Some people just have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
There was an old episode of Mythbusters on that.
It’s way safer peeing on an electric fence (almost impossible to get electrocuted that way unless you’re almost on top of it) than trusting your digits to Tesla (your fingers belong to us now).
I’ve seen a meme that calls it an INC El Camino…
Hot Wheels cars are better constructed.
Yeah. Would like to see the Cubertruck do a loop-dee-loop.
It’s “all you finger are belong to us!”
For great justice!
Certainly if you got a Cybertruck you have no chance to survive and should make your time
Musk: To preserve share holder value we need to be more agile, slim down, and get rid of dead wood and unnecessary expenses, cutting 10% of our workforce as a start.
Shareholders: Or we could cut a bonus package of our kedamine addled CEO that is the equivalent of more than 40 years of our entire payroll.
Musk: Woah! let’s not talk crazy here.
She had already made asked for cuts. Mr. Ketamine didn’t like push back about firing more. So Elmo, acting rationally in his bizzaro drug fueled mystery universe, fired the whole group. Screwing employees, their spouses, children, suppliers, contractors, other vehicle manufacturers and his own already overworked folks in the energy department who don’t have a clue about the supercharger network.
If anyone ever deserved $56 billion, it’s this genius.
///sss
I thought this was the most likely reason he did this when it was first announced a couple of weeks ago:
Insanity should not be predictable.
And the pushback, according to Reuters and Elektrek, was because they’d already committed to rolling out more superchargers and needed the remaining people to meet those commitments. Now they’ve got a bunch of subcontractors on indefinite hold and anticipate rising dissatisfaction as charger wait times increase as GM and Ford users flood the network.
We’re just not seeing the agile ingenuity at play since we don’t have the 20000’ view.
And the necessary hypoxia for any of this to make sense.
The most annoying thing when dealing with Muskrats: their undying faith that Elon is smarter than them, based on nothing. Elon Musk is successful, but I can’t think of a single “Eureka!”/4D-chess/masterstroke he’s done. Like most wealthy people, in my experience, there’s a lot of “how the hell did this clown get so rich?” In the mix.
Then there are the sycophants - the people that train people like Musk to be tyrants by saying “Hey, whatever you say, boss!” They’re the reason he was so outraged that Tinucci dare question his conflicting mandates (increase the number of superchargers by year-end/fire 20% of your team).
“Treatments for whatever makes him like that are probably pretty expensive.”
“If we don’t give him $56 billion, how is he supposed to waste $56 billion?”
“The price of ketamine has gone up a lot recently.”
Good stuff.
Twitter keeps serving me up Tesla fans (wonder how the algorithm decided to do that) supporting a ‘yes’ vote.
The ‘killer’ argument is that Elon will leave Tesla if he doesn’t get paid. Leaving aside whether that would be a good or bad thing, there is no way in hell he walks away - his ego wouldn’t allow it.
…and the stock price will soar…
Tesla is still responsible for the bulk of his wealth; what are the odds he would let someone else control it?
One article I saw today said he was threatening to scrap AI and robot development at Tesla. If I were still a shareholder, my response would be “Who asked you to?” Those are his hobbies, funded by the other shareholders - Tesla remaining just a car company would be fine for most, I suspect. He’s not going to catch up with Boston Dynamics anyway, and he’s already developing AI at his own company - Tesla would either be getting leftovers or funding research for his other company off the books.
Elmo sez: I hope AI will let me fire all of my employees