Yesterday my backyard was full of drones.  Turns out, my neighbor is a beekeeper.

Automakers in the US sold 16 million automobiles in 1986. They will sell approx 16 million in 2024. The population also grew by 40% since 1986.

Teslas do not have autonomous capabilities.

It’s not about being low mileage, although that helps. It’s about it being fully stock. You will be hard pressed to find one stock in this country. Stock Supras can easily fetch $200k+. This Evo has the same cult following now. 

JFC. You people just can’t help yourselves, huh?  Let’s try some facts:

This article sounds like sour grapes. The Chinese have been infinitely more successful than the yanks who have had two space shuttle crash and burn. This, like their first home built aircraft carrier is just a trial run. And just like the aircraft carriers they’re likely to leap ahead with each new version.

No it’s basically the same design as it’s bigger older cousin space shuttle that is over 40 years old. 

Actually, as I look at it a little closer, it’s not a copy of the X-37B. It’s got a lot in common, but it’s also got a lot that’s different. For instance, this has a vertical stabilizer, like the Space Shuttle did. The X-37 doesn’t. But unlike *either* vehicle, it has extremely oversized winglets — so large they’re…

No, it’s a simple matter of physics and aerodynamics that dictate the shape.

Well, to be fair this is really a form-following-function kind of thing. It’s not like space vehicles are designed to sell themselves in a dealer showroom.

“It’s what HALF the people voted for.”

But many more than 50% of the people hit hardest voted for Trump...

The cabin is fully intact; crumple zones absorbed the impact forces. They burned to death.

Teslas are deathtraps and everyone buying one is signing their own death certificate and funding fascism.

Used car market about to blow up even more than it did during Covid.

Yeah, but automakers won’t feel a pinch. They will jack up prices of cars. And since number of cars on US roads has grown significantly, people will need new cars. They will also layoff workers, which works better for companies’ bottom line. Stock price goes up, money goes brrrr.

So we’re just realizing that Elon is dumb as a stump?

Bullshit. They aren’t a startup anymore, they have been selling product for *years*, and their sales have peaked and are declining fast (which is the real issue here). If you can’t cover your overhead, which includes R&D, you aren’t a viable business at that point. Just like GM wasn’t pre-bankruptcy, and it is…

Doing that discounted cash flow stuff is hard math to an art history major.  

And yet, it matters, because absent the ability to flim-flam investors into setting money or on fire ala Elon Musk, or getting on the stock price game of musical chairs, this level of losses when sales are declining is completely unsustainable. Expressing losses as X per unit sold is perfectly valid. That they are…