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5 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Man, let it go. Sorry I did not fertilize your rice farm in Fiji. WTF.....

Yes, and now it's a fallow, flooded field.

Only your magic poo had the right nitrogen-fixing formula, sir, so I'm obliged to be resentful.

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1 hour ago, royiv said:

I’ve wondered about the exact same thing. Or maybe he’s come to his senses and now realizes what a design abortion the Cybertruck is. Just kidding, we know it’s not that.

The Cybertruck is 100% on him.  Although I'm sure in his head, he's convinced himself that it wasn't his idea and that he was manipulated by the design team.  Or he still thinks it's a success.

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Tesla is recoverable but it doesn’t appear that Elon is taking 1 step to do so. He refuses to acknowledge that his actions are the reason for the downfall.

A few years ago I had decided that my next vehicle would be a Tesla. Now there is a zero chance that I would buy one. I don’t trust that Elon doesn’t have the ability to remotely kill any Tesla just because he gets mad at 3am. And I don’t mean kill my hypothetical Tesla but all teslas.

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39 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Tesla is recoverable but it doesn’t appear that Elon is taking 1 step to do so. He refuses to acknowledge that his actions are the reason for the downfall.

A few years ago I had decided that my next vehicle would be a Tesla. Now there is a zero chance that I would buy one. I don’t trust that Elon doesn’t have the ability to remotely kill any Tesla just because he gets mad at 3am. And I don’t mean kill my hypothetical Tesla but all teslas.

He actually thinks they all belong to him

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On 5/1/2024 at 7:45 AM, NoName said:

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John O’Reilly filed suit in April 2007 alleging, inter alia, a claim of misappropriation of trade secrets against Elon Musk. The alleged misconduct occurred in 1995, but O’Reilly claimed that he did not learn of it until 2005. The court, concluding that any claim that might be asserted belonged to O’Reilly’s former employer, Remote Telecom, Inc. (RTI), a suspended corporation, granted Musk’s motion for summary judgment. 

O’Reilly contends on appeal that the court erred in granting summary judgment. We will affirm the judgment. 

PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND 

O’Reilly filed this action against Musk on April 4, 2007. In July 2007, as a self-represented litigant, he filed the operative pleading, the second amended complaint (complaint). O’Reilly alleged that in October 1995, he met with Musk, who claimed at the time to have been a student at Stanford University, to discuss the possibility of working as a salesman of O’Reilly’s Internet Merchant Channel (IMC), selling advertising to merchants. IMC “was [O’Reilly’s] proprietary, Internet-based mapping and advertising system.” The system, developed through the efforts of “[O’Reilly] and his staff” “provided a highly user-friendly interface that permitted Internet users to view merchant advertisements (such as restaurant menus) and then obtain driving directions to those merchants.” During the meeting, O’Reilly “informed Musk that IMC was proprietary and confidential, [and] Musk verbally represented to [O’Reilly] that he would keep IMC information in confidence.” (Capitalization omitted.) O’Reilly disclosed to Musk at this October meeting and on two subsequent meetings that month various aspects of the IMC, including its operation, existing and future merchant base, and pricing. O’Reilly and Musk “agreed to formalize their working relationship” after the former returned from a business trip. When O’Reilly returned, he was unable to reach Musk and thought that he had simply decided not to pursue the job. 

We will sometimes refer to the allegations in the complaint in this paragraph and in the succeeding two paragraphs without the prefatory “O’Reilly alleged” in order to avoid undue repetition of the phrase.

Musk thereafter, having “misrepresented himself [to O’Reilly] as simply a Stanford student seeking an opportunity to sell IMC advertising, ” gained access to information about IMC that he then used to enhance a concept that he had for his own business, “Zip2.” Zip2 was sold in March 1999 to Compaq for $307,000,000 in an all-cash transaction. O’Reilly learned about Musk’s company, Zip2, and that it was described “as ‘an online map service’ company, ” upon reading a book in April 2005, nearly 10 years after meeting Musk. It was not until this time that O’Reilly became aware of Zip2, realized “(a) that he had been injured; and (b) that it was Musk who had caused the injury.” (Capitalization omitted.)

 

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Meh. I don't care if Elon stole Zip2 from IMC. Most business ideas are stolen, copied, borrowed from, whatever. This may shock some, but most ideas are not original. They take something, make it their own, and get to market. 

 

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17 hours ago, Captain Ron said:

At this point any sane board of directors would remove him as CEO. 

A board full of buddies often with the ceo also serving as the chairman...it's the American (corporate governance) way

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/brittanyanas/2023/09/21/elon-musks-tesla-supercharger-diner-and-drive-in-theater-coming--to-route-66/?sh=7ce2df8f4da2

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Elon Musk’s Tesla ‘Supercharger Diner And Drive-In Theater’ Coming To Route 66

Tesla is getting close to opening its first-ever entertainment-centric supercharging station—a 24-hour diner and drive-in theater in Los Angeles that will play famous movie clips on a big screen while drivers wait for their EVs to charge.

Elon Musk’s Tesla retro-futuristic supercharging station is being built on Santa Monica Boulevard, which is West Hollywood’s stretch of the historic Route 66. Last month, Musk, the co-founder and CEO of Tesla Motors, revealed some details of the charging station saying “Our Tesla futuristic diner (Grease meets The Jetsons with Supercharging) in LA should be ready later this year.”

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2 hours ago, HenryJames said:

I mean you can just fly back on your own dime. It’s half price air fare.

Can't I just take down a Australian flag and put up a US flag for return airfare?!? 

I mean, that tracks right?

 

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3 hours ago, Goredho said:

 

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Elon Musk’s Tesla ‘Supercharger Diner And Drive-In Theater’ Coming To Route 66

Tesla is getting close to opening its first-ever entertainment-centric supercharging station—a 24-hour diner and drive-in theater in Los Angeles that will play famous movie clips on a big screen while drivers wait for their EVs to charge.

Elon Musk’s Tesla retro-futuristic supercharging station is being built on Santa Monica Boulevard, which is West Hollywood’s stretch of the historic Route 66. Last month, Musk, the co-founder and CEO of Tesla Motors, revealed some details of the charging station saying “Our Tesla futuristic diner (Grease meets The Jetsons with Supercharging) in LA should be ready later this year.”

With his ten children and Supercharger Womb Room, I like how Elon is at least attempting to help his fanbois visualize what a uterus (and vagina) looks like even if it's not quite as accurate or as pleasurable as the real thing.

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1 minute ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

With his ten children and Supercharger Womb Room, I like how Elon is at least attempting to help his fanbois visualize what a uterus looks like even if it's not quite as accurate or as pleasurable as the real thing.

I wonder how much a night for the fallopian suite?

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4 hours ago, Goredho said:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brittanyanas/2023/09/21/elon-musks-tesla-supercharger-diner-and-drive-in-theater-coming--to-route-66/?sh=7ce2df8f4da2

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Elon Musk’s Tesla ‘Supercharger Diner And Drive-In Theater’ Coming To Route 66

Tesla is getting close to opening its first-ever entertainment-centric supercharging station—a 24-hour diner and drive-in theater in Los Angeles that will play famous movie clips on a big screen while drivers wait for their EVs to charge.

Elon Musk’s Tesla retro-futuristic supercharging station is being built on Santa Monica Boulevard, which is West Hollywood’s stretch of the historic Route 66. Last month, Musk, the co-founder and CEO of Tesla Motors, revealed some details of the charging station saying “Our Tesla futuristic diner (Grease meets The Jetsons with Supercharging) in LA should be ready later this year.”

 

Nell - Battle Beyond The Stars, right?

 

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9 hours ago, Goredho said:

 

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I would have been pissed if he was going to use Milliways branding and besmirch the good name of a magnificent restaurant, but it would be fitting since it feels like we are on the path to the end of the Tesla.

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5 hours ago, Captain Ron said:
10 hours ago, Goredho said:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brittanyanas/2023/09/21/elon-musks-tesla-supercharger-diner-and-drive-in-theater-coming--to-route-66/?sh=7ce2df8f4da2

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Elon Musk’s Tesla ‘Supercharger Diner And Drive-In Theater’ Coming To Route 66

Tesla is getting close to opening its first-ever entertainment-centric supercharging station—a 24-hour diner and drive-in theater in Los Angeles that will play famous movie clips on a big screen while drivers wait for their EVs to charge.

Elon Musk’s Tesla retro-futuristic supercharging station is being built on Santa Monica Boulevard, which is West Hollywood’s stretch of the historic Route 66. Last month, Musk, the co-founder and CEO of Tesla Motors, revealed some details of the charging station saying “Our Tesla futuristic diner (Grease meets The Jetsons with Supercharging) in LA should be ready later this year.”

Nell - Battle Beyond The Stars, right?

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(took out the rest as the first picture took forever to load)

 

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On 5/1/2024 at 4:54 PM, Captain Ron said:

I’ve been reading a lot about this Supercharger team gutting;, all I can really say is that it makes zero sense at all. Of all the moves, this has to be the dumbest one. Their charging network was their strength. It set them apart from any and everyone. You can’t drive anywhere without seeing superchargers. It’s almost frustrating (primarily not seeing non-Tesla chargers).

But it was a thing he understood - if you make EVs you needed a way to charge them at places other than your house. They have the big lead, but if they aren’t working at it, that can shrink or be lost. 

Ketamine is a hell of a drug. 

somehow it gets even worse. what an idiot.

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more, from elsewhere:

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guy responsible for supercharging on the utility side: 100% of my Tesla contacts are gone. No one knows who to contact. 20 sites in limbo.

US OEMS are in shock. Germans are having board meetings about rolling back to CCS1. They don't even know who to call at Tesla. Trust in Tesla is lost.

One key advantage Tesla had over other charging companies is that they had people who knew the local regulators, who know how to deploy sites in their sleep.

 

 

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-01/tesla-tsla-interns-are-the-latest-target-after-elon-musk-s-layoffs?sref=P6Q0mxvj

Tesla is dumping their interns before they even show up, even though most/all had made travel and housing arrangements.

And the hits keep coming

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-retreats-next-generation-gigacasting-manufacturing-process-2024-05-01/#:~:text=Tesla has been a leader,of hundreds of individual parts.

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Tesla (TSLA.O), opens new tab has backed away from an ambitious plan for innovations in gigacasting, its pioneering manufacturing process, according to two sources familiar with the matter, in another sign that the electric-vehicle maker is retrenching amid falling sales and rising competition.

Tesla has been a leader in gigacasting, a cutting-edge technique that uses huge presses with thousands of tons of clamping pressure to die-cast large sections of the car’s underbody. On a typical vehicle, the underbody can consist of hundreds of individual parts.

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Last year, as Tesla developed a new small-vehicle platform, it aimed to punch out the underbody in a single piece, Reuters exclusively reported last September, citing five sources familiar with the automaker’s gigacasting operations. The long-term goal was to radically simplify manufacturing and slash costs.

But Tesla has since halted the effort, opting to stick with its more proven method of casting vehicle underbodies in three pieces: two gigacasted front and rear sections and a midsection made of aluminum and steel frames to store batteries, according to the two sources familiar with the matter. That is largely the same three-piece method the company has used for its last two new models, the Model Y crossover SUV and the Cybertruck pickup.

 

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32 minutes ago, NoName said:

ok, lets see how Apple and Google respond.

Musk hates Twitter.  He wants to destroy it.  These changes are just so weird, plus allowing back some of the people who had been banned (it wasn’t just Fuentes).

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23 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Musk hates Twitter.  He wants to destroy it.  These changes are just so weird, plus allowing back some of the people who had been banned (it wasn’t just Fuentes).

He apparently hates Telsa too and IS destroying it. 

SpaceX is too important for the government. At least now dipshit knows better than to be a derisive dick there and fuck with that company. But the question is, when X and Tesla fails, will he resist the urge to be the smartest guy in the room at SpaceX?

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4 hours ago, Captainant said:

Can't wait for pronghorn and sack to post him as an authoritative source and then get butthurt when called out on it

Who could be more credible than Angelina Ngo

1 hour ago, crash_davis said:

dipshit knows better than to be a derisive dick there

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5 hours ago, NoName said:

 

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What people don’t get is that the bits in Silicon Valley were the believable stories. Most people didn’t realize that the real stuff that happened was so far out there it was unbelievable. 

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