I’ve just remembered “I’m a free speech absolutist, but not when it comes to parodies of me” and “tweeting my publicly available flight logs is sending out assassination coordinates”. What a joke of an individual. Cry more Elmo.
No idea why people keep buying cars from this guy. Fuck this moron.
I’m in the EV market right now, looking for a good commuter car, and Tesla went from my #1 spot to one of the last options. It’s amazing how well he tanked that whole business. Luckily there’s a ton of
competitioncheaters nowA conservative was talking at me a few weeks ago about how much he loved how Musk was pissing off the libs and about how he’s a shrewd businessman. I asked if he would buy a Tesla and he said never. He didn’t have a response when I told him Musk doesn’t sound like a good businessman.
My dad was going to buy a Tesla up until a few years ago, there’s far more and better competition nowadays. And it’s really seeming Tesla’s are actively dangerous.
Try charging a non Tesla while on a road trip, you’ll learn fast.
I just went MA -> TN -> OH -> MA and only had one place where all stations were offline, but they came back within a half hour.
I’ve never had a Tesla supercharger be offline.
However I’ve had several EA chargers derated, one at 30kWh. Not to mention broken stalls. Or how about EA charging me the full price even though I paid for their membership thing?
ChargePoint never hit full speed on my last trip.
A random CCS station did better than any of the big names.
Tesla is by far the most reliable, why do you think auto companies are changing to NACS?
If you’re in California, be aware that there’s a hidden/sneaky “EV tax” and you’ll be paying (nearly) double registration fees every year. Mine went from $330 to alamost $700.
Also public charging is starting to be a problem as there’s not nearly enough charging stations and CA does nothing about it.
I mean I wouldn’t call it sneaky, it’s not like a conspiracy or anything. Most states pay for road maintenance and projects from gas taxes. Since EVs don’t use gas but still use roads they should pay their share too, so it makes sense it’d come from the registration. It’s still way less than paying for gas or taxes on gas.
Should be a variable charge like a gas tax placed on public EV chargers and not a one time yearly fee. There is a big consumption difference between a Hummer EV and a Smart EV.
EDIT: Not every state has thought clearly about additional EV fees. Starting later this year, Texans who drive electric cars will pay significantly more in registration fees than an average gas car driver pays in gas taxes each year…because it’s fucking Texas.
Are they going to put a monitor on your home charger then too?
He’s just upset zuck didn’t pay $42B for his app
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The hard part is scaling and building a user base, but threads simply bootstrapped both off Instagram so it probably wasn’t hard for them to make.
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He is literally a man-child at this point
Many of billyonairs are
I only know one Billy O’Naire, he is kind of a twat.
divorced man-child 🤓
Always has been.
Always has been.
🌎🧑🚀🔫🧑🚀
What is the context of his tweet?
Elmo is angy that Meta hired the employees he fired (or who quit because Twitter’s a fucking dumpster fire) to build a Twitter-like service.
can we not drag elmo’s good name through the mud? i understand it is to dunk on elon but elmo is a wonderful character from my childhood and my four year old daughter loves him also. i just don’t think it is fair to elmo
In the letter sent to the Zuck by his lawyers it’s stated that ex-Twitter engineers still have access to Twitter trade secrets, which doesn’t make much sense for people that haven’t worked there for months. This means that either he is basically lying or Twitter is not able to secure itself because they probably have also fired the people in charge to do so
Wait, didn’t he buy his way into Tesla and then forced out the previous CEO or something?
Yeah read the same stuff, it is his way to become innovator :)
What a rube.
I can’t believe I’m rooting for The Zuck. Worse case of “enemy of my enemy” ever.
Though if Twitter does fall Meta should be next. It won’t be, but it’s nice to imagine.
I wonder if this guy is interested in touring the Titanic wreck
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in his eyes, it was an ideal example of how capitalism, american dream, competition and free market works.
Every capitalist loves free market for the other guy.
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Depends on what you mean by doing well. It doesn’t follow that they’re making money from those 200M users. But they do have those users. If Meta can convert them to Threads, then they could make more money from them, given they actually have advertisers.
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“Competition is fine” says the guy that was born into wealth and was given a huge leg up in life. Although, I really hope they duke it out in court with Meta just so they burn through piles of money needlessly.
I’m thinking their lawyers are already on retainer and being paid anyway? The money they waste will be taxpayers funding the court system.
I thought being on retainer meant that they get paid to be ready to take on a case if needed and ensure they get at least partially paid for their services. I bet a major case like this would call for a whole team of lawyers all billing for hundreds of hrs of work. I don’t think a retainer would cover everything. I could be wrong though, I’m not a lawyer.
I’m not a lawyer either. But this will definitely fuck up someone’s day at the pro shop.
What part of it is supposed to be cheating?
Poaching Twitter employees and stealing “trade secrets”.
Because you know, it has nothing to do with the fact that Threads is basically just Instagram with no pictures.
Isn’t the FTC in the process of banning non-compete agreements? So the rules that Musk is claiming were broken are on their way out?
NCAs are already largely unenforceable anyway. Federal and state laws prohibit them except in cases of direct competition and the employee having specialized knowledge or skills. And even then, they can’t be for long periods of time, and if they would prevent the employee from a livelihood they can’t be enforced.
Usually what happens is someone who has a NCA will be hired by a new employer. That employer will see how long the NCA is in force and just have the employee on the payroll but not working until it expires. That, or they will pay the penalty in the NCA, whichever is cheaper.
Twitter is in direct competition with Facebook/meta/threads. And Twitter layoffs were 6 months or less ago. And these guys presumably have specialized knowledge.
So it seems like many of the criteria would be met.
I keep telling you that we need to eat the rich.
What kind of silverware should we use
Theirs.
As if there’s any secret to Twitter that any person couldn’t figure out, we’re talking about 280 character messages. I hope they both just cancel each other out.
Scaling it to Twitter’s size is the difficult part. Although Elon has been doing some excellent work in bringing decades worth of engineering work into decay within the short span of the past 9 months.
Facebook is significantly larger than Twitter, in the Billions (depressing). Guessing they have decent ideas how to scale an operation in the 10s of millions of people.
I wonder if Elon helped bolster engineering jobs in other companies. Like “See what happens when you get rid of the engineers you think you don’t need?”
