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Buckminster
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We all know that bots were fewer than 5% before Elon expelled the majority...
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Someone just posted about the new $7500 discount on the deal-hunting forum SlickDeals and, sadly, felt the need to add this disclaimer right from the start. The breadth and depth of the brand damage we've witnessed in recent weeks is stunning.
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TSLY
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I find it comical that so many sycophants on TMC call Musk, Elon, as if they actually believe they know him. 
Buckminster
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Elon said we could call him Elon as long as we are able to spell our respective hometowns...I find it comical that so many sycophants on TMC call Musk, Elon, as if they actually believe they know him.
ElectricIAC
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Elon said we could call him Elon as long as we are able to spell our respective hometowns...
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I find it comical that so many sycophants on TMC call Musk, Elon, as if they actually believe they know him.
It is common to refer to some famous people by their first name, especially when that name is uncommon enough that there's no ambiguity as to who's being referenced. I sometimes refer to Tesla's CEO as "Elon" even though I am so far from being a sycophant that I regard him as an embarrassment.
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Elon, Reeve, Musk, are all names unique enough to refer to him but I try to use his first name to avoid the respect that "Mr. Musk" might imply.
jabloomf1230
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I don't read anything into the use of "Elon" . It's just a shorthand notation that saves typing. "Full self driving beta" got reduced to "FSD beta" and then to "FSD b" . People hate to type extra characters.
Zilla91
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How many characters do you save by typing “Elon” instead of “Musk”?
JRP3
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I guess if all we have to argue about is what to call him that means he hasn't done anything stupid recently, so good sign!
ElectricIAC
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TSLY
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My post wasn't about Musk's name, it was about the apologists who gush and fawn over him.
Buckminster
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Who should we gush over if not the dude that is single handedly solving climate change. Actions, not words.
ElectricIAC
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JRP3
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That's a bit over the top. Battery technology improvements and dropping solar/wind costs are the driving factors. Without those Elon couldn't do much. Plus we are a long way off from "solving climate change".
Buckminster
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Solar and wind require batteries. What percentage of batteries come from tech that hasn't come from autos. Auto batteries would barely exist without Mr Musk from Los Anglesles (or however the locals spell it).
Climate is a solved problem - just execution.
OxBrew
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Sort of OT , but not entirely ("Elon is fixing the climate!!!!") Passenger EVs will not solve anything. They are great, and the right thing to do, but battery production should be prioritized for EV busses and micro mobility (including bikes and NEVs), if we really want to electrify as much transportation as possible in the next 8 years. That's a window we need to hit to actually keep the planet habitable, in a way that we can reasonably react to (less moving out of coastal cities, keep the food chain going).
If we magically switched all new car sales to EV today, it would take 20 years to replace the fleet, assuming no one ever bought a used ICE again.
That won't happen. It will be 40 years, at best. Passenger EVs are a fun thing to do, but won't actually solve anything.
Look around. Basically everyone is still driving ICE cars. EVs are in their infancy.
If we magically switched all new car sales to EV today, it would take 20 years to replace the fleet, assuming no one ever bought a used ICE again.
That won't happen. It will be 40 years, at best. Passenger EVs are a fun thing to do, but won't actually solve anything.
Look around. Basically everyone is still driving ICE cars. EVs are in their infancy.
OxBrew
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Sure, if we started 40 years ago.
TSLY
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You can lead a fawner to water but can't stop them gushing.
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