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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Tesla and X no one really cares about. SpaceX could get nationalized (!!!) though. Musk being cozy with Putin is already a problem for the US.

[–] someguy3 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Oh people care about Tesla, it's now an important domestic manufacturer. X is more appearance of a giant media or whatever you want to call it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] someguy3 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I know that people like to throw that term around but, oh you're an ml user. Not gonna bother explaining the realities of that word.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Given how his management decisions are impacting Tesla (pushing out buggy, dangerous “full self-driving”, cutting corners on quality, the whole Cybertruck thing, and associating the brand with his junior-sci-fi ideas long after anyone stopped thinking that he’s some kind of visionary technologist, to say nothing of the weird far-right turn and habit of impregnating employees), it could be argued that he’s strangling a company that otherwise had excellent potential, and that at this stage, it would have a better chance under other management. I’m not sure if, say, the suits at General Motors or Ford could have made as much of an impact with it as a subsidiary, but they’d have certainly killed the Cybertruck or at least made it more like a conventional SUV.