Its all one. Elon mixes companies, thoughts, etc. within his tweets. And this IS called..the ELon Tweets thread.
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Elon & Twitter
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I would go back to regularly defending Elon and Tesla on Twitter. Lately it is the opposite. Very little defending Tesla and lots of criticizing Elon (although I did defend him a little yesterday).
I don’t need to point out how misguided this all is to point out...
It is WAY off topic. No one is here for bizarre movie / cartoon criticism and discussion of social justice and wokeism unrelated to Tesla, Twitter or Elon.
Though you WILL find a more appropriate place and welcome audience on Twitter for this kind of thing.
What is he even talking about Sweden is further along in full vaccination status than the United States. Oh wait he is lying again. My bad.
He's talking about the often misunderstood assumption by rightwingnuts that with respect to covid Sweden was some libertarian paradise of no government intervention.
Having had the pleasure on another board of going back and forth with an actual Swede during the whole thing, I would point out that the main difference between US and Sweden was Sweden had almost total public buy in to ministry of health recommendations, unlike here. When everyone masks up, social distances, and later gets vaccinated, sure, you can perhaps have fewer stay at home orders or whatever. See also South Korea.
If only Tesla had an actual comms department instead of delegating (almost) all marketing to a small handful of non-dedicated twitter accounts
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Krugerrand
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You believe it’s affecting your portfolio, nothing more. You know how to rectify that.
ElectricIAC
Good-Natured Rascal
Sell it to us at a 10% discount? It’s a distressed stock according to the MSM.
Bet TSLA
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Pretty much once Elon seriously asserts that AP is "hard left" that leaves things like Fox News as unbiased. So his assertions don't mean anything like what they seem to mean. His middle of the road is what anybody else would call partisan to hyper-partisan right.Kanye just got banned didn't he.
Yes a bunch of accounts have been reinstated, but if they still spew hate, don't you think they will get banned?
+Elon seeing what he saw inside twitter, thinks v1.0 was extremely left biased. He is starting with clean chit, but I think a lot of accounts will get banned again (after they pay $8
Once you start believing nonsense, anything can make sense. And when you surround yourself with people who spew nonsense, it's easy to start believing it. Especially when you're looking for scapegoats ("Why doesn't my kid love me?").
What I'm hoping is that all these jerks Elon is hanging around with fail badly at everything he asks them to do, so maybe he begins to grasp just how wrong and useless they are.
AlanSubie4Life
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It’s not really lying, it is just nonsense. It takes a lot more effort to refute nonsense than it takes to create it. Not really even related to the Tweet he replied to!
It’s just a reminder that Elon is not operating from first principles on Twitter, and is just amplifying and driving engagement. I can’t imagine this is good for Truth Social!
It’s very interesting, and I wonder whether (and how) it is possible for it to get worse.
In addition - if you compare death rates in Sweden to neighboring countries, Sweden fared far worse. And similarly for economic effects of covid as well.
So again - while as Elon says, "Sweden is fine" - as you say the truth is far more nuanced than that extremely generalized statement - and comparatively, Sweden is did not do "fine" compared to neighboring countries and could have done a lot better.
Elon's tweet needs to have a community note attached.
ElectricIAC
Good-Natured Rascal
I’d be interested in seeing what the second order effects were in Sweden and use that as a point of comparison as well.
Love all the REEEEEEEEEEEE.
It is like an insane asylum. You all do realize this is just the beginning. Like, this is just the tip of the tip of tip of the iceberg.
It is like an insane asylum. You all do realize this is just the beginning. Like, this is just the tip of the tip of tip of the iceberg.
NigelM
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Today's is not the Elon I met in 2012 - That was a leader with vision, a nerdy engineer with a quirky sense of humor and incredible drive; all together it made him endearing. I honestly think that having hundred's of millions of people now listen to him and power literally over people's lives and reputations has sadly corrupted him. I fear that every Tweet further down the crazy rabbit-hole is going to make it harder and harder for the genius ever to return.
Mortality in Norway and Sweden during the COVID-19 pandemic - PubMed
<span><i>Background:</i> Norway and Sweden are similar countries in terms of socioeconomics and health care. Norway implemented extensive COVID-19 measures, such as school closures and lockdowns, whereas Sweden did not. <i>Aims:</i> To compare mortality in Norway and Sweden, two similar...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Here ya go.
A Final Postmortem on the Swedish Experiment - Kevin Drum
Tim Skellet reminds me to do a final postmortem on the Swedish pandemic experiment. As you'll recall, they basically went about business as usual on the premise that the coronavirus would do what it was going to do regardless of what measures they took. So how did that work out? One thing...
jabberwocking.com
Based on your posts here, you would like Drum, he's probably right where you are on that graph.
Really, the most disappointing thing about Elon and Twitter is that when it comes to research anyone can go to the underlying facts in a matter of minutes.
I'm mostly frustrated by the eagerness of anyone to re-post stuff without doing any research on it. Especially on Twitter where alleging someone ought to be prosecuted or worse is just another tweet.
Gigapress
Trying to be less wrong
Yes, back to looking at statistics. That’s what matters.
No. You’re assuming a nefarious motive when in fact the California New Car Dealers Association didn’t report data on Lucid and I didn’t notice.
Tesla sold more than 100x more cars in California alone than Lucid did worldwide in Q3 so I struggle to see how that substantially changes the point I was making.
Here’s a modified version that’s more accurate:
Here Elon is referring to the priority of becoming political to save humanity from the "woke mind virus". I think he should have added a 0 or 00 after that 1.
Heh my dad just called me asking realistically what the trade-in on his model X would be and what would be a decent car to replace it. We're both physicians who saw the pandemic very up close, and the recent tweets are the direct cause of wanting to drop the company. Right now he's leaning BMW iX. I think I'm going to have to go with the i4, or maybe stretch a little and go for a Taycan.
I wouldn't be surprised if Elon skips this next quarterly results call because I bet most of the institutional questions will be about Twitter and that is a big distraction.
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