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

[NoName 16396]

4 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

Elon's bold new strategy to replace ad dollars he has lost:  go after smaller advertisers!

 

https://www.ft.com/content/cdf789a2-8872-41fe-94e7-ff30ebe631b7

 

 

 

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Already this month, X has been forging tie-ups with third parties, such as US marketing start-up JumpCrew, to which it will outsource some ad sales to target small and medium-sized businesses, the company said.

It added this push would now be accelerated, alongside plans to develop more subscription and data licensing services.

The latest advertiser exodus has raised fresh fears about the financial health of X. The New York Times reported last week that X was at risk of losing up to $75mn this quarter from the advertising boycott, citing leaked internal documents. X disputed the figure to the FT, estimating the fall was between $10mn and $12mn.

The Tesla chief’s $44bn takeover last year has also saddled the company with huge interest repayments on the debt, worth more than $1bn annually. Last month, X told employees it valued the company’s equity at just $19bn.

One former X senior sales executive said Musk would need to make a choice between keeping a large ads team or moving towards cheaper solutions, such as further outsourcing sales and adopting an automated “self-service small business platform”.

Such a shift would be difficult, the former executive added, as X’s ads offering to businesses lags behind rivals such as Meta, Google and TikTok due to a historical lack of “commitment to building a world-class ads platform”. 

Some industry executives said a switch in advertising strategy would help, as there were sectors less inclined to care about Musk’s words, such as sports gambling. Some right-wing influencers, such as Andrew Tate, have pledged to spend millions on advertising on the platform. 

However, other industry executives added that Musk’s latest outburst would probably lead to fresh freezes in spending.

Linda Yaccarino, X’s chief executive hired by Musk for her deep connections to the advertising world, was bombarded by calls from friends and associates last weekend during her daughter’s wedding, according to several people familiar with the matter. They urged her to quit to protect her reputation.

On Thursday evening, Yaccarino instead sent a company-wide email cheering on X’s stance on fighting “censorship” and stating that Musk had shared an “unmatched and completely unvarnished perspective” and vision for the future. 

“Our principles do not have a price tag, nor will they be compromised — ever,” she wrote. “And no matter how hard they try, we will not be distracted by sideline critics who don’t understand our mission.” 

 

the reason nobody goes after smaller advertisers is because they pay less money and you need a ton of them to make up for the bigger ones

shockingly they also care a ton about not having their ads next to Nazis and White Power folks

[NoName 16396]

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[956 Worldwide 34749]

1 hour ago, Celery Man said:

the whole idea of a late civilizational truck that relies on a fucking powergrid is so goddamn stupid

 

I think we need to remember that “late civilizations” is just incel code for “too many minorities.” 

[Captain Ron 12914]

39 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

Also, on the list of options that are available for that damned truck:

 

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/1/23983813/botched-cybertruck-demo-immortalized-in-sticker

 

 

$55 for a sticker that makes it look like your broke your window?

Or $5 on Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/EMC-Graphics-Broken-Waterproof-Sticker/dp/B08HHR2CCJ/

[Chopper 17245]

There's no video yet at Bluesky so there's not much in the way of sports yet. However they just opened up more servers last week so progress is happening and the platform is definitely growing and lively.

[Captain Ron 12914]

7 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

I think we need to remember that “late civilizations” is just incel code for “too many minorities.”  LARPing the zombie apocalypse.

FIFY.

[Pancho 44983]

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Snagged one!

Do I now get invites? If so, how many is the max?

[NAVY 6747]

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[MissingInAction 25176]

On 11/30/2023 at 1:04 AM, Thetexashammer said:

I find the show to be highly entertaining. Just certain woke people who feel the need to piss in everyone else's Wheaties is kind of a problem. 

Wtf does this even mean?

[Guadaloopy 11013]

14 hours ago, Celery Man said:

if season 2 of The Walking Dead was airing now they’d totally end up in a cyber truck, logic be damned.

2 hours ago, Celery Man said:

the whole idea of a late civilizational truck that relies on a fucking powergrid is so goddamn stupid

Except that it isn't reliant on a power grid.  There are plenty of off-grid solar panels on homes that could provide power to charge an EV.  Life span of current generation of solar panels is ~30 years.  Shelf life of gasoline is 2-3 years at best.  Or set up a base camp near a wind farm or hydro. 

After the first couple of years of the zombie apocalypse, you'd be begging for an EV.

 

 

[Captain Ron 12914]

51 minutes ago, Pancho said:

 

Snagged one!

Do I now get invites? If so, how many is the max?

You get them at some time in the future, it takes a bit of time.

You max out at 5. But the refresh rate is odd. Right now I am in a state where they refresh immediately. I had a few spent the other day and once they were consumed, I refreshed back to 5.

[Celery Man 20996]

7 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:

Except that it isn't reliant on a power grid.  There are plenty of off-grid solar panels on homes that could provide power to charge an EV.  Life span of current generation of solar panels is ~30 years.  Shelf life of gasoline is 2-3 years at best.  Or set up a base camp near a wind farm or hydro. 

After the first couple of years of the zombie apocalypse, you'd be begging for an EV.

 

 

[Captainant 27756]

10 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:

Except that it isn't reliant on a power grid.  There are plenty of off-grid solar panels on homes that could provide power to charge an EV.  Life span of current generation of solar panels is ~30 years.  Shelf life of gasoline is 2-3 years at best.  Or set up a base camp near a wind farm or hydro. 

After the first couple of years of the zombie apocalypse, you'd be begging for an EV.

You're not gonna be traveling far if you're using solar panels to charge your tesla - unless you've got a whole house's worth and no other demand on their electrical capacity. Whole-home systems with a ton of panels are in the 2-4KW range, and considering a 60-100KWhr battery in a tesla... Not really a realistic thing to defend lol

 

Oh wait wait that's right, you're totally not defending elmo in this thread though lol

[Captain Ron 12914]

Best transport for the Zombie Apocalypse

 

[Guadaloopy 11013]

2 minutes ago, Captainant said:

You're not gonna be traveling far if you're using solar panels to charge your tesla - unless you've got a whole house's worth and no other demand on their electrical capacity. Whole-home systems with a ton of panels are in the 2-4KW range, and considering a 60-100KWhr battery in a tesla... Not really a realistic thing to defend lol

 

Oh wait wait that's right, you're totally not defending elmo in this thread though lol

I mean... I had a 6.12 kW system on my home in SoCal and I am pricing a 10+kW system for my current home.  So many home systems far exceed 2-4 kW of production.   My Tesla is 82 kWh. Sure... it may take it a couple of days to fully charge it to 350 miles of range on a single home system. 

But here's the kicker... that's still a lot faster than it would take me to find and extract petroleum and refine it into gasoline to run an ICE vehicle. 

And I'm not defending Elmo.  I'm engaging in a thought experiment about what would be more useful long-term in a post-civilization world - an electric vehicle or an ICE vehicle.   

[NoName 16396]

6 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:

I mean... I had a 6.12 kW system on my home in SoCal and I am pricing a 10+kW system for my current home.  So many home systems far exceed 2-4 kW of production.   My Tesla is 82 kWh. Sure... it may take it a couple of days to fully charge it to 350 miles of range on a single home system. 

But here's the kicker... that's still a lot faster than it would take me to find and extract petroleum and refine it into gasoline to run an ICE vehicle. 

And I'm not defending Elmo.  I'm engaging in a thought experiment about what would be more useful long-term in a post-civilization world - an electric vehicle or an ICE vehicle.   

if a ZA happens, everyone is fucked. cars or not. solar or not. gas or not.

everyone, as a group, is fucked.

[Celery Man 20996]

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[Guadaloopy 11013]

1 minute ago, NoName said:

if a ZA happens, everyone is fucked. cars or not. solar or not. gas or not.

everyone, as a group, is fucked.

[956 Worldwide 34749]

8 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:

I mean... I had a 6.12 kW system on my home in SoCal and I am pricing a 10+kW system for my current home.  So many home systems far exceed 2-4 kW of production.   My Tesla is 82 kWh. Sure... it may take it a couple of days to fully charge it to 350 miles of range on a single home system. 

But here's the kicker... that's still a lot faster than it would take me to find and extract petroleum and refine it into gasoline to run an ICE vehicle. 

And I'm not defending Elmo.  I'm engaging in a thought experiment about what would be more useful long-term in a post-civilization world - an electric vehicle or an ICE vehicle.   

Not if you have an alliance to bring back guzzoline from Gas Town and ammo from the Bullet Farm on the Thunder Road. 
 

I jest but anything that’s networked is fucked and we could expect resources to flow to keeping cobbled together the most widespread and easily reparable infrastructure. No OTA service will be coming. Sweet spot is 1990s/early 2000s mass market rides that have lots of available spare parts but that have good reliability. And any Toyota Hilux. 

[Francisco 2.0 32426]

But wait, there's more!

 

https://gizmodo.com/tesla-baby-cybertruck-release-pre-order-price-elon-musk-1851065542

 

 

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For just $1,500, you can drive one of these bad boys home—that’s 18,000 Dogecoin if you’ve turned your back on the fed. Cybertruck for Kids can accommodate children up to 150 lbs and can drive 12 miles on a single charge at speeds up to 10mph. It’s unclear if children will face the $50,000 legal penalty if they resell their mini Cybertruck like Elon Musk threatened against adult Cybertruck owners. Cybertruck for Kids was released shortly after Tesla’s first adult models were delivered, and they’re meant for Elon Musk fans between the ages of 6 and 12.

 

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It’s unclear if Cybertruck for Kids has a bulletproof body, but it does come with LED headlights and tail lights, as well as a 500-watt motor. Tesla does not recommend your child throw a steel ball through the window of their Cybertruck, as the grown adult and Tesla lead designer Franz von Holzhausen did in 2019. A harmless bouncy ball is a much more fun option to throw at your Cybertruck, as Halzhausen did at Tesla’s delivery event Thursday for some reason.

The vehicles are currently sold out, so you’ll have to join a waitlist. However, Cybertruck for Kids will actually ship in December 2023, before any of the real Cybertruck models. The $1,500 price tag may seem expensive for a children’s gift (nerf football: $12), but Tesla is not shy of skimping on price. Consider the real Cybertruck, which was advertised as costing $39,900 in 2019, but now actually costs $61,000 for the base model.

 

[High Plains Drifter 11052]

 

4 hours ago, NoName said:

oh my god i forgot about the fact that we are getting ready to see a ton of deaths in cybertruck-related accidents.

the design of the front vs a pedestrian or motorcycle is going to (sadly) kill a ton of people in any accident.

 

serious question- how is that front end any worse than the front end of the monsters on the road today?

 

 

 

 

 

 

[956 Worldwide 34749]

Oh, and an old shitty diesel can be converted to run on waste cooking oil and other junk fuels by a good bubba mechanic. 

[Goredho 17419]

Ya'll need to get real.  In a post apocalyptic world, we're gonna be trying to render fat into diesel or charge our electric vehicles with makeshift solar panels when we get ambushed and eaten by Alex Jones.

[MissingInAction 25176]

12 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Oh, and an old shitty diesel can be converted to run on waste cooking oil and other junk fuels by a good bubba mechanic. 

[Neonmoon 38130]

In a post apocalyptic world, Alex Jones is on my list. 

[Chewbacca 7783]

On 11/30/2023 at 7:29 AM, Goredho said:

The ones that are going to feel the pain are the ~1000 employees of Twitter. 

I don't feel sorry for anyone who is still working there after seeing what he's done since he bought it.  

[Goredho 17419]

4 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

In a post apocalyptic world, Alex Jones is on my list. 

You'll be his Channing Tatum

[NoName 16396]

15 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:

 

 

serious question- how is that front end any worse than the front end of the monsters on the road today?

 

 

doing some more research on it it has something to do with most modern large vehicles basically "pushing" pedestrians out (so they are rounding out from the middle of the badge basically?) whereas a CT has a flat front that evidently will do more to "pull" a pedestrian under?

doesn't have to do with the sharp edges has to do with it being more of tall and "flat" front + being a light truck (1.45x more likely to kill a pedestrian vs a car) - again this is from what I understand

 

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a45837841/iihs-tall-vehicle-dangerous-pedestrians/

https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/vehicles-with-higher-more-vertical-front-ends-pose-greater-risk-to-pedestrians

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The new IIHS report states that vehicles with "especially tall front ends," namely those with a hood height larger than 40 inches, are most dangerous to pedestrians. The report also shows that vehicles with a hood height somewhere between 30 and 40 inches, where the leading edge of the car is a blunt profile (think boxy SUV), also increase risk to pedestrians.

i believe this is saying the bottom right is truck +44% more likely to cause a pedestrian fatality than the black car outline. this is before adding in whatever blind spots come from the angled window and the a pillar being so funky

evidently the sharp edges will cause more damage to a pedestrian but not sure that matters THAT much in a vehicle on pedestrian crash?

CT front:

 

 

 

 

 

[Chewbacca 7783]

5 hours ago, hornian said:

Was. The Exclusivity Deal with Amazon for these vans just ended. You can now buy one if you want, but they are still prioritizing fleet deals so probably a few years before average consumers/one-off buyers like local plumbers/van life aficionados can actually get one. 

 

I'm not sure if these make their way into the van life arena anytime soon.  You'd need an insane amount of power to be able to be off grid for a week or two like you can do in a Sprinter right now.

[Goredho 17419]

3 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:

I don't feel sorry for anyone who is still working there after seeing what he's done since he bought it.  

I am not asking anyone to.  I am saying the advertisers weren't hurt by his fuck you, and he won't be hurt if there is a mass advertiser exodus and resulting twitter collapse.  He'll still have 100+ billion in net worth.

The people Elon gave a big hearty "fuck you" to were all the employees at Twitter who don't have his fuck you bank roll.  Whether they deserve it or not doesn't change the fact that they will be the ones that appreciably pay for his arrogant assholery.

[Chopper 17245]

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[Pancho 44983]

This is my Twitter for just less than 1 day

 

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2 hours ago, Pancho said:

 

Snagged one!

Do I now get invites? If so, how many is the max?

It will take a couple of weeks to get invites, maybe? I think the most at once is 5.

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[gernblansten 3197]

51 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

In a post apocalyptic world, Alex Jones is on my list. 

Good lord, man. It's just the apocalypse. My list doesn't change at all: Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Alba, Sydney Sweeney, Alexandra Aaddario, and Salma Hayak.  First off the bench is Jennifer Connelly if the apocalypse takes one of the others. 

[Ted Lange 16122]

Imagine Jeff Bezos deciding to get into the home-building business and designing some shitfuck ugly "futuristic" looking house and one of his selling points was that it would be the best house to own if a real-life Jurrasic park took place.    EVERYONE would think he was insane.   But with QElon, millions of sycophants don't have the mental capacity to say the Emporer has no clothes.   Fucking rubes.

[956 Worldwide 34749]

58 minutes ago, NoName said:

doing some more research on it it has something to do with most modern large vehicles basically "pushing" pedestrians out (so they are rounding out from the middle of the badge basically?) whereas a CT has a flat front that evidently will do more to "pull" a pedestrian under?

doesn't have to do with the sharp edges has to do with it being more of tall and "flat" front + being a light truck (1.45x more likely to kill a pedestrian vs a car) - again this is from what I understand

 

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a45837841/iihs-tall-vehicle-dangerous-pedestrians/

https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/vehicles-with-higher-more-vertical-front-ends-pose-greater-risk-to-pedestrians

i believe this is saying the bottom right is truck +44% more likely to cause a pedestrian fatality than the black car outline. this is before adding in whatever blind spots come from the angled window and the a pillar being so funky

evidently the sharp edges will cause more damage to a pedestrian but not sure that matters THAT much in a vehicle on pedestrian crash?

CT front:

 

 

 

 

 

I went on a long and mostly ill-advised rant on a different thread about how The Trucks and SUVs are Too Big.  Overall safety goes down, but the drivers of these monsters have safety go up so there’s no incentive to maximize pedestrian and all driver safety. 

[Pods 7586]

39 minutes ago, Ted Lange said:

Imagine Jeff Bezos deciding to get into the home-building business and designing some shitfuck ugly "futuristic" looking house and one of his selling points was that it would be the best house to own if a real-life Jurrasic park took place.    

[tbone_ 14154]

Imagine Jeff Bezos deciding to get into the home-building business and designing some shitfuck ugly "futuristic" looking house and one of his selling points was that it would be the best house to own if a real-life Jurrasic park took place.    EVERYONE would think he was insane.   But with QElon, millions of sycophants don't have the mental capacity to say the Emporer has no clothes.   Fucking rubes.

Bro, this is what disruption looks like. Enjoy being left behind. Rube.

[Serak The Preparer 3431]

2 hours ago, High Plains Drifter said:

 

 

serious question- how is that front end any worse than the front end of the monsters on the road today

 

 

I assumed it was more of a "dying from laughter" kinda thing than "dying from impact". You can't tell me that isn't a risk.

[F250 28817]

2 hours ago, NoName said:

if a ZA happens, everyone is fucked. cars or not. solar or not. gas or not.

everyone, as a group, is fucked.

Speak for yourself.

I will have a Cybertruck and use my skills in falconry and sword fighting to conquer the post-apocalypse.

 

[C-Man 27256]

7 hours ago, NoName said:

i can't WAIT to see these idiots who think it's bulletproof test it and end up with a bigass hole in their drivers door.

if anyone sees that before please make sure you share it here...

I can't wait until they end up not only with big-ass bullet holes in the driver's door but a dead Elon stan on the inside.

 

5 hours ago, 'stache said:

So pillows and vitamin supplements? Yeah that'll save it, lol.

Every other ad is Tommy Chong's weed gummies or what-not.

 

5 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

Also, on the list of options that are available for that damned truck:

 

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/1/23983813/botched-cybertruck-demo-immortalized-in-sticker

 

Those are apparently already sold out.

 

2 hours ago, Goredho said:

You'll be his Channing Tatum

Channing Tate-yum!

[Post Oak 20261]

The lemmings are boycotting Walmart today because they pulled ads from Twitter.  

 

 

 

[F250 28817]

3 minutes ago, Post Oak said:

The lemmings are boycotting Walmart today because they pulled ads from Twitter.  

 

 

 

But where will they shop now?

[Post Oak 20261]

Just now, F250 said:

But where will they shop now?

Walmart.  They're pussies.

[Goredho 17419]

Holy shit.  If the People of Walmart boycott Walmart, it might sink before Twatter.

[Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand 13587]

24 minutes ago, F250 said:

Speak for yourself.

I will have a Cybertruck and use my skills in falconry and sword fighting to conquer the post-apocalypse.

 

As for me and my house, we shall kung fu a path to TGI Fridays. 

[Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand 13587]

2 minutes ago, Goredho said:

Holy shit.  If the People of Walmart boycott Walmart, it might sink before Twatter.

@Anastasis IT'S HAPPENING!!!!

[Ted Lange 16122]

15 minutes ago, Post Oak said:

The lemmings are boycotting Walmart today because they pulled ads from Twitter.  

 

 

 

Robbie Starbuck?