Elon Musk: Officially a fraud and piece of shit. Official or unofficial war criminal?

[Parliament 14,261]

5 hours ago, Immaculate Vibes said:

Interesting. 
 

Up 20% pre market btw 

Wish he'd called me before he made that move.

[Trey3216 15,347]

47 minutes ago, Parliament said:

Wish he'd called me before he made that move.

Wish I had read the tea leaves when he challenged them publicly the other day.  

[elfenix 34,318]

On 3/3/2022 at 12:24 PM, Incredulity said:

further lol

 

 

this seems like a lot until you realize that netflix put $17 billion into content last year.

[gsoda3 3,263]

so much going on with that tweet but it all spins down to the labor dispute.

[TurkeyChew 383]

2 hours ago, Parliament said:

Wish he'd called me before he made that move.

The stake, revealed in a regulatory filing, was amassed before Musk criticized Twitter. Musk’s disclosure came out today, but the document detailing the stake, worth about $3 billion at Friday’s closing price, is dated March 14. Twitter’s shares are up about 50 percent since then.

Edited April 4, 2022 by TurkeyChew

[Anastasis 23,475]

 

 

Interdasting. 

[TurkeyChew 383]

5 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

 

 

Interdasting. 

Apparently Jack agrees as well.

Also re: Elon

Tesla delivered 310,000 vehicles last quarter, a big jump from last year’s Q1 when it delivered 185,000. That growth is all the more impressive because legacy carmakers like GM and Toyota reported Q1 sales declines of 20% and 15%, respectively, with chip shortages still hampering production.

[NoName 16,354]

1 hour ago, TurkeyChew said:

Apparently Jack agrees as well.

Also re: Elon

Tesla delivered 310,000 vehicles last quarter, a big jump from last year’s Q1 when it delivered 185,000. That growth is all the more impressive because legacy carmakers like GM and Toyota reported Q1 sales declines of 20% and 15%, respectively, with chip shortages still hampering production.

...maybe GM and Toyota were unwilling to take a chance on compromising safety?

https://www.thedrive.com/news/44204/tesla-quietly-removed-steering-components-from-new-cars-over-chip-shortage-report

edit: i am sure that folks are going to say "it's the backup to the backup" - but if it was totally unneeded in the first place wouldn't Tesla, of all companies, have already removed it?

these cars aren't in the US, but basically covers Asia/Europe.

Meanwhile, Elon is saying they will do OTA updates for FSD soon...but none of these vehicles can achieve FSD because they pulled the chips. they are just going to retrofit tens of thousands of vehicles?

https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-missing-microchip-fsd-fully-driverless-chip-shortage-elon-musk-2022-2

 

Edited April 4, 2022 by NoName

[elfenix 34,318]

Apparently Jack agrees as well.
Also re: Elon
Tesla delivered 310,000 vehicles last quarter, a big jump from last year’s Q1 when it delivered 185,000. That growth is all the more impressive because legacy carmakers like GM and Toyota reported Q1 sales declines of 20% and 15%, respectively, with chip shortages still hampering production.

I'm guessing Tesla didn't halt their chip orders from tsmc and are on a cutting edge process node so are higher up in the customer importance list.

[clapclapclap 9,000]

Wow, quite shocking to see a Twitter director openly denigrating the most economically successful African-American in history.  

[Parliament 14,261]

That's some serious self-loathing right there.

[Anastasis 23,475]

16 minutes ago, clapclapclap said:

Wow, quite shocking to see a Twitter director openly denigrating the most economically successful African-American in history.  

 

Who is this person and why are they trying to destroy society?

[Wally Fairway 5,559]

3 hours ago, NoName said:

...maybe GM and Toyota were unwilling to take a chance on compromising safety?

Now that's funny, have you seen the recall that all these auto makers have historically and ongoing? They would rather save $1.50/vehicle and fight the lawsuits; airbags, ignition switches, etc. and these were known defects that they tried to handle with service bulletins.

[elfenix 34,318]

1 hour ago, Anastasis said:

 

Who is this person and why are they trying to destroy society?

he's a canadian-south african-american who has founded a couple companies that were bought up and made him a billionaire, he then joined a startup electric car company and made electric cars cool, and now he's trying to obliterate the night sky in order to bring you non-sucky internet because the existing telcos don't want to bother, but that's not important right now.

[Anastasis 23,475]

11 minutes ago, elfenix said:

he's a canadian-south african-american who has founded a couple companies that were bought up and made him a billionaire, he then joined a startup electric car company and made electric cars cool, and now he's trying to obliterate the night sky in order to bring you non-sucky internet because the existing telcos don't want to bother, but that's not important right now.

LOL.  That is really funny. Give me autist Elon landing fucking rockets on drone ships in the ocean and trying to create an electric car industry every fucking day over a twitter director gazing into his algorithm as it tears our social fabric apart. 

[Dahobbs 17,625]

4 hours ago, elfenix said:

I'm guessing Tesla didn't halt their chip orders from tsmc and are on a cutting edge process node so are higher up in the customer importance list.

Eh, partly. But the chip shortage for auto manufacturers largely has to do with legacy chip manufacturing (i.e., older process nodes). Chip manufacturers shut a lot of this down due to low profit margins and supply constraints with silicon.  Legacy manufacturers have been unable or unwilling to shift their needs to newer process nodes. Tesla was more flexible. 

[StruggleBus 3,922]

1 hour ago, elfenix said:

he's a canadian-south african-american who has founded a couple companies that were bought up and made him a billionaire, he then joined a startup electric car company and made electric cars cool, and now he's trying to obliterate the night sky in order to bring you non-sucky internet because the existing telcos don't want to bother, but that's not important right now.

Holy fuck are you a whiny bitch or what

[elfenix 34,318]

24 minutes ago, StruggleBus said:

Holy fuck are you a whiny bitch or what

Edited April 5, 2022 by elfenix

[52-80 19,169]

10 hours ago, clapclapclap said:

Wow, quite shocking to see a Twitter director openly denigrating the most economically successful African-American in history.  

 

[Immaculate Vibes 114]

13 hours ago, clapclapclap said:

Wow, quite shocking to see a Twitter director openly denigrating the most economically successful African-American in history.  

 

3 hours ago, 52-80 said:

 

I’ll guess they’ll have a chance to hash things out. 

This is great for Twitter and social discourse in this country. 
 

Also expect to hear these takes soon.

 

[52-80 19,169]

38 minutes ago, Immaculate Vibes said:

 

I’ll guess they’ll have a chance to hash things out. 

This is great for Twitter and social discourse in this country. 
 

Also expect to hear these takes soon.

 

Micsolana is a real one

[pearlandhorn 3,274]

Elon Musk is the people's champion.

[Serak The Preparer 3,431]

Saying you dislike someone is now "openly denigrating them" and deserving of a pink slip. Boy @clapclapclap and @52-80 sure are snowflakes.

[52-80 19,169]

6 minutes ago, Serak The Preparer said:

Saying you dislike someone is now "openly denigrating them" and deserving of a pink slip. Boy @clapclapclap and @52-80 sure are snowflakes.

Cry about it

[workswithseed 2,112]

1 minute ago, 52-80 said:

Cry about it

I thought you were going to give him a pink slip. I'm disappointed.

[F250 28,784]

On 4/5/2022 at 4:08 AM, 52-80 said:

 

Dude is in Europe. They wipe their ass with pink slips. Terminating European employees is like getting rid of herpes.

It's not like the U.S. where you can hold mass executions on any given Friday.

 

[fattyflattie 4,639]

10 minutes ago, F250 said:

Dude is in Europe. They wipe their ass with pink slips. Terminating European employees is like getting rid of herpes.

It's not like the U.S. where you can hold mass executions on any given Friday.

 

Yeah, I don't get it either.  Pink slip?  Fuck no, just destroy his career over years in a long term petty move.  Or just be one of the richest people on earth and not gaf about some creative design guy. 

[F250 28,784]

1 minute ago, fattyflattie said:

Yeah, I don't get it either.  Pink slip?  Fuck no, just destroy his career over years in a long term petty move.  Or just be one of the richest people on earth and not gaf about some creative design guy. 

Strong labor laws which isn't a bad thing if you are wage earner. I've hit a brick wall every time I had to deal with a European employee, especially German employees. On the flip side I've had to let go of really good American employees just they came out on the losing side of office politics.

[fattyflattie 4,639]

47 minutes ago, F250 said:

Strong labor laws which isn't a bad thing if you are wage earner. I've hit a brick wall every time I had to deal with a European employee, especially German employees. On the flip side I've had to let go of really good American employees just they came out on the losing side of office politics.

Believe me, I’m familiar.  I worked for a international co based out of Netherlands for better half of a decade.  They LOVED how it is here because they can cut dead weight so easily. 

[Guest Lobo]

We're all still going to the grand opening and getting fucked up, right?  Hanging out with y'all might there might be my best chance to get a handjob in the back of a Tesla.  Certainly can't afford to buy one. 

Edited April 7, 2022 by Lobo

[Armybrat 40,851]

My youngest son who works there has two guest tickets, but his brother & SIL had to back out attending. 
son said that the tour might be beyond my mobility limits. 
He said he will stay after work for the free eats.

[Guest Lobo]

Can I be your +1?  

[Deej 76,831]

2 hours ago, Lobo said:

Can I be your +1?  

You have to push him around the facilities.

 

[Jkwellborn 6,709]

You have to push him around the facilities.
 

I would.

[Armybrat 40,851]

Nah, I’m not going. Traffic will suck balls down there at that time anyway.

[Armybrat 40,851]

Sson said someone took this pic yesterday from upstairs in the factory...

 

[Moby Ric 2,058]

3 hours ago, Deej said:

You have to push him around the facilities.

 

Did not know the *President was attending.  No CR.

[Armybrat 40,851]

Musk’s electric “18 wheeler” on display at his gigafactory this afternoon.

 

[Wally Pryor 5,261]

Crazy stuff at 8:30

 

[Dahobbs 17,625]

Holy drone swarm batman! That is fucking cool as hell. 

[Moby Ric 2,058]

I am a little surprised that there is no dickbutt in that drone display.

[Cement 314]

🤣🤣🤣

 

[Immaculate Vibes 114]

 

Lol at throwing in a background check on maybe the most famous entrepreneur in the world. 
 

If I had to guess there were going to be restrictions on his public statements that he didn’t like. 
 

Also, “there will be distractions ahead”.  Feels like Elon plans on making more noise/buying more shares?
 

[ChickenSandwich 9,843]

31 minutes ago, Immaculate Vibes said:

 

Lol at throwing in a background check on maybe the most famous entrepreneur in the world. 
 

If I had to guess there were going to be restrictions on his public statements that he didn’t like. 
 

Also, “there will be distractions ahead”.  Feels like Elon plans on making more noise/buying more shares?
 

He is also not beholden to their terms of buying no more than 14%. 
 

Would the board seat also put more restrictions on his personal speech from SEC watchdogs (stock manipulation?)

[wildcat09 29,355]

22 minutes ago, ChickenSandwich said:

He is also not beholden to their terms of buying no more than 14%. 
 

Would the board seat also put more restrictions on his personal speech from SEC watchdogs (stock manipulation?)

If he was on the board he'd be legally obligated to act in the best interests of the company. 

[Immaculate Vibes 114]

43 minutes ago, ChickenSandwich said:

He is also not beholden to their terms of buying no more than 14%. 
 

Would the board seat also put more restrictions on his personal speech from SEC watchdogs (stock manipulation?)

I don’t think he’s too concerned about SEC rules. “Funding secured” etc.

 

The move has to be Elon buying more. You can’t question his passion. If something really moves him, he follows through on it. Free speech on social media appears to be one of those things for him. 

[TKthunder2 4,992]

I’m loving this sorry.

Govt gives sweetheart deal to unionized auto manufacturers…fuck it I already pay above market let’s unionize Tesla for the incentives.

Twitter tells get high and mighty championing free market reasoning for their ability to control speech…fuck it let me buy a controlling interest in the company.  Twitter offers board seat to shut him and up and limit the amount of stock he can buy…nah fuck it.

[Nice Guy Eddie 13,515]

Elon couldn't join the board. That was never going to happen so I don't know why anyone got excited about it. why?

1. He broke SEC laws in not disclosing that he was buying more than 5 percent of Twitter. By doing so, he delayed the general public from knowing the world's richest man was acquiring Twitter stick in large chunks. He probably made $150 million by breaking the law. Note: Some of you may disagree with this law but it's still the law. 
   1. Elon will soon be settling lawsuits with any person or fund that sold Twitter stock from the time he failed to disclose until he announced it. I know he can afford it.
2. If he joins the board, he would pretty much have to stop tweeting about Twitter business. After all, he would have access to insider info which would prevent him from tweeting.

It's also possible the SEC told Twitter Elon wasn't allowed on the board due to his continued disregard of securities law.

I like how Elon behaves but he would have been a horrible Twitter board member not to mention that he would have gotten bored of them at a certain point anyway. In this manner, Elon can put proxies on the board and still have a say in exec decisions.

[tbone_ 14,129]

Heard this morning math says he’s worth $273B.

That’s $100B more than Bezos these days.

That’s a lot of fucking money.

[Immaculate Vibes 114]

3 minutes ago, tbone_ said:

Heard this morning math says he’s worth $273B.

That’s $100B more than Bezos these days.

That’s a lot of fucking money.

He sold $16B in Tesla stock at the end of last year, so he can buy a lot more TWTR if he wants.