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Mod note: the prior four or so posts have gone way, way off topic. Consider it a Father’s Day nod that, at least for the moment, they remain. But if there is any follow-up, it is extremely likely all will vanish.

Thank you for your thoughts. I guess you don’t know or remember how isolated we are? Nearest village 80 miles over the Alaska Range; nearest barely-qualified riggers 200 miles away. I DO wear the very finest safety harness. Usually. Sometimes, any way. Especially today when I also had to...

On PV & Roof Panels, and Waymo: Let’s wrap up discussion of rooftop solar, hurricanes and energy incentives here soon, please. I am being lenient because I’m in the midst of augmenting my own system this very moment (just crawled down from the roof trying to figure out how I’m going to solve...

Absolutely sincere congratulations to all who voted their conscience.

Thank you for the sincere post. Please do not make the mistake of conflating the pool of TMC participants with the universe of individual shareholders of TSLA. This group is a minuscule subset and the number of shareholders in that latter group whose holdings dwarf mine will be substantial...

It was under Rob’t B that I began those earlier threads, yes. They were the reason he anointed me Mod and eventually turned the entire task to me.

Perhaps you could suggest how me in my dotage, or my descendants, then best should proceed when Mr Musk either is ensconced on Mars, or otherwise no longer is around. This will happen.

No. I do not and never have had any proprietary or financial interest in TMC. Its owners are generally referred to as Administrators. As far as I know, there is but one who bears the monicker of Super Moderator and means that person can moderate any subforum. Most Mods look after one or a few...

I am pleased to see that at least one other thinks JB Straubel - a truly talented and even-keeled person - would make a fine CEO. Now, a question: those many of you who vociferously disagree with me: what do you make of Mr Musk agreeing with me: that he would prefer not to be CEO but solely the...

Do not discuss me without including that with the four Teslas in my garage and more shares of TSLA than you are likely to believe, and my declaration that I expect to keep that position for generations of descendants, that I very much have put my own experience where my money is. And regarding...

A little personal, non-Mod, comment here: Thick-skulled as I may be…or not…it is dawning on me that some consider me, at the kindest, some sort of skewball for voting no on a sensitive topic. A few points, all of which I freely admit are in an attempt NOT for you to agree with my vote, but...

I finally determined your handle! Naval Warfare Diver 🤣

Here is one good - if lame - reason: I have not taken it down because I am 100% ignorant of what it means. And I think I prefer to remain ignorant in this matter. It certainly reinforces my distaste for Twitter as a replacement for dialog, and for memes as well.

I have zero intention of desiring him to leave SpaceX.

A comment worth a response; thank you. Two reasons: First, as I wrote yesterday, I consider Tesla to be the ascendant corporation of our time. Second, but intertwined: if I sold - and paid many, many millions in taxes - to where would the moneys next go?

I had to debate with myself for many weeks whether to change my 2018 vote from “no”, to a “yes”, this year. That “yes” would have been far more a reaction to the Chancery Court’s decision than it would have been a vote of confidence for Mr Musk, however. Had I indeed voted yes the first time...

Well, let’s see if I can get you to reverse your downvote, or simply amass more such. Yes, I most certainly am serious. I cannot abide someone who is a weasel with his words. Who dissembles. Who tergiversates (look those up if you have to). I parsed out what is irresponsible in that statement...

Mid-summer* break from your favorite 🥰 Moderator’s regularly-scheduled hiatus from 24h/d riding herd over y’allz - If a CEO of any company for which I sat on the BoD ever said to the Board words analogous to: We are starting to get to the point where, once known bugs are fixed, it will take...

That this is our supremely busy time of year, and I make time to read the thread usually only between 4-7 am, does not mean all can run roughshod over the thread, over Moderator guidance and dicta from prior times, OR OVER OTHER PARTICIPANTS. Notes still are taken; names still are taken. In...

Endit. You know who you are. Now.

Not only are Mods working overtime and tag-teaming in extracting useless, garbage, and sometimes bizarrely OffTopic posts from this thread but… I have found myself with needing eye surgery to roll the eyeballs around from the back of my skull from the numbingly repetitive, unhelpful and...

You’re huggingly sweet.

2. Anyone posting that I or any other thread Moderator may be a troll is not going to be silenced or otherwise throttled, but he goddamned very well may be finding himself at the pointy end of a libel suit. That is beyond reprehensible.

1. Regarding the “$5 fee to gain the right to post” suggestion: I would never charge money for someone to exercise the right to post anything. But….what about: “Gee, nice post you just put out there. Be a shame if you thought having it stay up is worth more than one share of TSLA, delivered...

@Maarten’s idea can work on this platform. Yours, which I had many years back, cannot, unfortunately.

How would we (1) expand permitted contributors to the Exalted Few?, including those who Maarten overlooked? I always have maintained this thread is not a democracy. A meritocracy, though? Hmmm. By the way, @unk45 most certainly would be one of them.

I wonder whether Tesla can - and if it could, would it be an appropriate act - do as SpaceX does with Starlinks and geofence-disable any Teslas brought into Russia in contravention to sanctions?

I agree that few - in fact, no one - can amass all information from prime sources. Knowing how and where to collect, review and synthesize material, however - if that is not one of the facets of creation that absolutely defines what it is to be human, then what is? And if this is not veering...

I have very clearly stated my position on the Ignore function. Are you ignoring that, or ignorant of it? I have zero sympathy for any who use that crutch.

My wife and I agreed wholeheartedly that this comment encapsulates perfectly where the danger to intellect, to society and to humanity itself comes in. It is one thing to let the latest development in labor - autonomous and animatronic robots - perform heretofore human functions, although...

I strongly agree that the words lie/lied/lying are inappropriate in the case that @scaesare and @DarkandStormy currently are arguing. I ALSO am using this situation to buttress my roundly blackthumbed position of about two weeks back that it was inappropriate to so label Reuters for its coverage...

Economically, there is zero difference between a subsidy and a non-costed externality.

It doesn’t matter. All of that commentary is becoming far too close to Solely Politics for it to continue here. Done.

I’m having a difficult time taking seriously a company whose name’s first five letters spell “Felon”.

In that it is not “…in the continent (of Africa)”, hard logic says it doesn’t count. Summary: Imperialism regarding neighbors ≠ Imperialism elsewhere. Summary’s Summary: Some Imperialism is less unequal than others. Summary’s Summary’s Summary: 1984 was not a one-off thing.

You forgot my ACH Inbox number

TMC has been set up in such a way that the black thumb can not be waved away by any Mod. Were it to be used in abstemious fashion then it, like any tool, might have some value. Unfortunately, its overuse, more so by a few less than gruntled sorts but quite a bit by many, is at least as...

Had you been able to average the nigh-impossible 80mph (Hello, Wickenburg PD!) for that 130 mile stretch, you would have saved a blessèd 14m 40s. And yes: my wife is from Wickenburg and our winter house was right on that road. Those who treat it as an Interstate have nothing but my ire.

That approach remains, to me, not conversation or discussion, but a popularity/non-popularity poll. AND FURTHERMORE, this entire thread incontrovertibly would be so blessedly better off if everyone read up to the most recent post before contributing anything. One of the most tiresome features...

That would indeed be strange. People who want thoughtful discussion DISCUSS; they don’t BlackThumb and run away.

Ask and ye shall receive: Re-instituting two long-neglected, but never repealed, policies: Participants who state that they have placed others on Ignore; Participants who campaign in any fashion for others to place others on Ignore; Participants who state indirect “I’ve Ignored” comments...

You are assuming that, for example if the dropped headcount of 500 in the SpC team statement is true, at least some fraction will not be replaced?

Talk of Ukraine’s draft dredged up this from the Oligocene and my days as a tadpole. Certainly the earback-dry crowd will remember this, even though I’ve changed the lyrics enough to protect the innocent…and perhaps me from buck-nekkid plagiarism*. Besides, the words and meter are so beautifully...

Ah - all on the same page now, I’d say.

Preprosterous!

Not the best on your CV is “Preprototype Driver”

I didn’t think there was much debate that Vikings or pre-Viking traders founded Kyiv and Rus itself? That by no means determines the dominant genotypes emanate from there, of course.

Let's see whether it does better, worse or the same as a human with what one encounters on the Denali Highway:

I find myself in the amusing position of defending an avowed short-seller. Anyone who has spent any time reading my non-Mod, non-wordplay, non-family posts knows I consider short selling antithetical to the capital markets; that the SEC has acted unforgivably in formally declaring short sellers...

Ten minutes before the bell, and volume is at 6.99MM. The last number I recall from yesterday’s aftermarket was a whopping 62MM shares, but did anyone catch the final number? It all adds up to a reasonably significant repositioning; of course short-covering is going to have been the dominant...