It’s the grift that keeps on grifting

He just need to keep promising things to keep stock prices high. That is more important to modern capitalism than actually making physical things that work and people buy. 

Tesla cannot figure out panel gaps, I’m certain that they will not exactly succeed on this. 

What is this drivel?  How many pictures of Musk are hanging in your house? What do Musk’s testies taste like?

To be fair...

Meanwhile, this is an actual (non vaporware-horseshit) robot, built by Hyundai.

He thinks we’re idiots. He thinks we forgot.

Oh yeah? Like the million robo-taxis? Or the Tesla Roadster? Or the semi-truck? Or the Hyperloop? Level 4 self driving? Or the Gigafactory producing 1GW annually? Or the 1,200 km range to the Model S?

Ok, the whole “promise exciting new tech, to distract from other tech that was promised and never delivered” shtick is getting old. Meanwhile Tesla is delivering $100,000 cars that have quality control and finishing issues not seen on a Mitsubishi Mirage; they’ve only been building the Model S for what, a decade?

ASIMO is still better, cuter, and less of an arse.

This dude is soooo unlikeable. Honestly I give him the benefit of the doubt because I think he’s altered the automobile industry, but he doesn’t give a shit about anyone, and never ever shuts his mouth.

Sure, but in a world with tons of ear bud options in the <$100, <$50, and even <$30 segments, I don’t consider $150 to be in the “affordable” segment.

Let’s say you have 100 people in the same occupation, and one of them decides to make a reality show out of it.

“Man whose parents have amassed just enough to retire at 65 without reducing middle class standard of living crushes their dreams in one fell swoop.”

I’m curious what Toyota thinks the dealers can do here. Run every customer through a CIA database (or whatever the local equivalent is)?

The Great Frito-Lay Strike of 2021 is now over:

Is this the “chip shortage” I keep hearing about?

I paid $2.29 / bag of Doritos 10-years-ago, now I’m paying $4.79 / bag. Mr. Drapeaux-Stewart’s pay only increased $0.77 / hour over that time; WTF am I paying for? Advertising? Raises for CEO’s that lie about their involvement in product-development, which they stole from small street vendors?

Same could be said for raising CEO and other C-suite pay, which has outpaced inflation by a factor of 10X.