i’m up about 20% last I checked so I’m doing good…not as good as I would have been 100% stock. 🙁

My theory is that the only time I would really need the money is if two things happened: (1) I lost my job, and (2) because I’m now in my 50s I had a hard time finding another.

And that definitely could happen. If it did, I’d hate to be all stock with the stock market down, which is why I stashed 20% stable/bonds – to hold me through any need while the market is down.

I’m now wishing I had went with 10-15% as that would have been wiser. That could last me few years until the market recovered. So on the next downswing, I’ll probably move from 20 to 10-15% stable/bonds and hope I can get that lost money (in my mind) back. That’s the plan anyway.

I stay heavy US stocks and light international. My 401k system complains at me about that, but every time – every time! – I’ve had a significant amount in international I’ve got burned. Even waiting years for it to come back, I’ve still been burned. Tired of that.

I’m on track for meeting the amount of $$ I want at retirement so I’m doing good. I’ve recently wished I had set a higher target (no good reason for that, just the way my mind works) but then it dawned on me that when I set the original goal I had factored in a 4% yearly inflation rate which we haven’t hit in quite a long time…so looking at it from that perspective I really am above my target!

Mind games.

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I am not all that familiar with La Mesa, so I can just give you an outside opinion from the anecdotal data points I have gathered.

Everyone I’ve met who lives in La Mesa loves it (maybe 10 ppl I know).

I’ve never heard anyone who doesn’t live there diss it at all.

North of 8 seems to be typical tract homes, some very nice.

South of 8 seems hilly with larger single stories with nice views, more custom built. I’ve been to a few house parties south of 8 and there are some amazing views, I tell ya.

If it ticks all of your boxes, I say go for it.

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[quote=outtamojo]My kids are still in high school so it is nothing personal against anybody, just me being tribal.[/quote]

Well if you’re gonna do it, that would probably be the smart time. Before they are serious about marrying anyone. So when they do marry, the charter was already set and the spouse knew that going in.

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I have no idea your situation. Maybe your line of thinking is justified.

I have to tell you that in my family, looking back two or three generations, the people who married into the family were often more responsible than the family themselves.

I find ppl fall into two categories: spenders and savers. Quite often, successful marriages have one of both.

And for some odd reason, my blood-line family has its share of spenders.

Very often, estates would be better off managed by the spouses who married in.

Again, your mileage may vary. Peace, love, and Happy Thanksgiving.

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Boy are you going to be popular at Thanksgiving dinner.

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[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=scaredyclassic]
Americas intuitive range of toughness invariably veers toward bellicosity.
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yeah and Americans have no long term endurance. it’s sports culture that values getting a trophy, juicing to gain the strength to win the prize, but dismissing people who develop healthy life long habits but never win prizes. [/quote]

Look at the Romans with their Colosseums.

They had sporting events for every season to keep the plebs occupied, to satisfy the masses, to distract from the important topics of the day.

Same with America today.

Been the same for millenniums.

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