2/n Let's warm up: US Govt (@FAANews) tells you not to launch your rocket for public safety reasons? Do it anyway, because... "I can do whatever the f*ck I want"
4/n Say you’re *oppressed* by pronouns, which your partner pleaded with you not to do? (You fought about pronouns; she defied you; so you went online. Right?) "I can do whatever the f*** I want".
5/n Lead on the desperate, suggesting you could cure paralysis, maybe by year’s end, like a Silicon Valley faith healer? "I can do whatever the f*** I want".
6/n California impose a Covid lockdown? Call the government fascist on a quarterly investor conference call. It’s the Emerald Rule: cnbc.com/2020/04/29/elo…
7/n Tesla fans, meanwhile 👇
8/n In “The Boys”, Homelander is an insecure, narcissist psychopath Superman. Musk is no superhero, but their Venn Diagram is a circle. h/t @savagebooks
9/n Rich (powerful) enough to get away with calling a cave diver hero a pedophile child rapist, Musk embodies Big Tech’s “LOMO” (Law-Optional M.O.) attitude towards us “mud people”. buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanma…
11/n As a Very Secure Genius, Musk requires them to have no other idols before him. There's no one he won't go negging, anytime, for any reason: Einstein, Buffett, Gates... Well, except Xi Jinping. #VerySecureGenius 👉 express.co.uk/news/world/137…
13/n But a #VerySecureGenius with a Tinker Bell Complex: when people stop thinking of him, he dies (inside). That’s why he’s always on social media: for affection, acceptance, admiration. It's exactly "Homelander". evfarm.substack.com/p/the-tinker-b…
14/n When he missteps, a human wave attack of flacks, fans and stans covers his tracks.
15/n … and for billionaires, ass-covering praise is cheaply bought. It's not pocket change, it's rounding error. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
16/n Musk actually *does* have two superpowers. (1) He’s convinced fans that they need him; that he’s a Good Provider. That if we all kept quiet and out of his way, and didn’t upset him, he’d get better.
That’s how battered women think. Donate. 👇 domesticshelters.org/help#?page=1
17/n And (2) a bro-ing chorus of SEO’d fan blogs buries inconvenient truths way down search rankings. If you weren’t paying really 🔍🔍 close attention, here’s some of what you missed.
18/n Employee fired the day after she escalated directly to Musk that she’d been sexually assaulted on-premises? ✅ Alleged in Nevada docket 3:19-cv-00301-LRH-CLB. Via @PlainSite --> plainsite.org/dockets/downlo…
19/n Whistleblower security employee with drug investigation experience, demoted, fired, then harassed after reporting 5 known cartel members worked at Gigafactory, whose grade of lithium is used in drug manufacture? (Hansen v Musk et al) ✅ plainsite.org/documents/1pis…
20/n Strong claims. Serious claims. Claims that were corroborated by his security team supervisor in his *own* whistleblower lawsuit. (Gouthro v Tesla) ✅
As Musk would put it, "this is really messed up, @DEAHQ". plainsite.org/documents/22y0…
21/n Try to destroy a *third* whistleblower, who was swatted when “someone” phoned to falsely claim he was going to shoot up the factory? ✅ bloomberg.com/news/features/…
22/n That scratches the surface. The other 99 44/100ths% remains. *That* is what fans, stans and ESG funds have been tricked into enabling. (There's no way would they approve, if they knew.)
And if they don’t like it, there’s that Emerald Rule:
23/n For more on Tesla’s arc of darkness, sign up at evfarm.substack.com. The “back catalog” - how one fan turned critic - is free. Public service, etc.
It's not pretty reading. It might not be for you. And if you’re a fan, treasure your innocence.
24/n Musk’s LOMO has made him the richest man in the world. He won’t change unless fans, (ESG) funds and governments shake their battered mentality and stand up for themselves.
25/n Until then, the beatings will continue.
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1/ Finally got around to listening to @TESLAcharts's excellent pod with @nikolatrevor. I'll give broad-brush commentary; others like @BonaireVolt have probed specifics.
1a/ On BEV vs FCEV @JigarShahDC put it best on @TheEnergyGang (22-25 minute mark)
"The use of math all the time to say #fuelcells are worse than batteries literally makes no sense. This is not about round-trip efficiency..."
FRAME THIS STATEMENT! greentechmedia.com/articles/read/…
2/ Shah explains it's about culture change. Milton speaks from the heart as a guy who dropped out of college, and had that taunt lobbed at him a lot. Seriously, WHO BETTER TO WIN OVER TRUCKERS?? Bring an I-know-better MBA or MSc attitude in and you'll be tossed to the curb.
1/ Part 1 of my reflections on the Michael Moore-backed #PlanetoftheHumans 🍿🍿🍿
2/ The YouTube write-up is an accurate summary of the movie's argument.
The misanthropy inherent in the phrase "out-of-control human presence" is ... revealing. 🤦♂️
3/ This movie will split the environmental movement between the (hardline, blue collar) "degrowth" and (moderate, white collar) "green growth" factions.
It's a proxy for class politics, Gaia-style!
2/ This instalment experiments with @axios-style SmartBrevity®. Feedback encouraged.
As always, no investment dealings, though I worked there years ago, and helped them with a small project (~1 person-day-equivalent) more than a year ago.
3/ Ballard recently announced that vehicles powered by its fuel cell stacks had accumulated 30 million km (19 million miles), half the distance from the Sun to Mercury. Mainly:
FCEBs - fuel cell electric buses, and
FCCTs - fuel cell commercial trucks (MDV / class 6)
@BlairKing_ca@steeletalk@BCGreens@AJWVictoriaBC 1/ Hi Blair, I find many (most?) of your analyses thorough and commendable. In this one case, your source data is a bit off. If you have a garage, buying + installing a Level 2 charging station will probably cost $1500 ballpark. Some folks (me!) just use a wall outlet.
@BlairKing_ca@steeletalk@BCGreens@AJWVictoriaBC 2/ That's based on roughly 500-ish detached home incentives Plug In BC distributed in 2018. Avg cost for apartments / condos is a lot higher. Now, EVs *do* remain more expensive than combustion vehicles. No denying that.
@BlairKing_ca@steeletalk@BCGreens@AJWVictoriaBC 3/ I think the avg Canadian new car retails for ~$35k?
The avg ("mean") EV sold in Canada in 2018 had an MSRP of maybe $48-$50k.
(I've only done a quick estimate.) That's pushed up by Tesla sales.
@tomfletcherbc Hi Tom, what's the best way to offer additional context to the data? Letter-to-editor? I've tracked the Canadian EV market for 6 years (see: tinyurl.com/CanadaEVSales) and some of the stats could use some clarification.
@tomfletcherbc In calendar 2017 (most readily available data) 2.6% of California car sales were battery-electric or fuel cell vehicles, with an additional 2.2% being plug-in hybrids. The ZEV share was therefore 4.8%; BC's ZEV share in 2017 was about 1.4%.
@tomfletcherbc 2/ June 2018 was a freakish month for ZEVs in Canada (and BC) because Tesla brought in 2000+ Model 3s. (By comparison they sold about 100 Model 3s in each of July and August.) So the 3.7% cited for June 2018 for BC isn't very representative.