Tried that many years ago. I was able to convince her to drop the price so now I get the $10 birthday steam card and $20 chirstmas card. She said she didnt get the excitement of my "nintendo" but I liked it so she was going to support it. She said it let her be part of that experience. Thats pretty hard to debate for me.

This has been my only gift from my mother for many many years now. She can't navigate online well to purchase them there. Guess I will have to think of another thing for her to get me. Was a good run and I get the reasoning. Just gonna miss them.

Not sure how the article comes up with Tesla being the worse. The article cites a Iseecars report that lists the tesla S as 21st and the tesla Y as 6th. The number one spot for most fatalities per vehicle miles is a Hyundai Venue. Rank Model Fatal Accident Rate (Cars per Billion Vehicle Miles) Compared to Overall Average 1 Hyundai Venue 13.9 4.9x 2 Chevrolet Corvette 13.6 4.8x 3 Mitsubishi Mirage 13.6 4.8x 4 Porsche 911 13.2 4.6x 5 Honda CR-V Hybrid 13.2 4.6x 6 Tesla Model Y 10.6 3.7x

I am torn on this. I look forward to being able to greet each of my customers by name. I am horrible with names. There is only 5 of us that work here but there are thousands of customers so they remember us, but we struggle to remember their names. I have even looked into adding it into our security system so could see as they walk up. All that being said, that is the only valid excuse I can think of for using this and I can think of plenty of reasons against it. If it becomes a thing, I will probably accept it and use it but until then I will oppose it.

They are still buying it from a dealer, it is just now GM is the dealer.

There is no gun being held to a head. That is a tactic from a political campaign. Every time we have reached the debt ceiling, the parties held something over the other to get what they wanted. In the real world it is extortion, but in politics it is just another day. Both parties do it regularly and it is a common practice. The government has been shut down 17 times now and every time the other party used it to get something they wanted. And yes, every election has consequences. The Dems won the senate and presidency giving them leverage. However, the Repubs won the house giving them this option. So yes, there are consequences, and the house being able to demand change before moving ahead is one of them.