Elon Musk

the gonzo milo trumpoids use it the way they use "based" -- "that's so kek"

If there's no surrounding context, I would read someone saying 'kek' as them being Very Online and aware of channer-type memes. Tbh I would probably give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they were being ironic.

However, given the vast amounts of context we have at our disposal, Elon Musk saying 'kek' is p obviously saying "hello alt-right I love you please love me back everyone else hates me and I am desperately trying to be with it by using a decades-old edgelord phrase".

Yeah I was going to say even his racist memes are out of date (NB I don’t know the up to date racist memes)

The SPLC has a pretty exhaustive (tho, granted, 5 years old) breakdown of kek: https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/05/08/what-kek-explaining-alt-right-deity-behind-their-meme-magic

It's pretty alt-righty and I think emily's otm in Musk's intent.

Obviously this is part of a much bigger conversation but it’s a big problem that anyone who gets ostracized from other online communities for being too bigoted can always find a place amongst the alt right. Like I don’t think these are the communities people are seeking out but they get driven there because everyone else is telling them to shut the fuck up

They should go to church or something instead

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fk8pqCKXEAkGh9Z?format=jpg&name=medium

Did Medvedev get assigned the Twitter Files Part 345?

Actual billionaire fantasizing about being a billionaire with a bat suit.

Some nights … pic.twitter.com/BLAUsJr4wb

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 27, 2022

What else has he got to do?

TFW someone reminds you that the markets reopen tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/4ZngsJg99m

— Mike Gee (@mestizoqueso) December 27, 2022

Below $120 and heading for $110 rapidly, is it?

when is the margin call

ill do it now

btw do we know that he has margin loans

margin loans were not part of the twitter financing

not sure if he has a personal margin loan

https://www.forbes.com/sites/abrambrown/2022/05/25/elon-musk-margin-loan-twitter-equity-deal-takeover-bid-buyout/

could be loans for his other companies where tesla stock was put up as collateral i guess

Margin loans weren't part of the financing but there was discussion just the other week of converting some of the debt to margin loans tied to Tesla stock. I'm guessing that's a more difficult prospect at the moment ...

.@Mining_Atoms Brave new world... pic.twitter.com/BZX7TGsZFw

— Chuck Petras (@Chuck_Petras) December 26, 2022

Elon is trying to distract you from the major problems with @Tesla cars. pic.twitter.com/HNmenqIhxd

— andrea heart 🇺🇸🏴‍☠️🌵☀️ (@andreaheart19) December 26, 2022

someone needs to go on norwegian internet and see how theyre doing being the top tesla country and a cold place

https://www.tocn.no/travelling-in-norway-during-winter/

Charging in wintertime
In order for optimal charging, the battery needs to have a good temperature, approximately 30’C.

If you are at a supercharger, are alone on the A-B pair, low charging speed is most likely due to low temperature on the battery(or high SOC). One hour of driving when it is 0’C outside, can still give you a battery temperature of only 17’C. Optimal battery temperature is said to be 30’C

If you plan to charge at your destination on AC on low amp, plug the car in as soon as possible while the battery is still warm after your days driving.
If you start charging the car while the battery is cold, you will at first see no progress at all on charging, as all the energy will be put into heating up the battery first. If it is cold enough, it can take several hours before charging starts.

hmm doesnt seem good

eh teslas are pretty much the best in cold weather fwiw https://www.axios.com/2022/03/04/the-cold-hard-truth-about-electric-vehicles-in-winter

that doesnt seem to address the wont charge at all issue

since so much of norway/scandy is coastal it's not really cold cold lows on average. mid 20sF. because 0C lol. i have now looked at average lows for oslo trondheim stockholm and helsinki for dec - feb. lillehammer inland does get avg mid teens F. send me help basically

also stats are for 20-30f barely below freezing please refrain from posting such garbage articles in the future! xp

the CEO of feels pic.twitter.com/WFh3dbQxZS

— derek (@derek8185338254) December 27, 2022

Below $120 and heading for $110 rapidly, is it?

remember that Elon-as-Thanos meme with Tesla's stock price that was being passed around the week after he bought Twitter? it's down another 50% since then lmao

Tesla stock price is too high imo

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 1, 2020

It was at $46.75 when he tweeted that. I guess with some effort he can get it back down under that.

46.75 and it's split at least once since then too

$46.75 is the split adjusted price

And you have tiny testicles!

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 28, 2022

I don't know if I've seen this posted here before - most of it is just "working with Elon is 50% managing Elon", but the final anecdote is too good to miss

https://www.tumblr.com/numberonecatwinner/701567544684855296/elon-wyd

This post is long so I’ll leave you with my favorite Elon story. One day at work, I got an all hands email telling me that it was Elon’s birthday and there was going to be a mandatory surprise party for him in the cafeteria. Presumably Elon also got this email, but whatever. We all marched down into the cafeteria, dimmed the lights, and waited. Elon was led out by his secretary (who he hadn’t fired yet) and made a big show of being fake surprised and touched that we were there. Then they wheeled out the cake.

OK, so, I want you to imagine the biggest penis cake you’ve ever seen. Like the king of novelty sex cakes. Only it’s frosted white, and the balls have been frosted to look like fire and smoke. This was Elon’s birthday “rocket” cake.

For as long as I live, I will never forget the look on everyone’s face — in that dark room of mostly-male engineers — when he made a wish and cut into the tip.

For the uninitiated, Musk makes this ask at the end of every quarter to boost sales and make up for the general chaos that is Tesla. https://t.co/LELIdCZP33

— Linette Lopez (@lopezlinette) December 29, 2022

Based on the agreement Elon Musk signed to help fund his Twitter purchase, he has experienced his first margin call because of Tesla's stock-price declines. https://t.co/TUjt6sQ7GH

— Barron's (@barronsonline) December 29, 2022

Sorry, can’t breathe pic.twitter.com/uivzA1ni68

— jingle 𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗔🎄 (@agirlcalledlina) December 29, 2022

i know this is a boring opinion but i just cant bear him

ugh omg go home nobody wants to play with you

69D Chess

NiceD

to be clear, there is not. he just did not take out a tesla margin loan to buy twitter - thought about it, did not do it. (that said, he had previously pledged shares to secure personal indebtedness, who knows what's up with that.)

— Matt Levine (@matt_levine) December 29, 2022

lol yeah i kind of knew that i still wanted to post it though the fake news of our desires

maybe we can do a citizens margin call

look this is America, people like Elon will never cease to be indefensibly rich. if Trump taught us one thing it's that with the right combination of luck and rich parents you can be in a spot where you cannot fail no matter how much you fuck up. you can even steal national security secrets and plot to overthrow the government and nothing will happen. the only time in your life you could ever possibly face a consequence is by defrauding someone even richer than you. that said none of this really matters because Elon is so clearly a miserable sod who so desperately wants to be funny and well-liked but he just doesn't have the ability to. decades of being spoiled and rich has left him utterly unable to form a single original thought and it drives him crazy. I mean this dude could be doing literally anything he wants to and instead he's just namesearching himself on Twitter and replying "So true!" to guys who couldn't even hack it in Trump's White House. he's the most cringe human being that's ever existed.

Pretty solid Musking™️ from Tesla here. Choking on inventory, slash the price $7,500, collect cash from buyers (juice the Dec 31 cash balance), then delay delivery, revoke the cash and SC mile incentives (might as well get the margins back up while we’re at it) and send a bill. pic.twitter.com/po5uONIXzI

— Keubiko (@Keubiko) December 30, 2022

lol owned

The margin loan issue is interesting. If he did, he’d might, surprisingly, be in a better spot since there’d be some finality. The worst thing he can do is let Twitter slowly drain Tesla.

I’ve been asking everyone I know who might know something whether Musk has been shopping Twitter. Nobody has heard anything. That’s so insane to me. I’m positive there’s a deal somewhere. Most people think the lack of any discussion is because of the FTC (and the European regulatory body whose name I forgot) and/or a belief that we’re about to enter the worst recession of our lives (see that billionaire bomb shelter article from a few months back).