Elon Musk

gah, that was meant to be this tweet

I am selling almost all physical possessions. Will own no house.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 1, 2020

anyway, he's on one

i wonder if his gf grimezsz got mad at him before or after he decided to sell almost all of his physical possessions and own no house

I would like to see a Musk-less Tesla in the same way we now have a Charney-less American Apparel. I realize that they aren't the same kind of awful, but still.

a Musk-less Tesla would probably still not be very good at manufacturing cars tho nu?

oh I see he's a corona skeptic.

to be fair to him he's clearly high on uppers all the time and probably doesn't get much sleep so that can't be that great for cognition

Also clearly a born dipshit tbfttl

I furiously judge anyone who ever liked this guy

would probably still not be very good at manufacturing cars tho

I don't know about this. I've been pretty impressed by the Tesla when I've been in one as a passenger.

i've never liked this fuckhole

yea Teslas are pretty impressive though they're annoying for a lot of reasons and the interior design is pretty fucking awful

worth mentioning that Tesla existed before Elon bought it (and erased the real founder from memory) and almost certainly would be delivering a higher quality product without him

Musk brought in silicon valley principles like "not trying very hard"

from building a useless contraption that provided no benefit to saving those people trapped in the mine, bragging about it and saying "what have you done?" to some internet rando, to this, to his weird sporadic Twitter meltdowns....

I'm assuming he came through with flying colors on his ventilator promise though, yes?

about that

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/17/tech/elon-musk-ventilators-california/index.html

I would like to see a Musk-less Tesla in the same way we now have a Charney-less American Apparel. I realize that they aren't the same kind of awful, but still.

― 🔫 (peace, man), Friday, May 1, 2020 1:11 PM (fifty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

gotta think well see this eventually one way or another guys like him tend not to stick around, unless he manages to just totally drive the whole business under, but even then youd think one of the big companies wld want to scoop tesla up

I'm old enough to remember when market manipulation like this would earn you a perp-walk into federal custody.

Tesla stock price is too high imo

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 1, 2020

ref: https://www.sec.gov/fast-answers/answerstmanipulhtm.html

the last time he tried this, he only had write a check for $20M and step down as chairman of TSLA:

https://money.cnn.com/2018/09/29/technology/business/elon-musk-tesla-sec-settlement/index.html

I don't know about this. I've been pretty impressed by the Tesla when I've been in one as a passenger.

― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, May 1, 2020 1:24 PM (forty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

the big issue with them is they have a lot of defects and build quality issues, which is something you wld expect from a young quick growing company, where the big boys are mature and put a ton of effort into limiting stuff like a glove compartment handle snapping off on a six month old car, and tesla has of course been accused of juicing their stats on this sort of stuff

theyre in an interesting spot as theyve produced expensive novelty second cars for rich people their entire existence and are now trying to switch to making cars that people who only own one car can buy, its a huge lift and its gonna be hard for them to get it right all the manufacturing stuff theyve been fucking up on both quality and efficiency levels will just be amplified by trying to make more cars and selling them to people who are really depending on them

Nothing to see here just Elon Musk embracing the support of a climate change-denying Infowars loon as well as noted shit peddler James O’Keefe pic.twitter.com/VUDulpo0FO

— Sean O'Kane (@sokane1) May 1, 2020

the biggest thing id give tesla credit for is recognizing the performances advantages that electric vehicles have and leaning into that, because an electric engine immediately delivers max torque the model 3 can accelerate like a nice bmw for half the cost, where the rest of the industry has been making dinky nerd electric cars even bmw lol, undoubtably that tech will change the performance segment of the whole damn industry before too long, theyre also way out in front as far as how they do the computery stuff always pushing new features in updates, and that youd think will also become industry standard too

so they def have innovated meaningfully but i but i have a hard time seeing them being logistically sound enough to really scale up, getting bought out by a company who already knows how to make cars good seems like the most likely path forward

or those companies could just make tesla like cars tho they dont seem to really want to prob cause it represents such a small % of the industry, but on the other hand theres not a car company on earth that hasnt given lip service to electric being the future, mercedes even said theyre going to stop doing r&d on gas engines which is pretty wild

porsche the drivers car of drivers cars even has an ev now that everyone hates

so tesla might have to actually compete at some point...

but sales of evs just havent gotten to the point thats forcing the big players to actually take them very seriously

if he weren't evil scum I might find it sympathetic and relatable that he appears to fully lose his mind once every few months

lol true

gotta think well see this eventually one way or another guys like him tend not to stick around, unless he manages to just totally drive the whole business under, but even then youd think one of the big companies wld want to scoop tesla up

for now

if they manage to maintain that condition i will respectfully doff me cap to mr elon

Need all roads converted to giant Qi charging pads before electric becomes adoptable by renters and people in apartments

yeah

is tesla stock gets to the point where a car manufacturer could afford to acquire the company, that will be because it's going out of business.

damn, wonder if anyone's considered shorting it?

Need all roads converted to giant Qi charging pads before electric becomes adoptable by renters and people in apartments

― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Saturday, 2 May 2020 5:19 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I’m building a DC fast charging network at the moment and this isn’t true. It’s like going to the petrol station except you plug it in for 20 minutes and go and have a coffee or buy some groceries or whatever you want to do while it charges.

lol at Elon twitter stans being torn pretty evenly between "clearly he's been hacked" and "idiots don't get his jokes"

we need a lottery ticket that takes 20 minutes to scratch

his stans also think he *invented* Paypal from scratch

PayPal also sucked and was (is I guess, thankfully I never have to use it anymore when paying online) bad.

I go to a gas station once a week at most for 5 minutes, I don’t think it’s feasible for people to put in 20 minutes several times a week in terms of adopting electric.

If you can’t charge in the place where you park every night I don’t think most people would buy an electric.

we have a lot of charging stations here but that wasn't the case 5 years ago.

People are notorious for letting their car get down to fumes because that five minutes at a gas station, which can be found everywhere, is a hassle.

lagoon turning into a car guy has been a good low key ilx subplot

lol it's true

The point is with DC fast charging is it won’t necessarily be at petrol stations it will be at stores and restaurants and you’ll get enough charge for the week in minutes not hours whilst you do what you do.

The first generation of AC was pretty useless when installed at grocery stores because you can’t get a meaningful charge in the time it takes to do your shop. With DC you’ll be full by the time you come out. And full will be several hundred kilometres.

Interestingly we have some data from a municipal DC fast charge network in California and by far the most used charger is the one in the food coop parking lot and the session data looks a lot like people dropping in for a weekly shop and a weekly charge (along with some ride-share drivers dropping in daily).

It’s obviously super convenient if you can charge at home but in large parts of the world it’s not necessary.

Yea charging stations I've seen are usually in parking lots

is tesla stock gets to the point where a car manufacturer could afford to acquire the company, that will be because it's going out of business.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, May 1, 2020 5:48 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

thats what i said! tho also the stock price cld just come down to earth

I get the sense Tesla stock is probably more like Bitcoin than a traditional stock

Muskcoin

the stock market just went up by 13% in a month when 30 million people filed for unemployment, the whole market is like dicecoin