Is he still trying to sue people into liking him? What a loser.

Tesla sales dropped in the first two quarters of this year for the first time in the company’s history, by ~10% and another 5% respectively. And this doesn’t specifically breakout the new red-hat purchasers for whom Elon is the new god-king that replaced some of those liberal consumers.

Every cybertruck owner I’ve talked with and/or seen was clearly a Trumpet. Two of the ones I’ve seen even had Trump stickers and one had one of those American flags on a pole on it. Admittedly (and thankfully) I do not live in California. Nevertheless, the net effect of Elon’s mask-removal has negatively affected sales, specifically because the almost exclusively liberal, college-educated, upper-middle-class purchaser that was the company’s main consumer is declining.

Nevertheless, my point wasn’t that it is somehow going to bankrupt Tesla. My point was the exact opposite: all this stupid shit – “liberals are boycotting tesla!” “Swifties are boycotting X!” “Engineers are boycotting SpaceX!” – does not actually affect anything enough to be worthy of celebration.

Good luck.

Keep up the faith, bro.

I really think it’s kind of unimportant. Elon is the richest man in the world. There is quite literally no way for him to ever not be rich. He decided to target what turns out to be over half the country to use his social media platform, and it will now, even more than before, become a central communications tool for the hard right and incredibly politically important. That’s valuable and, in this case, dangerous. You know how people use to talk about how important Twitter was for organizing and political dissent? The Arab Spring? Occupy? Well, it works both ways.

Swifties leaving X is the most unimportant thing I’ve read in a while, and I’m on Lemmy. SpaceX is still the most important space program in the world and NASA is now utterly reliant on them. Tesla, even after the mass exodus of liberal consumers, is still one of the top 5 auto companies in net profit. Elon is still the richest man on the planet and is about to get a high-powered position in the federal government.

But the swifties left, so. You know. Great.

The vehicles with a higher automated driving rating than Tesla use a more diverse range of sensory inputs. While it may not make fully autonomous driving, it very clearly would have made Tesla closer to it based on the fact that cars that use things like lidar in addition to cameras surpassed Tesla’s rating many years ago.

Finally someone else familiar with the most deadly animal in North America.

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And the locked “knife display”? Here are my knives, I really like knives, I like to display that I really like knives, would you like to talk about knives? Can I talk at you for 30 minutes about sharpening techniques? Perhaps you’d like to visit my katana collection in the other room? Lol. All kept near his fedora collection no doubt.

All in the name of friendly ribbing though, hobbies are cool and often niche. I’m often a little bemused by people’s esoteric or nerdy hobbies.

But I’m scared to ask if this dude even has kids, or if he’s just storing his kitchen knives in a locked box out of sheer paranoia. There’s safe and then there’s… whatever this is.

The desperate need to try to wave away any possible negative effects from social media by people heavily dependent on social media comes as no surprise. It’s like trying to criticize fast food to a fat person.

Some will acknowledge it’s bad for them and eat it anyway, but most will just get extremely defensive about it and try to rationalize or downvote. It has vitamins! If you only eat the unfried vegetables and only drink water, it’s actually good for you!

You are awesome. Can’t believe someone picked up that reference.

The trace buster buster BUSTER!

Everyone is doing it. What are you even talking about. You can’t unfuck the chicken.

It’s just basic economics. The amount of power and influence you can generate with a disinformation troll farm dramatically outweighs the cost. It’s a high impact, low cost form of geopolitical influence. And it works incredibly well.

Preach!

I totally get it. Good luck though, make sure you find a landing space first. WFH jobs are decreasing and are getting much more competitive. They’re also, unfortunately, prone to be suddenly or slowly shifted to in-office positions. Trying to work a mandatory period of WFH into your contract might be useful, but that’ll be pretty difficult.

As long as you are very employable and in the right field you should be fine. Using “transitional WFH” as a way to entice workers is becoming more commonplace and employers are often not transparent about it.

A friend works in HR at a place that hires as “WFH” and doesn’t mention at any point that there is already a timeline in place for two days in office after six weeks and then full time in office after three months. It’s not stipulated anywhere, it’s a “new policy” that comes down… on the same timeline… for every new employee. Lol

“Is becoming”…? Where you been bro.

It doesn’t need a 4K screenshot. It needs enough data/metrics from any given single frame to run it through analytics and an algorithm to tailor ads. Backend surveillance like this isn’t interested in fidelity to the human viewing experience. It needs identifying data. That can be had through a combination of low quality data scrapes done numerous times.

“Screenshot” is more like a metaphor here. Sort of like how your Apple or Google photos are “private,” but the data and analytics taken from them you’ve given away. It’s like if you told me I could look at all the photos on your phone and take as many notes and subject them to as much analysis as I wanted, but I promised not to actually physically keep your phone/photos. Probably makes you feel like your photos are securely still in your possession, but I got what I wanted. Your data is technically private, but my data about your data is mine.

It’s a 2-trillion-dollar company, I think news of their coming demise has been exaggerated.

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