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  • You should not have to watch a video or read a manual to open a freaking car door.

    👆 That right there.

    The fuck are people supposed to do who don’t even own the car?

    👆👆 And that even more so.

    We have literally centuries of knowledge of human-machine interaction. We know what works and what doesn’t. We know the importance of getting this right from watching what would be a literal lake of blood if put into one location before us. And one of those things that works is making sure the emergency tools are very obvious and in our faces. The rear door instructions for the Model Y alone are a horror show for anybody who has ever been in a crisis before. And then on top of that not all Model Ys have such a latch anyway.

    Everything about Tesla’s doors are horrific.


    1. Not all Teslas have mechanical latches on all doors. Specifically some Model Ys don’t have them on the rear doors, apparently. (This is addressed in the article.) ¹

    2. The mechanical latches have often been panned on the safety front because they’re inobviously located and operated. Point 4 addresses this further, but look at the instructions for the rear door in the Model Y in particular.¹ This is complex and confusing without panic and adrenaline. (This too was addressed in the article.)

    3. Not everybody knows about the mechanical latches. While one could argue that the driver should know their vehicle, what makes you think the passengers are going to know this, especially given the poor placement of the latches. Especially given just how convoluted the rear door releases are. (This was also addressed in the article.)

    4. When people are in mortal danger, figuring out complicated things, or remembering obscure things like where the manual release latches are, is not going to happen. If the control to open the door isn’t open, obvious, and in your face, you will not remember it unless you’ve been specifically trained to have this in your immediate-recall memory. That’s why pilots of aircraft spend so much time drilling the same thing over and over again. Or people in militaries. Or people in emergency services like fire departments. (This was addressed in the article as well.)


    ¹ From https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/modely/en_us/GUID-AAD769C7-88A3-4695-987E-0E00025F64E0.html “Not all Model Y vehicles are equipped with a manual release for the rear doors.”
















  • I made a little table showing the highest marginal tax rate from 1913 to 2022 coded in blue for Democrat presidents and red for Republican:

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    source2

    • The first Democrat run saw a stunning rise of 66% in the highest marginal tax rate due to the insane expense of WWI.

    • The first Republican run saw a drop of 48% as the nation moved away from the war economy and into the post-war economy.

    • The second Democrat run saw a sharp rise of 38% at the beginning and a further rise of 28% by the end of their run because of the Great Depression and WWII in that order.

    • The second Republican run kept the ultra-high (91%!) highest marginal tax rate during the post-war boom with no change.

    • The third Democrat run saw the rate fall by 21% over its span.

    • The third Republican run kept the rate as-is over its span.

    • The fourth Democrat run (single-term) kept the rate as-is over its span.

    • The fourth Republican run dropped the rate by 39%

    • The fifth Democrat run saw an increase of almost 9% over its span.

    • The fifth Republican run saw a drop of almost 5% over its span.

    • The sixth Democrat run saw an increase of almost 5% over its span.

    • The sixth Republican run saw a drop of almost 3% over its span.

    • The final Democrat run (and the last data I have) saw no change.

    If we factor out the war years (up to the end of the second Democrat run) we don’t see a huge pattern of differences in tax rates, given that those are the highest marginal tax rates and people in that bracket tend to have many ways to evade taxes. (Apartheid Manchild recently complain/bragged that he paid an amount of taxes that turned out to be 3-4% of his income where the vast majority of people pay well over 11% of their incomes, for example.)

    So I doubt it’s money. It’s something else.

    Other interesting notes that pop out at me:

    • the Great Depression happened in 1929 under Republicans (~3.5 years)
    • the recession of 1937 was under Democrats (~1 year)
    • the recession of 1949 was under Democrats (~1 year)
    • the recession of 1953 was under Republicans (~¾ years)
    • the recession of 1958 was under Republicans (~¾ years)
    • the recession of 1960 was under Democrats (~¾ years)
    • the recession of 1969 was under Republicans (~1 year)
    • the recession of 1973 was under Republicans (~1¼ years)
    • the recession of 1980 was under Republicans (~½ years)
    • the recession of 1981 was under Republicans (~1¼ years)
    • the recession of 1990 was under Republicans (~¾ years)
    • the recession of 2001 was under Republicans (~¾ years)
    • the Great Recession happened in 2007 under Republicans (extending into Democrats) (~1.5 years)

    Here I see a distinct pattern that should alarm anybody running a business since lost sales account far more for lost wealth than alterations in the highest marginal tax rate.