No argument from me there!
Not being allowed to see every tweet of the people I follow in chronological order is a dealbreaker for me and a lot of other people. I don’t want to see the tweets Twitter thinks I want to see. If I wanted to see those tweets, I’d be following those people.
Hmm, the ability to sort chronologically hasn’t gone away for me yet. It is in my opinion one of the most important options on Twitter, particularly because I follow sports teams, and back before I toggled it on I would just keep getting random game updates, even days later. But I also like it because I just don’t trust any algorithms to accurately queue up what I actually want.
If they turn that off, I may resort to one of those Twitter tools that a lot of people use to manage their streams.
More than that, it’s patronizing.
It’s a feature that’s very simple, very popular and already exists. Very much a case of don’t mess with something that already works beautifully.
Instead we get “Don’t worry your pretty little head. I know better than you. I’ll tell you what you should like. Oh, I’m not in it for the monetization aspects whatsoever. Who gave you that silly idea, some beta cuck liberal?”
The Cybertruck sticks out to me as one of the worst designs for utility…I’m guessing that the design team (or was it just a designer?) saw pickup trucks with caps and thought, “Yeah! What that bed needs is taller sides!”
I don’t have a pickup truck, but I do hang on to my vehicles for a long time, so I was very pleased to see an early review of the Lightning that indicated the batteries would be relatively easy to replace.
Let’s hope his next truck, then, has a permanent tonneau cover with 3’6" bed.
And really tall sides.
And it’ll be called CyberTruck2: The Phone Booth.
Now that he is pandering to the right, will the vehicle come with the Cyber Truck Bumper Nutz as a standard accessory rather than upgrade? I’ve read they will be more than mere decoration but actually small reserve batteries that come into action when the main batteries are depleted and you need that small spurt to get you over the finish line.
Twitter is facing another failure-to-pay lawsuit, this time from a marketing firm.
After Ken Klippenstein posted a video of a Tesla accident (see self driving car thread in IMHO), his blue-check account disappeared from search prefills, even when fully spelled out. I can’t really think of an algorithmic way this would happen, so it might just be someone at Tesla being a big baby. (but not even necessarily Musk, it could be someone caping for him)
Tesla just announced big price cuts in U.S. and Europe. The market doesn’t like it, stock down 5% premarket.
The stock market doesn’t like it. The car market might embrace it.
I admit I follow Tesla very little, neither as a factory nor as a stock. What I find a bit odd is that I had thought Tesla has quite a delivery backlog. Their “problem” was more a matter of delivering what they’d sold than it was selling more. Which is a nice problem to have, up to a point.
To be sure, as the other car makers ramp up production of their EV sedans, sports cars, SUVs, and trucks, Tesla’s de facto monopoly on hard core EV was bound to erode. Are we seeing that now, or are we seeing the stock market pre-reacting to Tesla pre-reacting to the emergence of real high-volume competition?
I know I don’t know. But Tesla (or any company) can only take so many individually minor hits from so many directions at once before it starts bleeding excessively. Then the sharks & buzzards start to circle.
Not sure where to post this, but it’s about Musk and this is the Pit so maybe here? When I was young, our school tried to set a record and get in the Guinness World Records (I think we did, but cannot remember…I just know it was a lot of fun). Not sure Elon was trying, but he made it in:
TSLA was and is overpriced based on their performance. They were priced as if they were selling every car on the planet. TSLA is still priced at a nearly 400B market cap. It is insane. Double Toyota at ~200B. A fair market cap would be maybe 50-60B, perhaps less if you (general you, not you you) believe that they’re going into headwinds. I’ve noticed there’s been a bit of a surge in buying lately. I think the people buying right now, thinking the worst is over, are going to end up as bagholders.
Also, I predict Cybertruck is going to be a train wreck. It is such an awful vehicle. And there will be lawsuits when people die because they cannot get out of the vehicle. The door release in the back seat is UNDER the rug, and with the windows being possibly quite difficult to break, people are going to die. I wouldn’t even be surprised if a couple of states (e.g., California) simply declare it unsafe for road travel and ban it.
More trouble from earlier this morning; don’t know if it’s been fixed yet.
Now lookee here. I did not say I was a billionaire. But I said I spent more money than a billionaire. If I had a kept all the money that I done already spent, I woulda been a billionaire a long time ago.
They outproduced deliveries last year by a modest margin.
Just going by how the average car commercial is vs the amateur commercial (think zoom zoom campaign). Tesla has terrible commerials. But I have lately seen almost every car manufacturer with those standard slick commercials that tick all the subconscious and conscious buttons. Tesla I feel is about to slide hard and fully. The entire industry is now “in with ev” and taking its huge marketing experience and spanking tesla like a red headed step child (my friend Paul hates that joke sorry I love it cuz it makes me think of him… yes hes a red headed step child 
).
Huh. It just occurred to me that I have never seen a commercial for Tesla. I figured it was all word-of-mouth.
That’s all I got to say about this, despite being in the Pit.