zoux posted:

The Tesla Model Y was the top selling automobile in the world in 2023, outselling even Toyota Corollas. Not trying to say anything, I just thought that was weird.

dialhforhero posted:

A misleading statistic.

CainFortea posted:

As someone who thought like that Linus video the first few times I heard the phrase Hard R, I thought it meant calling someone retarded instead of using a euphamism or actual medical sounding word. Like a "soft R" is "oh he's so nice but he's quite slow"

dialhforhero posted:

A misleading statistic.

Now look at the market share per brand. Teslas have 3 (4?) cars. And only one is in an “affordable” range.

Not nearly as diluted a choice compared to the big three and even beyond.

spechtie posted:

https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_scgxvc7VAI1zyv8vk.mp4

Mr.Radar posted:

If you haven't seen it, you must experience the Linus Tech Tips guy finding out live on air what "Hard R" means:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFDiuBomSuY

madmatt112 posted:

I wanna see some probes and I wanna see em now!!

madmatt112 posted:

I wanna see some probes and I wanna see em now!!

madmatt112 posted:

I wanna see some probes and I wanna see em now!!

gbut posted:

That picture of a rusty frame gave me a nice big laugh like I haven’t had in ages. I thought that wankpanzer humor was all but gone, yet it continues delivering gems almost daily. How? Musky is a genius, indeed.

Pigsfeet on Rye posted:

Soul Dentist posted:

That's a pretty hosed up video man

Takes No Damage posted:

Somewhat concerned at the need for a full body splatter smock at the buttplug factory

Takes No Damage posted:

Somewhat concerned at the need for a full body splatter smock at the buttplug factory

DontMockMySmock posted:

don't mock it.

Turpitude posted:

this guy is like the michael jordan of probes

Laserjet 4P posted:

*batteries not included remake looking pretty dark and edgy

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3D Megadoodoo posted:

I want to believe but knowing how those shitters work, this is implausible.

caspergers posted:

Shageletic posted:

this person needs to eat more fiber goddam

anyways

Shageletic posted:

this person needs to eat more fiber goddam

anyways

pixaal posted:

If you don't follow the stock:
This person sold at the bottom and the stock is currently at $40 again, the average price paid since the merge is $47.89

quote:

Jerry Dean McLain first bet on former president Donald Trump’s Truth Social two years ago, buying into the Trump company’s planned merger partner, Digital World Acquisition, at $90 a share. Over time, as the price changed, he kept buying, amassing hundreds of shares for $25,000 — pretty much his “whole nest egg,” he said.

That nest egg has lost more than half its value in the past two weeks as Trump Media & Technology Group’s share price dropped from $66 after its public debut last month to $22 on Tuesday. But McLain, 71, who owns a tree-removal service outside Oklahoma City, said he’s not worried. If anything, he wants to buy more.

“I know good and well it’s in Trump’s hands, and he’s got plans,” he said. “I have no doubt it’s going to explode sometime.”
....
Even the company’s plunging stock price — and the chance their investments could get mostly wiped out — doesn’t seem to have shaken that faith. The stock plunged 14 percent on Tuesday, and the company has lost nearly $5 billion in value since its market debut.
...
That range of emotions is on full display on Truth Social, where thousands of mostly anonymous accounts have flocked to meme-filled investor groups, one of which is emblazoned with a computer-generated image showing Trump pumping his fist on a Wall Street trading floor.

Some accounts there have recently encouraged traders to keep investing in a fight they said was about “good vs evil” — a way to defend Trump from the liberal elites laughing at him and, by extension, them. The user @BaldylocksUSMC said “the fight has been long and hard on most of us” and that “this stock is not for the weak,” but that one day they would triumph over critics who were “brainwashed beyond repair.”

After the billionaire media mogul Barry Diller called Trump Media a “scam” stock bought by “dopes,” one account, @Handbag72, claimed to have bought more shares, arguing Diller didn’t “get it” or was “at risk of [losing] $$$$.” The next day, the account shared a 2021 blog post from the investing forum Seeking Alpha saying Truth Social could be worth $1 trillion in the next 10 years.

But there are also flickers of uncertainty and disenchantment, with some saying they faced thousands of dollars in losses or had “risked [literally] everything.” One user who had posted “Tired of WINNING yet?” earlier this year when the stock spiked posted that the recent losses were “painful to stomach.”

“Come on DJT, every time I buy more, the price drops more,” the user @bill7718 wrote. “When will it be the BOTTOM!!” (He posted a chart Thursday showing the stock rising slightly alongside the caption, “moving!!” The price has since gone back down.)

The user @manofpeace123, who said they bought shares at $65 and that 71 percent of their portfolio was DJT stock, said on Wednesday that investing was a way of telling Trump, “I believe in you and I stand with you through good times and bad.” But a day later, the user added: “can’t help but feel sad. … feel like I’m trying to catch a falling knife.”

Another account, @realJaneBLONDE, posted on April 7 that she was “NOT panicked NOT worried” before, two days later, posting a message to Trump and congressional Republicans urging them to make it “illegal” to bet against or short-sell stocks.

“Sick of MY investment money being stolen!!” she wrote. “They’re stealing peoples money and you’re allowing it!!”

Some users said they were “baffled” by the stock’s ups and downs, and one asked for advice on how to tell her husband she didn’t want to sell. One user posted a meme image saying, “If you’re worried about your Money, Remember This, DJT stock is about FREE SPEECH & Without FREE SPEECH Money won’t mean much.”

But other users saw such questions as displays of unacceptable doubt. When the user @seneca1950 asked whether anyone was concerned that the company’s upcoming plans to issue tens of millions more shares would sink the stock price, two accounts criticized the account for spreading “FUD” — fear, uncertainty and doubt.

“Are you a Fudster,” wrote a user named “Jesus Revolution 2024.” Wrote another, called Rabristol: “You must be short with no way out!”

FreudianSlippers posted:

This is obviously a psy-op by the CIA to financially weaken stupid old people, the destined vanguard of the second American Revolution, before the inevitable civil war.


That way they won't afford as many guns and will be overrun by machete wielding Antifa immigrants.