I’ve said it before, but Musk very obviously does not give a shit about Tesla anymore except as a share price cash cow to fund his other stuff - especially Twitter and his AI startup. He’s already used Tesla’s funds to buy components that ended up with xAI, and he’s talking about having Tesla invest billions into the…

It might get overturned on appeal if O’Connor puts out some kind of hare-brained ruling, but that will take even longer and the point of the case is intimidation aimed at any progressive groups that might try to call out advertisers for working on Musk’s site. 

I’m tempted to think he’ll try filing an intimidation lawsuit over it, but I really get the impression that he does not give a shit about Tesla except insofar that the stock price stays high so he can borrow against it (and also steal stuff purchased with Tesla money for his AI startup). 

I wonder if the October deadline will get pushed back again. I suppose it doesn’t matter, as long as it drives up Tesla’s share price. Musk himself seemed bored on the recent earnings call - I’m pretty sure he just sees Tesla as a cash cow to funnel money into his AI startup (when he’s not siphoning off computer parts…

The big carriers basically started imitating the types of fares that the budget carriers were doing, although the latter were still a bit cheaper for a while. You can get some pretty cheap “basic economy” tickets on Delta and American Airlines if you don’t care about seat assignment (ironically at the same time that…

That’s what I was thinking, too. I enjoy cruises as well, but being part of a 10,000 person cruise seems like a nightmare in port - you’ll be waiting an hour in line just to get on the shuttle into town, unless the ship docks right in downtown (to say nothing of all the traffic from the shore excursion shuttles).

In fairness to Rivian, it’s because they’ve had to spend an enormous amount of money on fixed costs that have yet to be really repaid by sufficient sales. But they’re getting there - the burden of fixed costs is getting lower for them on a per vehicle basis over time. 

There are a couple of pretty cool mountain passes to take your car over in summer. If you’re ever in the Salt Lake Valley visiting with a car after July 1st, you should drive up Big Cottonwood Canyon and take Guardsman Pass from that side - it’s very scenic and sometimes scary (“Oh God that’s like a 300 foot drop…

Anyone who tries this stuff with a traffic stop should be automatically added to a Vexatious Litigant list with the courts (so they can’t file nuisance suits without judicial approval), and then hit with a treason charge that can be reduced to a lower felony if they admit guilt. 

Is there a lot of water pollution? 

Do they get to stay there for the whole event? I was wondering whether they were going to fly them up to Paris once the competition was over, so they could hang out with other athletes. 

Last year, it was revealed that Rivian loses more than $30,000 on every electric truck it sells and the average loss per EV sold across the American auto industry sits at more than $6,000 right now.

That $25 billion punishment was never going to happen. Boeing is too strategically important to the US military and civilian aerospace market for the US government to let it be driven into bankruptcy, which a $25 billion would have almost certainly led to. 

The idea itself is a good one. A humanoid robot could potentially move easily inside spaces designed first and foremost for humans, and be a “generalist” that’s competent enough at a variety of tasks to be useful. I’d love to have one to mow the lawn, do all the weeding, and vacuum the house. 

Oh, absolutely. He’s already jumpstarted xAI’s data center for AI training with hardware he stole siphoned off from Tesla without compensation, so why not force them to invest in the company as well and get another $5 billion in the xAI tank?

I think he just liked the rush of attention and praise from his lickspittles and investor cult dipshits, and once that was done he didn’t need to bother with the actual promise anymore. 

If that all sounds like bad news for Tesla, that’s because it is. The disappointing results may also be getting to Musk, because he sounded both tired and completely disinterested in being on the call.

Open Seating is great. Not only does it mean you can snag a good aisle or window seat if you get there early and pay a relatively modest premium on the price, but it’s actually faster for boarding purposes than the typical assigned seating boarding.

This is a pretty neat piece - I hadn’t even thought about the Post Office having a role in civil defense, but of course they would. 

If I were an investor, I’d be having some questions about the fact that Musk still has a separate AI company raising funds even after getting his Tesla pay package - it raises the possibility that he’s simply milking the company for cash until he can get out of whatever debt obligations he has on his Tesla shares, or…