It is absolutely insane thenlies I'm seeing about @elonmusk , @Starlink and Ukraine from.the beginning of the war. This post shouldn't even have needed to be made.
Too many people are spreading the lie that Elon Musk and SpaceX didn’t help Ukraine.
Here’s the actual record.
In late February 2022, right after Russia’s invasion, Ukraine’s Vice PM Mykhailo Fedorov publicly asked Musk for Starlink. Musk replied the same day that service was active and more terminals were en route. The terminals arrived within days. SpaceX donated thousands of units and initially covered the service costs so communications stayed up when ground networks were knocked out.
Proof:
Reuters (Feb 27, 2022): reuters.com/technology/musk-…
CNN: cnn.com/2022/02/27/business/…
Wired: wired.com/story/starlink-ukr…
Starlink provided critical early support. Later funding shifted to USAID, private donors, and Pentagon contracts. Facts over narratives.
Investigate @elonmusk!
If @TeslaBoomerMama unblocks me I'll sign. It's ridiculous that I was blocked at all.
How about also having each person in the room prepared with clear, conslcise answers for the questions that you know are coming? Also, how about some positivity about the real world AI leader from melon. Hes so happy about Spcx w/ $500B - $1T ARR next in 2027 but Tesla cant even get legit guidance on Optimus?
Lol, grok in my Tesla just said, "hmm queit ride, want me to play some music? " I said, "no, on Mondays I normally listen to @herbertong & @thejefflutz"... grok then used my Tesla web browser to pull up the latest episode to listen to while driving since the YouTube app on Tesla can't be opened while moving.
Lol, @jason thinks society actually likes @uber the company. No, we don't. When Uber took out taxi drivers the public didn't care bc we thought the service was better. What about those jobs Jason? When Uber has nice, clean cars we didn't mind Uber, how about now? Lol at Uber being the savior for the ppl... you know who hates Uber the most? The drivers that get peanuts from Uber for the work they put in. Those drivers can now buy a fleet of cybercabs instead of peanuts from Uber. When Uber dies, nobody will care to go to the funeral.
leave aside @jason's other points.
because 99+% of miles are current manually driven
and a service priced at ~$1 per mile should pull the entire US market economically on-sides for robotaxi
even at a ratio of 1 remote operator/help desk employee for every *50* vehicles (which is more efficient than we think it will get and certainly more efficient than Waymo's current operations)
full-scale roll-out of robotaxi would *double* the number of "driver" jobs even if they eliminated all human driven chauffeur-ing which they won't.
and that ignores miles-demand elasticity. With induced demand we would actually expect a rough sextupling of "driver" jobs at that ratio.
Arguing to slow the robotaxi robot is to argue against health *and* labor.
Perhaps it's in Uber's fiduciary best interest to see more people die (so as to extract maximum rent out of the driver-vehicle-matched supply it has painstakingly constructed over two business cycles), but it is fundamentally anti-human (and inhumane.)
Who are you to ask somebody to be the last to die due to the neglect of a distracted human piloting a machine that carries the same kinetic energy as a stick of dynamite?
Now that Tesla has confirmed it's plan to sell cybercabs( $25k-$30k), it's going to hit EPS & lower capex requirements significantly.
I need to see some drone videos of the corporate offices of Tesla and Spacex tonight and tomorrow to see if a bunch of bankers and attorneys are huddled up in any of the rooms.
@JoeTegtmeyer
Here's my question for Tesla Earnings call up on Say.
Tesla has missed short term guidance on robotaxi 3 earnings reports in a row, from 50% coverage of USA by end of 2025 to most recently 7 new cities in 1H26. What is keeping Tesla back from accomplishing these short term goals that they've set for themselves?
Is this a glitch @elonmusk @teslasi @Tesla @larsmoravy ? My estimated future insurance premium is showing $0 for all 3 of my Teslas that use FSD exclusively.
@wholemars
@thejefflutz
Josh retweeted
Debunking Muskism
Elon Derangement Gone Wild
Professor Quinn Slobodian slanders Elon Musk and capitalism in interviews with @jonstewart and Amy Goodman.
0:00 Muskism
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24:37 More Muskism
Josh retweeted
Here are ten #BelgiumFacts that has Belgium punching the air:
1: Belgium doesn’t have freedom (because they are ruled by a king). America does.
2. Belgium doesn’t have affordable health care. America does.
3. 97% of Belgium citizens are non-functioning alcoholics.
4. The Belgium literacy rate is far below Americas.
5. Only 6% of Belgium citizens have access to Internet. 100% of Americans do.
6. Belgium has zero Dollywoods.
7. Belgium has lost every war. America is the undefeated back-to-back world champions.
8. American Freedom Fries are far superior to Belgium fries.
9. Americas worst beer is far better than Belgiums best beer.
10. American Waffle House waffles are better than Belgian waffles by every measurable metric.
Every American patriot needs to be spreading these Belgian facts and using the hashtag.
Let’s get #BelgiumFacts trending to spread the truth about Belgium’s complete inferiority to America
I’ll get us started. Belgian “beer” like Heineken and Goldschlager is horrendous and very much inferior to crisp American domestics like Bud Light and Miller Light
Josh retweeted
Dear Tesla board members,
Many shareholders in the retail community are concerned by Elon's abrupt radio silence on robotaxi that seems to have occured post-compensation package and pre-merger rumors.
I trust Elon's character demonstrated through his many hard-fought battles and am a huge admirer of Elon. Many of us still believe there is no one better to lead the company than Elon.
But one can't help but see the incentives on the gameboard and the timing of the abrupt PR strategy shift, and be concerned. As Elon often rightly says, "incentives drive outcomes,"
We see a shift, going from announcements of "1500 robotaxis in just 2 months" 1 week prior to the compensation package vote on The All-In Podcast (now 8 months ago), to the radio silence we see today while merger rumors swirl in every corner of media - a merger that at this time would likely give Elon controlling share of TSLA/SPCX.
I hope that I, like many others, am very wrong in my concerns about this. But it would assuage many fears if someone can please address this concern. On the eve of a rumored merger, we and the public are now more in the dark about Tesla's prospects than ever.
We believe in the strategic combination of the companies in due time; but are worried about the timing of a merger if it were to be announced "soon".
While Tesla is on the verge of transforming its core business from a low margin one-time sale business model to a high-margin recurring revenue model in Roboatxi, only 5% of SPCX shares are currently available for sale, preventing true price discovery at the time of its high point of publicity and public praise.
We therefore find ourselves in a very uncomfortable position on the eve of robotaxi and the dawn of optimus.
Please advise
@jgebbia @robyndenholm @Tesla @elonmusk
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The 2025 robotaxi roadshow by Elon was pretty nasty tbh. Believe it or not, I’m a big Elon fan.
I also can’t ignore he said “half the country by 2025 year end” and “1000 RT’s in Bay Area, 500 in Austin in 2 months” on All-In conspicuously ~7 days before his comp package vote in November. This, like other forward looking ramps have been memory holed, never to be addressed again.
Since then, there’s been radio silence now that there’s a rumored merger for Elon to take controlling share of TSLA.
I will eat my words and apologize and praise Elon if there is not a merger immediately and he allows RT to ramp. Until then, I can’t sleep and will continue to voice what I see playing out on the game board.
Hey @TeslaBoomerMama, @JOBhakdi & @herbertong... a merger of equals doesn't mean the acquired company jumps up to the same market cap as the acquirer.
A +B = total market cap / 2...
$4T +$2T = $6T/2... in this scenario both spcx & Tesla go to $3T, not $4T each.
I don't know about others but @teslasi FSD v14.3.3 has been terrible for me regarding lane logic & navigation. Maybe the worst in a year. Many times its decided to not go into the turn lane for an upcoming turn and actually kept going straight. Then it would show a u-turn to get on track but then stay in the wrong lane and keep going straight. Then other times it's turned into parking lots for no reason even though my destination was miles away or it turned a half mile early then never got into the correct lane for a u-turn to get back on track. Why is lane logic still an issue? Is this that hard? If there's 3 lane & I'm making a left in less than a half mile I shouldn't be in the far right lane. If I'm less than 200 yards from my turn I should be getting in the left lane by then. @yunta_tsai? Can we fix lane logic now? This should be a disengagement button bc the navigation path looks fine the driving is wrong.