• Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    I love the assumption that somehow the problem was that he wasn’t spending enough time at Tesla, as if the Cybertruck wasn’t 100% his baby through and through. Clearly, with more genius ideas like that the company would be doing so much better.

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      4 months ago

      I believe he only owns 10%ish of the company now. And most of his investments are in spacex. So I’m honestly not sure what hes going to do.

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      I think the assumption is stated to placate his ego, to attract him away from continuing to tank his image. It’s not that they want him with Tesla so much as they want him away from government.

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    It’s not just Twitter and Tesla anymore. Anything he touches will make most people revolt and move away Although some people can’t be saved and will follow him. But basically I think he’s done.

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      I recently bought a camper van and 6 months ago, I would have told you that I’d 100% be getting starlink. Now, I’m going to limp by on mobile Hotspot and make sure I’m in range of a tower on working days.

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    He was always a net negative to operations, but he’s substantially declined in his drug abuse and mental health since his foray into politics. He’s going to wreck anything he touches with his hubris.

    Of course it could take a long time for his faithful to come to terms with that.

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      Maybe they hope they can tuck him away and go back to “managing” him. Maybe they can patch his image a bit if they can keep him away from anything important enough to piss people off.

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    Is he going back to his bunker to off himself like his idol, Hitler.

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      plenty of EVs that have a good steering wheel that doesn’t fly off your hand while you’re driving.

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          One of the best parts of driving IMO is when you’re relying on the car to straighten itself out after a turn and release the wheel slightly to feel it rotate in your hand. I guess i shouldn’t be surprised that his cars are so poorly designed that they even removed that sensation.

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    Lol what’s he going to do at Tesla? More false promises of self-driving by the end of the year? Robot butlers that are totally not just being controlled remotely by some guy in a VR suit?

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    Even if the boarding directors fired Musk and did everything they could to disentangle his diseased legacy from the company, Teslas would still be overpriced shitboxes with serious quality control issues.

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    He got it all the companies that can regulate him. He did the job that he intended to do.

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    Ah yes, the mastermind behind the cybertruck is what the company needs more of. Elon “Funding Secured” Musk is good at milking the government teat and pulling tricks (some of which are outright illegal) to boost the stock price. That’s great for bringing money into Tesla, but what is Tesla doing with that money? With Musk’s direction, that money is being flushed down the toilet. They actually lost money last quarter, but thanks to carbon credits (government teat coming to the rescue yet again), they managed to turn a profit. Eventually the runway runs out.