hobbesmaster posted:

thats a liquid fueled first stage, how in the world are you going to "cheaply" supply a single engine the size of the first stage of a saturn v?!

Qwijib0 posted:

at this point shouldn't all the drama be baked into the price by now?

Who's the investor that sees this and is "ok, now's the time to get out, this musk fella I don't know"

iospace posted:

The stock market reflects one thing and one thing only: a company's ability to pay dividends. Nothing more, nothing less. AT&T has taken out loans to be able to pay dividends, otherwise its stock would crater (despite being profitable as a company), because a company's public perception lives and dies on the stock market because...

You loving guessed it!

iospace posted:

Amazon is also the company that treats its workers like utter poo poo, and investors are hoping that it becomes the norm so more money ultimately flows to them. See also: Uber. There's other reasons why stock does well, but that's the main reason that I mentioned.

Also, reminder that investors freaked the gently caress out when Delta decided, mid-contract, to give its pilots and flight attendants raises. One even said "Labor gets paid while the investors get scraps."

which is how it should be, fuckface.

Baxate posted:

I was looking at nhtsas site to see what cars don’t have 5 star ratings and all I could find was like the Ford Fiesta which is 4 stars but is also like 2 sizes down from the model 3

the Honda Fit gets 5 stars tho
so congrats to elong.

Kevin Mitnick P.E. posted:

nice but does it have room for a 6 foot tall fat man

the impreza does not if that helps

graph posted:

whoa

President Beep posted:

Powershift posted:

At what temperature though


AT WHAT TEMPERATURE!?!?!?!?!?!

President Beep posted:

you have to know where the beans came from and then heat/cool the correct amount of water to the median daytime high temperature during the last third of the growing season.

come on.

Achmed Jones posted:

the russians used their teeth

Qwijib0 posted:

found this new explanation for the no-rail-at-the-factory


it's an angle I hadn't heard or thought of but if it's true is there some low level of trains where it's not worth running them? (also surely someone else would have unearthed the minutes from these local meetings with the number of twitter gumshoes)

Qwijib0 posted:

my instinct says no, but I really don't know-- if you knew you were probably only ever getting somewhere between 10-20 ever again, is that a low enough number you write off rail onsite?

Other things I know nothing about : those spurs looked pretty short, do rail movements count toward "number of trains"?

abigserve posted:

lol I missed have missed this being linked before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOPYpD1Knpw

a video of a tesla driving on an exceedingly well marked country road with basically no other traffic manages to almost lose traction several times and culminates in a beeping warning as it literally goes into the gravel on the side of the road for a second

how is this allowed to exist, seriously

FAUXTON posted:

Tesla ownership is self ownership

ADINSX posted:

to thy own self stay owned

Jabor posted:

Apparently, after spending tens of thousands of dollars on a new vehicle, he hasn't received anything at all that would prove he actually owns it.

Skim Milk posted:

don’t sign

Wiggly Wayne DDS posted:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4950588-SEC-v-Elon-Musk.html

incels interlinked posted:

https://twitter.com/nickbunkley/status/1045408754743877635

im dying

Fuzzy Mammal posted:

$420 is funny but even funnier to me is the head of investor relations being literally hung out to dry


they didn't now poo poo.

Sniep posted:

in a last stab from near the grave, Radio Shack buy's Tesla and implements a new offer where buy a tesla and get a matching android cell phone case free

Sagebrush posted:

like there's i think a major misunderstanding that people have about just how many resources they consume, and what sort of infrastructure there is behind the scenes to handle that. they just don't have a concept of how big a farm is and how much land worldwide is devoted to food production

example: a student wants to build the


that goes in the corner of your apartment. and i ask them: what is the benefit of this over a window box? and they say oh, families can use it to supplement their meals with vegetables, or whatever. and i raise an eyebrow and ask them to do some math on how much space a hypothetical food crop (let's say tomatoes) needs, and how quickly it grows, and how much food a family consumes per week, and come back with an analysis of just how big an offset this would make.

another recent example: guy who wants to make a machine that takes your food waste and composts it into methane which is fed back into your house's gas system, thus turning food scraps into energy savings. even setting aside the infrastructure problems with plumbing and code and such, i just have a really bad feeling about how much natural gas your e.g. water heater or stove uses compared to how much you can get from one family's decaying food scraps

or solar panels. loving everybody has this idea that you can just stick a solar cell on your $product and never worry about batteries again. two minutes of math shows how it doesn't work but everyone goes "oh, but like, even if you let it charge all day?" and i'm like yes look your thing draws two orders of magnitude more power than you can produce

Shifty Pony posted:

heartily amused?

lancemantis posted:

I wonder how much of the suspension failures could also be attributed to the fact that Teslas are incredibly heavy cars and likely the components were designed for a car 1000 lbs lighter

infernal machines posted:

yes.

they all weigh as much as a small truck

President Beep posted:

seriously. wtf is up with that?

Fuzzy Mammal posted:

making less vehicles yes, but also with over 7 times the employees per vehicle made per year

mystes posted:

Probably people are only using Autopilot on highways in good weather conditions.

Luigi Thirty posted:

I convinced my dad to invest $400 in apple when I was 12

now I have $10,000