My kid isn’t so unruly that he needs to be calmed by The Mouse at all times, even when driving, but I know other parents that couldn’t handle it if the dvd player was taken out of the minivan. This will probably be shattering to the most vocal and hardest-to deal-with customer. A real bad look for Tesla.
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I suspect less dank weed and more the ketamine. Yeah, it’s being used to treat depression, but somehow I doubt Musky is seeking any real medical guidance from anyone…except maybe Joe Rogan. And that combined with whatever uppers he has to be taking to counteract the other crap he’s taking. It’s not a recipe for a long life.
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Strange how parents constantly bemoan that it wasn’t like this when they were kids, yet fail to remember that it wasn’t like this when they were kids. 
Hint to such parents: It doesn’t have to be like this.
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Why don’t kids still play “Punch Buggy” these days?
(Yeah, I know, the relative scarcity of Beetles on the road these days makes the game a lot less fun.)
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Musk probably spends more time posturing as a pothead (launching a rocket on 4/20, claiming that he’ll take Tesla private at $420 a share, etc.) than actually smoking weed. He probably thinks that it makes him seem broadminded and imaginative.
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Maybe it’s the rules in 3 parts with a total of 12 steps! 
(But yeah, I completely agree.)
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Maybe streaming video services and video games shouldn’t be available on the front car interface at all. Surprised a regulator hasn’t just banned them completely already.
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“Not your best moment, Elon.”
When was his last best moment?
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Twitter is accountable to no one, including Pretend CEO and P.R. Janitor Linda Yaccarino. It’s completely Elon’s plaything.
Tesla, on the other hand, is a real, big-boy pants, publicly traded company with a board of directors and shareholders who, as much as he may hate it, Elon is beholden to.
So when Elon messes with Twitter, that’s his own money. But when he messes with Tesla, that’s other peoples’ money.
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Ah, America: Holy Land of the Invisible Hand.
Unless of course that hand threatens your own interests as a wealthy Business Owner Corporate Privilege Receiver. Then the not-so-invisible hand of enforced commerce rears its head.
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The board is a bunch of toadies, so there’s nothing to answer to unless he screws up a whole lot more than he has been and they can’t ignore it.
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Damn that’s bright. He’s like one of those aliens from Cocoon that took off its human skin costume.
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Does it even count as a “leap” to the extreme right considering where he was coming from? It feels more like an ongoing shuffle.
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See, he kept claiming he was centrist before, and we couldn’t possibly consider that’s just how right-wingers like to brand themselves to sound sensible…
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The closure of the billionaire’s car factories in China and California due to Covid restrictions “was devastating for Tesla’s share price,” explains Isaacson. But, above all, the lockdowns “inflamed his anti-authoritarian streak.”
Curiously, Musk’s “anti-authoritarian streak” manifests itself when he chafes at public health measures but not when he invests in China or listens to emissaries of the Kremlin explain the war in Ukraine.
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Hell, he tried to claim once that he was a socialist, the dipshit.
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