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@Benshooter

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Small business owner. Top tier vehicle technician/diagnostician. Trading/markets. Amateur investigator. Critical thinker. Violence pro. NFA. Paid stock basher.

Las Vegas, NV
Joined June 2009
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ben k
2 years
1/ Very, very interesting. IMO, a lot of people will misread this given Yellen’s perceived history of being dovish. But I think she guides Powell while he goes full Volcker. Her primary focus was always employment, which is still extremely healthy rn, but even above that, she
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This sounds like it could be very important. Coordinating on how to reduce inflation and help midterms? Feels like some sort of pivot that is either decisively unidirectional.
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4 years
@elonmusk Says the guy who's gladly accepted billions of dollars in government handouts from counties, states, and countries around the world.
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@dollarsanddata He's just trading them in for newer models.
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3 years
1/ This is one of the most enduring and falsified myths around Elon. Come sit around kids, it’s time for an unflattering history lesson, because frankly I’m getting sick of repeating myself and correcting fanboy revisionist history. He didn’t create PayPal. Not even close.
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@Benshooter @elonmusk You simpletons do realize he created PayPal. You only think you understand what he understands about crypto and blockchain. Maybe it makes you all feel good by saying this or something idk LMFAO 😂
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ben k
5 years
This F150 is only using 2 wheel drive. More fraud.
@elonmusk
Elon Musk
5 years
Cybertruck pulls F-150 uphill
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2 years
Friendly reminder that Boston Dynamics had a humanoid robot, that was doing BACKFLIPS... ...FIVE YEARS AGO.
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3 years
I love watching crypto Twitter suddenly realize how inept, unintelligent, and completely full of shit @elonmusk is. $BTC $ETH $DOGE
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ben k
3 years
“Hey Siri, show me what crippling insecurity looks like.”
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ben k
13 days
lmfao ok so let’s review. -no ride hailing app -half baked cyber cab concept that might work in 2027 -some weird bus thing that will never be made -not a single serious update on the progress of Optimus
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13 days
Wait what. Is that really it. It’s just party time now? WHAT?
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3 years
6/ an emergency meeting, fired Elon, replaced him with Peter Thiel, and later renamed the company to PayPal. The end.
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3 years
"Completely unmodified" I found some pics of the car they were using. Below are pics of the track car as well as stock MS Plaid brakes. Track car has significantly larger calipers and carbon rotors. I for one, am STUNNED that @elonmusk lied... For the 8,123,712,359th time.
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@elonmusk
Elon Musk
3 years
Tesla Model S Plaid just set official world speed record for a production electric car at Nurburgring. Completely unmodified, directly from factory.
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4 years
If Dogecoin takes down the whole crypto market that might be the most poetic thing ever. ~60% haircut in 48 hours. Yikes.
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ben k
1 year
I always had a feeling we would come back full circle to this. I just didn’t think it would be this soon. And yeah, he later swore this off as definitely not being antisemitic, but every single person on both sides knew exactly what he meant. Apartheid Clyde strikes again.
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ben k
6 years
Find someone who looks at you the way @Lebeaucarnews looks at @elonmusk .
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4 years
@elonmusk : FSD price is going up and will cost 100,000 soon. Also something about a million robotaxis by the end of 2020. Reality: Autopilot still can't recognize a solid wall of traffic cones and is a deathtrap.
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2 years
Lol. The despicable girl who's been accusing Cem Karsan of murdering his own wife just got fired. PS, it was me. I found all your info and workplace, and passed it out to a bunch of people. I have zero regrets. Try not being such a fucking awful person in the future. Byyyyeeee
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ben k
5 years
1/ AAA put out a report/study on the effectiveness of various pedestrian detection avoidance systems. Let's start off with some good ol' fashioned FUD:
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3 years
This is the most Tesla thing ever. What was showcased ---> What was actually delivered.
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ben k
4 years
A celebrity CEO who's made his -ENTIRE- fortune by scamming and suckling the government teet just turned into a Libertarian anarcho-capitalist. Life comes at you fast.
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4 years
Ballsy as fuck, but excellent form, and protocol. This guy knows what he's doing. Immediately dumps the mag and clears the chamber in case he's not able to hang onto the weapon. I'd buy him beers all night.
@CalebJHull
Caleb Hull
4 years
Rioters just found an AR-15 in an abandoned police car and a hero immidiately pulled his gun and disarmed him. CRAZY
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5 years
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5 years
The Ford execs did it all wrong. - no one cried - no one talked about Mars - they didn't promise a price point they'd never offer - they laid out reasonable specs - they spoke clearly and didn't fidget like addicts
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1 year
1/ Most egregious and disgusting lie told on the Tesla call today; Elon Musk saying that Neuralink will be able be combined with their robot prosthetics to the extent that it will give quadruple amputees "an incredibly capable" cyborg body. Second most egregious lie;
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ben k
2 years
Pretty fitting that a fake engineer is engaging with a fake CFA
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2 years
@lopezlinette was just suspended.
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ben k
4 years
PSA: Ross Gerber is an arms expert.
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ben k
4 years
After a nuclear holocaust, the first creatures to reemerge will be cockroaches. About 30 seconds after that, investment bankers will emerge to make sure they're getting a vig on the wasteland.
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ben k
4 years
Tesla owner WITH Tesla insurance. His M3 self-immolates in the driveway (almost takes the house with it, note the scorch marks) and he hasn't been able to get ahold of anyone in 58 days. After the car literally burned to the ground. Still thinks they make great cars. L O L
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ben k
8 months
You took $50,000 deposits for the Roadster 2 in 2017 and STILL haven’t even started production.
@elonmusk
Elon Musk
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Tesla will never make a concept car that doesn’t become reality
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ben k
3 years
Imagine if Boeing was like, “Hey guys, we’re almost done with the 737 Max software update, in 24 hours we’ll be rolling it out to all of the planes”. You’d either shit yourself with fear or laughter, depending on your travel schedule.
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ben k
3 years
Nothing says “ready for testing on public roads” like a cramming for finals in 24 hours.
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4 years
Area man who’s entire empire is dependent on government handouts, criticizes government handouts.
@elonmusk
Elon Musk
4 years
Another government stimulus package is not in the best interests of the people imo
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ben k
5 years
BREAKING: Area man who's been warning of market decline for 4 years is finally right.
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ben k
4 years
Pornstars, tech bros, rappers, and now a guy who's best known for going to prison for literally running pump and dump scams. Amazing.
@wolfofwallst
Jordan Belfort
4 years
We are not Fucking Leaving!!! #GME #HoldTheLine
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3 years
Nothing says “ready for testing on public roads” like a cramming for finals in 24 hours.
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Elon Musk
3 years
FSD Beta request button goes live tonight, but FSD 10.1 needs another 24 hours of testing, so out tomorrow night
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2 years
Elon expects Tesla to be worth more than Apple and Aramco combined. Kids, this is what a desperation pump looks like. He's about to dump every share he can onto your heads.
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3 years
@Christie_Ileto @Lodestarguns @6abc Lol that thing malfunctioned after the first shot. No thanks.
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4 years
lmfaoooo
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5 years
@elonmusk One of your money printers in action at Walmart.
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2 months
Just in case anyone isn’t getting it yet… The appreciation of your home’s value is considered an unrealized capital gain. Goodnight.
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3 years
The Simpsons - original air date April 2002. Time is a flat circle.
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3 years
This is the most damning (of several damning statements) part of this communication between CA DMV reps and Tesla reps. Tesla is Theranos on wheels. And at least internally, Tesla is aware of that. Also, you probably shouldn't have interns do your redactions in govt documents.
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🚨🚨 $TSLAQ
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4 years
Remember all those times the Ford and Honda and BMW CEOs got on Twitter to whine and cry about how hard it is to make cars? Yeah me either.
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ben k
5 years
Don't mind me, I'm just waiting for the $TSLA cutlists to talk about how non-solar roofs catch on fire all the time, too.
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4 years
If you listen closely, you can hear thousands of douches changing their laser eyes avatars back to normal ones.
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ben k
3 years
The same lady decrying dishonesty from Trump/the government, famously got caught doing THIS 👇👇👇 Glass houses, pots and kettles, etc.
@MichLKosinski
Michelle Kosinski
3 years
As an American journalist, you never expect: 1. Your own govt to lie to you, repeatedly 2. Your own govt to hide information the public has a right to know 3. Your own govt to spy on your communications Trump's unAmerican regime did all of these. No one should accept this.
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4 years
Had to turn it off. Anyone who works in neuroscience has a DUTY to loudly call out how absurd, dangerous, and incredibly unethical this is.
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3 years
Just saving this for later so I can convince people I'm a time traveler. iykyk
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5 years
You can see the front tires/wheels just rolling backwards, and no tire smoke from them. Being able to drag a 2 wheel drive truck using a 4 wheel drive one, is like bragging about being able to beat up a kid in a wheelchair.
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ben k
2 years
AND THERE IT IS!! Tesla semi’s fully laden range is 100 miles. *sad trombone
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@zeroshorts
Zero Shorts
2 years
LOL!! #TeslaSemi "can haul Frito-Lay food products for around 425 miles (684 km), but for heavier loads of sodas, the trucks will do shorter trips of around 100 miles (160 km).. Dragging a trailer full of chips around is not the most intense, tough ask"
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5 years
Definitely not a cult. P.S. The last time I saw this kind of behavior, when people were tracking who owned shares and did not, was on a Facebook group for a penny stock called ELED after it went parabolic in penny land. Now trades at .0025c.
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1 year
Old enough to remember when everyone was saying that Teslas don't depreciate like ICE vehicles do.
@GuyDealership
Car Dealership Guy
1 year
Biggest price drops since January:
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ben k
5 years
This video?
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ben k
4 years
PSA: If you're driving a foreign luxury car and can't afford some random ~$1,000 repair invoices a couple times a year, you can't afford to drive a foreign luxury car. Sorry.
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3 years
Calm the fuck down. Blackhawks (and especially any and all VTOL aircraft) require an absolute metric fuckton of maintenance to not fall out of the sky at random. Do you really think the fucking taliban has Blackhawk pilots? GTFOH. Those are going to China or Russia.
@MacaesBruno
Bruno Maçães
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The Taliban now have more Black Hawk helicopters than 85% of countries in the world
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4 years
@elonmusk Reminder that IT'S NOT EVEN CLOSE TO FULL SELF DRIVING.
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4 years
For the 4th year in a row, Elon says that level 5 autonomy is only a few months away.
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ben k
2 years
Gen Z discovers social phenomenon that previous generations referred to as "friends".
@WSJ
The Wall Street Journal
2 years
Hamilton College has found one answer to the growing number of students seeking mental-health care on campus: Send them to other students
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ben k
3 years
A story as old as time.
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ben k
5 years
Mark my words: This will go down in history as one of the largest and most blatant red flags that the majority of society chose to ignore.
@DanielTelvock
Dan T
5 years
Elon Musk and his Tesla communications staff are blocking investigative and beat reporters on social media.
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ben k
5 years
So Tesla is going to offer an AWD truck with 500 mile range, air suspension, sports car handling, a million mile battery, 300k lbs towing capacity, that beats the Ram and F150, all for <$50K? I can only wonder what it’s like to be this insanely gullible.
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InsideEVs
5 years
UPDATE: Tesla Pickup Truck: Everything We Know: Price, Range, Reveal Date via @insideevs .com
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5 years
1/ WARNING: Gratitude thread. One thing I've been meaning to write about lately is my incredible experience with Twitter, FinTwit, and $TSLAQ as a whole. April was approximately my one year anniversary with $TSLAQ. I had a Twitter account for a while but cleared it out to
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ben k
6 years
Hey friends. Take a knee. Please RT and share. I just want to throw something out there to everyone. I know this time of year can be especially challenging for some of us. Depression is a true silent killer. If anyone reading this is ever in a dark place, please reach out to me.
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As we approach this event I’d like to remind everyone that Tesla has still not received or filed for a driverless testing permit in CA. Not that Elon cares about laws. But I suspect that’s a large the reason the event is being done at a movie studio.
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Tesla
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The future will be streamed live 10/10, 7pm PT
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ben k
4 years
Literally everything he just said about Lithium mining is COMPLETELY WRONG.
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ben k
10 months
95.3% of your revenue is from cars.
@elonmusk
Elon Musk
10 months
@SawyerMerritt He has the wrong frame of reference. Tesla is an AI/robotics company.
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ben k
3 years
NORAD gives us live tracking of Santa's sleigh but not a 22 ton rogue Chinese rocket. This isn't the future I was promised.
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2 years
@ToryJSheffer America's best kept secret... ...if you can afford a 3 story lake front mcmansion.
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ben k
5 years
Elon would have made a great soldier, since he's willing to die on any hill you put in front of him.
@elonmusk
Elon Musk
5 years
@flcnhvy You’d think they’d at least be Wikipedia-level informed about ventilators! It clearly articulates the difference between invasive & non-invasive. It’s very misleading to the public to claim that only the invasive type are “real ventilators”.
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ben k
5 years
Business idea: I'm going to start selling fire truck decals that Tesla owners can affix to the sides of their vehicles, to proudly display the tally of fire trucks they've taken out. They call them "victory marks" or "kill marks" in the military.
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5 years
@anthonyjeselnik The dropping will get him long before any disease will.
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ben k
5 years
Says the guy who builds cars that can't go through a car wash.
@elonmusk
Elon Musk
5 years
Tesla Cybertruck (pressurized edition) will be official truck of Mars
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7 months
Translation: "We're going to show off a conceptual prototype without a steering that won't actually be deployed in a robotaxi capacity then, but I'll tell you it will be ready in the next 3-6 months during the event please stop selling my stock"
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Elon Musk
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Tesla Robotaxi unveil on 8/8
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ben k
2 years
PSA, just to make sure we're all on the same page, the VCs throwing full-on three year old, crying, wailing tempter tantrums to get a federally funded bailout, have objectively and abjectly BRAGGED about taking money out of the pockets of common people, several times in the past.
@SilvermanJacob
Jacob Silverman
2 years
This 2021 video is notorious on crypto twitter and deserves wider viewership. Watch VCs David Sacks and Chamath Palihapitiya brag about buying huge amounts of Solana at a discount, planning to dump on retail. Solana has been called one of "Sam's coins" b/c SBF was a booster.
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2 years
Guys will literally double major in finance and accounting, get an MBA, CFA, intern at an IB, and then work at a hedge fund for years just to tell you with a bunch of fancy words that your can’t beat the market because they suck at their job.
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ben k
4 years
Another water tower just exploded. Like, REALLY exploded. CC: @elonmusk
@NASASpaceflight
Chris Bergin - NSF
4 years
RIP Starship SN4 😭
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Stop equating them. One guy has a newsletter and the other is basically the intelligence apparatus of a small country.
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6 years
$TSLAQ Huddle up team. A quick note on class: I've been noticing some of you are attacking or getting really snarky with new Tesla owners posting their issues on Twitter. Keep in mind a lot of buyers have no idea what they got themselves into. And most people would never
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5 years
This is the best thing all day. It perfectly summarizes @elonmusk 's Ring debacle. A broken Model S on the side of the track, waiting for a tow, gets passed by a perfectly functional Taycan. Porsche: 420 @Tesla : 0
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ben k
3 years
Colonizing Mars is going to be super easy, though.
@UniverCurious
Universal Curiosity
3 years
NASA astronaut Andrew Jay "Drew" Feustel after his return from 197 days in space (2018)
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3 years
Elon Musk, tomorrow: "We're proud to announce that we're taking $10,000 preorders for Tesla Bus™️ 5,000 miles of range Charges in 3 minutes Seats 4,000 people Volume production begins in 6 months, probably.
@DeItaone
*Walter Bloomberg
3 years
U.S. SENATE DEMOCRATS PROPOSE $73 BILLION TO SHIFT U.S. TO BATTERY ELECTRIC ZERO-EMISSION BUSES --STATEMENT
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5 years
"tEsLa iS gOiNg tO pUt ThE DiNoSaUr cAr CoMpAniEs oUt oF bUsiNeSs!"
@ReutersBiz
Reuters Business
5 years
VW proposes 35% dividend increase as 2019 profit surges 22%
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1/2 🚨🚨🚨 A message from @BloodsportCap : "Do me a favor... Tell @chamath , @elonmusk , and the longs they beat me on Twitter. However, now I have a documented case of information suppression that is coordinated between multiple Tech companies as my letters to NHTSA, the SEC,
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6 years
I don't even have words. I love you all and I'm glad we could share the moment when the CEO of several billion dollar companies smoked a joint on a live webcast.
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ben k
4 years
Elon is front-running the next whistleblower.
@DeItaone
*Walter Bloomberg
4 years
$TSLA WARNS WORKERS EX-EMPLOYEE ALLEGEDLY 'SABOTAGED' FACTORY
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6 years
1/ Someone poke holes in this for me, if you can. Right now we have: - Thousands of cars just sitting in storage. - Cars at stores that have been there for weeks/months. - Said stores are increasingly filling up with with cars to brink of capacity. - Tesla is now advertising.
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ben k
4 years
Probably going to lose follows, fuck it... Giuliani had the opportunity to go out on a great leadership legacy after 9/11 But now he's going down in flames as the idiotic, irrational crazy man yelling conspiracy theories while sweating out hair dye on national TV. Let. It. Go.
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Imagine being impressed with a car navigating a completely empty and well lit roundabout at 3mph when it was supposed to drive coast to coast on its own seven years ago
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ΛI DRIVR
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Actually Smart Summon test #2 (Roundabout) I'm officially impressed
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3 years
3/ the intellectual property of Cofinity, NOT Elon/x.com. If you think Elon is actually a legit software engineer, you should look at what happened when Zip2 was bought from Elon (they had to scrap his entire codebase, because it was absolute trash). So, once Cofinity and
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5 years
Hot off the press! "But a spokesperson for Laguna Seca wrote in an e-mail to CNBC: “We were not officiating while the Tesla was testing on the track. Official records only happen during sanctioned events where a sanctioning body is officiating.” "
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5 years
For those who think we hate Elon just for the sake of hating Elon... None of us would be here if he had: -Not bailed out Solar City. -Stuck to niche high-end cars. -Partnered with a traditional dealership. That's it. That solves 99% of his problems.
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6 years
Follow up on Toyota. Standing ovation.
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4 years
I'm going to be assembling a mega-thread on firearms. From purchasing, to peripherals, common myths and mistakes, usage, tactics, etc. It's a lot to go over. But more and more people keep DMing me for advice, as it appears they're realizing that you can't count on the police.
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ben k
2 years
Hey, you guys wanna see a dead body?
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