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  1. 1 hour ago, Pods said:

    Toyotas also have a long record of reliability, while Tesla is delivering cars with mis-matched door panels.

    Toyota also understands what a truck is supposed to be capable of. Cybertruck vs. Tundra/Tacoma

    Even for our many times banned, and pathetically returning, DonkeyCigars, that was a ludicrously stupid take. 

    Since you obviously missed the point I was making from a brand and lifestyle/luxury comparison, please see the Coach purse analogy instead. And please try to refrain from “Akschully! coach brands is a good company and has fantastic scope 1-3 emissions records and and and…”

  2. 2 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    Toyota is probably the most successful automaker in the world so becoming the new Toyota would be success far beyond any scale imagined for Elon.  I don’t think it will happen, though, the shine goes off Teslas with every year they don’t launch a new model while legacy carmakers do.  There isn’t a Tesla model in the lineup now that is best in its class, and the gap will keep widening, people who buy Teslas now are basically image shopping and that will only take you so far. 
     

    Anyone in the market for an EV will find better offerings from Ford, the Korean marques, GM, BMW, Porsche, Volvo, Lucid, Rivian across the spectrum from daily driver to luxury. Oddly— the Japanese have been caught a bit flat footed on EVs. 

    I meant in terms of status symbol, which you should have picked up from context. All your points are spot on from a company standpoint. But Teslas, which until about a year or so ago, was considered a luxury brand and it said something as a reflection of the individual (sustainability conscious, disposable income, Techy, whatever). 
    Nowadays it’s a Toyota— decent car, decent price, Indians love them, etc.

    The handbag analogy is a great one as well.

  3. 7 minutes ago, DalTxHornFan said:

    Get with the program, Comrade. That is just how "Equity" works.  Some are more equal than others.

    I've only seen it on twitter so what I'm asking is, is it parody/fake or real.

    Surely we would have discussed it on this thread and I've had heard of the pushback by now if it were real, is my thinking...the only websites I've seen it on were a screengrab of fox news and this new york post.

  4. 13 minutes ago, The Dog said:

    my favorite part of Season 1 was the conflict between Rebecca and Ted. she was a great heel.

    Yes, but as he and others have said, her character sucks now. This was a fantastic episode and the only real drag was the Rebecca/Boat guy scenes which were boring and lame and nobody cares about her or the psychic. 

  5. Wait, is this real? You pay more with good credit?

    https://nypost.com/2023/04/16/how-the-us-is-subsidizing-high-risk-homebuyers-at-the-cost-of-those-with-good-credit/

    A little-noticed revamp of federal rules on mortgage fees will offer discounted rates for home buyers with riskier credit backgrounds — and force higher-credit homebuyers to foot the bill, The Post has learned.

    Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will enact changes to fees known as loan-level price adjustments (LLPAs) on May 1 that will affect mortgages originating at private banks nationwide, from Wells Fargo to JPMorgan Chase, effectively tweaking interest rates paid by the vast majority of homebuyers.

    The result, according to industry pros: pricier monthly mortgage payments for most homebuyers — an ugly surprise for those who worked for years to build their credit, only to face higher costs than they expected as part of a housing affordability push by the US Federal Housing Finance Agency.

    “It’s going to be a challenge trying to explain to somebody that says, ‘I worked my whole life for high credit and I’ve put a lot of money down and you’re telling me that’s a negative now?’ That’s a hard conversation to have,” one worried Arizona-based mortgage loan originator told The Post.

    “It’s unprecedented,” added David Stevens, who served as Federal Housing Administration commissioner during the Obama administration. “My email is full from mortgage companies and CEOs [telling] me how unbelievably shocked they are by this move.” 

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  6. 10 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Trying to shake down  advertisers for fucking $8 a month when you desperately need them is nuts.

    The thing is, a rational person could look at what Elon has talked about going back to the 90s, and why he reacquired X.com 6 or 7 years ago, and say "twitter is a part of his bigger scheme to make X.com, his everything app, work", except that Elon very clearly and openly gives the vibe off that he didn't buy twitter for that reason.

    Not as funny as the detonation of twitter, but a close second is the impending implosion of Tesla:

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    The big story on Wall Street yesterday was Tesla’s stock taking a steep dive after a rough earnings report on Wednesday. With its margins squeezed by price cuts, Tesla’s market value shed ~$60 billion, and it became worth less than Meta for the first time since 2021.

     

  7. 4 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Holy shit - how can you fuck up a business model that's pretty fucking simple.

    Well, wait, I guess you'd start with not doing really stupid shit and running off a bunch of advertisers, so he's behind the curve already.

    At this point one has to wonder was he tanking on purpose, for loss harvesting tax purposes or something. What a mess.

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  8. 6 hours ago, Buzzrock said:

    It really is an interesting study in power. There are two specific moments where one character passes on $250M guaranteed and another passes on $2B, wealth that 99.99 percent of world will never approach. But the lust for power is bigger.

    If you think about it that’s what’s driving a lot of what’s so wrong with the world: the desire to be able to exert control over others. It’s why Tom is so shitty to Greg: he’s the only show character he has any power over.

    It doesn’t resonate with me at all. I’ve only ever wanted to attain a certain level of economic freedom. The lust for power is totally unrelatable to me.

    Well la-di-freakin-da. We got ourselves a perfect person here.

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  9. 3 hours ago, shadow_operative said:

    couldn't agree more, i could not have given a shit less about that played out meet cute shit. i wanted to ffwd every scene, and i don't feel i'd have missed out on anything if i had. the formulado nature of this show can still be tolerable, but for me, this was not an example of that. it was trite and uninspired, and beyond that, it's a huge pet peeve of mine when a show does a storyline like that where it demands that i really really give a shit about a brand new character whom i've never even seen before. totally pointless.

    Preach!

  10. 10 minutes ago, Grade of D as in David said:

    He successfully use Twitter to pump and dump crypto and tsla stock. In his mind that meant he was a Twitter genius and knew how to run the company. Turns out he was wrong and should have just kept with the tweet grift especially after the SEC proved they had no real desire to punish him.

    He was (is?) the worlds richest man and he had an outsized infatuation with the trolling Twitter provided and it was his favorite hobby. He spent $20bn (as of yet, maybe the full $44bn will be lost) to tickle himself. Don’t get me wrong I think he wants to make money and make Twitter financially a success, but I also don’t think he will lose sleep if it doesn’t, as long as he can keep trolling NPR and far left.

  11. 15 minutes ago, Pig Bellmont said:

    How’s the business on paper, though? Is it booming?

    Not anymore. It looks like Tesla is moving from a luxury with elastic demand to a volume play a la Honda: 

    One day after cutting prices on its cars for the sixth time this year, Tesla reported that all those discounts made a big dent in its Q1 profits, which were down 24% compared to the same period last year. But with competition in the electric vehicle market heating up, the company said it was sticking with its plan to sell more cars for less. It expects to move 1.8 million cars this year, up from 1.3 million in 2022.

  12. Tesla’s stock price tumbles amid price cuts. Shares in the electric carmaker are down over 7 percent in premarket trading after it reported that first-quarter profit fell 24 percent year on year. The culprit was a price-cutting campaign to defend market share against surging competitors, though Elon Musk noted that Tesla’s price margins remained among the highest in the industry.

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  13. This isn't going to sit well if you are already upset about the PE angle:

    But more evidence suggests that the eye-popping number — which Dominion and its owner still claim as a win — might not be as costly to Rupert Murdoch’s media empire as it might seem. Fox’s stock has barely budged since the deal was announced on Tuesday.

    Fox can take a tax deduction from the settlement, Lever News reports. U.S. tax law allows companies to write off at least some portion of settlement fees as part of the cost of doing business. (There are some exceptions, including for cases involving accusations of sexual harassment or abuse with nondisclosure agreements; Fox News has paid out settlements involving those in the past.)

    It is unclear how much Fox will save, though a spokesman confirmed that tax deductibility is at play. Lever News estimated that the company could reap as much as $213 million in tax savings.

    That’s likely to further infuriate Fox critics, who already thought that Murdoch and his company got off better than expected. DealBook questioned yesterday whether much will change at Fox News post-settlement, given that the network won’t have to make an on-air apology or suffer potentially embarrassing public testimony by Murdoch or stars like Tucker Carlson.

  14. 40 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    That's why we are going to have to eat those folks when the shit hits the fan.  Hope you like the taste of human flesh.

    Matthew Broderick GIF

    If we all work together though, we can swap food so that we aren't eating our own relatives.  Nobody wants to eat Memaw.  Well, nobody wants to eat her anyways, since skinny old people have practically no caloric use, but I mean, you just don't want to eat your own relatives, it feels like something they'd do in East Texas, Oklahoma, or Florida.

     

  15. Serious question: Is it that the insane violence in response to random yet banal and everyday behaviors has hockey-sticked OR is it the reporting of said insane violence? I feel inundated.

    I feel like Tommy Lee Jones in NCFOM when he says, "I don’t know. I feel overmatched. I always figured when I got older, God would sort of come into...life in some way. He didn’t. I don’t blame him. If I was him I’d have the same opinion about [us] that he does."

     

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