The Cybertruck specifically, or Tesla in general?

I will happily admit that Tesla helped demonstrate that there is a viable market for EVs, which pressured other auto-makers to produce them. The auto industry has become very risk-averse over the last several decades, so convincing them that EVs weren't a risky R&D investment was a big step.

The Cybertruck has been a phenomenal failure. Sales have been far below what Tesla projected, for a number of reasons. Not least of which is that, in the time between their original announcement and actually getting the thing to market, other parties released EV pickups with much more conventional designs and, more importantly, better value.

Honestly, I'm kind of hoping that the state supreme court rules it is a violation of title IX because it introduces unfair access restrictions to girls' sports.

Uh... about 1600 people were charged and over 1200 were convicted of crimes related to the Jan 6 insurrection.

Trump pardoned them all on his first day in office. With a Republican-controlled congress that wasn't inclined to do anything to stop him. But saying nothing happened is a ridiculous over-simplification.

Dude just loves to be the center of attention. Even if it's negative attention. He eats that shit up.

Some states already use ranked choice voting, because each state gets to decide how to run their own elections. Alaska does, for example. I'm honestly not sure what happens if we abolish the electoral college and just count votes directly. If some states use ranked choice and some don't, how do we count those votes fairly? Would the federal government have to take over presidential elections from the states? Would that require a constitutional amendment? Given what's going on with the federal government right now, is that a power we would want them to have?

Welcome to the beginning of understanding why so much of our society is dysfunctional.

No single candidate can. You need a controlling majority in both houses of the legislature to get anything significant done.

Same. He played a nerdy kid that spent more time interacting with the adults around him than other kids, even if they didn't always take him seriously. I identified with that a lot. And it never hurt that Wil is only a year or so older than me in real life, and had a lot of the same interests. I grew up seeing him as both a peer and a role-model.

Currently, if you haven't been told there's a Frame with your name on it (reservation list), then there's no definite timeline for getting one. I don't think that means they will never arrive. It just means they haven't decided how best to balance supply and demand yet.

I didn't want to speculate out loud, but yeah I was wondering. I also live in a state that allows assisted dying. If the writing was on the wall and I knew I was about to start losing my faculties, I might choose that path to spare my loved ones having to watch me die one little piece at a time.

He was a terrific Gurney Halleck in Lynch's Dune.

And honestly, from everything I've heard about the man, he was just an all-around lovely person. Caring and supportive of anyone who had the good fortune to know him.

YMMV, but I've never found Feliway to be an effective solution. We tried it for a couple years with a cat that was a serial sprayer and it never helped at all. Every vet recommends it because it's easy to get, but it's also expensive and to my knowledge there is only one actual study that had both rigorous controls and showed a positive correlation between spraying behavior and use of synthetic cheek pheromones (Feliway). That one study involved only 22 cats, and the difference between the treatment and placebo groups wasn't that great.

Fluoxetine (prozac) has been shown to be a much more effective treatment. If your problem persists, you might want to ask your vet about it.