Elon Musk

it's a good book despite the name, the lesson is basically if you want something from someone be nice to them instead of being mean... there now you don't need to read the book

How to win friends and influence people: practice, man, practice

nice

Charles Manson swore by the book

How does it stack up next to Emotional Intelligence?

It's a good book but the Dale Carnegie speaking to you is totally a stan for the tycoons, partly because he's trying to convince you that with these techniques you will become a better salesman (true) and eventually a tycoon (false).

a good salesman always tells you you're made of the right stuff to be a tycoon

https://y.yarn.co/3b2e88cd-9b12-479a-9f9a-ad38603d1e77_text.gif

worship of millionaire "geniuses" is all over the 20th century - Edison, Ford, Henry Kaiser, Hugo Stinnes, obviously Steve Jobs, Bill Gates in a different way, and so on...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-N8-FuVYog

Elon arches his eyebrow, strokes his chin, composes the Tweet: “Chess. Nothing more than a children’s game 🤣🤣🤣” as his Tesla sails off a cliff making fart noises.

Muskboys: true genius, taking out a second mortgage

incredible pic.twitter.com/5Uv6JZR0Yt

— Jules Suzdaltsev (@jules_su) December 24, 2022

i had to know what the joke was. i figured it was the hilarious prosecute/fauci pronouns one. but let's see your knee survive THIS:

"If I had a dollar for every time someone asked me if Trump is coming back on this platform, Twitter would be minting money!"

he was right to fire him

3.7m views 17.3k likes pic.twitter.com/PZu8RJTDAy

— tom mckay (@thetomzone) December 24, 2022

just keep on unplugging stuff

i love how the "move fast and break stuff" philosophy extends to irl trying to break stuff. he is a failure until something new has broken. and then when it breaks, i'm pretty sure elon isn't the one who has to fix it. he knows a guy

graphql

— New New York Times (@NYT_first_said) December 24, 2022

lmao

Lol

not sure how much further he can take the mask off

kek

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 25, 2022

Be a real shame if more white nationalists bought cars that lock you inside while you burn to death.

The guy’s just immolating himself (again, like a Tesla owner).

Is that specifically a Nazi thing now? I just remember it as a WoW thing

Online “lol”-esque expression with a mostly harmless origin that, like Pepe, was sucked into the alt-right asshole and toxically shat out.

Iirc

it's definitely not specifically a Nazi thing

the gonzo milo trumpoids use it the way they use "based" -- "that's so kek"

If there's no surrounding context, I would read someone saying 'kek' as them being Very Online and aware of channer-type memes. Tbh I would probably give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they were being ironic.

However, given the vast amounts of context we have at our disposal, Elon Musk saying 'kek' is p obviously saying "hello alt-right I love you please love me back everyone else hates me and I am desperately trying to be with it by using a decades-old edgelord phrase".

Yeah I was going to say even his racist memes are out of date (NB I don’t know the up to date racist memes)

The SPLC has a pretty exhaustive (tho, granted, 5 years old) breakdown of kek: https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/05/08/what-kek-explaining-alt-right-deity-behind-their-meme-magic

It's pretty alt-righty and I think emily's otm in Musk's intent.

Obviously this is part of a much bigger conversation but it’s a big problem that anyone who gets ostracized from other online communities for being too bigoted can always find a place amongst the alt right. Like I don’t think these are the communities people are seeking out but they get driven there because everyone else is telling them to shut the fuck up

They should go to church or something instead

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fk8pqCKXEAkGh9Z?format=jpg&name=medium

Did Medvedev get assigned the Twitter Files Part 345?

Actual billionaire fantasizing about being a billionaire with a bat suit.

Some nights … pic.twitter.com/BLAUsJr4wb

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 27, 2022

What else has he got to do?

TFW someone reminds you that the markets reopen tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/4ZngsJg99m

— Mike Gee (@mestizoqueso) December 27, 2022

Below $120 and heading for $110 rapidly, is it?

when is the margin call

ill do it now

btw do we know that he has margin loans

margin loans were not part of the twitter financing

not sure if he has a personal margin loan

https://www.forbes.com/sites/abrambrown/2022/05/25/elon-musk-margin-loan-twitter-equity-deal-takeover-bid-buyout/

could be loans for his other companies where tesla stock was put up as collateral i guess

Margin loans weren't part of the financing but there was discussion just the other week of converting some of the debt to margin loans tied to Tesla stock. I'm guessing that's a more difficult prospect at the moment ...

.@Mining_Atoms Brave new world... pic.twitter.com/BZX7TGsZFw

— Chuck Petras (@Chuck_Petras) December 26, 2022

Elon is trying to distract you from the major problems with @Tesla cars. pic.twitter.com/HNmenqIhxd

— andrea heart 🇺🇸🏴‍☠️🌵☀️ (@andreaheart19) December 26, 2022

someone needs to go on norwegian internet and see how theyre doing being the top tesla country and a cold place

https://www.tocn.no/travelling-in-norway-during-winter/

Charging in wintertime
In order for optimal charging, the battery needs to have a good temperature, approximately 30’C.

If you are at a supercharger, are alone on the A-B pair, low charging speed is most likely due to low temperature on the battery(or high SOC). One hour of driving when it is 0’C outside, can still give you a battery temperature of only 17’C. Optimal battery temperature is said to be 30’C

If you plan to charge at your destination on AC on low amp, plug the car in as soon as possible while the battery is still warm after your days driving.
If you start charging the car while the battery is cold, you will at first see no progress at all on charging, as all the energy will be put into heating up the battery first. If it is cold enough, it can take several hours before charging starts.

hmm doesnt seem good

eh teslas are pretty much the best in cold weather fwiw https://www.axios.com/2022/03/04/the-cold-hard-truth-about-electric-vehicles-in-winter

that doesnt seem to address the wont charge at all issue