Are we not going to discuss this:

but what does either party gain from that merger? sure you could say Tesla takes out a competitor, but Rivian doesnt gain access to manufacturing or supplies or platforms because Tesla has had a hard time building that out for themselves. Rivian doesnt need Tesla tech and probably doesnt want Tesla design. Rivian…

Yes, Rivian, which has never delivered a vehicle, has worse tech than Tesla, and has less manufacturing experience.

I wouldn’t read too much into an offhand comment made by a famously mercurial and unfiltered CEO. Besides, Elon saying that he’d “have a conversation” with someone who wanted to merge with his company is kind of an obvious truth.

The Plaid CyberUte can be called ‘Maloo 2: Electric Boogaloo’

Tesla is a tech company, so their best bet is to find a manufacturing company to complement what they are not as good at. You don’t buy the person making the same product, you buy the guy making things better than you can. Use Tesla as the provider of tech, and the bought company to build it as perfectly as possible.…

Tesla could probably afford to buy GE (General Electric). Not sure what abomination they would produce.

FFS. This person is being loving, caring and genuinely trying to understand what their niece is going through and asking someone who they believe is knowledgeable so they can be respectful to them, and you have to go and shit on them.

Chris Brown is basically the first 5 entries on the Worst POC Chris list.

I’d rather he just have skipped including Reagan’s sidepiece in the show at all. Thatcher was a monster that no amount of humanizing can mitigate. She wanted to be an Eastern European dictator, but had the misfortune to be born into a Western Democracy and did her best to turn the latter into the former.

I'm from the Commonwealth. Do I have your permission to criticize the Royal Family that engineered the exploitation of my people? 

I’m Irish (dual like you) and none of what you said computes in my brain, sorry. No sympathy for the living symbols of imperialism here.

I’d be more willing to let bygones be bygones if he’d shown more public support for his son’s wife. He didn’t—he was as careless about her mistreatment by the press as he was about his first wife’s—so the wolves can him. According to the country house rumor mill, he’s also an appalling houseguest, so he can face the…

Right after I finished this season of The Crown Netflix suggested I watch “Diana: In her own words”. It was honestly sad. He was such an ass. From the “Whatever love means” quip to the very end. Grade A entitled straight cis white man. He agreed to marry her, in part because she was innocent and naive, and then he…

As dumb as it is for people to take a fictional show so seriously, his infidelity is not fiction, and he dragged a literal teenager into his mess when he was 32. So, limited sympathy there. I also think it’s healthy for him to experience a small fraction of the rage that his son and Meghan faced from online bullies…

The fact that oil prices were based on “futures” just blew my mind. Why not charge how much it cost to pump, refine and transport that gallon of oil/gas, rather than how much you think it might cost in the future? It’s just mind-boggling.

Tesla is a battery company that makes cars to put their batteries into. Just like they do solar: to sell the much more profitable Powerwall. Solar is in a race to the bottom. Batteries will still be profitable because everyone needs portable energy.

Yup, Nikola repeatedly lied to gain investor dollars (that’s why they’re currently under SEC and DOJ investigation and the subject of several class-action investor lawsuits). They lied about the Nikola One being functional in 2016, they lied about producing solar power at their facility, they lied about having…

So true!

The SLS is a failed design by pretty much any metric you look at it. It was supposed to use legacy tech to drive the cost down, in which it failed tragically. Furthermore it still is just a theoretical launch system only with quite a big chance it might never fly. It’s launch date is “a year from now” and probably…