I have but not due to Musk. There are lots of alternatives to Tesla that are far more affordable and when the time comes for me to move to an electric vehicle (some time in the next decade probably) I will be looking at other options for sure.
Though Musk being a dangerous lunatic and the fear that one of his whims may screw up my car is a factor as well.
I don’t have an example to show, and I’m not going to go looking for one and I wouldn’t share it even if I did, but I’m reading reports that the “PUSSY IN BIO” bots that seem to randomly comment on tweets all the time are now sharing literal child porn.
If this is true and Elmo either can’t or won’t do anything about it, then things are gonna get ugly real quick.
Twitter has had a problem with child pornography going back years. They’ve lost advertisers over it, this was from September 2022:
Reuters Exclusive: Brands blast Twitter for ads next to child pornography accounts
That article was from around the time Elon took over. Since then, he slashed staff and cut down support massively. He has given lip service to fighting child pornography, but as far as I can see he has only taken measures that work against that goal.
I’m not saying he doesn’t care about it, but it doesn’t seem to be high on his priority list.
That’s a problem, but if spambots are posting it in the replies of, say, the National Weather Service or UNICEF, it’s gonna be even uglier.
I had a deposit down on a Tesla Model Y. I got my $$ back when it first started to become apparent that Elon’s cheese was slipping off his cracker.
Whats wrong with that? I see posters like SteveMB and EddyTeddyFreddy comment on this board all the time while flagrantly displaying their pussies to one and all. I have no problem with that one bit, in fact I just clicked on their profiles to get a really good view. 
Yes, it sounds to me like an escalation on top of an earlier problem they were already unable to deal with and unwilling to devote resources to. So yeah, it’s gonna be uglier.
I’m sorry I don’t get the reference? I tried googling “Red Green” but nothing I saw looked relevant.
I am so stealing this.
I live in the Pacific Northwest so always got a lot of Canadian TV growing up, and Red Green is definitely one I enjoyed.
Read this bit of the synopsis from that article:
The title character, Red Green (Steve Smith), is a married, middle-aged man who considers himself a proficient handyman, while others do not.
Just with that bit of info I think you can guess how it relates.
And duct tape featured prominently in many of his “projects”.
Here is Red Green in a “tactical raincoat”:
It was made with a couple of tablecloths and a glue gun.
Ah, okay. I’m almost certain I’ve heard of that show but I’ve never actually seen it. 15 years? That’s a long time. Might have to check it out. Thanks a bunch!
Now back to your regularly scheduled Elmo bashing…
I vaguely recall an old comic featuring Uncle Scrooge and his nephews raising a ship using ping-pong balls. Surely one could use this technique to raise a 40,000 ton piece of steel, even though the bigger cranes can only handle one-quarter of this amount? You can send my cheque for this brilliant idea to Paprika, c/o Cecil Adams…
Keep your stick on the ice.
I’m a man
and I can change
if I have to
I guess
(A) Mythbusters demonstrated this technique works on a sunken ship.
But (B) we’re not talking about a ship; we’re talking about open structures consisting of steel girders with no “hold” to contain the ping pong balls. If floatation was the desired solution, there are many better standard tools than an ad-hoc like air-filled game balls.
The correct answer has already been brought to the worksite: salvage cranes.
Not to be too nasty, but your suggestion sounds like something Elmo would propose.
I could be wrong but I interpreted that post as sarcasm. Dr. Paprika even points out why that suggestion wouldn’t work in his post.
When I posted about using giant pontoons that of course wasn’t meant seriously. It was more in the sense of “oh Elmo wants to throw out more terrible ideas and opine on subjects he has no knowledge of? I can top that!”
Got the Bloomberg Evening Briefing email tonight, and the first story was headlined “Musk’s brand problem”:
Wall Street analysts were second-guessing their models just as Tesla’s first quarter came to a close. One after another reduced their estimate for vehicle deliveries. But it turns out they didn’t cut their numbers by nearly enough, because on Tuesday the electric carmaker led by its famously voluble CEO whiffed on Bloomberg’s average sales estimate by the most ever. Tesla’s shares fell 4.9%, extending their 2024 slide to a tremendous 33%, the second-worst showing in the S&P 500 Index. It wasn’t a total surprise, though, as red flags were flying for some time. Tesla had warned its rate of growth would be “notably lower” and the company did face multiple disruptions at its plant outside Berlin. But still, there’s Elon Musk. His inflammatory posting of far-right conspiracy theories (among other things) has turned off prospective buyers for whom a Tesla was once an aspirational purchase. “Is Elon’s brand damaging Tesla sales in the US?” asked Gene Munster, managing partner of Deepwater Asset Management. “It’s directionally a negative.” —David E. Rovella
Apparently my Poe’s Law detector really needs calibrating.
I mean sure, that’s one very careful way to put it.