I sort of believe that this is also a jab at the board’s tendencies to overcompensate Musk.

Except that they weren’t representing Tesla and Tesla wasn’t trying to get out of paying Musk...

The car can’t move. Now instead of just remedying the situation, the cops create a situation where the protestor has to pay to have their vehicles repaired or they have to pay to get their vehicles out of the impound lot.

I’m sorry. Nothing entitles a group to displace people who live in an area in order to create an ethnostate. Nothing entitles a group to create an apartheid state.

When was the last election?

More than one thing can be bad. Being against the murder of tens of thousands and the purposeful starvation of hundreds of thousands doesn’t make someone antisemitic because the actions of the Israeli STATE don’t represent all Jewish people.

Starlink is currently at a tiny fraction of its supposed projected constellation size... “Look how good they’re doing right now” is not the flex you think it is.

In a later post, the billionaire also claimed the car could go from zero to 60mph in less than a second, adding: “And that is the least interesting part.”

I wrote a couple responses to this,... I can’t decide what I actually want to say about it, haha.

I think it would be unamerican for you to care to spell something French correctly, to be laissez faire.

I think that the Social Security Administration owns a bunch of the US debt from when the government stole from it to finance deficit spending. I could be misremembering how that transaction worked though...

I guarantee that this even happens at SpaceX to some extent. They have way more sexiness to trade on, but at the end of the day, the kind of nerd that wants to give up all of their time for crap pay for their whole career isn’t going to be as good, on average, as the ones that may want to have a family or a life…

They’re compensation. That’s why they fall under “total compensation”.

Go look at executive compensation in total. Go look at stock buybacks. Go look at all the decisions that executives make to artificially inflate the stock price in order to increase their net worth.

Is your argument that stock price is strongly linked to the performance or health of the company? CEOs make decisions that drive the stock price up because their compensation is related to the stock price rather than making decisions based on the performance or health of the company. They lay off workers. They buy and…

Why is it meaningless? Because executive pay rates are so inflated that they’re not linked to anything at all?

Maybe the perception of the march of progress in EV technology is making the passing of time drastically more important than the actual wear and tear on the vehicle... I dunno.

I’m sure independent mechanics are more likely to be aware of stuff like this than normal people. In defense of service writers and dealership mechanics, they may not be allowed to offer these kinds of solutions.

There are tons and tons of electronic module repair companies around nowadays. They take the widgets and doodads that make modern cars work and actually repair them when they fail.

Its a dealership thing,... I’ve seen plenty of situations where a dealership will tell you that you need a new 5 figure engine whereas an independent shop would offer you the option to rebuilt it for a fraction of the cost.