Elon Musk

xp then i guess he tried to report on hunter's laptop but the intercept nixed that lol lol

We need more of that substantial conservative reporting, like the big story about schools having litter boxes in classrooms for kids who identify as cats.

the two guys i know who own teslas are liberal guys who work in tech and were early adopters invested in musk as a tech genius. i see a ton of teslas around my area of chicago, which is mostly upper-middle-class but also generally liberal. my guess is a lot of tesla owners bought before he made his political leanings obvious and are now kind of embarrassed about it, or are oblivious of his right-wingery.

That's the vibe I get around here, more or less the same people that might otherwise (or previously) have been driving a luxury hybrid.

my little bro used to be a big Tesla guy and the thing that turned him off it (besides Elon becoming a garden variety chud) is them fucking around with the turn signals. he said he could never get used to it and sold the car. I'm glad he did because I fucking hated that thing. not only did it make me feel sick every time I rode in it, it's also incredibly uncomfortable. the entire interior is made out of the same shit you see at WG&R furniture when they're trying to stage a fake bedroom.

xp - same vibe in my (increasingly upper-middle class) neighborhood. the 'zero emissions / good for the climate' aspect is the initial motivator, but the 'look at me in my next-gen luxury car' vibe closes the deal.

the couple people I know who have had them are gadget nerds who also like futuristic junk

like, the idea of it not working quite right and being idiosyncratic is part of the appeal

this is not what normal people want from an automobile

max's Read Max newsletter had a gadget review that reminded me of that type of interest, and I think this kind of sums it up
https://maxread.substack.com/p/the-worlds-stupidest-smallest-smartphone

When you use this phone in public, people will want to talk to you about it. The most common question is “what is that” or “is that, like, a real phone” or, in the case of my immediate friends and family, “Dan … why.” But I’ve handed the Jelly 2 to people and after they mess with it a little, they’re also taken in by how charming and teensy it is. They’re sometimes impressed with it, too, though I don’t get the sense that very many would consider actually buying one.

This phone is shockingly non-shitty. It is clear when using this phone that Unihertz is a very, very powerful company, filled with engineers with powerful brains; I don’t know if Apple or Samsung or Google could have made this thing. What it also means is that Unihertz is absolutely capable of making an extremely good normal phone, and that they have chosen instead to make Stupid Phone. I admire this.

I think the newer ones are maybe better but the Tesla is the Stupid Car that does technologically interesting things. You're elated when it does something particularly cool. When the bumper falls off or you have to explain to a passenger for the fiftieth time how to open the doors, you shrug it off

Teslas are everywhere here, clearly the new BMW in terms of frequently being an easy signifier for the most despicable driver in close proximity. I don’t think a lot of not extremely online people care about what Elon musk says any more than they care the Nazis drove around in mercedes.

I forgot my neighbors who seem nice and retired-ish that have the crossover-looking one. I think they're kindly liberal types

Rode in a Hyundai Ioniq recently and it felt head and shoulders more luxurious than the Teslas I'd been in.

One of my colleagues bought a Tesla a few months back and immediately had issues with his windows opening, and his killer feature was being able to have his turn signal turn into fart sounds to amuse his kid. I thought to myself "you paid $65k for this?"

$TSLA will be $30 before the end 2023

There was a Tesla driver who would cruise past every night on the way home with their car set on the ice cream truck sound.

I was mostly being tongue in cheek, but honestly that design choice seems to be one made by someone who knows virtually nothing about automotive design . . . or driving, for that matter.

Guess who ultimately makes the design choices for Tesla?

The more autonomous a car is, the less dash info you need. How often do you look at the instrument panel when being driven in a taxi?

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 24, 2017

xp well, that's not creepy at all

Rode in a Hyundai Ioniq recently and it felt head and shoulders more luxurious than the Teslas I'd been in.

This is more for why don’t you drive an EV? but if I hadn't gone with the Mach-E, the Ioniq 5 would have been the runner up.

what wld have been yr selection?

Greenwald is just a toxic person now. Pretends to still be a leftist that hates Democrats, doesn't mind that now a good portion of his followers just so coincidentally happen to be pronoun-mocking homophobes.

Which of course he'll hide behind "I can't hide behind who likes me" as if he isn't intentionally courting that crowd cos fuck it, getting a handjob from your readers is all that matters

what wld have been yr selection?

I ordered a Mach-E GT last December and took delivery in April.

I really want to avoid general "best car I've owned" statements because I live in an area with an above-average charging network, but still I'm 100% satisfied.

I do wonder how Tesla owners are currently feeling about the fact that they’re driving around automotive MAGA hats these days.

the father of one of my best friends, as old and liberal and jewish as they come, is pissed off beyond belief. he was a musk fan until fairly recently (obv he was turning a blind eye to some bullshit along the way).

Never thought "is the owner of the company that makes my car a white supremacist?" was something I'd have to consider

https://i.imgur.com/8sV1pVk.png

My neighbour has one and looks incresingly embarrassed to be seen in it. It is probably not helped by the fact that it has been repeatedly keyed in recent weeks. It wasn't me, honest.

Never thought "is the owner of the company that makes my car a white supremacist?" was something I'd have to consider

― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Monday, December 12, 2022 7:01 PM (twelve minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

one would ordinarily just assume

Karl Malone, chef's kiss on that little pun

I’ve always been a little wary since that Henry Ford character tbh

lol yes that was perfect KM

Haha totally. High quality bots are fine!

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 12, 2022

Ok I think ChatGPT has peaked for me pic.twitter.com/zp55sDmiss

— Tim Clare (@TimClarePoet) December 12, 2022

Tesla down another 6% today, despite S&P being up on the day

the shine is officially off

It's a boooo-ear market

Stock hit its 52 week low today

i don’t think he cares about Tesla stock price or even the company all that much any more. he got what he wanted out of it (fanboys, cash, aattention) and now he’s going to leverage that to…do…something? the dynamic w/ jack and jack’s comments seem to let on that it’ll be something with crypto. going full Q now is a good way to hook some chunk of gullible people. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

better get in before crypto collapses completely next week

the dynamic w/ jack and jack’s comments seem to let on that it’ll be something with crypto.

Which comments are these? My apologies for being lost.

don’t remember exactly the quote but jack posted something about how twitter should’ve been a “protocol” and how Musk was the “singular person” to get this done or something along those lines. then there was some back/forth they had about the blockchain…

don’t remember exactly the quote but jack posted something about how twitter should’ve been a “protocol” and how Musk was the “singular person” to get this done or something along those lines. then there was some back/forth they had about the blockchain…

Jack’s a real dipshit. Never seen someone so checked out of the consequences of his actions in my life.

yeah hes the one whos really into crypto not elon, prob what he wanted to do but couldnt because it makes no sense, he did however pivot his payments company to crypto hope that works out lol

i just imagine jack meditating naked in a white room while a robed assistant intermittently comes in to whisper assurances that all is on track and reads a couple of elon’s tweets

his other other company blue sky did release a social protocol thing recently fwiw, it has no blockchain tho

Can only assume Biz and Ev are both glad they got out ages ago

they're probably both freaks but they aren't mainstream famous for being freaks

I do wonder how Tesla owners are currently feeling about the fact that they’re driving around automotive MAGA hats these days.

his big problem is he is losing one audience of vaguely liberal urban tech oriented ppl but he can never really capture the bulk of the maga crowd, he can troll all he wants but they don't want a small electric car, they want big ass ford trucks (not cybertrucks) and still see EVs as a pussyification thing, even pollution is a feature not a bug for some of them (see: rollin' coal)...tesla will never be macho enough

the blue sky stuff doesn't look terrible, but I don't know that it has any chance of catching on

yeah just releasing —a protocol— into the wild is hopeless, need to do like mastadon and put out an app that runs on it too

(see: rollin' coal)...tesla will never be macho enough

Fast forward a few years when Musk adds this feature to Teslas.

teslas biggest problem doesnt really have anything to do with musk its other car companies releasing electric cars, theyve basically had the segment to themselves to do whatever dumb weird things they wanted

he can never really capture the bulk of the maga crowd, he can troll all he wants but they don't want a small electric car, they want big ass ford trucks (not cybertrucks) and still see EVs as a pussyification thing

YES, this sums up whats been bugging me about all this. If he's decided to pivot to this crowd, what the hell for? They wont give a shit about either Tesla OR spaceX.