Jinx.

Not much, I suspect. Starbucks are a lot like McDonalds in that uniformity will always take precedence over creativity. It may not be the best coffee/burger, but the customer always knows what to expect.

Unpleasantness is relative. Have you watched Saturday night TV recently? At least when I had my wisdom teeth out there was a sense of relief at the end; the same cannot be said for something like Britain's Got Talent.

You need an account to get these messages? It's an open-and-shut case of spam then, because I'd never heard about LinkedIn until my inbox started filling up with messages from them.

No, I really don't have any link to the people who are supposedly sending this crap. I even get them on an address that I've never shared with another real person.

I get LinkedIn spam from people I've never heard of.

...unless they trade in Europe.

I'll bet that the charts will be just as badly rigged as they are now.

If the FCC is seemingly so impotent to regulate the industry, just what the hell are you guys paying it to do?

Top-right hand corner of the keyboard.

They do, for a given value of "coffee".

Not as punchy as "ohnoitsroland" though.

It's counter-intuitive, yes, but if it works how I imagine it to they really are heating the coolant. Ordinarily the coolant would pick up heat from the batteries and move it to a radiator, but in cold weather the coolant is heated to warm the batteries. If you prefer to think of it as the heat exchange medium then you're free to do so or come up with your own more descriptive alternative but for the vast majority of the time it's just there to cool the batteries.

I freely admit that I'm pulling this out of thin air but a quick look on google tells me that the performance in a Tesla is reduced in very cold temperatures. Strapping a heater to the cooling system and adding a valve to divert the coolant away from the radiator (assuming there is one) seems quite an ingenious solution.

Just an educated guess here... sometimes you need to cool the batteries, and sometimes you need to warm them. I gather that batteries tend not to work as well in the cold from the fact that the ones meant to start ICEs are often compared in terms of cold cranking amps. If you already have a way to move heat away from the batteries you'd be mad not to use the same thing in reverse to heat them if you had the need to.