I had my first run in with an AI operator. They tried to act like it was a real person ('Please wait while we connect you to a representative"). They even had it 'um' a few times like a real person would... but it was done so poorly I quickly figured out I it was an AI bot. The other big giveaway was how quiet it was when the AI bot was 'thinking'. The end result? It gave me the exact same information I was able to look at online. If any company thinks this is better than the Indian call centers, they are in for a rude awakening...

No, your wrong. It's a slippery cliff...

This might be a shock to the LA Times, but people don't have to live in the same state as the companies they invest in are headquartered.

The bigger reason is that the early Leaf had terrible range. Why spend money to put a battery in a vehicle that will get less than half the range of a modern EV? And with no active liquid cooling system, you are still going to have a battery trashed after a few years. Modern EVs will have enough economies of scales and range to make it possible that replacement batteries will be viable.

Looking at the stock market charts, I see that nothing has 'toppled over'. It has continued to rise year after year. Does it have dips? Yes. Those are corrections to over-valued stocks, and a chance to buy at a lower price.

If you just let it ride, and continue to buy on dips, it is very survivable. How would one NOT survive one of these... topples?

it is backed by the government, and is used to pay your taxes. Bitcoin has neither of those things.

"Whoa, sorry about that. It must have been that quasar I ate last century (burp)"

Without knowing the individual variables for a particular person and their circumstances, you can't say definitively that one costs less than the other. With my EV and situation, I've run the math and I'm DEFINITELY going to come out ahead by year five, and I keep my cars for at least ten years.

Oh, man, thanks for that one. I needed a good laugh today...

I already pay for a Disney+ subscription. I already watched The Mandalorian series. It was OK. Why would I pay more to go watch mediocre content I've already paid for once? And I've heard the production quality of this 'movie' is no better than the series. I can't even believe they tried to pull a fast one on us like this...

Source on that? Or have a bunch of Saturn owners been arrested over the years and I just haven't heard about it?

You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. There are LOTS of neighborhoods that are small residential homes/townhomes/duplexes where average people live. You see the mansions overlooking the lake and think that is what all of Tahoe is like, but that is not the case.

As an example, I own a 2nd home in Tahoe, purchased 20 years ago for around $300k. I don't really care if you feel sympathy for me. But what about my neighbors who have lived their for 50 years, are retired, and very active in supporting the community? Should they have researched effin' AI's affect on their electricity supply in 1976? Or the working people that rent the duplexes across the street from me that work in the city?

Your entire take is a complete joke simply meant to make you sound smug and superior.

Exactly how much research is the average person suppose to do on these subjects? And how far in advance should they be able to predict things?

What about people that paid $350k for a place years ago? Is there sympathy for them?

"EVs only work if you live in a city and never leave it. "

I leave my city all the time in my EV, and even travel to other states hundreds of miles away. Crazy, right?

My car charges while I'm at work. Zero time lost to me. And the one or maybe two times a month I have to wait the 20--30 minutes to charge on a long trip is around how long I would spend in a month pumping gas anyways. People drastically overstate how long charging takes, and how much their 'time is worth'.