Topic: Elon Musk

[afc tukrish]

It’s down ….yet again…

Seriously, nothing works…

It doesn’t tell me when people reply to my tweets or like them even.

It constantly goes wrong…

Maybe nobody likes or replies to 'em, Teps... 

[Jiminy Cricket]

Maybe nobody likes or replies to 'em, Teps... 

Tepid tweets!

[TepidT2O]

Maybe nobody likes or replies to 'em, Teps... 

I mean fair enough….

But when I click on them I can see that people have replied, it just never tells me.

[John C]

He apparently sat with Rupert Murdoch at the Superbowl, what a pair of cunting shysters.

[Jiminy Cricket]

He apparently sat with Rupert Murdoch at the Superbowl, what a pair of cunting shysters.

Yep. And I'm still hoping.

I understand that Musk was sat with Rupert Murdock at the Superbowl. I just want Musk to buy News Corp and work his magic there.

[afc tukrish]

He apparently sat with Rupert Murdoch at the Superbowl, what a pair of cunting shysters.

So it was a conspiracy to subvert Tepid's digitalia?

[TepidT2O]

So it was a conspiracy to subvert Tepid's digitalia?

I wasn’t  there before you ask.

[afc tukrish]

I wasn’t  there before you ask.

 

[WhereAngelsPlay]

He'd sign Usain Bolt.

[MBL?]

The delivery cost, if not included, only adds maybe £500 at most in the UK. Generally it’s already included in the ‘on the road’ figure.

The performance 3 is comparable to the I4 on price. I think the i4 m50 and 3 performance are about £2k apart in the UK, which is negligible at their respective price points.

And when it’s £2k difference, the BMW is hands down the better car. It feels £20k more expensive, not £2k. The interior is gorgeous and the driving position is perfect. It has buttons and switches and knobs - big, glorious, tactile knobs! Yes, the Tesla goes further between charges. Yes, the Tesla does 0-60 around half a second faster, but the i4 just feels better in every way, to me.

The supercharger network is currently a big plus, as I said before, but increasingly less so over time as range improves across the board.

Fair enough pal but I’ve never been in any car that was worth paying a huge amount extra for when comparing interior. I’ve not been in an i4 but have been in a lot of BMW’s. I’d give them the edge in a lot of parts but I prefer the seating position, comfort and how much you can see out of the vehicle in the model 3 over a 3 series which is the comparable option.

You also mention the performance model when I’ve been more looking at the base versions in all options. Honestly I don’t think there is anything better than a base model y or 3. This will show in sales figures over the next year because they are a bargain compared to anything.

[thejbs]

Still richest man in the world, how?

It should be quite clear by now that the world is fucked.

Tesla stock picked up because of a new factory in Mexico and rumours of an impending small/cheap model that’s soon to be announced. Given that the roadster and cybertruck are way behind schedule, this thing won’t hit the road for a long, long time. But, fanbois will fanboi.

I see BMW now have a £50k 300mile i4 coming out. More pressure on Tesla in the uk.

[Ray K]

He's fucked twitter again by laying off so many engineers.

[SamLad]

what a piece of shite he is .....

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/07/tech/elon-musk-twitter-employee-disability/index.html

Elon Musk publicly mocks Twitter worker with disability who is unsure whether he’s been laid off

Elon Musk publicly scoffed at a Twitter employee’s uncertainty about whether he had been laid off in a recent round of cuts and spoke dismissively of the employee’s disability in a series of tweets Monday night. It’s the latest example of the billionaire openly antagonizing his company’s current and former staffers.

Haraldur Thorleifsson, an Iceland-based Twitter senior director, tweeted at Musk that access to his computer had been cut off nine days earlier, when Twitter reportedly laid off some 200 employees. But, Thorleifsson said in his tweet, “your head of HR is not able to confirm if I am an employee or not.”

Musk responded in a tweet asking, “what work have you been doing?” When Thorleifsson provided a list of his tasks in response, Musk appeared to cast doubt on several points. “Pics or it didn’t happen,” he tweeted. In a separate tweet, the billionaire said Thorleifsson “did no actual work, claimed as an excuse that he had a disability that prevented him from typing.”

Thorleifsson clarified in a tweet that he has muscular dystrophy, a degenerative disease that he says put him in a wheelchair more than 20 years ago. Thorleifsson, who founded a digital branding company acquired by Twitter in 2021, has been recognized by the United Nations and the president of Iceland for spearheading a charitable effort to build 1,000 wheelchair ramps around Reykjavik to increase the city’s accessibility.

[TepidT2O]

Well you say that, but this is exceptionally funny

Because this guy sold his company to twitter a few years again for $100m and agreed to work for them and to have the buy price paid to him as a yearly wage over a period.  His reckoning was that he would then pay income tax on it rather than capital gains tax and therefore pay more back to Iceland who got him where he is now.

The catch is, that if fired, twitter were obliged to pay the rest of the $100m in one go to him.

Oooops .

[SamLad]

Well you say that, but this is exceptionally funny

Because this guy sold his company to twitter a few years again for $100m and agreed to work for them and to have the buy price paid to him as a yearly wage over a period.  His reckoning was that he would then pay income tax on it rather than capital gains tax and therefore pay more back to Iceland who got him where he is now.

The catch is, that if fired, twitter were obliged to pay the rest of the $100m in one go to him.

Oooops .

LOL love it !! 

[thejbs]

Sincerely hope Thorleifsson properly sues him for divulging private health information on the internet. What a colossal prick Musk is. And, from reading a little about him, what an inspiring person Thorleifsson is.

[Machae]

what a piece of shite he is .....

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/07/tech/elon-musk-twitter-employee-disability/index.html

Elon Musk publicly mocks Twitter worker with disability who is unsure whether he’s been laid off

Elon Musk publicly scoffed at a Twitter employee’s uncertainty about whether he had been laid off in a recent round of cuts and spoke dismissively of the employee’s disability in a series of tweets Monday night. It’s the latest example of the billionaire openly antagonizing his company’s current and former staffers.

Haraldur Thorleifsson, an Iceland-based Twitter senior director, tweeted at Musk that access to his computer had been cut off nine days earlier, when Twitter reportedly laid off some 200 employees. But, Thorleifsson said in his tweet, “your head of HR is not able to confirm if I am an employee or not.”

Musk responded in a tweet asking, “what work have you been doing?” When Thorleifsson provided a list of his tasks in response, Musk appeared to cast doubt on several points. “Pics or it didn’t happen,” he tweeted. In a separate tweet, the billionaire said Thorleifsson “did no actual work, claimed as an excuse that he had a disability that prevented him from typing.”

Thorleifsson clarified in a tweet that he has muscular dystrophy, a degenerative disease that he says put him in a wheelchair more than 20 years ago. Thorleifsson, who founded a digital branding company acquired by Twitter in 2021, has been recognized by the United Nations and the president of Iceland for spearheading a charitable effort to build 1,000 wheelchair ramps around Reykjavik to increase the city’s accessibility.

https://twitter.com/courtneymilan/status/1633141759063605251

[RJH]

what a piece of shite he is .....

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/07/tech/elon-musk-twitter-employee-disability/index.html

Elon Musk publicly mocks Twitter worker with disability who is unsure whether he’s been laid off

Elon Musk publicly scoffed at a Twitter employee’s uncertainty about whether he had been laid off in a recent round of cuts and spoke dismissively of the employee’s disability in a series of tweets Monday night. It’s the latest example of the billionaire openly antagonizing his company’s current and former staffers.

Haraldur Thorleifsson, an Iceland-based Twitter senior director, tweeted at Musk that access to his computer had been cut off nine days earlier, when Twitter reportedly laid off some 200 employees. But, Thorleifsson said in his tweet, “your head of HR is not able to confirm if I am an employee or not.”

Musk responded in a tweet asking, “what work have you been doing?” When Thorleifsson provided a list of his tasks in response, Musk appeared to cast doubt on several points. “Pics or it didn’t happen,” he tweeted. In a separate tweet, the billionaire said Thorleifsson “did no actual work, claimed as an excuse that he had a disability that prevented him from typing.”

Thorleifsson clarified in a tweet that he has muscular dystrophy, a degenerative disease that he says put him in a wheelchair more than 20 years ago. Thorleifsson, who founded a digital branding company acquired by Twitter in 2021, has been recognized by the United Nations and the president of Iceland for spearheading a charitable effort to build 1,000 wheelchair ramps around Reykjavik to increase the city’s accessibility.

I read that original twitter thread without knowing the background, and I thought it was weird at first that the guy engaged with Musk's questions, instead of sticking to his original straightforward query of whether he was still employed.

It looks like he had a good idea of how the conversation would go, and just gave Musk enough rope.

[Machae]

I read that original twitter thread without knowing the background, and I thought it was weird at first that the guy engaged with Musk's questions, instead of sticking to his original straightforward query of whether he was still employed.

It looks like he had a good idea of how the conversation would go, and just gave Musk enough rope.

https://twitter.com/courtneymilan/status/1633141759063605251

Have a read through this, seems like he baited Musk and being the thin skinned guy he is, he took it

Musk has now 'apologised' or made up with the employee

[thejbs]

There’s no defence for musk here. Baited or not is immaterial - he publicly challenged him to write what jobs he does then disclosed private medical information online before calling him ‘the worst.’ His ‘it was other people’s fault’ unapologetic apology is just typical of the thin-skinned narcissist.

[Machae]

There’s no defence for musk here. Baited or not is immaterial - he publicly challenged him to write what jobs he does then disclosed private medical information online before calling him ‘the worst.’ His ‘it was other people’s fault’ unapologetic apology is just typical of the thin-skinned narcissist.

Yeah, Musk is a twat and the other guy will undoubtedly be in a stronger position to get some money out of him as a result of this baiting

[Riquende]

Musk always came across as a colossal prick, so insecure that he wanted to turn everything into an argument on Twitter where his following, orders of magnitude over everyone else, could try and drown out any responses. That clearly wasn't enough, so he bought the entire platform and now sets the rules for all of his confrontations too.

[WhereAngelsPlay]

His investors are going to be made up today after the prick wrote $20b off twatters value.

[Father Ted]

Why is that stupid fucking 'doge' meme showing up all over mine and everyone else's (presumably) Twitter? Aside from the 'following' timeline being all out of whack with tweets from days ago sitting right next on ones posted just now and the semi-regular outages when nothing works.

Feels like everything just exists to be bought up by billionaires and run into the ground for their own amusement these days. I know twitter isn't some vital essential, and is often toxic and shit but still, you'd think 'keeping the site functional' might be useful when purchasing a popular social media site.

[WhereAngelsPlay]

Because Elon is a twat.

[classycarra]

Why is that stupid fucking 'doge' meme showing up all over mine and everyone else's (presumably) Twitter? Aside from the 'following' timeline being all out of whack with tweets from days ago sitting right next on ones posted just now and the semi-regular outages when nothing works.

looks likely to be an attempt to game the google algorithms so searching 'elon doge' shows copy paste crap articles about this happening to twitter rather than his efforts to have a lawsuit against him thrown out of court last week

https://www.reuters.com/legal/elon-musk-seeks-end-258-billion-dogecoin-lawsuit-2023-04-01/

bit like when Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson made those stupid comments about a miniature bus, to distance the search results from the bus with £350 million on the side of it

edit: and WhereAngelsPlay's point too

[Nobby Reserve]

looks likely to be an attempt to game the google algorithms so searching 'elon doge' shows copy paste crap articles about this happening to twitter rather than his efforts to have a lawsuit against him thrown out of court last week

https://www.reuters.com/legal/elon-musk-seeks-end-258-billion-dogecoin-lawsuit-2023-04-01/

bit like when Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson made those stupid comments about a miniature bus, to distance the search results from the bus with £350 million on the side of it

edit: and WhereAngelsPlay's point too

 

Thanks for that. Fascinating stuff 

[RJH]

I've seen it suggested that it was supposed to be an April Fools, but they haven't got the staff to even roll out joke updates on schedule

[thejbs]

I've seen it suggested that it was supposed to be an April Fools, but they haven't got the staff to even roll out joke updates on schedule

Nah, defo what classycara says. He’s gaming the algorithms.

[thaddeus]

Boring old Ford getting the jump on Tesla (and the rest) for approval to have hands free driving on UK motorways.

Ford launches hands-free driving on UK motorways

Ford drivers will legally be able to take their hands off the wheel on the move after its BlueCruise technology has been approved in the UK.

Ministers have approved the "hands-off, eyes-on" technology for use on certain motorways.

It can control steering, acceleration and braking but a camera will monitor a driver's eyes so they stay alert.

If I still have to watch the road then I'm not that interested.  Once they're fully trusted and I can stare at my phone for the duration of each journey I'll be first in the queue to buy one 

[A Red Abroad]

Boring old Ford getting the jump on Tesla (and the rest) for approval to have hands free driving on UK motorways.
If I still have to watch the road then I'm not that interested.  Once they're fully trusted and I can stare at my phone for the duration of each journey I'll be first in the queue to buy one 

 


(It will actually be the rest of us that will have to watch the road more carefully once the automatons are fully 'trusted').

[KillieRed]

What are people going to do with their free hands now?

I foresee lots more for the traffic police to do.

[A Red Abroad]

Boring old Ford getting the jump on Tesla (and the rest) for approval to have hands free driving on UK motorways.
If I still have to watch the road then I'm not that interested.  Once they're fully trusted and I can stare at my phone for the duration of each journey I'll be first in the queue to buy one 

Joking aside, I own a Mustang (petrol) that has 'lane control' that will keep you in lane on the motorway and makes it a real effort for you to change lanes (you really have to want to change lanes) and 'distance control' that applies both engine-braking and the brakes if you get too close to the car in front (you can set what sort of distances/space you want to leave).

I find it really weird to use - and don't use it. I really didn't feel in control.

[A Red Abroad]

What are people going to do with their free hands now?

I foresee lots more for the traffic police to do.

 

[WhereAngelsPlay]

The state funded Ford company 

[BarryCrocker]

Boring old Ford getting the jump on Tesla (and the rest) for approval to have hands free driving on UK motorways.

Quote from: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65272929
Ford launches hands-free driving on UK motorways

Ford drivers will legally be able to take their hands off the wheel on the move after its BlueCruise technology has been approved in the UK.

Ministers have approved the "hands-off, eyes-on" technology for use on certain motorways.

It can control steering, acceleration and braking but a camera will monitor a driver's eyes so they stay alert.

If I still have to watch the road then I'm not that interested.  Once they're fully trusted and I can stare at my phone for the duration of each journey I'll be first in the queue to buy one 

Apparently this is what Klopp is getting instead of a Ferrari.

[thejbs]

Joking aside, I own a Mustang (petrol) that has 'lane control' that will keep you in lane on the motorway and makes it a real effort for you to change lanes (you really have to want to change lanes) and 'distance control' that applies both engine-braking and the brakes if you get too close to the car in front (you can set what sort of distances/space you want to leave).

I find it really weird to use - and don't use it. I really didn't feel in control.

Have those things on my q3 and think they’re great, to be honest. Adaptive cruise control is a gift on motorways. And the reason you find it hard to change lanes is because you’re not using your indicators!

[A Red Abroad]

Have those things on my q3 and think they’re great, to be honest. Adaptive cruise control is a gift on motorways. And the reason you find it hard to change lanes is because you’re not using your indicators!

Yes, I know that. I phrased it badly - I meant it won't let you change lanes if you don't mean to (using indicators etc.) - it's sh!t hot at following the lanes.

I still don't like the feeling of 'being driven' though.

[farawayred]

Got those things on my Subaru Outback, and I absolutely hate it! I have to turn them off every time I drive, and there is no way to make the defaults setting "off" (except for lane change). I hate the automatic distance control, when you have to take an exit between trucks forming a two-lane train (that's California for you). You try to go between them, and there is plenty of room, and when you try to accelerate, the car hits the breaks for you... And if I drive on the lowest distance setting (slow speed), all is fine... Talk about control.

I helped move my son's house a few times, and we have these ditches at the end of the streets for water runoff. Where his place was, I had to back through the ditch, and the car locked up. The first time it happened, I thought I hit something, but the Subaru has a vety high clearance. Then, we figured out that it was the automatic break, which was engaged because the car thought I was running into a wall... I had to disable that from the screen every time I went there, all 10-15 trips... Fucking hell!

[thaddeus]

Have those things on my q3 and think they’re great, to be honest. Adaptive cruise control is a gift on motorways. And the reason you find it hard to change lanes is because you’re not using your indicators!

I very much agree on that!  I use it nearly all of the time on A-roads and motorways... mostly just tracking the vehicle in front up to the speed limit (+10%...).

The long slog to the in-laws in central France used to be much more tedious with trying to hover around the speed limit on nearly empty toll roads and with long stretches of up/downhill motorway.  I twice got caught speeding just through lazy lead-foot.  Now the adaptive cruise control takes care of all that and I just point the thing in the right direction.

Fully automated seems a way off but the incremental driver assistants are good.  Hearing Tesla fanboys proclaiming that Musk/Tesla invented them all is fun too!