• TommySoda@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    You know what’s horrific and evil? Cutting Medicaid and social security for millions of people because your billions of dollars isn’t enough money to make up for the fact that you’re a giant man baby.

    • markstos@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Burning lithium batteries are explosive, toxic and released heavy metals.

      There’s a limited supply of the materials for EVs and e-bikes but a huge value in replacing gas cars with these vehicles.

      Burning these huge batteries harms people breathing the air in the area.

      • melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        3 months ago

        hey what if we used trains with overhead wire instead? they’re better in basically every way, especially someplace relatively flat like vegas.

        • buddascrayon@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          Yeah I absolutely love the video made by some guy, I forget his name, but it basically lambasted the “Tesla tunnel” in Vegas because for the same amount of money or even less they could have built an actual Subway train.

      • FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        Yeah, it’d be better just to cease their purchase and let them sit, completely useless. A burnt car gets an insurance payout. What about throwing those giant stickers on the windshield that don’t peel off without ripping and leave a ridiculous mess? There was a Russian YouTube channel where people would do that to people driving on sidewalks.

        Bonus money and business for car detailers? Lol

        • ralakus@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          I would agree normally, but at a larger scale, it would cost insurance more to replace everything leading to higher rates and possibly refusal of insurance due to the risk associated.

  • Furbag@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    We brought him a little taste of civil war. He’s just mad he’s on the losing side.

  • melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    3 months ago

    genocide? cool and good. black bagging people for protected speech? yeah, pretty fucking cool. letting people die of preventable disease and disaster? yeah, what are you, gay?

    but damaging a car? you’re basically the worst thing a person can be.

  • amadeus84@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Elon has done some impressive things but his voice carry’s as much weight as the president. Even more. To call for civil war seems reckless and will stir up the MAGA side. So with all his money and power he isn’t able to form some kind of mediation between all parties. He could be a beacon of reason and peace with his immense wealth. Why choose this path so quickly.

    • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Elon has done some impressive things

      The more I look into that, the more I question this.

      He has has bought companies that have done impressive things and tarnished nearly to the point of ruin all but one of them.

      He wasn’t the brainchild behind any of these products; he was, at most, the person who convinced venture capitalists to invest and the one who bargained with lawmakers to allow them.

      I’m increasingly seeing brilliant people who have dealt with him in person mentioning that he has quite sub-par reasoning skills, and we’re seeing more and more of that in the news.

    • P1k1e@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Because MAGA doesn’t respect discourse, only shows of strength no matter how sloppy or feeble

  • HunterLF@lemmy.zip
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    3 months ago

    The funny thing is, he doesn’t even feel it that much. His ownership of Tesla is peanuts compared to SpaceX, where the contracts with the government are. Just some food for taught 🤔

    • usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      ? ~60% of his wealth is estimated to be in Tesla shares

      His net worth is definitely affected by Tesla shares declining

        • TheYojimbo@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          It’s not what they were talking about though. They said tesla shares were 60% of his wealth, not that he owned 60% of tesla.

          I can’t find the actual number but it looks like tesla shares were 75% of his wealth in 2020, and fell to 37% in 2022 when he sold some.

          So it’s definitely hurting him

          • HunterLF@lemmy.zip
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            3 months ago

            So what you are telling me, is that 37% of what he made till 2022 is from Tesla, yes, that is true, but if it fell from 75% to 37% in just 2 years and it most likely fell again till 2024, that amount has to been shrinking due to a larger summ of money coming from another investment with a bigger amount of shares. SpaceX started gaining more money with the starlink project and the governmental contracts, around 2019-2020 and who has the most shares in that company? Is Elon, today his wealth is not coming that much from Tesla, he still made money from it, but we are debating small stuff to what SpaceX represents to him.

            • TheYojimbo@lemmy.world
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              3 months ago

              Well the subject originally was that Tesla’s drop was hurting elon, to which you said “he doesn’t feel it that much”.

              By doing a quick search, I found that his spaceX shares are worth around $147 billion, while is tesla shares are worth around $98 billion. You are right that spaceX represents more, but it’s not small stuff. And to stay on topic, it seems like the value of his Tesla stock and options has declined by nearly $102 billion since the beginning of the year, which I think is not small even for him.

              While you are right the contracts with the governements are balancing the losses a bit, it’s still a good chunk of his wealth, as it seems he has gone from $443 billion in december 2024 to $380 billion mid february, and I’ll take whatever hurst this mf.