OMG this is a fantastic one. They gave these things away and nobody ever used one. Great example of a massive flop.

Oh God. Cue the conversation I had in 2001 when our first child was born: “Yes mom, my brother and I did survive our cribs in 1970. No mom I don’t want it for my son, because by today’s standards, it’s a death trap. No, you can’t set it up at your house and use it for sleepovers. I’ll just buy you a new one.”

You left out the glorified barcode reader, cuecat, which “managed to rack up $185 million in funding from high-profile corporate backers such as Coca Cola and General Motors”.

Oh I can’t wait for all the “we road rear facing as kids in xyz old car, back in the ancient past and survived” survivor bias stuff in the comments.

Nah its the age old answer to the question of how to bolster the share price of a company with flagging sales. Job cuts look good to short term investors as an immediate reduction in outgoings without considering the long term effect on the companies growth of their role.

FAFO. Pretty much sums it all up.

Who am I supposed to feel for in this situation?
Cheaters getting scammed?
Family members of Cheaters getting scammed?
Scammers who aren’t getting paid?

he will ask any executive “who retains more than three people who don’t obviously pass the excellent, necessary and trustworthy test” to resign

It makes zero sense. The supercharger network is a valuable asset to Tesla, and one of the few selling points for Tesla cars in the current EV market. This isn’t a painful but necessary decision, it’s just Elon throwing a tantrum.

Imagine waking up each day to find a new stupid thing he’s done.

It’s to impress men and drive away women.

“Those who like the look”

Musk isn’t a serious person. He’s an idiot who started with too much money and amassed more on easy gambles and an unearned ego-driven image. A walking example of the “who’s the greater fool, the fool or the fool who follows him?” axiom.

Make the first offense an automatic license revocation and crush the truck.  Bitch about your freedoms while taking the bus.

Just start dropping the trucks into an industrial shredder. Nothing of value will be lost.

And after that people who play sound at 11, sitting at the corner and waiting on a green light - with the windows down. We do not care. We do not care how cool you are. In fact, we now hate your music. But, mostly, we do not care.

Layoffs. In the charging division? The necessary backbone to smooth and widespread EV adoption?  Is musk sabotaging his own company, the industry and civilization?

She argues that the study played upon stereotypes,

If by “strength” you mean wallowing in ooey-gooey emo and never ending group-hugs and therapy sessions, then yes, it’s quite strong. (Never forget, dilithium go boom because sad.) Give me “Strange New Worlds” or any other Trek show (even the much maligned VOY) where a crew actually acted in an even modestly…