Elon Musk's epic bacon adventures

So much "wrong" apparently with Tesla and yet it's a highly popular car brand where I live. Especially among corporate folks.

No signs of slowing down either. To the contrary, it's increasing.
 
VorZakone said:
So much "wrong" apparently with Tesla and yet it's a highly popular car brand where I live. Especially among corporate folks.

No signs of slowing down either. To the contrary, it's increasing.
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its odd. He's a total cult of personality financially. Quite an intriguing figure in that sense. I don't rate any of the ventures, but richest guy in the world being basically a professional Twitter Aspergers Person, very interesting.
 
VorZakone said:
So much "wrong" apparently with Tesla and yet it's a highly popular car brand where I live. Especially among corporate folks.

No signs of slowing down either. To the contrary, it's increasing.
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People buy designer/brand clothing and accessories made in sweatshops with next to none functional value over their alternatives at extortionate price all the time.
 
calodo2003 said:
The number of Musk dude bros has to be getting smaller these days.

Or will his recent displays gain him more dude bros?
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I don’t know how you define dude bros but I imagine there will be those that follow his every move and those that follow his businesses. The latter don’t like this and that is already evident in the feedback both institutional and retail plus the TSLA share price. The hope is he stops and focuses on his businesses otherwise this is going full Trump or Boris turning to Brexit - clarity on the Twitter deal will be key but he’s clearly prepared to fight the press and politics for now.

I don’t think it will impact Tesla sales, they have more demand than they can create with EV’s growing in market share and when battery technology becomes cheaper or they develop a compact car it will only increase demand. Depending on supply constraints, they may launch the Cyber Truck and Semi next year - that will probably appeal to quite a lot in US.
 
For the sake of urinating and defecating on CEOs sharing Elon Musk's grievances out there, I will only say that people aspiring to become CEOs one day need to watch this old man and fecking learn.



When times were tough at JAL, the old man even slashed his own wages below pilots' wages! That is how you make employees feel that they belong to something, share the good and bad together, and don't feel so out of reach from their boss. Good old Nishimatsu.
 
DJ Jeff said:
its odd. He's a total cult of personality financially. Quite an intriguing figure in that sense. I don't rate any of the ventures, but richest guy in the world being basically a professional Twitter Aspergers Person, very interesting.
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Eh... It was semi-amusing for a while. But at least Trump was legitimately very funny, albeit unintentionally. Musk is genuinely one of the least amusing people alive, despite trying very very hard, and being forced to consume his low level 13 year old edge lord level shit posting is just quite tiresome - once the cringe factor has worn off. No one’s winning an Emmy for a celebrated SNL impression, let’s put it that way, because outside of his fascinating business ventures, he’s really quite a boring personality… despite how incredibly desperate he is to not be.

At least Bezos is unashamedly bald divorced cringe personified. When he tries to feck the sky, he has the sense to do it in a giant penis rocket, like a normal, unironically evil billionaire.
 
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entropy said:
aren't there a ton of design and safety issues with the cybertruck? anyways, looks like shit.
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Well it’s still in development, they’ve only had working prototypes but my understanding from what Elon said there’s no point trying to launch it this year because they are supply limited (lithium, chips, etc). Will be interesting vs Ford or Rivian.
 
ZIDANE said:
Well it’s still in development, they’ve only had working prototypes but my understanding from what Elon said there’s no point trying to launch it this year because they are supply limited (lithium, chips, etc). Will be interesting vs Ford or Rivian.
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If I am remembering correctly, cybertruck was slammed for poor design and failing to meet safety regulatory standards.
 
Also, it looks like the stupidest fecking thing imaginable.

Which, admittedly doesn’t rule out Americans loving it
 
Mockney said:
Also, it looks like the stupidest fecking thing imaginable.

Which, admittedly doesn’t rule out Americans loving it
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I think his best bet to sell that horrendous cyber truck, was with the more hipster liberal millionaires. But now that he has alienated them, who is going to buy that crap?

American rednecks at least have good taste. They will buy the electric F150, Silverados, RAM... Every little town in america has a few gigantic ford/chevrolet/GM dealership.
 
I haven’t heard anything about the cybertruck having poor design or failing and I’ve listened to the last few investor calls - will check it out. It has a lot of pre-orders and they’ve been developing it as it isn’t a finished product, only recently pushing back launch along with the semi and roadster but referencing supply being the problem to shareholders. I’m not the target market, there’s also a rumour of a mini version for Europe because the prototype was too big but I imagine we won’t see it in Europe for a long time.

It’s definitely a marmite car but Tesla have this Apple vibe about them. I would get a Tesla M3 or MY but looks wise I’d rather have a BMW i4 even with the large grill. Maybe that’s Elon’s plan, stand out and be different to compete vs the other manufacturers. Shame he seems to be taking that to Twitter now.
 


Scarily succinct summation of Musk's cardboard personality.

The people who love, defend, follow this guy are invariably lame as feck. The age of tech has provided us with such crushingly banal villainy.

sammsky1 said:
Very interesting theory. I've met Musk and agree with everyone else that he is the smartest guy on the planet. And once I truly get my head around his theory, I cant find many ways to disprove him as it makes so much sense.
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VorZakone said:
So much "wrong" apparently with Tesla and yet it's a highly popular car brand where I live. Especially among corporate folks.

No signs of slowing down either. To the contrary, it's increasing.
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Are you really surprised that people have fallen for brand marketing over its actual quality? Happens all the time
 
nimic said:
She's someone only calodo has heard of. He must post 50% of the tweets on this entire site.
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She always pops up on my thread. She is a self-anointed national security expert who dabbles in bullshit.

I only post 33%.
 
If someone interviewing you tells you go have kids instead I am pretty certain you can sue their company's arse. Especially in California.
 
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