Elon Musk

uh oh

Tesla Inc. suffered its first year-over-year sales drop since the early days of the Covid pandemic.

Tesla handed over 386,810 vehicles in the first three months of 2024, the company said in a statement Tuesday. That fell well short of analysts’ average estimate for 449,080 deliveries. The stock fell 7% in early New York trading.

is that good

hell id be happy to sell one car gotta start somewhere you know

have to wonder if his personal popularity is finally having an impact. that or the fact they're selling the same shitty cars they designed in 2017. this is not happening to other car companies iiuc.

some marketing company saying as much fwiw

According to a recent survey by corporate reputation management platform Caliber, as first reported by Reuters, the carmaker's reputation is plunging in part due to Musk's off-putting and problematic behavior, putting off potential buyers.

https://futurism.com/the-byte/buyers-avoiding-teslas-elon-musk-toxic

Look, I'm not trying to get @GROK (pronounced GROKE) fired, but it's definitely gone WOKE and is now calling @elonmusk a bigot and a racist for his attacks on DEI.

A story in four acts

No wonder Musk hates AI so much, eh @ChatGPTapp, @GoogleAI? pic.twitter.com/E6wPDFutsB

— Pastor Ben (@BenjaminPDixon) April 3, 2024

not sure if it was this thread it was mentioned on, but the guy calling in to Infowars turned out not to be Musk, and was probably doing an impersonation.

lol they’re fucked

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-scraps-low-cost-car-plans-amid-fierce-chinese-ev-competition-2024-04-05/

“Elon’s directive is to go all in on robotaxi,” that person said.

https://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/6/68/TFU08-toy_Overcharge.jpg

waymos are pretty cool. but when you look at a waymo and you look at a tesla there’s a pretty big tech gap.

Maybe this genius disruptor should just try *raising* prices on everything, see how that works.

you look at a waymo and the two people monitoring the driving from a remote location look back at you

Actual footage of Waymo in operation:

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

given the fash shit he's been posting on his shitty website recently I cannot wait for this dickhole to shart his way out of business. at least delorean made a cool-looking car and wasn't a nazi fuck.

If he really wanted to kill "woke" he would introduce a new car called the Tesla Woke.

you look at a waymo and the two people monitoring the driving from a remote location look back at you

― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Friday, April 5, 2024 12:04 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

lmao

Robotaxi unveil on 8/8

hmm well played sir epic 8/8 haha

plenty of time to invent the robotaxi

Will the robotaxi dance like the Charleston like his “android” announcement?

PULL OVER SAFELY vehicle shutting down
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:225g4y2e35b4fylvbsbe752f/bafkreie4dusixk2piu6usoc7kfcsvj6tds7rwmi77rmyghc4lbrjwsyf64@jpeg
PULL OVER IMMEDIATELY unable to drive
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Wait, is "Exiting and re-entering vehicle may restore operation" actually a real thing lol

Kind of gives a new take on blue screen of death.

exit and re-enter, when come back bring dust-cloth

Brings new meaning to the word "crash." Or I suppose, in this case, potentially brings back the old meaning.

lol @ exiting and re-entering the vehicle, surely the "turn the router off and then on" of vehicle repair.

Saw a Cybertruck in the wild today. Well, not "the wild": downtown Kalispell, MT, pulling out of a Starbucks drive-thru. It really does look silly and fake in person, like a bad movie prop, and every dimensional plane (height, length) seems off somehow. The driver, a bro in his mid-thirties, I'd guess, saw my wife and me observing him and smiled sarcastically and waved. We nodded back.

I saw my first one locally the other day too. Yup, looked dumb.

https://pbfcomics.com/comics/disassemble/

During his deposition, Musk admitted he has a “limited understanding” of the lawsuit against him, said he thought Brody’s attorney was the one suing him, and revealed he did no research in determining whether Brody was involved in the brawl after seeing the accusations on X.

Musk also made broader admissions about his failures with X — which has plummeted in value since his takeover in 2022 — saying he “may have done more to financially impair” the social media site than help it. Musk also confirmed that he once used a burner account on X seemingly to role-play as his toddler son.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-didnt-want-his-latest-deposition-released-here-it-is_n_66133d2ce4b0d81853f9a766

he shd stick to role-playing as his toddler self

I read through part of that transcript and felt like I aged several years. It’s just so tiring

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qsllkcuektaoegm2g5xkpkvq/bafkreidewshgfdvvjguvu47ahsepdat3nvt5d5tjqfs2mrmban2peub4ui@jpeg

lol even he says "formerly known as Twitter"

I mean, he's wrong!

the ending where his lawyer is like “yeah this isn’t going to be released, right?” and the plaintiff’s attorney is explaining you need to set up the protective order BEFORE the deposition is great

yeah that's as good as it gets for law stuff

Musk also confirmed that he once used a burner account on X seemingly to role-play as his toddler son.

Drove down the block, stashed the burner in the bushes
Stepped to nursery with the Huggies for the tushes

and revealed he did no research in determining whether Brody was involved in the brawl after seeing the accusations on X

Not surprising, but that is not good when you are trying to defend a defamation claim.

xp 10/10

except "drove part way down the block, system fault required me to exit the vehicle, stashed the burner in the bushes"

tweets from elon’s burner account, a thread: pic.twitter.com/82Y0Kx1QJ5

— Best of Dying Twiter (@bestofdyingtwit) April 25, 2023

it starts like someone trying to be cute with a test account but gets real weird and cringey fast

theres a second burner

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:cfy5rgqvohpdqxgu2geb5u2b/bafkreigrz3utf37vznrhs5ythz3mo2wlh4zll7jvt2yzkq6p3auxeiehf4@jpeg

“People are attacked all the time in the media, online media, social media, but it is rare that that actually has a meaningful negative impact on their life,” Musk testified.

This coming from the giant man-baby who shut a guys account down for posting about where his planes would land because he said it was a *threat to his family*!!!!

Well yeah - he means "it is rare that that actually has a meaningful negative impact on me, the only verifiable human"

wow @ this exchange

Elon is being deposed in a lawsuit saying he made slanderous claims about someone he doesn't know, and immediately does the same thing to the lawyer deposing him pic.twitter.com/zrq7VfERlw

— evan loves worf (@esjesjesj) April 9, 2024

Can't Elon just use the "I was high when I said that" defense

I don't think it can be understated how often you're talking to lawyers for some reason or another when you're involved in that many binding legal entities (corporations, boards, whatever else) and despite it being a commonplace thing, Elon's immediate thought is "lawyers only exist to take my money" regardless whether it's someone else's or his own

Elon's statements there aren't slanderous, they're just dumb.

stupid sexy slanders!

He doesn't think he harmed Ben Brody despite knowing nothing about him because social media rarely leads to people being harmed. Just shocking arrogance.

Thr case is weaker than the Alex Jones case as Musk's comment was somewhat couched. But the case will bring up more embarrassing material and he might settle to avoid that.

Also the lawyer he brought wasn't admitted pro hac vice so I don't know if his objections will have any weight in court. Brody filed a motion against Spiro today.