Elon Musk

how it doesnt work haha

XPost, missed the chance to say:

“I was saying Boo-lon!”

I was saying "Booo-ring company"

I just have to wonder, like...is any of this ongoing manic episode a net positive for him? He may be solidifying support among his most ardent fanboys and maybe attracting a little bit more human slime to his side, but otherwise he just seems to be intensely broadcasting his unpleasantness to the world and actively repelling a lot of people who previously had little-to-no opinion of him whatsoever. It basically just doesn't make sense on any human level. But that applies to an awful lot of human behavior from the past half decade+ so what the hell do I even know about anything anymore.

kind of nice we can stop humoring people who claim Chappelle is anything more than a rich bigoted asshole

he's getting more and more people talking about him, which is what he really wants, even if he won't admit it

it's clear that what these dudes want is to feel important, and elon's way of doing that (everyone is talking about elon!) is probably less harmful than his peers who think they're influencing the tilt of the world by doing shadowy garbage behind the scenes

Elon, that is. Dave's just a lost cause at this point

Chappelle's fans understand the concept of "punching up" better than he does

Maybe Elon paid him to let him come out on stage.

Chris Rock came out too apparently. Weird, wild stuff.

I think Rock and Chappelle are touring together?

Thanks all... I clearly haven't been to a big show in a while...

lolll

Out at the comedy show having the time of my life with the 90% of the crowd cheering. They're all just out of frame, not booing pic.twitter.com/yGjqQOCTgJ

— ((Grumpy)) 🌹🇵🇸✡️ (@GolemBundist) December 12, 2022

Where's Whiney?

Yeah I was gonna say i am expecting Whiney to pop in to remind us that Chapelle has been bringing publicity-hounding robber barons on stage to flatter their vanity since the 80s and why are we freaking out about it now

I'm so, so, so tired of this man

Now he's tweeting that he must have upset the "Branch Covidians," either not knowing or caring that that phrase was invented to refer to anti-mask anti-vax invermectin cultists. But typical of Musk in taking somebody else's wordplay and getting it wrong at the same time.

ivermectin, sorry. Invermectin is a small Scottish town.

no one batted an eye when Chappelle had "Chainsaw" Al Dunlap open for him in the 80s

Where's Whiney?

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, December 12, 2022 12:13 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Boooooooooooooooooooo

3) Twitter related concern #2: Brand. The $TSLA brand is suffering from the current news flow, but the impact on the net favorability score is minimal, likely temporary (remember Uber in 2017), unlikely to affect hardcore fan who are most of the buyers in the market today. pic.twitter.com/lkvhJ6YK6t

— Pierre Ferragu (@p_ferragu) December 9, 2022

this is a slide from one of his investing simps so ignore the commentary, but is a clear drop in the approval rating of tesla among the group most likely to buy teslas in the US, and i assume that will continue to get worse.

ya I read recently that his net favorability improved somewhat with conservatives (who still don't like him a whole lot) but it absolutely has cratered among liberals (the ones actually buying his shitty cars). sure glad the US government poured billions of dollars into this moron

yeah this is a total failure to know your consumer base

Tesla's current electric vehicle (EV) offering turns out to be the oldest lineup in the world for a carmaker.

this is a slide from one of his investing simps so ignore the commentary

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, December 12, 2022 1:44 PM (eighteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol saying its ok you only need the hardcore fans for a company thats priced like its supposed to become the biggest car maker in the world and more

Tesla Patreon clearing $8 billion a year easy

xp "However, the arrival of the Cybertruck might significantly change its ranking."

its funny ppl still think the cybertuck a vehicle flagrantly in violation of crash safety regulations will ever come out

i mean theyll prob put a truck out eventually but the public prototypes to date are absolute fantasy

how much car safety regulation in the US is at the state level? this feels like it could be another front in interstate culture wars.

think that stuff is all federal

meanwhile theres three electric pickups that people are extremely stoked on already out with a bunch more coming

don't worry, they're going to switch to making semis for truckers!

the reviews of the semi so far are pretty bad

funny thing about the semi reveal is they made absolutely no claims about full self driving cause they know the professional buyers wouldnt be falling for it

Iirc they've been boasting about how much it can haul without revealing how much the fucking empty truck itself actually weighs, which will have a huge effect on capacity, road damage, etc.

xp huh, yeah i hadn't bothered to think about the age of their product lines as a thing but that is a weird huge unimaginable failure to understand their market space it seems to me. so much about cars (and many many things) is getting the new new.

I am watching a movie clips about @elonmusk's Tesla Semi - remember, the truck that was to revolutionize the transport industry when it entered the market 4 years ago 🤡

And I am going to tell you'all why it is a completely stupid vehicle. And I won't even want to talk about (1)

— Tomasz Oryński (@TOrynski) December 8, 2022

he really said "I'm Rick, bitch"

cars are designed to DOT standards first, i think, which are federal (hence why cars have gotten bigger in last 10 years as has been discussed on ilove cars, the need to implement crumple zones and such).

california as a state has a lot of power here though since they're a huge market and are able to hold automakers to higher standards than federal through their state standards - if a car can be sold in california, it can be sold anywhere.

the level of competition and improvement on fit and finish/interiors etc in cars currently is crazy too, like you never want to have an old lineup but thats particularly rough now, especially when your quality lagged behind in the first place

ha this thread is amazing seems like they didnt consult a single trucker or anyone who knows about them

i). Drivers sits in the middle. This makes overtaking or looking ahead more difficult. But also makes it impossible to reach out of the window to pass the paperwork or to talk with the guy in the gatehouse when you enter a port or a factory or, say, a tollbooth. (4) pic.twitter.com/5vLmgHNhP0

— Tomasz Oryński (@TOrynski) December 8, 2022

A few weeks ago someone said that Elon is terrified of reliving the fall of apartheid, and it’s totally changed the way I see his posts pic.twitter.com/ENU9lY6WbI

— DEI coordinator for sinaloa cartel (@Forever_Wario) December 12, 2022

lol I do make a point of repeating the phrase "white South African billionaire" a lot. It helps to remember who we're dealing with.

emerald mine heir etc

Elon basically IS the villain demographic from movies and TV shows in the late Reagan/Poppy Bush era, when Russians got less fashionable as bad guys but everyone could agree rich white South Africans were terrible.

they have such gross accents too

california as a state has a lot of power here though since they're a huge market and are able to hold automakers to higher standards than federal through their state standards - if a car can be sold in california, it can be sold anywhere.

― 龜, Monday, December 12, 2022 2:22 PM (thirty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

also 🇪🇺. lol at anything like the cybertruck ever being sold there.

Popular image of white South Africans in the 80s =

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9dmoT9AfoI

yeah feel like cali/eu tagteaming must be pretty common - like it was big news here when cali announced they were gonna ban ice engines by 2035 but really they were just aligning with the eu's decision to do the same a few months before xp

I rode in my first Tesla this week (Uber) and the interior looked like a 30 yo Star Trek: TNG set. All the controls and instruments are in what looks like an offbrand Surface Pro strapped to the very center of the dash. So many unnecessary changes to basic car controls/functions just for the sake of reinforcing that the car was special. Needed instructions to open the door from the outside and the inside. Interesting design choice to force the driver to take their hands off the wheel to scroll through several levels of screens for basic controls (radio, comfort, wipers?) that nearly every other car company now puts on the steering column or wheel.