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Should I step down as head of twitter
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Sylvian Wastes
Jan 3, 2022

by Hand Knit

Proteus Jones posted:

No it's doesn't start a Lithium fire unless/until a firetruck or ambulance show up.

:teslaget:

Wait, thats a real emote? :teslaget:

It's a bit overcomplicated, but after staring at it for a minute I think I get it.

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WithoutTheFezOn
Aug 28, 2005
Oh no

MrQwerty posted:

Multi-hundred-billionaires weren't allowed to tweet to the world about what a dipshit they ate until right now and im here for it
Well yeah me, too, I was just wondering if there was even any other similar situation to compare this too, and I’m drawing a blank.

busalover
Sep 12, 2020

hemale in pain posted:

there's now more than a 0% chance that musk will start pushing for tesla to make a non-electric car if his chud buddies on twitter tell him to lol

Musk: Rolling Coal will save Free Speech.

gay picnic defence
Oct 5, 2009


I'M CONCERNED ABOUT A NUMBER OF THINGS
lol

MrQwerty
Apr 15, 2003

LOVE IS BEAUTIFUL
(づ ̄ ³ ̄)づ♥(‘∀’●)

WithoutTheFezOn posted:

Well yeah me, too, I was just wondering if there was even any other similar situation to compare this too, and I’m drawing a blank.

That was the point

That's literally why I said this is unprecedented since Enron crashing and burning in a week

PhazonLink
Jul 17, 2010
lol if musky and techbros re invent ICE engines but worst.

Kingo Ligma
Aug 24, 2019

Ask me about calling people racist because I failed geography.
I know this is extremely unlikely (but then so is a billionaire tweeting so hard he wipes out the equivalent to the GDP of several.nations in wealth in a matter of days), but what happens if Tesla goes out Delorean style and just flat out no longer exists? Are all the cars bricked? When your model s can no longer call home and check your 'no flaming death' subscription is up to date, does it just burst into flames?

MrQwerty
Apr 15, 2003

LOVE IS BEAUTIFUL
(づ ̄ ³ ̄)づ♥(‘∀’●)

Kingo Ligma posted:

I know this is extremely unlikely (but then so is a billionaire tweeting so hard he wipes out the equivalent to the GDP of several.nations in wealth in a matter of days), but what happens if Tesla goes out Delorean style and just flat out no longer exists? Are all the cars bricked? When your model s can no longer call home and check your 'no flaming death' subscription is up to date, does it just burst into flames?

Yep, and that's a steadfast of the auto industry. Don't buy cars you can't buy parts for in 10 years unless you have a billion dollars.

jeffreyw
Jan 20, 2013
With how much current day Tesla resembles a crypto project, they’d probably just buy the tooling for some ancient Ssangyong engine and just call it a day.

Withnail
Feb 11, 2004

I did a quick scan of the 'MSM' websites and there are almost no headlines about Musk.

ABC has a little blurb about the discounted Teslas.

Sounds like some victim mentality going on here. Or maybe they are reading this forum.

Icon Of Sin
Dec 26, 2008




What does this mean?

Withnail
Feb 11, 2004
People who shorted tesla are sitting on a bunch of money.

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer
Theoretically the base car should function. They share the inherent dangers of any product offered with subscription options. As soon as the company is no longer interested in supporting the feature it becomes a myth.

MrQwerty
Apr 15, 2003

LOVE IS BEAUTIFUL
(づ ̄ ³ ̄)づ♥(‘∀’●)

goatface posted:

Theoretically the base car should function.

We all know that's false in the case of Tesla

E the Shaggy
Mar 29, 2010

Withnail posted:

People who shorted tesla are sitting on a bunch of money.

Man I missed the train on this one. I'd put some money on the shorts bet if I didn't think there was a chance that Elon's weirdos would empty out their life savings/401k to bail his rear end out.

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer

MrQwerty posted:

We all know that's false in the case of Tesla

I said theoretically.

gay picnic defence
Oct 5, 2009


I'M CONCERNED ABOUT A NUMBER OF THINGS

Icon Of Sin posted:

What does this mean?

It's an ETF that tracks the inverse of Tesla's share price movements. So if Tesla goes up, that ETF goes down and vice versa. They're an easy way for people to bet against stuff without buying options or short selling.

Frank Frank
Jun 13, 2001

Mirrored

nine-gear crow posted:

Also Wario is an endearing figure on some level, Elon is just a stupid rear end in a top hat.

He’s-a Wario
And he’s-a gonna win

Outrail
Jan 4, 2009

www.sapphicrobotica.com
:roboluv: :love: :roboluv:

Kingo Ligma posted:

I know this is extremely unlikely (but then so is a billionaire tweeting so hard he wipes out the equivalent to the GDP of several.nations in wealth in a matter of days), but what happens if Tesla goes out Delorean style and just flat out no longer exists? Are all the cars bricked? When your model s can no longer call home and check your 'no flaming death' subscription is up to date, does it just burst into flames?

The seat warmers come online long enough to contribute to the battery fire.

gay picnic defence
Oct 5, 2009


I'M CONCERNED ABOUT A NUMBER OF THINGS

E the Shaggy posted:

Man I missed the train on this one. I'd put some money on the shorts bet if I didn't think there was a chance that Elon's weirdos would empty out their life savings/401k to bail his rear end out.
I think it's still got a ways to fall. I wouldn't bet the house on it but a little fun money is fine.

At some point it'll get booted from the S&P 500 which will mean a ton of big players like Vanguard and Black Rock will dump their shares.

Edmund Sparkler
Jul 4, 2003
For twelve years, you have been asking: Who is John Galt? This is John Galt speaking. I am the man who loves his life. I am the man who does not sacrifice his love or his values. I am the man who has deprived you of victims and thus has destroyed your world, and if you wish to know why you are peris

A bunch of cars were affected when 3G went offline.

I can't imagine buying anything new that requires subscriptions or servers to allow features to function properly but that's probably going to be harder to avoid as time goes on. I've never been an early tech adapter but I've bought enough used tech to realize that lots of poo poo breaks and becomes useless over time as tech marches on. I have several smart TVs that the smart functions are useless because the hardware can't handle modern streaming and the manufacturer stopped updating firmware long ago. It makes way more sense to just buy a ROKU because you can add smart functionality to any TV for less than $100 and when it's finally outdated, you can just buy a new ROKU instead of spending several hundred dollars/over a thousand dollars for a new TV.

Buying a car with poo poo that's going to break and be useless when support is discontinued or the company goes out of business just seems dumb as hell.

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

Sydney Bottocks posted:

Ah, but who are the real nazis here? :smuggo:



Everyone remembers when Nazi Germany used the power of the jackbooted state to make the price of 1 stock fall a little bit, implying that they owned all of that stock in the first place for some reason? Truly a masterstroke

Catastrophe
Oct 5, 2007

Committed to burn twice as long and half as bright
ol' Lonny is about 2 days away from just becoming the liberal bolb meme

davecrazy
Nov 25, 2004

I'm an insufferable shitposter who does not deserve to root for such a good team. Also, this is what Matt Harvey thinks of me and my garbage posting.
My favorite Musk sycophants are the ones begging him to make a gas powered car because EVs are libtard crap and driving an EV, supporting Musk, and being a “conservative” can’t co-exist.

davecrazy fucked around with this message at 01:14 on Dec 23, 2022

gay picnic defence
Oct 5, 2009


I'M CONCERNED ABOUT A NUMBER OF THINGS

Edmund Sparkler posted:

A bunch of cars were affected when 3G went offline.

I can't imagine buying anything new that requires subscriptions or servers to allow features to function properly but that's probably going to be harder to avoid as time goes on. I've never been an early tech adapter but I've bought enough used tech to realize that lots of poo poo breaks and becomes useless over time as tech marches on. I have several smart TVs that the smart functions are useless because the hardware can't handle modern streaming and the manufacturer stopped updating firmware long ago. It makes way more sense to just buy a ROKU because you can add smart functionality to any TV for less than $100 and when it's finally outdated, you can just buy a new ROKU instead of spending several hundred dollars/over a thousand dollars for a new TV.

Buying a car with poo poo that's going to break and be useless when support is discontinued or the company goes out of business just seems dumb as hell.

At least with older cars they're less reliant on some engine management software or whatever getting regular updates and if something fucks up you can usually find a replacement part at the wreckers.

Lazyfire
Feb 4, 2006

God saves. Satan Invests

Withnail posted:

I did a quick scan of the 'MSM' websites and there are almost no headlines about Musk.

ABC has a little blurb about the discounted Teslas.

Sounds like some victim mentality going on here. Or maybe they are reading this forum.

Musk Derangement Syndrome. Basically the idea that Musk is good and you dumb libs are saying he's bad because you are dumb libs.

There was a Trump flavor of this before.

Agents are GO!
Dec 29, 2004

Withnail posted:

I did a quick scan of the 'MSM' websites and there are almost no headlines about Musk.

ABC has a little blurb about the discounted Teslas.

Sounds like some victim mentality going on here. Or maybe they are reading this forum.

They mean websites for Men Seeking Men.

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

Frank Frank posted:

Lmao he doesn’t understand who buys Teslas and that’s so goddamned funny. To be clear, his bigotry isn’t funny but the fact that he says insanely tone-deaf poo poo like this absolutely is. Holy poo poo man, just lie. Every CEO lies and spouts milquetoast platitudes to placate shareholders. “

“Telling it like it is”/being a bigoted shithead works for Trump because he doesn’t run billion dollar publicly held companies. JFC

Trump runs billion dollar companies into the fuckin ground lol TRUMP STEAKS!!!

Data Graham
Dec 28, 2009

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Going back a few pages I just want to LOL at this a bit more because — and not to belabor this point — it absolutely looks like he is still incapable of producing any new actual features developed by software teams from new code. This is 100% just him loving around in a template engine that is made available to content managers so they can tweak the layout of already-existing data.

I'm now counting the days until they actually successfully deploy the first feature that can't be explained by anything other than "a functional software development company". DAYS SINCE LAST REAL FEATURE: [0] (or however long it's been since he took over)

The Last Call
Sep 9, 2011

Rehabilitating sinner
Maybe Musk will turn Telsa's fortunes around by getting doors that are easily opened when the vehicle is on fire.

That whole thing still makes no sense, especially as it locks the back doors as well.

Cable Guy
Jul 18, 2005

I don't expect any trouble, but we'll be handing these out later...




Slippery Tilde
Poor Elon wants to be Lord Crumb when he's really just John Bigbooté....

Data Graham
Dec 28, 2009

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Lazyfire posted:

Musk Derangement Syndrome. Basically the idea that Musk is good and you dumb libs are saying he's bad because you are dumb libs.

There was a Trump flavor of this before.

It started with Bush, BDS

All the libs who constantly freaked out about Bush being bad? It was because they were DERANGED

They can't admit a single good thing he's done!!

CaptainSarcastic
Jul 6, 2013



Cable Guy posted:

Poor Elon wants to be Lord Crumb when he's really just John Big Booty....

I love that movie. :allears:

Data Graham posted:

It started with Bush, BDS

All the libs who constantly freaked out about Bush being bad? It was because they were DERANGED

They can't admit a single good thing he's done!!

I'm not arguing, but I had never heard it myself prior to Trump. It was deployed all across the chudosphere to try to deflect any sort of criticism of him.

War Wizard
Jan 4, 2007

:)
Musk is going to keep cratering TSLA value until he can afford to buy back everything he sold. Then turn around and announce some unnecessary feature to bump it back up.

Only it won't work as well as he wants it to and he'll flounder around some more and call it a conspiracy.

kronix
Jul 1, 2004

Data Graham posted:

I'm now counting the days until they actually successfully deploy the first feature that can't be explained by anything other than "a functional software development company". DAYS SINCE LAST REAL FEATURE: [0] (or however long it's been since he took over)

To be fair I can’t remember Twitter really launching new, user facing features in a really long time. I assume most of their engineering was targeting ad buyers the last few years, not real end-user functionality.

Musk is still an idiot and has no loving clue what he’s doing.

Cable Guy
Jul 18, 2005

I don't expect any trouble, but we'll be handing these out later...




Slippery Tilde

CaptainSarcastic posted:

I love that movie. :allears:
I'm going to let the ninja edit speak for itself....

Data Graham
Dec 28, 2009

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Anyway why is TSLA up $5 in after-hours following a huge immediate bump right about when he announced Tesla would be unprofitable next year? Is after-hours trading done by mirror-universe stock traders or something?

Pastel Candy Snake
Sep 6, 2018

by Hand Knit

Data Graham posted:

Anyway why is TSLA up $5 in after-hours following a huge immediate bump right about when he announced Tesla would be unprofitable next year? Is after-hours trading done by mirror-universe stock traders or something?



BUY THE DIP!!!!!!!!!!!!

F_Shit_Fitzgerald
Feb 2, 2017



Do people try to prop up a sinking Titanic after hours by pumping money into it? I have a very limited understanding of how the stock market casino works (I don't think anyone really understands it too well).

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Droogie
Mar 21, 2007

But what I do
I do
because I like to do.




Pastel Candy Snake posted:

BUY THE DIP!!!!!!!!!!!!

The only dip I'm buying is some fuckin' queso

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