Agree. When driving from Tucson to SE Valley (Phoenix area), Google wants me to take a dark two-lane country highway instead of staying on I-10. No thanks. Ever. Besides being dark (real dark) and winding, you get stuck behind a slow driver and you're stuck for a while. I've only taken that route once - during the day - and never again. Small chance of being faster. Large chance of being much slower. I-10 always has at least 2 lanes open, even while they've been doing construction for the last couple years.

Overall, feels like Google's algorithm has been getting more jacked up (wrong) lately.

Ahh... you mean the mountain in Alaska that was named Mt. McKinley in 1917... well after Teddy Roosevelt was President?

Or do you mean the politically correct renaming of geographic features that were given derogatory names of Native Americans? Does God rejoice in using derogatory names? I wasn't aware of that.

Or do you mean the politically correct renaming of military bases? That were named after traitors to the USA? Why would any American want to honor traitors to the USA?

Renaming bodies of water, mountains,.. really anything geographic, should require Congressional approval and not be something that a President can do on a whim because they're throwing a tantrum.

At the very least, Executive Orders of this nature should have a minimum time period before becoming active, like maybe 6 months to a year. That way Congress and the Courts can get involved if necessary before mapping companies, and other companies, expend resources ($$) to comply.

Side note: like most cars, Tesla still has physical controls on the steering column for adjusting the volume, or to skip to the next song. I basically never use the touchscreen to adjust the volume. I always use the controls on the steering column.

I've driven a Tesla 3 for several years. The large touchscreen with the maps is awesome when driving in a town I am not familiar with. My wife has a newer Ford Explorer with a decent sized screen, but the larger Tesla touchscreen is so much better. (it's also just more responsive to swiping, etc.). Tesla also has games and other things, but really I just like the touchscreen for the large map that is easy to read and follow. The larger touchscreen is also nice for playing music - like thru Apple Music - so it is easy to see what I want to play and switch songs. Yes, the car also has voice commands so I could say "play Hotel California by the Eagles" and it would do it. But maybe I want to play the "Ten" album by Pearl Jam... the large touchscreen makes that easy to do.

(Spoiler alert below)

First half of the movie was pretty decent. It had promise. But then, like so many previous Superman movies, the film directors became wildly inconsistent showing their powers and abilities. And many plot holes. Let's list them:

1. When Krypto is poisoned, why not take him with to a yellow-star system, which should make him feel better? At the worse, she has the dog with her so if she gets the antidote, she won't have to travel back to another planet.
2. In the first fight, instead of punching guys, why not just snap everyone's arm or leg before they can blink? (could've been reminiscent of Terminator 2 where Arnold shoots all the cops in the leg not killing them) Or use laser eyes to slice everyone in half. The movie is inconsistent showing her powers and speed.
3. So stupid to stop the little girl from trying to kill the bad guy.
4. She sees bad guy reach up to go to his ship. She is fast enough she could easily have beaten him to the ship, brought him back down and literally tore him in 2. Instead she just stares at him and watches the ship jump.
5. Laser eyes barely do damage in one scene. In the next she blows a 20-foot wide hole thru a space ship with her laser eyes. Very inconsistent.
6. I know the comics had the bad guy having some sort of magical powers to fight a kryptonian. But that was never explained in the movie. Nor was the fact that he had made kryptonite darts "especially for her" when he had just recently met Super Girl. And how would the dart even penetrate her skin? Her skin can cause steel bullets to bounce off. Does her skin weaken in a thousandth of a second for kryptonite liquid that is within 6 inches to allow a dart to penetrate her skin? I don't buy that.
7. Why does Supergirl throw the bad guy around like Hulk tossing Loki? And somehow the guy's spine isn't split? Why use a sword to kill him instead of laser eyes. And if using a sword, decapitate. Don't just stab him (with no blood) and assume he'll die.

(end rant)

I bought a Tesla online in 2021 (after first test driving one). I loved the process and the car was delivered to my driveway. I hate car salesmen. I don't like haggling, this is what I want, dont bs the price. I should be paying the same as the next customer, just like as if I was buying a laptop from Costco. Here is the real gotcha - service. Tesla is essentially a monopoly with their service centers - which definitely are not great. All states should allow sales direct to customer. But they should also require the manufacturer to allow private mechanics to service their cars. This would essentially be like dealership service centers, where the mechanic is "authorized" to service the car, would have appropriate computer diagnostic equipment, etc. Details would have to be worked out for reasonable fees the manufacturer could charge the mechanic, but the laws should mandate if X cars sold in the state, they must have X third-party mechanics. Like in Phoenix, there are tons of Teslas sold. Their service center is very slow. If there were third-party mechanics to choose from, it would provide competition for Tesla Service Centers to perform better & faster and generally ease the backlog, while at the same time increase the physical locations to choose from so you don't have to drive 45 minutes to get to a mechanic.

So... hurricane hits, Walmart algorithm foresees big uptick in demand for essentials and jacks up the price. Isn't that illegal price gouging?

Or it's 4th of July in Myrtle Beach. Lots of visitors. So Walmart algorithm jacks up their prices. Isn't that also price gouging?

I'd like to see how this works with laws on the books for price gouging. This just smells bad.

You just described his first term. This shouldn't be new to anyone partially paying attention.

Who isn't surprised that Tucson, AZ and Chandler, AZ both voted down data centers recently? It is stupid for a water-hog like a data center to even want to build in the desert, where water resources are cherished. And data centers *SHOULD* be voted down in areas that don't the water resources needed to run a large data center.

That's another way of saying... It's not WHAT you know, it's WHO you know that matters.

"Decorum" for the administration who's Press Secretary makes brazen lies almost daily. The administration who's President calls reporters and people he doesn't like childish names daily, while insisting things others have done he himself did. Lots of decorum there. I don't think reverting to an old font will have the slightest difference in decorum with this administration.

If 90% of students in a class complete the required work, and score above 90% on an exam, then they are all deserving of an A. If a class is supposed to teach a set curriculum and the students master that curriculum, they deserve an A. Doesn't matter if it is 1 in 30 or 29 of 30 students.

Harvard does not admit "C" students from high school. They only admit students who have earned top marks in high school. Which means that the students there are generally pretty smart in the first place. Which seems to infer that the majority would be capable of achieving high marks in college as well.

Now if the class has a grading curve then it could be argued that that the curve is too generous.

Also, there is a big difference between freshman general ed classes - required for all majors - versus high-level classes that are specific to one's major. Is the grade inflation in the general ed classes or the higher level classes?

When I first got a Tesla in 2021, it had cool/fun features like use of an external speaker... to yell "Hey you!" etc. But the NHTSB decided that was too much fun and mandated Tesla send an OTA update which disabled that feature. But OTA is also great in that in 2021 there was no integration with Apple Music and Spotify, but because of OTA updates they are now integrated with the car's functionality.

I would guess other auto-makers see those types of updates as motivation to buy their new model year cars.

Or maybe they look at BMW and want to lock down more features as subscription services controlled by the software.

As someone who used to live in a "flyover" state, it most definitely SHOULD go to somewhere with a higher population base and more visitors. That is not unfair at all. That is life. That is where people are. DC and NYC have large airports, mass transit, and infrastructure to move a lot of people around. Rural areas do not. Get over yourself.

The Smithsonian is a national treasure of museums. This is specifically where something like this should go. Not MN, WI, SD, ND, IA, NE, MO, KS, AK, OK, MI, etc. Chicago would be the only option in the midwest. But the Smithsonian is far more worthy.