Elon Musk

The Cybertruck doesn’t appear to have basic safety features yet like side mirrors and window wipers

the “pylon” is a no right turn sign that he runs over while making a left turn

“left on red” is a legal turn in California if your net worth is over $1b

Jobs never registered his cars

meanwhile

https://i.imgur.com/hnseSSD.png?1

The stock market is more fake than ever

big grain of salt because ars technica seems to worship tesla

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/12/tesla-stock-just-hit-a-new-record-of-400-heres-one-reason-why/

Tesla has also refined its motors over time to squeeze out a bit more power and range from a given amount of battery power. Those innovations may not be easy for rivals to replicate.

This is utter horseshit. I’ve driven a lot of electric cars in the last 6 month and the Teslas are the absolute worst from an efficiency perspective. Too bloody heavy. Hyundai is really good at this.

Driving an ioniq around in high heat and the aircon on high I can easily get 12kWh/100km it’s hard to get the Model 3 under 18kWh/100km. The teslas are too heavy and arguably the batteries are too big for what is really needed.

Tesla will do well though, especially next year, especially in the us, all the other manufacturers will be diverting their electric cars to Europe so they can meet emissions standards. A lot of that free cash will come from tesla selling emissions credits to other manufacturers.

Good article in the FT on that.

https://www.ft.com/content/ebb85b9e-1b7d-11ea-97df-cc63de1d73f4

As expected, 69% want car tunnels! Stop whining, subway Stalinists, the people have spoken … pic.twitter.com/g8GBvjDdvK

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 28, 2019

dis guy sux

I’m a subway Stalinist

amazing that this complete dimwit managed to convince so many people that he’s smart

*tips hat*

He is a dangerously stupid man

Induced demand is one of the most irrational theories I’ve ever heard. Correlation is not causation. If the transport system exceeds public travel needs, there will be very little traffic. I support anything that improves traffic, as this negatively affects almost everyone.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 29, 2019

manufacture an electric bus, Elon!

Electric buses present a range of engineering challenges, some unsolved (such as ascending steep hills) so it’s not really in Musk’s wheelhouse.

I don't even want to know what kind of little ambient tones he'd add on to them anyway.

*Synthesizer fart noises from ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off''*

"Oh good. My airport shuttle is here."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2ap8k_Xjks

^^ Where I was going with that.

well, yeah

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ENArF6QWwAApzel?format=jpg&name=small

the organisms wouldn't spread to the entire planet would they? can't imagine they would be able to go that far on Mars.

If an organism can survive on an unpopulated (ie no predators) planet at all then they would likely spread vey quickly.

can they thrive at temperatures averaging -60°C tho

i don't know much about microbiology i'm just curious

well I imagine if they could survive a trip through space then Mars would be a doddle...

curt, my point is they either spread very quickly (in geological terms) in a predator-free environment, or they immediately cease to exist because the environment is otherwise inhospitable. there's not a middle ground where only a bit of mars is only a bit contaminated. which is why being very, very careful is appropriate.

btw there's some theories about how life or its ingredients might get between planets that are on the more speculative end of microbiology, but they're not completely out of the question https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia

sorry mars is already infected with earth micro organisms from when i took a shit in space

btw theres a good hippie drug theory that psychedelic shroom spores were sent through space as a message from aliens

well, yeah

terence mckenna otm about both that and also the apocalypse on december 21 2012

machine elves of the 4th dimension bro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuKnxueWwwM

Grimes has created social media accounts for her unborn baby with Elon Musk under the handle @WarNymph. What's more, the accounts include a clip of the 3D baby speaking directly into the camera about the impending apocalypse: https://t.co/gauUvCtMJj #WarNymph #Grimes pic.twitter.com/uVuytvQtte

— Consequence of Sound (@consequence) January 22, 2020

WAR NYMPH

yeah think I might be done thinking about either of these people

need to know the precise multi drug cocktail these ppl are into

end times, shaken, served up with a dash of messiah

i think i like the idea of what she's doing, if it were done in a simulated world. the problem is that we're still here on earth

its been done

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fVQtmMN_ao

I mean yiiit's been

woww

ok I thought this thing was a money incinerator why has the stock price tripled

investors are dumb idk

well over 600 now, sheesh guys

Q4 report looks pretty strong to me. They had a string of stumbles in the first half of 2019, but seem to have righted the ship.

no strong quarter justifies pricing tesla like volkswagen

not even thinking tesla is the next volkswagen justifies it lol

When you include debt VW is worth more than 2 times Tesla. I agree with your point though.

tbf they could be the next VW

I mean, the somewhat recent VW that was faking test results and got slapped down hard for it