lifeinneon$TSLA crashing because the company is on autopilot is the most fitting end to 2022 possible
Dave Swersky@lifeinneon I'm not sure I get the calls for Elon to get back to Tesla... Like, now that we know there are whole teams dedicated to keeping him away from important decisions, does anyone really think he's going to save Tesla... Or anything?
Bruce Mirken@dswersky @lifeinneon I think the stock crash is less about wanting Musk back at #Tesla (though some still believe the myth) than it is about him turning driving a Tesla into the equivalent of wearing a MAGA hat, alienating buyers.
@BruceMirken @lifeinneon I've read a few headlines suggesting that the institutions want him back focused on Tesla... Probably just boilerplate investor-speak for "get your sh*t together Elon" 🤣
Phil@dswersky @BruceMirken @lifeinneon the sentiment is likely to be, stop posting like a child on Twitter...
OR step back from Tesla and don't damage their brand, if you wish to still continue behaving like a monkey throwing faeces at a typewriter*
*The last part was my embellishment of Musk's behaviour
Sedunker@BruceMirken Especially as the type of people who want an electric car usually want them for reasons that are diametrically opposed to the red hat types who would burn old-growth-forest lumber to run their cars if they could, out of sheer anti-environmental contrarianism
Robotbeat@BruceMirken @dswersky @lifeinneon E is actually good at leading teams to deploy cutting edge new things (you don’t lead Tesla and SpaceX by accident). His politics suck. Those two facts explain it.
@Robotbeat @dswersky @lifeinneon His politics do suck, but I think that the jury is at best still out on how good Musk is at leading the deployment of cutting-edge tech. https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/21/business/tesla-fsd-8-car-crash/index.html
@BruceMirken @dswersky @lifeinneon SpaceX has launched 59 times to orbit this year, and almost all of those have been reused rockets that have landed afterwards. Do you know how many other orbital rocket companies have done that?
@Robotbeat @dswersky @lifeinneon For every example like that there's a counter-example, like the cybertruck that was supposed to launch in 2021 or the million robotaxis that were supposed to be on the road in 2020. I never said Musk's companies got nothing right, but the record is decidedly mixed. https://www.fastcompany.com/90677822/elon-musks-tesla-robotaxi-promise-typifies-self-driving-overexuberance
@Robotbeat @BruceMirken @lifeinneon He's good at browbeating talented engineers into doing his bidding. He outed himself as a moron when he tried to publicly mansplain Twitter to Twitter engineers. He's entirely clueless regarding software engineering, yet his narcissism won't allow him to admit it.
@dswersky @BruceMirken @lifeinneon Yeah, well he has been able to lead multiple teams that have done things people have never done before, things that previous groups have tried and failed to achieve and that field experts said were impossible. I agree he has been a little s*** about things lately (although no one should be surprised to be fired after publicly dunking on their boss).