Elon Musk

58 days and still no answer. I have had enough, i STILL believe Tesla makes great cars but their customer service is truly horrendous. Fifty-eight days since my car caught fire sitting in the drive, and Tesla doesn’t seem to care at all. ANSWER ME!! @Tesla @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/xZDr8mHQT7

— :( thor (@GUNMTLM3) March 4, 2021

lol owned

Jesus these Elon fanboys are absolutely brainwashed.

"Here's a photo of the burned husk of my car that randomly caught fire two months but I still believe Tesla makes great cars, it's just the bad customer service that needs work."

don't worry lads, this reply guy has solved the case

Looks like sabotage. Teslas don’t spontaneously catch.

— Tesla STONK 💎🙌: Crypto ORACLE of OC: (@JosephVVallace) March 4, 2021

this reminds me of those losers who spend hundreds of dollars on vinyl with ratings like "Very Good Plus" and pretend the surface noise and inner groove distortion actually makes it sound better, heh heh heh you dorks

so the Tesla was a "hot stamper"?

damnit i wanted to see footage of car go boom

we like those

Profoundly depressing that the guy has to lead with “I still think Tesla is the best I promise.”

we're Tesla and Bunny

$tslaq
I have a theory and before I just started throwing out accusations of total fraud I did a complete exhaustive examination of the ZEV (and then non ZEV) credit transfers. Teslas rev/ profit center.

— Mindful Capitalist (@HappiestYogi) March 11, 2021

I still think about this tweet every time someone mentions Elon Musk (which is like every day). It feels like it was from way longer ago that 2018.

Elon Musk

link is just looping me back to the bottom of the thread

maybe for the best, that tweet is both funny and too cursed to bear

link works on desktop, not on zing

aha, i'm on flagging

Tesla has officially listed founder Elon Musk as its 'Technoking' in a regulatory filing, while the firm's financial chief is named 'Master of Coin' https://t.co/ZyfOWyHTef pic.twitter.com/sQT3j2SsOM

— Reuters (@Reuters) March 15, 2021

this is ridiculous
https://ark-invest.com/articles/analyst-research/tesla-price-target-2/

https://i.imgur.com/smxu0hn.png

i don't follow any of this shit closely, but here are the scenarios they used for that. it seems like they're like 50% sure the robotaxis will be a thing by then

(and because that's kind of a confusing graphic probably, by "50%" i didn't mean anything specific, i just meant that in about half of simulations, they ended up assuming robotaxis were a thing)

I know this is off topic but it fucking drives me up the wall to see hundreds of idiots on Twitter defend this guy by saying "yeah he's a billionaire but he's literally trying to save the world and advance civilization by bringing about a techno utopia" when he SWATs his own workers for even suggesting they unionize

Within 2 years he will convert his $TSLA holdings into BTC and bounce.

I recall reading an analysis of how the conversion of taxis and trucks to self-driving vehicles could put millions of people with relatively strong jobs that require few hurdles for entry out of work. Something like 3.5 million people drive trucks alone.

yeah, but those same truck drivers will help spur innovation and growth in the video poker sector

They just need to pivot to video, simple.

Well, someone's got to plug those video poker machines in. That's millions of jobs gained right there alone!

I recall reading an analysis of how the conversion of taxis and trucks to self-driving vehicles could put millions of people with relatively strong jobs that require few hurdles for entry out of work. Something like 3.5 million people drive trucks alone.

It works perfectly well, for the first few hundred feet before it hits another car or runs someone over. But that's theirs problem for not being automated, losers.

something like the tusimple approach should be possible, since you can invest more money into the sensors for semis. you probably also have a better view of things with the sensor placement. and it looks like they have set shipping routes that will be well-trained. there will still be a driver in the cockpit.

I know this is off topic but it fucking drives me up the wall to see hundreds of idiots on Twitter defend this guy by saying "yeah he's a billionaire but he's literally trying to save the world and advance civilization by bringing about a techno utopia" when he SWATs his own workers for even suggesting they unionize

― frogbs, Wednesday, March 24, 2021 3:17 PM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

This is because Americans don’t trust one another and are more comfortable with an idea of one “great man” changing things than they are with collective action. There is no solidarity here, people just want to make sure their neighbor doesn’t have more than they do. This is a bitter, self loathing country that worships its worst citizens.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/25/22351157/tesla-elon-musk-delete-anti-union-tweet-national-labor-relations-board
No question that Tesla and Musk have engaged in many illegal shenanigans to pre-emptively bust a union, but what is "technically" the offense in this tweet? The giving up stock options thing?

yes. page 51 of the ruling starts going into the rationale. IANAL but basically it is illegal to tell employees that if you vote to unionize, we will take away a benefit you currently have - it's a form of intimidation. the NLRB finds that this is the most logical/likely interpretation of the tweet.

bear in mind also that, threatened in advance or not, if employees chose Union Yes, employers are barred from making unliateral changes to things that are subjects of bargaining, even before a contract is ratified. (they may try anyway, but they can be challenged for doing something illegal.) so tesla also could not legally do this stock options thing that he was implying/threatening would happen.

basically a more sophisticated sleazy employer would have listened to his sleazy anti union lawyers, who would have told him "you have to phrase it like you're deeply concerned that a possible outcome *of collective bargaining* would be a contract where for some reason the union's representation agrees to give up this benefit and everybody loses out, bizarre though that might be." employers use this schtick all the time - for example fretting that somehow a union would ratify a contract where workers lose more by paying dues than they gain in take-home pay. never mind that this will never ever happen, because what bargaining unit would vote yes to ratify such a contract? the employer can legally speculate that gosh, it's *possible*! watch out guys! musk didn't bother with that, so it seems like he's just saying "an outcome of you voting yes is i will punish you," which is not allowed.

gotcha. ty!

'Investors are pouring money into unprofitable companies more than any time since the dot-com bubble.' https://t.co/myvYqbQYR7 pic.twitter.com/EOuevP70ZU

— Jesse Felder (@jessefelder) March 26, 2021

what could go wrong

no future no past

Elon Musk, Texas: Apartheid. https://t.co/xzOglJuRyV pic.twitter.com/SSlqHlD3sM

— The Onion (@TheOnion) March 25, 2021

can't believe this dumb herb actually replied

this guy

apparently bitch-ass-ness is as unlimited as income growth for the wealthy these days

this dude sucks

I have been told of this creep's genius mind for almost ten years now and I have yet to use any of his products, and most of the people around me can say the same. Dude is the ultimate snake oil vendor and I hope unionization drives his ideas out of the highway and into the precipice.

Lmao the Babylon Bee fucking suuuucks

on the upside there's a lot of gold in that Onion slideshow

I found a video about Tesla's autopilot in Vietnam.
That poor system just gave up. pic.twitter.com/9J3FlL2tsw

— Tu Minh (@TuhmSG) March 30, 2021

Lol

lots of FSD failure vids going on right now. Clearly not close to ready.

Lol I didn't realize anyone owned a Tesla here in Vietnam. I have often thought when driving here that this might be the toughest challenge on Earth for their autopilot

Athens, Greece is also pretty nuts with all the motorbikes.

It’s fine SpaceX. I’ll just reschedule my field work until next year again because I can’t drive down a state Highway or state beach. It’s only public land and critical habitats you just showered with rocket parts. pic.twitter.com/gTj9l5SXrV

— Ross Winton (@rosscwinton) March 31, 2021

Technoking indeed

The explosion of yet another (3rd so far this year) SpaceX rocket prototype yesterday showered metal and potentially toxic debris far into the sensitive tidal flats of the South Bay Coastal Preserve, Boca Chica State Park and the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge. On the right side of the highway is the SpaceX fenceline, and on the left is what has historically been one of the single most important sites for wintering Piping Plovers and thousands of other shorebirds. Since SpaceX gets County orders to close the highway and beach most weekdays we have had to cut back extensively on our monitoring there. Sadly, most news stories about these explosions neglect to mention the extensive damage being done to these highly unique coastal public lands.

https://www.facebook.com/CBBEPCoastalBirds/photos/a.1410276219230980/2985174601741126/