Elon Musk | Owner of X and right wing man-child

Adisa said:
I can't be the only who thinks the company was massively overvalued in the first place.
Even if you think EV is the future, there is no justification for valuing Tesla more than those companies combined.
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The game was always to just develop the battery and onsell to those companies. Unfortunately musk seems to think that he can do it better than those companies doing it for 100 years. This also isn’t relative to Supercars where you could do it potentially, these are everyday cars in everyday conditions in every continent of the globe.

The fact that these companies can make a Toyota Corolla work just as well in the middle of a Finnish winter as the middle of an Australian summer is quite remarkable. That takes years of testing
 
I am actually surprised with the adds people mentioning here.

For me it is:
1) Topwar: Battle Game (first tweet)
2) Munchner Rotes Kreuz (8th tweet)
3) Public Investment Fund (14th tweet)
4) Wolt (22nd tweet)
5) Dying Light (32nd tweet)

And similar below. A bit more frequent than before, but nothing political. I guess the political ones are mostly for people in the US?
 
I've got:

Amazon Prime Video (3rd tweet)
Sportsnet (a canadian sports network) (15th)
Bloomberg Quicktake (21st)
Samsung Galaxy Watches (28th)

Scrolling a bit more there's some sportsnet and amazon repeats, a disney plus one etc. Nothing political in any sense I'd say (which is ironic because I might be more interested in those than the vapid crap I'm seeing instead).

I often find the "top" or "trending" topics I see are political, usually some provocative anecdotal story that always looks to me as though its intended to irritate people and generate replies/clicks/engagement.
 
I've got:

1. Revolut (2nd)
2. Online casino brand (7th)
3. Samsung (14th)
4. A different online casino brand (21st)
5. Microsoft (33rd)
6. Wolt (40th)

Seem's every 7 tweets or so I get an add. Nothing political, just big tech it seems, but I work as a software engineer so these ads don't really surprise me. I don't gamble though but I guess if you consume football you get the gambling ads regardless.
 
I saw a Tweet today of him in a room on Twitter Spaces saying that Twitter needed to be rebuilt from the ground up and a software engineer asked him to elaborate, to which he couldn't so he called him a moron and a jackass for showing him up.
 
crossy1686 said:
I saw a Tweet today of him in a room on Twitter Spaces saying that Twitter needed to be rebuilt from the ground up and a software engineer asked him to elaborate, to which he couldn't so he called him a moron and a jackass for showing him up.
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I listened to the recording. Musk was quite clearly being laughed at by most people attending. Thick cnut.
 
Are you guys using the phone app or something? On PC I'm not getting any ads or promoted tweets at all, and never have has far as I remember. I guess uBlock Origin might have something to do with it, but I don't know.
 
I don't get any ads, but my feed is choc full of right wing loons. Kyle Rittenhouse is often one of them. How that **** has the nerve to even have a public account is beyond me, let alone the fact he preaches non stop. It's batshit.

The whole thing is batshit. Elon paying £44bn for it then championing it as some bastion of free speech, when in truth it's absolutely not. It's just allowing people who don't understand what free speech means to hero worship him. It's allowing racists, homophobes, bigots and sexist pricks to openly be themselves while at the same time there are mass bannings for anyone who critisises Elon or the way he's running things.


He's devalued Twitter and he's also effecting Tesla stocks too..... I just don't see any upside for him. It really doesn't make sense nor is it the move of a savvy businessman who is expanding his empire. At this point, he's more like a troll. Sadly though, he's got huge support from idiots who don't understand what free speech actually is, and those who judge people on how much money they have, so a billionaire must be hero worshipped.
 
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“You might like” appears to be the tag used to crowbar right wing or/and conspiracy nonsense into your feed.

Not “based on your likes” or “People you follow like this” or anything reasonable like that. Just throwing shit at the wall, here’s some garbage we want you to see. I guess you might like it.
 
langster said:
I don't get any ads, but my feed is choc full of right wing loons. Kyle Rittenhouse is often one of them. How that **** has the nerve to even have a public account is beyond me, let alone the fact he preaches non stop. It's batshit.

The whole thing is batshit. Elon paying £44bn for it then championing it as some bastion of free speech, when in truth it's absolutely not. It's just allowing people who don't understand what free speech means to hero worship him. It's allowing racists, homophobes, bigots and sexist pricks to openly be themselves while at the same time there are mass bannings for anyone who critisises Elon or the way he's running things.


He's devalued Twitter and he's also effecting Tesla stocks too..... I just don't see any upside for him. It really doesn't make sense nor is it the move of a savvy businessman who is expanding his empire. At this point, he's more like a troll. Sadly though, he's got huge support from idiots who don't understand what free speech actually is, and those who judge people on how much money they have, so a billionaire must be hero worshipped.
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Don’t you just love the Kyle religious verses on the daily?
 
Rittenhouse triggers me.

Revolut, Jaguar and Adidas are my ads with a few mobile games in there. I only follow politics and crypto accounts so not sure how these ads are targeted.
 
If Tesla shares continue to fall to $75 or so, I think Cook and the Apple board may want to rethink this. They are already developing their own EV which keeps getting pushed back because they can't seem to get it right, when they could just as easily buy a controlling stake in Tesla, kick Musk to the curb, and rebrand it accordingly (also ditching Musk's ugly cars in the process for new designs).

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Tesla's brand is Musk and his weird fans so no reason for Apple to do so. It will still be massively overvalued based on future earnings.
 
Raoul said:
If Tesla shares continue to fall to $75 or so, I think Cook and the Apple board may want to rethink this. They are already developing their own EV which keeps getting pushed back because they can't seem to get it right, when they could just as easily buy a controlling stake in Tesla, kick Musk to the curb, and rebrand it accordingly (also ditching Musk's ugly cars in the process for new designs).

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Tesla even at $75 is overvalued. I personally don't think Apple or Google have trouble launching their own EV, the issue is more of the right timing to launch their own EV. Other than Apple TV, Apple's timing of their new product launches have been quite spot on. When there is latent appetite, lower cost of manufacturing, mature distribution channel etc. I believe Apple and Google are just waiting for the right moment to enter the market.
 
stoinz said:
Tesla even at $75 is overvalued. I personally don't think Apple or Google have trouble launching their own EV, the issue is more of the right timing to launch their own EV. Other than Apple TV, Apple's timing of their new product launches have been quite spot on. When there is latent appetite, lower cost of manufacturing, mature distribution channel etc. I believe Apple and Google are just waiting for the right moment to enter the market.
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Google's EV is good to go, so is Amazon's. It's a matter of scale and trying to perfect self driving..
 
There's no way a Google or Apple EV doesn't have the same build quality problems etc as Tesla and/or fail to compete on price with the traditional car companies. Dyson couldn't convince themselves it was worth doing and their core technology is far more similar to EVs than Google's or Apple's is. It's likely they can make money from selling their software/sensors/servers if and when self-driving ever becomes a reality but the actual car, I don't buy it.
 
NM said:
Google's EV is good to go, so is Amazon's. It's a matter of scale and trying to perfect self driving..
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Self driving will never be perfected unless they're working on quantum computing that can think and react like a human, only quicker. There's too many ever changing variables on the road, if all cars went automated it would help massively but the environment around them changes so often it's hard to programme.
 
TwoSheds said:
There's no way a Google or Apple EV doesn't have the same build quality problems etc as Tesla and/or fail to compete on price with the traditional car companies. Dyson couldn't convince themselves it was worth doing and their core technology is far more similar to EVs than Google's or Apple's is. It's likely they can make money from selling their software/sensors/servers if and when self-driving ever becomes a reality but the actual car, I don't buy it.
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Google is not trying to sell cars. They are trying to turn transport into a service and eliminate car ownership. It's the very very long game.
 
NM said:
Google is not trying to sell cars. They are trying to turn transport into a service and eliminate car ownership. It's the very very long game.
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To achieve that, you need an actual product, a car. If someone else produces the car, then you only have the software, which is an important component but it is not a car. Apple is actually trying to produce a car.

https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/apple-car/
 


This is juvenile, but still tickles me. I wonder if Elon can find an excuse to re-ban them, when the parody part is so clearly labelled.
 
I have nothing to do with marketing and even I know this. This guys is a monumental buffoon.
 
TwoSheds said:
There's no way a Google or Apple EV doesn't have the same build quality problems etc as Tesla and/or fail to compete on price with the traditional car companies. Dyson couldn't convince themselves it was worth doing and their core technology is far more similar to EVs than Google's or Apple's is. It's likely they can make money from selling their software/sensors/servers if and when self-driving ever becomes a reality but the actual car, I don't buy it.
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Exactly, if Apple or Google can see the problem Tesla is currently having and they have no ready solution, there is no incentive to buy over Tesla and do the same old. I don't think the production or build quality is a too big an obstacle for them to overcome. I dont' think they will go into it, unless they are confident they have a solution and a market.

I hope none of them buys Tesla, is like bailing EM out.
 
Seeing how he behaves and establishes policy, you have to be crazy buying a Tesla imo. This bloke is insane.
 
Raoul said:
If Tesla shares continue to fall to $75 or so, I think Cook and the Apple board may want to rethink this. They are already developing their own EV which keeps getting pushed back because they can't seem to get it right, when they could just as easily buy a controlling stake in Tesla, kick Musk to the curb, and rebrand it accordingly (also ditching Musk's ugly cars in the process for new designs).

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Why buy a rotting corpse?
 
Adisa said:
Seeing how he behaves and establishes policy, you have to be crazy buying a Tesla imo. This bloke is insane.
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Yeah, don't worry he'll sell you "full self driving" so you can endanger yourself and others so his company share price can be propped up.
 
Mike Smalling said:
Yep. It's just unreal to me that people worship this guy. Unfortunately we have built a society, where a large share of people believe wealth is a direct and proportional result of competence.
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The day I understood this, was the equivalent of my redpill moment. These people, pretty much none of them are what they say they are.
 
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