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Musk’s repeated outbursts against advertisers have dried up the main source of revenue for the loss-making company formerly known as Twitter. A recent decision to sue them for heeding his own advice to not buy ads on the platform hasn’t helped. At some point, he will have to provide a fresh infusion of cash to salvage his $44 billion takeover.
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Oh nooo 😂
Anyway
“A recent decision to sue them for heeding his own advice to not buy ads on the platform hasn’t helped.”
Gotta love it. He told advertisers to fuck off, they fucked off, now he’s even more mad at them.
I really wanna spite my face… maybe I’ll cut off my nose…
Let both burn
The problem with Tesla really is Elon.
If he sells his majority stake, I suspect it would be a lot better.
The biggest reason against buying them is him. They also make more than cars (their powerwalls seem alright).
If X fails though, I suspect all those bigots will flood over to here (Facebook and X seem to be distracting them for now).
Let them have their nazi prison. Just make it not profitable
Having worked with Tesla I can tell you not all their problems would leave with Elon, but it would certainly be a great start.
From my understanding he overworks people. Is that correct?
Personally I’d be wary of putting a giant brick of lithium in my house, especially from a company with the questionable quality control of Tesla.
I agree partially, but in practice, the LFP batteries should be fine (I would never trust the PowerWall 2).
Unfortunately, been looking at other alternatives, and there don’t seem to be many seamless home batteries that cut in instantly in the event of a power outage (like an online UPS) either.
The reality is though, I expect Tesla to lose this market anyway (they only just introduced the PowerWall 3 in AU… Even cheap chinese manufacturers have been using LFP for a while)
The people who aren’t buying Teslas because they hate Musk aren’t gonna change their mind because he sold some stock. The company is tainted forever.
They won’t a tiny amount… But controlling share they might.
I can’t afford a Tesla. However, my biggest concern is that musk will half arse firmware or sabotage the company somehow.
If he doesn’t have controlling share, that’s a win and I suspect quality control will likely improve too
I mean i am too poor and don’t need a car but i could see myself buying a tesla once elon really is gone and the other two factors change for me.
The company is tainted forever.
…he didn’t found the company, engineer the cars, systems, nor infrastructure: there’s a lot of salvageable value in tesla if he goes away…
The only real engineering he’s done is likely the boring company (who the duck wants to drive in a claustrophobic one lane tunnel) and the submarine thing the cave divers said wouldn’t work (so he called them pedos)
He didn’t engineer anything because he doesn’t know how. At most he drew some kindergarten levels drawings on a white board.
The reality is… He is an engineer. Not all engineers have good ideas.
The difference is, he won’t accept criticism
I do software development and have had a few crap ideas (I once thought I could make a optimised OpenGL library using Matricies). The difference between normal people and him, is that when I got told it was a crap idea, I deleted the project. When he gets a crap idea, he attacks the person giving feedback, so there is NO incentive to provide anything but good feedback
When you’re surrounded by yes men you’ll only increasingly become over confident in yourself
No, Elon isn’t an engineer. He doesn’t have an engineering degree from an ABET certified school, no FE or PE license, nor does he understand basic engineering or design principles.
You can lick his boots and lie all you want, but Elon is a rich bitch trust fund baby who takes credit for the ideas of others and you defend him. It’s honestly sad, coming from a mechanical engineer, that you as someone who works in software development, would call him an engineer.
I’m not so sure. The overlap between “people who would like a high end EV” and “people who won’t buy something associated with Musk” has to be pretty big. I imagine if Musk’s roll was reduced the Board would have to put some work in to rebuild their brand, though - maybe by really focusing hard on quality control and longer-than-standard warranties for a few years, the way Royal Enfield did to shake off their own reputation for shoddy workmanship and cheap parts. Then they could let “the Musk years” fade into history and retake their reputation as the Premuim American EV.
The board is filled with Elon sycophants equally as stupid as him.
Not forever. Just as long as he has a share of it.
If he sells it all, I’ll buy a Tesla the next day. Until then, dinosaur bones for me. Unless an economical and very powerful aftermarket swap parts become readily available.
I wouldn’t. The board is filled with Elon sycophants. Tesla manufacturing remains subpar.
Free market capitalism will say to let it fail.
Free market only matters when adhering to it fucks consumers.
Oh that’s okay they’ll make an exception for him. He’s too rich.
The market couldn’t bear his fragile, bigoted ego.
HATERS will say it’s fake
Big if true.
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BIG
*if true
if (mode(FREE_MARKET_CAPITALISM) == TRUE) { big(); }This guy ifs.
Maybe, or they else.
Why not both?
You don’t need
" == True"except if it’s the name of a variable that’s not boolean, in which case it wouldn’t make sense to name it “True”.-1
You do realize this is a joke, right? That this is not a programming community, so a little clarity of said joke may be beneficial?
Sometimes it’s better to go with the flow, and not overthink things. 😊
You do realize that was a joke?
I know I’m just a big nerd 😆
Some languages have nullable booleans where evaluating them directly may lead to errors. An example is PowerQuery M, which is designed for data queries and transformations, where “no value” may be distinct from “false”.
The syntax of the example most definitely isn’t M, but I’m just saying, such languages exist.
Oh no think of all the journalists that will have to work instead of quoting twitter for 3 scrolls straight!
My privacy settings block Twitter embeds so reading low quality news is a nightmare. They should just quote it in the body of the article and hyperlink it instead.
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Anything short of Elon Musk distancing himself as far from Tesla as possible is breaking his fidicuary duty.
What he is trying to do is to remove tweeter. He bought it so he could kill it.
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Well someone already said that. I do agree, maybe he’s just fucking stupid. Even I or any other non CEO could have done as good a job since the guy doesn’t actually have to code anything. He literally just needs to show up and steer the company towards business opportunities, which he didn’t do. But he could have planned it too since he actually wanted revenge on the company from the beginning.
Can we please, please stop with this nonsense.
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Why did he fight a lawsuit to get out buying it? How many levels of 4D chess are we on in this demented conspiracy theory where he wants to buy something, so he sends a bunch of very expensive lawyers to court for months to try to get him out of buying it?
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Why did he rename it to X? X is his baby. That’s not hyperbole, the X brand is so important to him that the literally named one of his children X. He got kicked out of paypal for trying to make X happen. The man is absolutely obsessed with X. It is his white whale. You don’t bequeath that legacy to something you’re trying to kill.
Stop giving Musk credit by pretending there’s some kind of genius plan behind everything he does. He’s the richest man on earth, he does not need you to suck his dick for him. He can pay people for that.
He doesn’t have a secret evil plan. He’s just really, really stupid. He’s a textbook example of how people who start with wealth and unearned confidence will frequently become even wealthier because we have a fucked up clown show of an economic system. That’s all there is to it.
Okay I like your theory.
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Could he sell all of it? And then completely fuck off? br, tesla (car) owner
Who would buy it now, though? It can’t have much value left. (Edit: Twitter. Not talking about Tesla, that’s a whole different arc.)
Judging by the used car online sites, it has about as much value left as any other car with similar age and kilometers. If I had to buy a car right now, I’d probably take a hard look at the alternatives. But they’d have to actually be better, I usually make car purchase decisions based on the qualities of the car.
Although Musk is certainly trying to make such principles difficult.
Good thing my car is new enough that I don’t have to make this choice for several years. Perhaps the competition will have caught up by the time I need to get a new one.
Competition has exceeded tesla. I recently got BYD Seal, and it is better than the equivalent priced tesla
I’m in the very very early stages of ecar research. Mind helping me and share what features or data make the BYD Seal better than a Tesla?
I’m glad it worked for you. Things will have to change a bit globally that I would consider a BYD.
Oh right, perhaps already I don’t make purchase decisions purely based on the qualities of the car :)
I figures it was a simple calculus, especially since BYD is the OEM that supplies parts for many of the other brands, especially the batteries.
I’d rather benefit from that status than support a egotist like Musk. Besides anywhere outside America the Teslas are made in China, just like the BYDs 😆
I’d rather benefit from that status than support a egotist like Musk
Have you looked at what your money would support, buying from BYD? If part of your decision is who profits, both choices are horrible and you could argue Musk I less horrible. This is one of the reasons I try to keep that out of my decisions.
Berlin disagrees.
The price of used Teslas has nothing to do with the value of Tesla stock.
Intel’s stock dropped from $50 to $20 over the last year, but their processors still cost the same.
Yeah. I’m more worried about repairability etc.
It’s still a car company with factories in multiple countries and pretty much the best battery tech and the best charging network. If they get bought by an established car company, they keep building the model 3 and Y cars while fixing the production issues there’s still a lot of value there. You just need someone in charge that doesn’t spend their days shit posting.
I … uh… was talking about Twitter…
Oh yeah, Twitter probably has a negative value with all the debt Musk loaded onto it to buy the company (it’s crazy that that’s legal).
That’s the part of owning a business, Elon. Making numerous mistakes costs money.
Aww, poor rich asshole.
Or maybe he’ll just have to sell Twitter.
Or maybe Twitter’s debtors can place a lien and sell it right out from under him.
Kinda curious about what if Twitter were nationalized…? Like, make it a service of the USPS or something? Force it to become accountable to its users?
Well they sure couldn’t break it any worse than Elon did.
Do you want your taxes to be spent on Xitter development and support?
Arguably, it’s used as national communications infrastructure so, yeah, I would want taxes to be used for developing and maintaining it. Same as any other national infrastructure.
First things first: let your taxes fix the healthcare system.
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Trump wins and then appoints Elon to head of Twitter. That sounds worse.
The only issue with nationalizing it is that it will be probably even worse for moderation than under Elon. Private enterprises currently enjoy protection for moderation decisions. If it were nationalized any moderator action would run up against the First Amendment directly. Elon could ban Nazis (he doesn’t but he could). A government controlled entity cannot.
why would anybody save twitter
Ego.
To be king of the shit pile
wait i thought that was my role here
If teitter went away tomorrow…wed all get on with our lives.
