Ok, when was the last time you saw a working payphone? 2010? It isn’t safe for teens to not have a phone because payphones don’t exist any more.

I saw one.

But the reason Tesla is different is that they don’t work that way. For other car companies a rich family buys a franchise license and sets up “Jones Honda”, Tesla isn’t like that. Tesla owns the dealership and that makes their dwaler license different. With “Jones Honda” if they lose their dealership license, the Jones are SOL and Honda is just fine. With Tesla, they’re all essentially “Musk Tesla” dealerships so only Tesla loses out.

And it’s an open secret that doctors get kickbacks from the tests they order whether you need em or not. $800 out of pocket from an MRI that showed nothing? The dr gets a kickback on that cost. Harder to take them seriously if they’re ordering useless expensive tests to line their pockets

Totally. I’m a big reader I enjoyed reading the HP books when they came out, but wasn’t obsessed. They were good for passing the time, stuck at an airport, sitting on the beach fluffy reads. I wasn’t reading them as literature, just something to relax and procrastinate. The character names often gave them away if you had any knowledge of Latin. OMG, Lupin is a werewolf and Serius Black is a dogman?!? What a shock /s

I started reading them to my kids (who liked the movies) and yikes were they bad. Larger characters have their girth pointed out at evey possible opportunity. I think everything the Dursley men did it needed to be mentioned that they did it while fat. Like 6 times in 2 pages. And her mysteries are even worse.

Seconded! Larry David’s satire was pure brilliance. Fawning over 47 is an insult to the 6 million

If they’ve seen Zootopia they don’t get why the sloths work the DMV in that movie.