Model 3 Feb sales in Aussie down 81% from Feb last year. Model Y down 72%.

To: Elon Musk

Subject: Things I did the last five weeks 😁 

1) US dependencies reduced to the current possible minimum and cancelled (just to be widely independent, who knows?).

2) Advise customers who want to do the same. The demand is overwhelming.

3) Took down all mementos of great US visits and experiences and carefully packed them away for later, including my Superman costume 😈 and the genuine, still functioning variometer from a B-52 from Davis-Monthan Airforce Base. (I have moved the fuel gauge of the Spitfire Mk. V in the display case to centre stage.) 😉

4) Brought home my gold from Fort Knox. 😎

5) Checked my stock of eggs in the fridge. 👍

6) Reflecting on the French Revolution, guillotines and funeral pyres. And first the poor king and then Robespierre ... 😊

12 Teslas destroyed by arson at French Tesla dealership.

dafman:

 

12 Teslas destroyed by arson at French Tesla dealership.

 

Again, I find that pathetic, superfluous and wrong. There are more intelligent ways without destroying other people's property.

DOGE in a nutshell:

quickymart:

 

DOGE in a nutshell:

 

That's not just DOGE, that's how Musk has always run things: Rush ahead with whatever brain fart he had in the shower that morning, then get someone else to can come in and undo things (and above all pay for the cleanup) when it crashes and burns.

We've already had delusions of grandeur here (and) too. Musk is definitely not a pioneer in this field either. 😁

Amtrak is in a sad state, but it's also going to be very difficult if not impossible to fix in a culture where everything is centered on the car.  Even if there were European-style trains, almost no-one would use them.  At the place I used to live in the US you couldn't walk anywhere outside the towns and villages because there were no footpaths anywhere.  If you needed to go more than 500m or so then you had to use a car, there was no other option.  When I was looking for a place to live I had to specifically find one on the one bus route that ran through the area, and I think I was the only white face on the bus.  Public transport was the last resort for use by people who couldn't afford to run a car, no-one else.  If you want a good example of what it's like, find a YT video of someone traveling by Greyhound bus, the closest I'm aware of is buses running in Africa.

Oh, and Musk is a car vendor, you can imagine how motivated he'd be to make trains successful.

neb:

 

Amtrak is in a sad state, but it's also going to be very difficult if not impossible to fix in a culture where everything is centered on the car.  Even if there were European-style trains, almost no-one would use them.  At the place I used to live in the US you couldn't walk anywhere outside the towns and villages because there were no footpaths anywhere.  If you needed to go more than 500m or so then you had to use a car, there was no other option.  When I was looking for a place to live I had to specifically find one on the one bus route that ran through the area, and I think I was the only white face on the bus.  Public transport was the last resort for use by people who couldn't afford to run a car, no-one else.  If you want a good example of what it's like, find a YT video of someone traveling by Greyhound bus, the closest I'm aware of is buses running in Africa.

 

Oh, and Musk is a car vendor, you can imagine how motivated he'd be to make trains successful.

 

I loved riding on the Empire Builder back in 2006, that was awesome 👍

Also:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-cabinet-confronted-liar-elon-225426989.html

“Trump called the meeting and then he backed his cabinet guys. Collins and Duffy called him (Musk) a liar to his face, in front of the president.”

Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, who has been privately infuriated with Mr Musk for weeks, is also said to have aired his grievances. Seated diagonally opposite the secretary of state, the tech billionaire accused Mr Rubio of failing to slash his staff, according to the New York Times.

You have fired “nobody,” Mr Musk is said to have told Mr Rubio, scornfully insinuating that the only person he had fired was a staff member from Doge.

Mr Rubio in turn pointed out the more than 1,500 State Department officials who took early retirement in buyouts.

Maybe Elon's (finally) starting to wear out his welcome? I also see there was a lot of demurring by the orange buffoon in that article too.

https://www.creativebloq.com/design/product-design/can-we-finally-admit-the-tesla-cybertruck-was-a-total-design-fail

Yes. Yes we can 😁

Herald reporting vandals attacking Tesla's in Auckland.