Tesla profits drop 43% in Q3

Just because he's getting coverage doesn't mean he is getting good coverage. Like you already mention: standing on stage next to the US president would normally be amazing - except when it is a president reviled by your primary customer base and you do a nazi salute.

The same applies with the "sex sells" epidemic of the early 2000s: sure, the numbers showed that it was a great way to make people remember your ad, but they forgot to take into account that people remember the boobs and completely miss the brand.

I remember seeing snippets of the "flying car" going around on social media, so it clearly made an impression on me. I think it was supposed to be a Roadster relaunch? Release date? No idea. Price? No idea. Range? No idea. Number of seats? No idea. Cargo capacity? No idea. I bet it won't actually ship with those "rockets", though. Sooo, "clown makes car mockup fly"?

If you're going to do a stunt, at least do it properly. Like Volvo suspending an entire dump truck from a crane[0].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf_wKkV5dwQ

Yeah but at least he distanced himself from him by tweeting out that he knew he was a pedo all along.

A real burn-your-boats moment so there's no chance of them working together again after that.

Musk has given something like $300M in political donations to support Republicans in the upcoming midterms -- and I've seen quite a lot of media coverage of this.

Much of this money is going to Texas, and James Talarico (the Democratic candidate there) has not been shy about accusing Musk of trying to buy the election.

Sure, flying cars are cool. But I don't get the impression that Musk's politics have been forgotten at all.

> the most important question is whether they can feel pain or distress.

Most important question for a small group of people in a philosophical and quasi-religious movement that unilaterally redefined the term to fit their agenda.

Millions of scientists don't feel that pain is so special as to receive special treatment. Is just one of our type of sensors. Not more important than to be able to see, to taste or to hear. Definitely not more important than be able to reproduce. And there is a lot of pain involved in how mammals enter in the world.

The idea that to chop a tree is more moral than to kill a mosquito is totally random and alienated from biological reality.

Byd kinda ugly though. Outside the cybertruck Tesla's look great

I think it is also a bit of an outdated take even in the US market. There are a lot of options these days. The subsidies may be gone, but not all of the ev models have been canceled and the used market is still quite reasonable.

Totally, I’ve sat multiple times in Tesla and I don’t see what I am missing. Their interior and design is quite meh also.

The unrealistic timelines for future improvements matter but they're a lot less than Theranos and Enron. And the current product is baaaasically what they promise even if they get wink wink nudge nudge about whether the self driving is level 2 or 4.

> Not OP, but could it be they refer to FSD?

Gentle reminder that Tesla itself opted to call Tesla's sham of a FSD as "Tesla assisted driving" after regulators from multiple European countries made it very clear that at best ist assists drivers and still require drivers to never take their attention off the road.

I can go book an FSD robotaxi right now in downtown Austin TX, I know because I’ve done it many times. It’s real and works great. Not sure what you mean about FSD.