Are the people who would have bought Teslas now buying other EVs, or passing on buying a new car altogether?

John Glanton and Judge Holden.

I don’t understand—you think you’re one of the last people left who started using the internet in the 90s?

That’s like saying you can continue to do business with the guy who keeps trying to stab you, if you stay out of arm’s reach.

It’s not wrong, but it’s ignoring the underlying issue.

It’s not the “town hall” aspect I’m wondering about, it’s the “legislative”. That seems to imply that they’re functioning as legislators representing the general population, not politicians campaigning for their party.

Is it normal for a “legislative town hall” to be organized by one party’s central committee?

It sounds like she’s constructed two competing versions of you in her mind—an idealized version that always understands and sympathizes with her, and a second version constructed from all the times you’ve failed to live up to those expectations.

If you can’t be her idealized version of yourself, you can demonstrate that you’re not the second version, either. Focus on proactively doing things for her when she’s not expecting you to—everything you do that doesn’t match what her mental model of you predicts you’ll do will weaken that model in her head.

Jumping off the ISS wouldn’t cause you to de-orbit—it would just put you in a slightly more elliptical orbit that would eventually intersect the ISS again.

And if you did get into an orbit that took you down into the atmosphere, no parachute would save you—parachutes are for slowing to a safe landing speed from terminal velocity, not from orbital velocity. You’d need to go through atmosphere too thin to fill a chute, but still fast enough to burn you up.

“You failed to adequately inform your investors about the risk of me.”

That makes me wonder—are there any major animal diseases for which humans are the reservoir species?