Drumheller
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I have two thoughts
1. Burnt hair smell... smell of shorts burning.
2. Elon proving some of his fans will buy anything he sells, even perfume that smells like burnt hair.
I'm passing on buying this one.
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1. Burnt hair smell... smell of shorts burning.
2. Elon proving some of his fans will buy anything he sells, even perfume that smells like burnt hair.
I'm passing on buying this one.
Gigapress
Trying to be less wrong
Musk companies don't pay for advertising. This is one reason why. They sell ridiculous merch like Burnt Hair fragrance, not-flamethrowers, surfboards, tequila, whistles, Cybertruck icon sock sets, etc.
KnowLittle
Member
Looks like he relates it to his name. I did not get it until I saw his twitter note.
woodisgood
Optimustic Pessimist
More likely commemorating an inside joke/occurrence at TBC…
M.A.D.In all this doom and gloom, I came up with an actually very good reason to be genuinely bullish regarding the fear that China will screw over GigaShanghai.
Basically, there is no chance of that happening, and the reason is Starlink
China has several big fears. One of them is losing total communication control over its populace. The other one is giving Taiwan a large communications edge in case China attacks it. China knows that Elon could enable Starlink in both places with the flip of a switch, today. So in a sense China and Elon have each other by the balls - the only true long-term stable solution to a crisis
mars_or_bust
Member
It worked pretty good during the cold war...
And if Ukraine did not magnamiously give up all its nukes in the 1990ies, there would not be this crisis.
M.A.T.T. - Mutually Assured Testicular Trauma<snip>
So in a sense China and Elon have each other by the balls - the only true long-term stable solution to a crisis
Wait till Elon start doing power transmission satellites:In all this doom and gloom, I came up with an actually very good reason to be genuinely bullish regarding the fear that China will screw over GigaShanghai.
Basically, there is no chance of that happening, and the reason is Starlink
China has several big fears. One of them is losing total communication control over its populace. The other one is giving Taiwan a large communications edge in case China attacks it. China knows that Elon could enable Starlink in both places with the flip of a switch, today. So in a sense China and Elon have each other by the balls - the only true long-term stable solution to a crisis
2daMoon
Mostly Harmless
OK, this one confuses you, but, did the Not-a-Flamethrower, S3XY Shorts, Tesla Tequila/Decanter, and Cyber Whistle all make perfect sense?
It is art from my point of view. Ridiculous art, but, art just the same. A nutty reflection of Elon.
Perhaps these qusai-collectables fall into the realm best described by the late Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, who shared,
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro"
They are all more or less functional in some sense. Even the Cyberwhistle is a little tinny, but looks nice. If nothing else, I can hang it in my Cybertruck eventually.OK, this one confuses you, but, did the Not-a-Flamethrower, S3XY Shorts, Tesla Tequila/Decanter, and Cyber Whistle all make perfect sense?
It is art from my point of view. Ridiculous art, but, art just the same. A nutty reflection of Elon.
Perhaps these qusai-collectables fall into the realm best described by the late Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, who shared,
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro"
I can’t picture having a bottle of foul smelling fluid on my mantle just to ??? What? Why?
Maybe it’s actually tequila? don’t know.
2daMoon
Mostly Harmless
CLK350
Member
Cultural flashback - could AGI changes us for the better us?
Diego Rivera - Frozen Assets 1931 (Inside MoMA)
On exhibit at the MoMA (Museum of Modern Art), NYC ca 2012 - Fresco on metal framework -94 1/8 x 74 3/8" (239.1 x 188.9 cm)
Museo Dolores Olmedo Patiño, Mexico
willow_hiller
Well-Known Member
This was some actually useful criticism. I took the comments from your screenshot and ran them through a couple different pretrained models to see which picked up on the negativity the best. As you expected, VADER fails and classifies most of them as neutral or positive:
VADER:
Found one neural network trained on sentiment from Tweets, called "cardiffnlp/twitter-roberta-base-sentiment", and it seems to pick up on negativity better:
And then captured the scores of individual comments, and applied some smoothing and standard errors:
So it does appear that investor sentiment is falling. but /r/teslamotors ebbs and flows, and /r/news stays pretty negative.
Dont know how you combat inflation when landlords know they can raise rent because of housing shortage. My sons rent in Austin was raised 30% with less than a week to decide if they stayed or not. Lease said if they didnt give notice of moved out that the lease would be extended a year at the new rate. Luckily they rapidly found something new and only paid 15% more. This is one way FED is definitely not helping. People choosing to rent rather than buy and landlords taking advantage of it. My mother-in-law was hit with extra fees. She has a cat and cost was raised $20 per month to have cat. The put on her that she needed a liability policy or rent would be raised $100 per month. Finally her rent went up $100 per month for her 1 bedroom elderly apartment.
Consumer inflation expected to have run hot in September, boosted by rent
Stoked by rising rent costs, consumer inflation is expected to have remained hot in September but slightly below August's pace.www.cnbc.com
Excluding food and energy, CPI is expected to have risen 0.4%, down from 0.6% in August. But the annual rate of core inflation at 6.5% is expected to top the 6.3% in August, due to base effects.
consumer inflation is expected to have remained hot in September but slightly lower than August’s pace
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bkp_duke
Well-Known Member
As a landlord, it's not all "malicious" when you raise rents.
In TX, for example, property values are much more dynamic than other states (re-assessments can happen without a change of ownership, and frequently do). So if the local government raises your property taxes 30% (I had this happen in Dallas, that's not hyperbolae), you must pass that on to the tenant. You don't take hits like that and absorb them. Tenants are also much more likely now to call you to repair EVERY little thing (literally, light bulbs, etc.), than fix them themselves and ask you to knock $10 off their rent. Stuff like that gets noticed, and you raise the rates on renewals. I know I'm more likely to raise rents on a tenant that calls the service guy once a month than the tenant that never files a request unless it is something more serious.
Furthermore, I just completed some critical maintenance on a 20 yo home that we rent out, and the prices for labor and materials were absolutely bonkers. Appliances were crazy expensive, AND hard to get with long lead times. I can't absorb those kinds of costs and keep rent the same.
Sure, some people are just raising rents because the market is going up, and they know they can get away with it. But it's definitely a by-product of pumping trillions of dollars of "free" money into the economy the past 3 or so years and now the resultant inflation due to supply chain shocks.
Home builders are also VERY hesitant to start new projects right now, so the housing supply is very very low. My business partner was looking to start building a home a year ago, and all the general contractors were quoting him crazy prices (WA state - NOT Seattle) like $400/sf for a 1200SF log cabin. Something he priced out the prior year at $150/SF. The GCs were blaming the price of everything going up (lumber went up like 3X, steel 1.5X, concrete 2X, labor rates 2X . . . you get the point).
Drumheller
Active Member
Consumer inflation expected to have run hot in September, boosted by rent
Stoked by rising rent costs, consumer inflation is expected to have remained hot in September but slightly below August's pace.
Excluding food and energy, CPI is expected to have risen 0.4%, down from 0.6% in August.
Excluding murders, the homicide rate is down this month.
Don't need to imagine...Sick humor, I'm working with a CPA to do my taxes for '21. Timing is sadistic, was a good year.
No need to sell anything yet, should be close. But still, imagine writing them a check at this time...
Did the Nat'l debt slow at all, or am I just funding the Pentagon? I don't wanna know.
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