Elon Musk Destroys Everything

Holy cow:

A major financial institution like Bank of America is claiming to be impressed by that ridiculous supervised “robotaxi” B.S.? Makes me wonder if Tesla owes B of A a whole lot of money. There’s that old quote from John Maynard Keynes: “Owe your banker $1000 and you are at his mercy; owe him $1 million and the position is reversed.”

(Although it’s probably a lot more than $1 million if they’re working this hard to promote the company)

Edit to add:
I just looked it up, and according to a SEC disclosure in May, Bank of America owns about 25 million shares in Tesla. So any optimistic statements that they put out about the company should be treated accordingly.

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Don’t see politician or election on the list of things to buy.

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Oh, It is an investiment.

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If you scroll down it has “influence high ranking politician” for 3 million USD each.

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Oops, missed that.

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Now if they can all just burn up in the atmosphere too that would be some real progress. It would be great to get our nighttime skies back again.

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i wonder if this had any contributing effect on yahoo! mail having gone down for most of the day today, 24 july?

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Yahoo mail?! That’s a tem I haven’t heard in a while. Isn’t that still delivered via riders on horseback? Or have they upgraded to messenger pigeons?

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yes, and the pigeon carrying messages dropped right out of the sky, flying through the south florida air. while it us unknown if it was heat and humidity, or bubba’s shotgun that felled them, the bicycle couriers were able to pick up some of the exposed critical correspondence and deliver to the end client within the week.

besides… regardless the subtle derision conveyed in your question, my email@aol.com was unaffected.

gmail ain’t everything for everyone, my dude.

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You reminded me that this is also a thing that exists:

It’s slightly more thoughtful, if I recall correctly.

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Easy, man. I still have an aol.com address. At this point, i keep it out of sheer orneriness.

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And at the other extreme, the kids these days would say “Email? Oh yeah, people used to use that, didn’t they?”

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that’s the spirit!

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Sorry, didn’t mean to sound judgemental about your email service of choice or anything. I just find the mention of the name Yahoo to be funny because it’s

  1. Ancient by internet standards
  2. The company rather infamously rose to greatness then flamed out a couple of decades ago
  3. It was chosen as a name because it’s a funny word.

Old internet companies that have somehow stuck around that long do deserve some respect. AOL somehow continues to exist and function even though they’ve been around since the 1980s. Seriously, that’s amazing.

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Elon Musk Loses $12 Billion In Wealth Overnight As Tesla Bets Future On Robotaxis

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This is (IIRC) a bit less than 1% of his wealth. Sounds like a lot, it is not.

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It should be a bit more. I don’t remember his current net worth, but if he was a trillionaire all the assholes would keep going on about it.

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I make it 3 % a rounding error.
Still, if Tesla goes down, so does Leon.

If I would use AI picture generators, the prompt would be something like A driverless Cybertruck in FSD mode hurtling down an alpine pass road with Elon Musk, duct taped into a neat parcel, in the backseat.

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