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Probably this, and maybe also to put pressure on India to give a reasonable deal one can actually count on. India is a very screwed up country, with huge bureaucracies, and even larger corruption - and the paid off off corrupted officials tend to be very dishonest - i.e. there is no guarantee...

A counterpoint is the original Cybertruck reveal. Nobody had any idea whatsoever what it would be like. Granted, it took years for the final version to come out, for many different reasons, but the surprise reveal was of a fully working prototype.

Not really: this seems like a case of premapping a garage, and not a general solution. Completely different.

that is not far right. That is just plain capitalism. Your position is communism/far left. If you are happy being a communist, that is of course your choice, but then there is no common ground between your position and economic sense. Which renders any discussion with you an exercise in...

I think Elon will go medieval on Delaware, the same way go went after Disney for example. In the next few years Delaware will likely lose a lot of companies. Good riddance.

Your car insurance agent is more knowledgable about the current and future car trends than 99% of wall street.

Yeah, it means it should be easy for sweden to have much better run rocket companies. Oh wait...

bolshevik bastards

Oh well, false rumour :)

would not be surpised if Tesla invests on the order of a few hundred million dollars. Would be very happy with that.

The word you are looking for is extortion (and not negotiation).

Deep down, the unions know they are just parasites. But like true parasites, this does not bother them. They are only bothered if the public becomes aware of this, for then the public will want to get rid of them.

Yes! Tesla is suing the Banana Republic of Sweden ❤️ https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/tesla-stammer-svenska-staten--w6c0wx

EXcellent article on the issue - basically confirms what we have been saying here: the union is a corrupt, money laundering mafia-like extorsionist body.

Especially if you compare it to EVERY other car company - they have NOTHING exciting to look forward to. No AI, no robots, no energy projects, no exciting new models, no own batteries (except BYD), no new factories - nothing. Tesla has it all, and more - a breakout WILL come.

As I mentioned in another thread, Sam is likely a psychopath, in the truest, genetically linked, definition of the word. So many signs point to it. This sister abuse revelation is not surprising.

I used to live in the UK when the last great European ruler was in power there. Maggie of course. It was pure joy to watch her systematically and ruthlessly demolish the unions there. She saved the British economy then. Too bad her successors are mere mental and political pygmies compared to...

One would have thought so. But it seems the communists and the mafia rule Sweden....

Intelligent psychopaths are very difficult to spot, especially by people on the spectrum - which both Elon and Karpathy are. I of course do not know if Sam is a psychopath, but so many small things seem to point to that. I personally had experience with several psychopaths over many years, and a...

Actually, he might not. Karpathy is a very stand-up, nice guy, and it seems, reading a lot on the matter, that Sam Altman turns out to be a real nasty and manipulative kind of guy, maybe psychopath level. Such people are hard to at first identify as such if very intelligent, which Sam obviously...

Since the weekend is looming, how about some off topic discussion on OpenAI, regarding the recent firing of Sam Altman. I personally give 50% odds that Elon had something to do with that. He did say he will launch an investigation into how OpenAI managed to become a private company.

Yeah, standard mafia tactics. "Nice car you got over there. It would be a shame if something happened to it...." Good thing is Elon has the same low opinion of unions, and the megaballs to confront them, as did Thatcher and Reagan - in many ways the last two great leaders of the West.

Nah, I suspect Tesla will be more than happy for most of the opposition to go bankrupt. Remember, if GM for example survives, so does the UAW. Destroying the UAW, and the associated communist/mafia manifesto, does a lot more for the mission than keeping GM alive.

Don't you think you had enough puns Faraday?

Many neighbourhoods in Sweden (and the number of such neighbourhoods is rapidly increasing) are extremely violent and crime ridden, with murders and gang rapes. Pretty soon the police, or any citizen for that matter, will be able to enter them only with a Cybertruck - Tesla should condition...

And at end of the day, because of these differences: nonunion Tesla keeps hiring more and more people (over 100 k now), while union GM/Ford keep shrinking, and will eventually bankrupt - but the union leadership does not care - all it cares is milking its members, through mafia style extortion...

Good. Hope these autoshops go bankrupt.

Ayn Rand dogma created the Tesla we have today ;) Communism/unions/socialism/wokism and similar marxist crap have never created anything but misery for all involved (except for the ruling party/union leadership).

Only the crappy chatgpt is free, the useful chatgpt (4) is 20 dolars/month. Which I personally am very happy paying every month. X.ai is not yet at the level of chatgpt4, but knowing Elon, it will surpass it within half a year. And THAT would definitely be worth 16$/month. Plus, and this is a...

Would hate to have to ask Marvin to open the car doors.... "Here I am, brain the size of a planet,..."

Exactly. I am very sure that Tesla checks such backgrounds for all its new employees. This one obviously fell somehow through the cracks, unfortunately for Tesla.

With a profile like this, he should never have been hired in the first place.

Scania is 100% owned by VW 😝 And I don't think VW has a bright future. They'll survive only if they get bailed out by the government. So...

And Toys R Us eventually bankrupted. 😝

Companies need to obey the state laws, and nothing beyond that. State laws guarantee minimum wage, vacation days, maternitiy leave procedures, health benefits etc. Companies are formed from private funds, at a great risk from the founder(s) of the company. And they should be able to run the...

The union is mad because Tesla refuses to pay protection money. Face it, most unions in the western world are little more than extorsionists, legalized mafia.

One does not negotiate with terrorists.

There will be Mars :-)

What, again? That must be I believe the 10th leapfrog in the last 5 years. Very impressive indeed. /s

I think the inspiration could have come from the car in Minority Report.

This is consistent with 4 wheels.

Apologies if this was mentioned in this thread before, but it seems the new Isaacson revelations explain why Giga Mexico is delayed - initially the 25 K model/robotaxi was meant to be built there. But Elon wanted the design team to be in the same place as the initial production, which will be in...

Elon is just 50. There will be time for an updated biography at 60, when he becomes the first trillionaire, and at 70, when he lands on Mars to oversee a 10 000 people colony, supported by about 100 000 Optimus69 robots ;-) Agree that Tim Urban would be a good choice.

Interesting that this end-to-end NN seems to have started around the time Andrej Karpathy left.... Perhaps not a coincidence....

Partially yes - just more proof that the big three are dragging their feet regarding electrification. But even without it I think Elon would be going for the jugular - this crisis due to high interest rates and thus low car sales are an ideal time to destroy the Detroit dinosauri. Mass produce...

The continuing price lowering makes me very bullish about Tesla, as it is probably to some degree motivated to destroy the competition. If Tesla is able to scale quickly (they are), then by having lower prices (while still being profitable) that no non-Chinese competitor can match (even the...

Yeah, the entire "AI, Autopilot, & Autonomous/FSD" subforum is taken over by TSLAQ and other Tesla hating nutters.

Very informative, but P/E should be unitless, and not $.

Nice stock movement the last few days. Must be all the commercials Tesla is buying. /s