This was done in parts, but he paid about $11 billion in 2021 taxes on exercising options worth around $26 billion plus selling some other shares worth another 5.6 billion. Overall he paid something above what most people’s effective tax rate is.

She covered that in the article, for better or worse. Then again she also said it was because of white men, so it was all a bit of a mess. 

He presented it as an alternative to changing the way public transit works, so I don’t think your reading applies.

Are you saying it’s easier for men to deal with the problems children present when trying to use public transit? 

Fucking working white men, just luxuriating on public transit while everyone else has to drive cars everywhere.

Yeah, if you just fixed the “women” part, you’d still have the underlying issues. 

The idea being that because women still end up doing the brunt of these things, they’re the most effected. 

Wait until I tell you about how many people actually read the NYT.

“(Talking to people I know in that industry, EVs are much closer to designing phones than cars. Software engineers are critical for EVs, and Mechanical Engineers are critical for ICE vehicles. So that diversion of Telsa Software people to Twitter is not minor.)“

I looked at it for way to long before realizing what was wrong. Who ever did that likes some of Ford’s design cues.

“Resources are resources. He leveraged Telsa to get Twitter. This reduces how much leverage Tesla has for redesigns.”

I don’t know why anyone would try to force any sort of internal consistency on these things now. 

Most people do not care about Twitter. They didn’t before, and they don’t now. 

“I think Musk has screwed up. Instead of having grand adventures with being a Twit, he should have dumped that money into a complete re-design across the board with all his cars.”

I think he’s acting the way he does because he legitimately thinks that way. If he just wanted to pull in red America, there’s less weird ways to do it. 

Are you using a weird photoshop just to mess with everyone?

Yes, but old American cars will still run most of the time. Shit will break, a lot, but they’ll run. 

So Honda is making EVs with GM, and Toyota will make EVs generally. I’m not sure planning that Joe Manchin would hear the call of history suddenly was something to make plans on. Hyundai was only a little ahead when this all hit, and it’s not a given that the new phase in rules will actually happen. 

He’s mad about the typo.

You first.