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fuck the earth amirite?

 

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Feb. 5, 2025 (Spaceweather.com): What goes up, must come down–which could be a problem when you’re launching thousands of satellites. Since 2018, SpaceX has placed more than 7,000 Starlink satellites into Earth orbit, and now they are starting to come down. In January alone, more than 120 Starlinks deorbited, creating a shower of fireballs.

“The sustained rate of daily reentries is unprecedented,” says Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics who tracks satellites. “They are retiring and incinerating about 4 or 5 Starlinks every day.”

https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2025/02/19/unprecedented-starlink-reentries/

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12 hours ago, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:

Took four little kids to the Austin FC game in my Tesla tonight.  Came out afterward to a slashed tire.  Thanks a pant load Elon.  

Messing with a person’s automobile is grounds for execution. And I don’t even believe in the death penalty. 

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8 minutes ago, Chopper said:

wrong thread

I wasn’t going to say anything, but since you edited it,  I’d say you meant to post this in a thread over in the Help forum, and all I can say from personal experience is use a water-based lubricant because anything else is a fucking nightmare to get out of bedsheets,

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13 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

I wasn’t going to say anything, but since you edited it,  I’d say you meant to post this in a thread over in the Help forum, and all I can say from personal experience is use a water-based lubricant because anything else is a fucking nightmare to get out of bedsheets,

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14 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

I wasn’t going to say anything, but since you edited it,  I’d say you meant to post this in a thread over in the Help forum, and all I can say from personal experience is use a water-based lubricant because anything else is a fucking nightmare to get out of bedsheets,

*heads over to Help thread

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1 hour ago, HenryJames said:

 "I literally challenged Putin to one-on-one physical combat over Ukraine..."

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Putin is a legit Judoka and Musk is a trash bag stuffed with giant cheese triangles. I would pay $9.99 to watch that PPV.

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1 hour ago, F250 said:

Putin is a legit Judoka and Musk is a trash bag stuffed with giant cheese triangles. I would pay $9.99 to watch that PPV.

I am no fan of either fella, but I know an ass whoopin' when I see one. I'm not saying Putty would be a world champion light weight MMA fighter at his 5'7" 150ish fighting weight, BUT an FSB grad is gonna make quick work of a fat nerd who has to fake online gaming skills.

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34 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

The fuck is that

It was a picture taken during Musk's vampire phase when he preferred to be called Lestat.

If you are familiar with What We Do In The Shadows think of a young Gizmo.

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Not entirely Elon related but putting it here anyway. 

https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-kryptos-code-artificial-intelligence/

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Clearly, despite the drain on Sanborn’s time and attention, he takes pride that his work remains relevant. You may need a security clearance or special permission to view Kryptos, but the invitation to solve it keeps the work perpetually alive, which is an artist’s dream. But then Sanborn checks his mail and sees this: “I’m just a vet,” someone writes. “Cracked it in days with Grok 3.” The answer wasn’t even close.

 

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10 hours ago, ultimaton said:

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"I challenge you... to PHYSICAL COMBAT!!!"

His Dad probably wouldn't let him wear makeup, but it's very Adam Ant-Duran Duran like. Just goes to show that if someone had given him more of a nudge when he began his whole midlife crisis, we could've avoided this whole DOGE fiasco because Elon would've just started his own middle-aged boy/rock band kinda like other celebs and rich guys do.

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Or just focus on building great EV’s.

We forget how awesome the early Teslas were.  Just expand on that and forget the stupid crap you did instead.

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TSLA topped out at 488 back in Dec. It is now worth less than half of that. Nice work Elmo. I'm sure your shareholders appreciate it. Of course, the board could always do their job and boot his ass from the company. 

Lulz.

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They still could.  Their brand power is good and I presume they have the cash and borrowing power to update their line.  New S, 3, X and Y’s and a recommitment to charging networks.  Drop the pickup, de emphasize FSD.  Just lean in to making the best EV and the best EV experience.  Traditional manufacturers are shrinking back from EV’s.  Done right, Tesla can soak up that demand.

At this point would making Elon walk the plank hurt the brand or business?  Europe hates him.  Crunchy (nttawwt) EV enthusiasts are literally rebranding their Teslas.

The board follows whatever common procedure for dumping Elon, goes on a apology tour and launches some “re-engagement incentives” that are ideally cost effective.

Bam.  Tesla becomes the cool kid again.  Re-emerges as the EV leader.  They can do it.  I know they can.

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13 minutes ago, Parliament said:

Their brand power is good

What exactly are you basing this opinion on?

Good where? There are bumper stickers people are putting on them to state that they purchased it before they knew he was a fucking Nazi. Show me one market where he's in positive favorability.

He's doing more to wreck any goodwill he had  more than anyone I can remember. There has to be someone that could compete with him for that ignominious title but I don't remember them. 

EV isn't going away, but it's not going to be Tesla that benefits from it.

edit: Oh yeah I meant to say Twitter is fucked this morning. Another thing that he has managed to enshitten with rapidity.

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Just now, wildcat09 said:

Without Elon, TSLA is no longer a meme stock. So they don't care how much he destroys the actual brand, because if they replace Elon the market will start treating TSLA like an automobile manufacturer and not like a magical tech company. 

This.  Elon is TSLA, TSLA is Elon.  Kind of like how there is no GOP but Trump anymore.

The TSLA board has to be ride-or-die with Elon.

Let's hope the outcome is "die."  Because fuck all of them, and fuck the economic enshittification that is "meme stocks."

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TESLA is/was an energy company that used cars to get people addicted to their new age business plan:

Instead of building supply lines to the customers, the customers come to you.

They were using gasolines point of sale business model to provide transportation energy as well as solutions to people wanting to live off grid. 

Elon kept thinking that it’s a transportation/ robotics (security & military)/ tech company that made him important and cool.

The South African P.T. Barnum has been able to fool people for 15 to 20 years… but as he is getting the ultimate access to power, the curtain has as been pulled back on his Wizard of Oz charade. 

He should have focusing on becoming the new John Paul Getty.

 

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1 hour ago, Blotto said:

TSLA topped out at 488 back in Dec. It is now worth less than half of that. Nice work Elmo. I'm sure your shareholders appreciate it. Of course, the board could always do their job and boot his ass from the company. 

Lulz.

SHOULD it ever have been valued at 488 or near that number?  

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3 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

SHOULD it ever have been valued at 488 or near that number?  

Ford is ten dollars. In what world is Tesla worth 20 times or more than that? The smoke and mirrors world of an irrational market.

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2 minutes ago, bolverk said:

About a half-hour ago, I heard about the below post on the Texas Standard as part of their wrap-up with listener comments on their socials.

One of them mentioned and linked this post:

https://www.facebook.com/jeff.anderson.3954/posts/pfbid0PzsXQ7o3wy2G6Mn5ZxC6z8FofQ5mkM1Lvp2TX7srrXATuY2RsvyQRYMDga4ykapdl
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@Hate this is our concern dude. This is why we can't just ignore the ugliness of what's going on around us and bury our heads in the sand.

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2 minutes ago, bolverk said:

About a half-hour ago, I heard about the below post on the Texas Standard as part of their wrap-up with listener comments on their socials.

One of them mentioned and linked this post:

https://www.facebook.com/jeff.anderson.3954/posts/pfbid0PzsXQ7o3wy2G6Mn5ZxC6z8FofQ5mkM1Lvp2TX7srrXATuY2RsvyQRYMDga4ykapdl
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Good.

Tornado alley is solidly Trump country.  When the leopard of mother nature eats some of their faces, without any of the warning that a functioning weather science system used to provide......that will be good for society as a whole.

They want people to suffer by a massive cessation of government services.  They think that everyone who benefits from government services is "welfare queens" (and we all know what color those welfare queens are).  Turns out, people who depend on weather warnings to survive are also "welfare queens."  Guess they should pull themselves up by their bootstraps and get their own radar and communications connectivity.  Fucking leeches.

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