Having also been in Colorado and being big into mining at the time, I can tell you that you would have sold when it hit the ATH of $1000, or definitely when MtGox happened and it halved almost overnight. I worked at Microcenter at the time and remember all the people returning GPUs after that crash. Everyone likes to think they would have held this whole time, but you’d have been a fucking greedy idiot if you had seen something so volatile, made 1000x returns and still said “Nah, I’m gonna hold”

Oh, there’s loads of value to it. Merch sales, ticket sales, speaking fees, book deals, etc

As someone who grew up in Colorado and now lives in Michigan, this hits hard.

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It’s one thing to continuously move dates like that, but the uniqueness of giving a 3 month window and saying it with such confidence is very amusing to me.

“3 months maybe, 6 months definitely” is still one of my favorite quotes from his timeline estimates.

“3 months maybe, 6 months definitely” is still one of my favorite quotes from his timeline estimates.

Those crazy margins lasted for like 2 quarters until it was revealed that one of the main ways they managed it was severely under allocating warranty. It was a neat trick, until vehicles actually started to come back with warranty claims and they realized they literally make the least reliable and most expensive to repair cars on the market. IIRC they were allocating like 1/3 of what Toyota does per-vehicle, which is absolutely insane given the kind of vehicles they make. Hence why they became insanely stingy with warranty claims, and you saw tons of in-warranty repairs being allocated to “goodwill” which is a distinctly different pool from warranty allocation.

The entire company is built on fraud and shell-games with SpaceX/Starlink/Boring Co. and Musk has straight up admitted as much. No one gives a shit and a judge literally ruled he’s allowed to do it because line go up.

I can rant for hours about all the insanely sketchy stuff they’ve done solely for a one quarter boost, and plenty of other stuff where their cost-cutting directly resulted in loss of life.

In the US we also have places like Rent-A-Center that can be used for that. They tend to be quite predatory and usually target low income people to rent luxury goods they couldn’t normally afford, but I knew someone who’d rent their largest TV for a week for their Superbowl party, and it was a pretty good use for the service.

Newer drones are literally required by law to broadcast their remote ID, which also contains location identification. Yes, they can track you very easily.

https://www.faa.gov/uas/getting_started/remote_id

Sure, there are cheap drones that don’t abide by these requirements, and a DIY system can get around it, but the point stands that basically any “name brand” non-toy drone sold in the US is going to tell the anyone interested your location the moment you turn the transmitter on.

The fact that they can track your controller and hunt you down.

Sort of. He basically said, that as a guy, being attracted to someone AFAB that was extremely masculine, “Hulk Hogan with a pussy” being the direct quote, was gayer than being attracted to someone AMAB that was extremely feminine, “Megan Fox with a dick”.

This isn’t true at all. I love Technology Connections, but Alec’s take on it is a bit misleading… They will illuminate under regen, but above a certain decel amount. This is intentional, because otherwise you’d have your indicators on constantly, so you have to set the threshold somewhere. Is it set maybe a little too high? There could be an argument for that, but saying they don’t illuminate unless the physical brakes engage is an outright falsehood.

You’ll get the plate for $6, but anything on it is extra.

Jerika

I feel proud that Michigan made it in to real America, but Colorado definitely is not part of Dumbfuckistan.

Kristi Noem

Because Americans have been trained to think that they’re just one step away from the billionaires, and have absolutely zero class consciousness.

I just upgraded to a foldable phone and it’s a game changer to have an 8in screen in your pocket. Reading long form content is so much more enjoyable, and I’d love to have an E-ink reader that folds like my phone does.

It’s not that he paid them directly, but Twitter has a monetization feature for blue-check accounts where you can effectively get paid for engagement farming.