Recent content by AudubonB

That this is our supremely busy time of year, and I make time to read the thread usually only between 4-7 am, does not mean all can run roughshod over the thread, over Moderator guidance and dicta from prior times, OR OVER OTHER PARTICIPANTS. Notes still are taken; names still are taken. In...

Endit. You know who you are. Now.

Not only are Mods working overtime and tag-teaming in extracting useless, garbage, and sometimes bizarrely OffTopic posts from this thread but… I have found myself with needing eye surgery to roll the eyeballs around from the back of my skull from the numbingly repetitive, unhelpful and...

You’re huggingly sweet.

2. Anyone posting that I or any other thread Moderator may be a troll is not going to be silenced or otherwise throttled, but he goddamned very well may be finding himself at the pointy end of a libel suit. That is beyond reprehensible.

1. Regarding the “$5 fee to gain the right to post” suggestion: I would never charge money for someone to exercise the right to post anything. But….what about: “Gee, nice post you just put out there. Be a shame if you thought having it stay up is worth more than one share of TSLA, delivered...

@Maarten’s idea can work on this platform. Yours, which I had many years back, cannot, unfortunately.

How would we (1) expand permitted contributors to the Exalted Few?, including those who Maarten overlooked? I always have maintained this thread is not a democracy. A meritocracy, though? Hmmm. By the way, @unk45 most certainly would be one of them.

I wonder whether Tesla can - and if it could, would it be an appropriate act - do as SpaceX does with Starlinks and geofence-disable any Teslas brought into Russia in contravention to sanctions?

I agree that few - in fact, no one - can amass all information from prime sources. Knowing how and where to collect, review and synthesize material, however - if that is not one of the facets of creation that absolutely defines what it is to be human, then what is? And if this is not veering...

I have very clearly stated my position on the Ignore function. Are you ignoring that, or ignorant of it? I have zero sympathy for any who use that crutch.

My wife and I agreed wholeheartedly that this comment encapsulates perfectly where the danger to intellect, to society and to humanity itself comes in. It is one thing to let the latest development in labor - autonomous and animatronic robots - perform heretofore human functions, although...

I strongly agree that the words lie/lied/lying are inappropriate in the case that @scaesare and @DarkandStormy currently are arguing. I ALSO am using this situation to buttress my roundly blackthumbed position of about two weeks back that it was inappropriate to so label Reuters for its coverage...

Economically, there is zero difference between a subsidy and a non-costed externality.

It doesn’t matter. All of that commentary is becoming far too close to Solely Politics for it to continue here. Done.