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The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

Toady posted:

i hope they were all saved



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The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf
Cross posting from C-Spam

FistEnergy posted:

Ok @IspyTsla is the guy who's been taking video at Tesla's tent factory. The one where, according to Musk and last month's NYT puff piece, a ton of cars get made in a giant tent to keep things rolling. Maybe you think the videos mean nothing, but he's there. The videos are real. He's been doing it for months.

Last month's giant push to put out a huge number of Model 3s ended with almost 5000 'factory gated' in the last week. There have been a ton of photos taken of TM3s at Tesla service centers with tags saying this. Over the course of the month, somewhere around 12k cars were 'gated' and never arrived to customers, service centers, or anywhere else. A total of 29k cars produced but never sold according to the SEC.

https://twitter.com/Andreas_Hopf/status/1019818032871469056?s=19

https://twitter.com/TeslaCharts/status/1019734214391017474?s=19

Spergs have been checking service centers, looking for new production to account for the missing cars or cars paid for but delayed weeks for no good reason.

https://twitter.com/ContrarianShort/status/1019391551229788160?s=19


https://twitter.com/BosInvestor/status/1019301614321061891?s=19

https://twitter.com/Benshooter/status/1019789148087992320?s=19

Fast forward to yesterday. People are trying to find a secluded location near the Tesla factory that could hide a ton of unfinished cars reported as assembled/sold. Someone finds a perfect spot nearby:

https://twitter.com/mydoghasagun/status/1019793319004495873?s=19

LNR Auto Transport

The location is perfect, it's an area that basically does nothing, and the ad even shows a bunch of Teslas.

So here's @IspyTsla again, checking out the tip and taking videos of semis dropping off a sea of new-looking Teslas and driving away empty:

https://twitter.com/ValueDissenter/status/1020018426973048832?s=19

https://twitter.com/ValueDissenter/status/1020021601356546048?s=19

https://twitter.com/IspyTsla/status/1020023819396820992?s=19

https://twitter.com/IspyTsla/status/1020024882166300672?s=19

I'm phoneposting but um holy poo poo, it looks like the best sperg sleuthing ever.

https://twitter.com/eriz35/status/1020025212581052421


Car Citizen

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

Schadenboner posted:

What (other than being Teslas) makes them unsellable?

I think its that they've completely cut back on construction quality and fixing issues, so they can get cars out the door, even if they're too broken to actually sell. But it lets them hit their production targets so they don't scare off investors

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf
You missed the best parts

https://twitter.com/mashable/status...%3D1249%23pti28

https://twitter.com/JasonStutman/st...%3D1249%23pti28

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf
https://twitter.com/mashable/status/1197733154674446337


:lol:

I cant tell what he threw at it?

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

how many tons of batteries do you think the tri-motor version will have?

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf
https://www.tesla.com/xNVh4yUEc3B9/11_Desktop_Video.mp4

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf
https://twitter.com/mrsundaymovies/...ingawful.com%2F

With audio

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf
Both windows

https://twitter.com/engadget/status...ingawful.com%2F

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

The Management posted:

did they gently caress up on the model 3? I live in Silicon Valley and every third car here is a Tesla so it’s hard for me to gauge how well they’re doing.

I’m guessing they’re going to make a submarine and an airplane next.

Somewhere around 1/3 of them came off the assembly line permanantly unsellable and broken, and they also completely hosed up their made to order system and just pressured people into accepting whatever car they had on hand when it was delivery day. Plus, it still ages to get them repaired because they dont have parts

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

Bulgakov posted:

public transit and being amongst all sorts of other people rules

Though the kind where you're still stuck in traffic suck.

Make more dedicated bus lanes

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf
No, California locked down super early and has stayed locked down, and we've had a lot less cases as a result. It's literally him saying the lockdown worked so we never actually needed to do it.

Plus hospitals have stopped handling everything except Covid and real emergencies, so those are the only patients in hospitals right now

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf
They should have just made the old xkcd Bobby Tables joke, would have been better than this and would have helped bring back the bazingas who have been feeling alienated

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

MomJeans420 posted:

I guarantee the kid's nickname is bazinga

Oxcart

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf
So what horrific ethnic slur did Lovecraft name his cat?

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

FrozenVent posted:

I believe it was a black cat

Well I just looked it up and yes, he called it what you would have expected

That tweet is fake, right?

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf
Atleast if they move to Reno, they might build a car that can handle snow and cold temps

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf
https://twitter.com/Kane__Stanley/s...ingawful.com%2F

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1259945593805221891

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf
https://twitter.com/passantino/status/1259970306342481920

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf
Also, they had approval to open up next week, he is throwing this giant fit over 7 days

This is the dude who is so worried about his companies value so much that he crashed the value by like 10% 2 weeks ago by tweeting the stock was overvalued.

He ain't exactly firing on all cylinders

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

FMguru posted:

i thought los angeles did a pretty good job rejuvenating its downtown

staples center is one of the very very few sports arena centered renewal projects that actually worked

Probably helps that the Lakers won 5 championships in the 20 years after it was built :smug:

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

epitaph posted:

one of my favorite charts, courtesy of lyft circa 2016:



only felon musk seems to still be in on the delusion, other players looking to make a quick buck are getting out (cf uber, lyft, etc)

Almost like real time image recognition of moving situations at highway speeds is a really loving difficult task that cant be solved by just throwing neural nets at it

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

Elon Musk: please describe my weird micropenis to the media

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

LanceHunter posted:

Wait, they're turning off everyone's badge access tonight, and then will be turning it back on for those who stay? That is psychotic. Also, unless they are also doing that with VPN and system access as well then it doesn't really help prevent a disgruntled employee from loving things up.

Clearly, the way to be one of the first to know if you are fired is to stay logged in to the VPN overnight. If you suddenly get kicked at 9am, you're out.

I think it's more about preventing a mass shooting than preventing sabotage

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

Ultraklystron posted:

I mean, sounds like a lot of folks aren't heart broken about it: https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1588390821069737984

I think they know the place is about to turn into a massive tire fire and they're glad to not be burned by it, but I think they would still rather it wasn't on fire in the first place

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf
https://twitter.com/RMac18/status/1588635999621767168

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

4lokos basilisk posted:

so its weird to me that the blue checkmark ship it on monday or get fired team is doing this death march.
because there probably is some sort of law or regulation saying that boss man can't just show up and tell you to move mountains by next week or be fired "for cause".

otherwise, what's stopping abusive bosses from showing up, shifting deadlines to tomorrow and then when the team predictably fails to make it, it's cause for firing?

this may start a derail about wonderful things in american work culture

In states with actual employee protections, it would probably get contested in court as a violation of the WARN act (or similar local variants) and in the states without them, you can just fire them without making up a reason.

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf
Looking forward to the glorious days of twitter 2.0 which is all hellthread and pigballs.png

(Or was that GBS 3.0?)

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf
Musk is very quickly learning that Twitter was already close to be being the best revenue generating version of itself

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

rotor posted:

he wants to do payments. So you'd chat with your friends, send them $10 for your split of lunch, buy your groceries with TwitterPay instead of applepay, and so forth.

Because it's the only thing he knows. And he doesnt even know it very well.

Awesome, cool, 2 weeks ago Twitter was a respected brand and considered to be a major influential player in the tech scene. The world's richest man buying something like that and eating short-term losses while they expanded into new markets is some JP Morgan type of poo poo.



EXCEPT HE FIRED HALF THE COMPANY

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

Beeftweeter posted:

well i mean its also much easier to copy a bunch of text with an intentionally limited character count

Nah, Facebook totally says videos get 50x the impressions

Definitely real numbers that won't devastate an entire industry

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

psiox posted:

omg

this is really the funniest week of all time

Nah, its still when Trump caught covid

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

Shifty Pony posted:

I'm really confused why he he thinks load times in India and Indonesia are of such importance.

He probably hopes he can replace all of the posters and advertisers he is losing in the US with ones in other markets

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf
Yeah, it's pretty amazing that he just completely killed it in less than a month. Like it might limp on for a while, but he has completely wrecked it in terms of where it was. Kinda like how Tumblr got destroyed and a big part of internet culture died with it.

The posters kept posting somewhere else, but it wasn't the same



I'm still sad that Facebook murdered blogs by lying about video views to advertisers. Blogs were better than twitter

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

Ultraklystron posted:

If federated protocols actually take off widely, I kinda expect big tech to spin up instances that resolve most of the issues. gStadon and faceStadon and so on. If not, it'll still be a sufficient bridge along with other social networks to keep connected until something settles out. Lord knows it's not the first time the internet had a social network go toes up, and it won't be last, but some how folks re-congeal into the same sets.

Yeah, but when Tumblr died and they all fled to twitter, those posters didn't recreate Tumblr there. The community changed to fit the place

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf
https://mobile.twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1593799514892431361

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

ADINSX posted:

Has Tesla had a new car since the model 3? I remember my nerdy coworkers buying preorders for that in like 2014…

I think the Y came out after the 3

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf
I still can't get over the fact that he paid 44 billion to become Lowtax

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The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

mystes posted:

I'm sure everyone else remembers this but I had apparently forgotten that Musk had previously explicitly said that he was going to keep the plane tracking account up in the name of free speech, and I was just reminded of it, and lol
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1589414958508691456



Even funnier when you click through

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