..and Tesla’s stock price would hit record highs!
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So here's the thing. Elon is an idiot. He wants you to desperately believe he is a genius while also holding true that he plays games 10 hours a day, tweets 2 hours a day, all which he prioritizes over for his 14 kids. That's several punchlines worth of "You know you're a redneck when" material in one sentence of his public behavior. Articles like this are beautiful. But his stupidity should not be a surprise here, more of an expectation. (And a hilarious one at that)
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I love that his supposed IQ is 165 yet I have never seen him say or do anything remotely intelligent. I'm sure he paid someone to take the test for him just like he paid someone to play his video games for him. The only thing Elon is good at is spending money. Especially American tax payer's money.
Fuck FElon.
He got checkmated.
There’s currently a debate in Canada if we should allow Chinese EVs, honestly everything else is already made in china, and fears of spying? I trust the Americans even less, and they’re definitely spying on us
The average American truly doesn't know just how much their entire market is already artificially forced to keep out better options simply because they aren't American or aligned with American gov interests.
The result is we get objectively shittier stuff than the rest of the world. Huawei being banned in the US is a perfect example of this. The gov claims they ban this shit to stop Chinese infiltration, but the reality is its to eliminate competition for American and American aligned billionaires.
It's not just that they don't know. They're willfully ignorant. People have some kind of consumer brainrot. I was talking to someone last week about how it'd be better to keep their older perfectly functional tools because the newer ones have been getting enshittified for decades. His only answer was like "well I can just replace them in if they break" which didn't even address what I was talking about really.
A bit of column a, bit of column b. Ban Huawei, but Cisco is made in China too.
Then blame TP-Link, right?
Huawei is a bad example of a good point. Huawei working on anything related to US infrastructure would be a disaster. Consumer goods maybe not so bad but that whole thing started because of B2B
It's bit of both. I still wouldn't trust Chinese tech. Huawei tech is involved in surveiling the African Union headquarters.. This not to minimise US' own corruption and digital imperialism, although I think the EU is in the right step to use open source software to replace American tech.
I would trust China before Elon fucking Musk.
Just because US is going on temper tantrum it doesn't mean people have to forget that China is doing its own Orwellian surveillance.
It's pretty bad everywhere but people don't realize the level of surveillance in China is on a whole other fucking level.
All tech is used as such. You think Apple and Microsoft and Android aren't selling your data to the government? Hmmm...
That's what I said basically. US is doing its own digital imperialism. The difference is that the US government outsourced the Orwellian surveillance to techbros.
I just learned headlight technology in new European cars is insane. Literally selectively blocks out light to incoming cars. So you can see the road at night and not blind people.
It's not an European exclusive, I once rented a Mazda CX30 that did that
It's not something that's been allowed in the US until very recently. Auto on/off high beams have been a thing for decades, but the selective dimming/"tunneling" only just recently became legal within the past couple of years in the US.
My 2015MY has that as an option. It’s slick. I didn’t know it was available when I bought used but it’s a (€2500) DIY retrofit.
They keep out other options so that they can support American businesses.
Dude. The majority of "made in america" is prison labour
LOL gonna need a source for that one buddy
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I have all types of devices I can use to type into a search engine. They don't make information instantly appear in front of me.
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This does not say "the majority of 'made in America' prison labor" or anything similar.
Hadn’t begun the spiral into ket, it appears. Aw.
He was born in a spiral. He tried to rename PayPal “x” then tried to name several children “x” until he finally found a place that would allow it.
Those were the days, when Musk still had a "will they, won't they" relationship with being a total piece of shit. Then it turns out they were together all along.
I feel like this should be the plot for some Chuck Tingle erotica.
Mulon Esk is a complete idiot.
Yup. He cosplays a smart man. By buying smart ideas and pretending they are his. And then wrecking them. He's as smart a man as trump is a good business man.
Crazy that he sounds like a normal human here
All the Chinese EV OEMs got a huge uplift after Elon was dumb enough to open a factory there...
They stole the ideas we stole!
No one stole anything. Chinese battery tech is a decade ahead of anyone.
But it's true. The standard Chinese model is to steal all IP, from all tech that they do not yet control. They use cheap labor to import all manufacturing from developed countries. Then, they steal the IP and turn around and make it theirs. That's how they've caught up so fast from a closed out isolated farming hermit for decades, into a modern powerhouse that wants to take over the world.
IP is a bullshit concept that slows down the progress of humanity. They take what is learned and improve on it then sell that because why the fuck wouldn’t you. The only people who have a problem with this are moronic capitalists that say “grrr how dare you improve my technology before I earn my money from it! It’s my idea! I own it forever”.
There is maybe some debate about a small reasonable period to allow someone to recoup r&d costs. On the other hand we can look to an example like during Covid: American pharma companies were not sharing research about mRNA vaccines with each other or the world in the hopes of being “the first” and the financial gains that would come with this. Accelerating this process through collaborative effort would’ve literally saved tens of thousands of lives. This was often defended by Americans who are so indoctrinated they couldn’t possibly conceptualize a world without this approach. “Of course Pfizer needs the IP? How else will they make their money??”
We excuse it because most of the time it doesn’t really matter. A slightly better phone or laptop or whatever is not a huge deal. But then you see things like the Covid example and start to wonder: if that broke down and everything was basically “open source” how much further along would we be?
The american companies are ok with it because of capitalism. The executive team gets a generous salary, bonus. Or they believe that they are ok with giving away decades worth of engineering research and development for cheap labor, and that at the arms race American engineering will always be one step ahead, so they will never lose market share.
They reaffirmed Musk that he's the King, but in the long game, they already have the Queen.
I was joking, but yes China has perfected and created even better technologies.
And I honestly believe the salary and working conditions at BYD are better than at Tesla.