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Given current events, its unfortunate to see Elon Musk taking the side of antisemitism and pushing white-replacement theory through his retweets. The timing can't be worse.

So I haven't made this month's "Gigathread" or "Megathread", and I realized that perhaps some rebranding is in order. The Gigathread and Megathread topics were for grossly off-topic discussion and community building. I'm not sure if people "get" it here in Lemmy. But there's a wide variety of off-topic conversations that can be helpful to this community.

Maybe it'd be helpful if I posted some examples. The general rule is that "a little bit off-topic" can certainly make a new post. But extremely off-topic posts should be isolated here to just chat with everyone else.

A minor rule change: I'll be recycling the "Chatting" topic more slowly here on out. Its going to be a soft-rule: when discussion seems dead (ie: when there hasn't been a post in several days) AND at least a month has past, I'll update the "Chatting" topic to help keep things fresh. Its important to have an outlet like this topic to have this community feel more like a community. Off topic, tangential, and other such topics are very welcome here. Having a dedicated spot for more casual interactions is important for any community.

TheOnion is always good for a laugh.

Listable click-through is annoying, but there are some good lines here.

“All my money is in Tesla stock, so I really can’t afford not to like it.”

TL;DR: Tesla strike in Sweden is threatening to expand.

Just saving off this article for later. Sounds interesting, albeit Teslagenial. Lemme know if yall see any good quotes from this article!

I love manual transmissions. If this car ever comes state side, you bet that I'm at least going to test-drive it. No promises on actually buying it however, I still feel like practicality is king.

But I think gears are an obvious way to improve performance of motors, and I'm well accustomed to driving manual right now. So I might as well take advantage of my skills to get a better performing and/or cheaper car in the long run.

But only that: if its practical. I'm not one to buy a manual transmission just for fun. I do it because its cheaper to produce and cheaper to maintain.

EDIT:

“We also changed the control program of the electric motor,” another engineer, Tatsuya Iwamura, tells us before we go out on the Shimoyama test track. “You will feel like you are driving a car with a manual transmission.”

Coupled with artificial engine noise delivered through the car speakers, it replicates the experience of driving an ICE car in an EV—and it does this so well you might forget what’s under your hood.

Yeah, not liking it. Lol. But hey, maybe I can dream of a real manual transmission controlling a 2-gear or 3-gear EV in the future.

TL;DR: On Semiconductors, one of the biggest makers of power transistors and motor control chips, has cut production of these chips.

This means that On-Semiconductor, expects EV sales to slow (probably the biggest industry user of power-transistors and motor control).

Some amusing Twitter information.

With the $13B in loans, this means that Twitter's Enterprise Value is like $6B now, right? Or did I do the math wrong?

Tesla is currently fighting against the union IF Metall in Sweden, where almost 90% of all metal workers are a part of the union. Sweden has a long history of unionization, it is deeply ingrained in swedish culture.

A strike was put in effect today, with 130 mechanics for Tesla shops.

The 7:th, the large transporting union will step in with a sympathy strike and refuse to deliver new Teslas in Sweden.

Hertz Global Holdings Inc. earnings missed estimates amid headwinds from Tesla Inc. price cuts and the high price of repairs for electric vehicles.

Sounds like Teslas are making a very bad "Total Cost of Ownership" argument over at Hertz.

Given the stock price movements today, I'm thinking that people were disappointed in the Earnings Call last night.

$TSLA stock discussion.

I think we all knew this was coming: lower car prices mean lower margins, meaning less profits. The earnings call will be uploaded sometime soon, I'll probably post a 2nd topic when that earnings call drops if anyone cares to sit through it and listen.

Another major crash, another major Tesla fire.

More to the story at the Tesla German plant. Worker safety issues, etc etc. Tesla pretending there isn't an issue. Yadda yadda.

With Twitter moderation teams demolished from the Musk takeover, it is obvious to anyone watching current events that Twitter is the easiest place to spread misinformation.

I think we all knew the next major geopolitical event would have huge issues with regards to Twitter misinfo. So here it is. Let's hope Europe actually does something about it though

Fun note: Model 3 is below $35k inflation adjusted now. I don't think it's a good buy yet but kinda funny that prices have dropped this far.

WashPo has gained CCTV footage of the Florida autopilot crash and has analyzed court provided data to reconstruct the last 11 seconds of this event.

Dude activates autopilot then dies. Pretty straightforward demonstration. But there are legal questions about autopilot that now results from this crash.

How's everyone's Cybertruck doing?

Court Documents are one of the most important primary sources of information in general. While the trial hasn't started yet, major US agencies like the US EEOC (https://www.eeoc.gov/) are known for filing well reasoned cases. So these claims are anything but light.

I don't think anything here is "new" to people who have been paying attention to Tesla for the past 7 years. But... many people have only begun paying attention since Twitter meltdown of maybe November 2022.

So to catch you newbies up: Tesla has been losing cases to African American workers and contractors, who have been denigrated by their bosses. Black-only workstations are called "Plantations", there's few opportunities to climb the ladder if you're black (few executives are black), etc. etc. The whole gamut of obvious racial inequality, and provably so in the court of law.

It was only a matter of time before the federal agencies got involved, and now we finally have it.

I tried to post some select quotes, but I think that Lemmy.world's moderation plugins or something might be acting up (and preventing me from posting these quotes) because its so bad. Read around paragraphs 17+ on page 3 and 4, and you'll see what I mean.

Guess which EV this article is complaining about?

Tesla Model Y.