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It'd be nice to see tsla valued properly. I'd also like to see a European competitor to starlink.

Tanking starlink is a bit of a head scratcher. Cutting off access with that timing seems really boneheaded and short sighted. It had a real chance to be a super surveillance internet 2.0 with constant expensive upkeep.

Tesla drivers I see fall into 3 categories:

• 2017 or older: fair enough, and credit for moving to EVs so early!
• 2018-2023: er, Elon seems like kind of a twat. Are you sure? The whole Thai cave thing? But, you know, some benefit of the doubt.
• 2024+: You are supporting a literal Nazi.

Chinese manufactures are making cars that literally jump over potholes.. And I think they're in production.

Whereas, Elon demos something that will never go to production, is totally useless, and is basically a falling car..

Tesla are so far behind at this point. I bet even the cheap chinese cars don't leak in their boot

I genuinely don't even know who that demonstration was for other than 12-year-olds. None of these cars have any practical or road applications. Where are you going to need to flip your cap off of a ramp or over some cars? It's so fucking stupid.

I quite appreciate the visceral dislike that people have for Tesla. Given that we see their products directly in our everyday lives, I certainly don't blame people for reacting this way, and I'm happy to encourage this sort of scrutiny, especially over the longer term. I sometimes think, though, that the zeitgeist is missing some of the deeper damage that Musk's enterprises are inflicting. I don't think there's nearly enough journalism about the ongoing effects of DOGE cuts, for example.

And then there's SpaceX. In all the anger over the throttling of Starlink ("Starshield") for the defenders in Ukraine, I haven't seen a single note of awareness about Starlink and LEO satellite megaconstellations being inherently harmful (regardless of who launches them). Aside from the increased orbital collision risk, the atmospheric pollution, and the blinding of astronomical facilities (including asteroid defense), there's the threat to the ozone layer from all that reentering aluminum. All of which will only increase as lunatics continue to use near-orbital space as their dumping ground.

It's a powerful metaphor for our time. When it comes to Tesla, I think there's a good company in there, somewhere. And SpaceX absolutely employs some of the best aerospace talent on the planet, capable of advancing legitimate science and exploration in space. And yet, so many brilliant folk are caught up employing their skills in juvenile displays like flying car stunts and planet-encircling rings of disposable satellites.

3% ain't shit

Crazy to think how many lives could be saved from hunger by even a fraction of the money that it took to develop this Little Dick Energy stunt show.

Youre telling me that cancelling 2 of its models and introducing this model, which is priced around s $200,000 and will probably never see the road as is because of safety reasons, will make the company stock go down?