Elon's Antics

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I jumped when the tyre marks were swerving to the left. I thought the car would follow that. Right after, yep.
 
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I jumped when the tyre marks were swerving to the left. I thought the car would follow that. Right after, yep.
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If you're talking about this:

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That's the shadow of the power lines.
 

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Tesla’s Autopilot chief, Ashok Elluswamy, admitted that Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) is “lagging by a couple of years” behind Waymo, which he called the current benchmark.

He defended Tesla’s vision-only approach as more cost- and power-efficient, but acknowledged it’s technically harder than using lidar.

Despite recent test failures—like FSD running a red light—Tesla is counting on its massive fleet data advantage to catch up.

However, Ashok's timing undercuts Elon Musk’s claims ahead of Tesla’s promised robotaxi debut in Texas next month, highlighting that fully autonomous driving is still not ready.

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The 2025 Axios Harris Poll 100 reputation rankings were published this week and the results for Musk companies are apalling


Let's start with Tesla. I looked back to the entire history of Tesla in this poll, and made this chart for you. From a high of 8th position in 2021, Tesla has crashed to 95th

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Scrolling to the bottom of the list of 100, we see that Musk's companies are well represented, with SpaceX at 86th (slightly ahead of Boeing), Tesla at 95th is handily beaten by UnitedHealth. Xitter, to its credit, squeaked in ahead of the Trump Organization and Spirit Airlines.

To make it onto this list, companies have to be "most visible". Here's their methodology (the emphasis is mine) -

Respondents are asked which two companies — in their opinion — stand out as having the best reputation today and which two have the worst. All nominations are compiled into an aggregate list to determine the "most visible" companies.

In other words, we get to see the best and the ****tiest on this list.

Here is the ****** end of the list:-
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GBO Possum
The 2025 Axios Harris Poll 100 reputation rankings were published this week and the results for Musk companies are apalling


Let's start with Tesla. I looked back to the entire history of Tesla in this poll, and made this chart for you. From a high of 8th position in 2021, Tesla has crashed to 95th

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Scrolling to the bottom of the list of 100, we see that Musk's companies are well represented, with SpaceX at 86th (slightly ahead of Boeing), Tesla at 95th is handily beaten by UnitedHealth. Xitter, to its credit, squeaked in ahead of the Trump Organization and Spirit Airlines.

To make it onto this list, companies have to be "most visible". Here's their methodology (the emphasis is mine) -

Respondents are asked which two companies — in their opinion — stand out as having the best reputation today and which two have the worst. All nominations are compiled into an aggregate list to determine the "most visible" companies.

In other words, we get to see the best and the ****tiest on this list.

Here is the ****** end of the list:-
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I think we all know how this is going to play out if Musk or Trump are made aware - Axios are going to be accused of being funded by the Democrats, that all of the polling was done in blue states and that if they'd polled all of America, Trump and Musk's companies would all be in the top 10!
 
Meanwhile, the town that Elon bought is proposing a citywide rezoning which is probably aimed to start forcing out the people who aren't SpaceX employees.


Really wouldn't surprise me if in a few years all SpaceX employees are required to live there and they're getting paid exclusively in company scrip or Dogecoins or something.
 
France has just released its car registration data for May, confirming that the auto market is down 12%.

However, Tesla’s sales were down 67% compared to the same period last year.

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Tesla (TSLA) sales crash in France even with new Model Y

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In other news, sales of Ketamine, mushrooms, and a whole slew of truth-altering drugs are thought to be booming due to extraordinary demand in the wealthiest section of the market.
 
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Elon leaves with reputation in tatters

As Musk's time in the White House comes to an end, let's be clear about his legacy.
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I’m not particularly interested in Elon Musk’s latest scandal involving his ketamine use, although I’m not particularly surprised, either. What I am interested in is the legacy he leaves behind now that he’s reached the 130-day limit as a Special Government Employee.

Musk’s legacy is that he spent his time in the White House using his influence to destroy the lives of millions of people while raking in rewards for himself. He pretended that he was working in pursuit of rooting out a staggering $2 trillion worth of waste, fraud, and abuse. And yet what did he do? He immediately attacked USAID, which accounts for all of one half of one percent of the budget, and is tasked with providing the impoverished with food and water and services like HIV prevention. But USAID was investigating Starlink, and so it was gutted. He went after the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which exists only to protect consumers from predatory financial institutions and has returned $21 billion to those who’ve been defrauded. But the CFPB was fielding over 300 complains about Tesla and would’ve had oversight into X’s payment processing, and so it was gutted. In fact, every single agency that Elon went after - USAID, CFPB, DOL, NLRB, EPA, DOT, USDA - just so happened to be performing oversight into him or SpaceX or Starlink or Tesla. And all of those agencies paid the price.

And yet, conspicuously spared from Elon’s crusade against waste, fraud, and abuse? The department that’s failed seven audits in a row: the Pentagon. In fact, the Pentagon got a raise; the agency’s budget will soon top $1 trillion. The only agency that hasn’t passed an audit in the better part of a decade got rewarded, while every other agency got gutted— all under the pretense of eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse. And it’s no surprise why: those agencies all regulate Elon, while the Pentagon’s raise means more money for Elon’s companies. Like, for example, the $22 billion in Pentagon contracts that he’s already been rewarded. Let’s not pretend that Musk isn’t acutely aware of who butters his bread.

So while Musk wallows in self-pity that most Americans don’t seem adequately grateful for his service, the reality is that he was uniquely responsible for gutting essential agencies that ensure people can survive around the world, firing thousands of veterans, and cutting funding for research that will help kids with cancer, all so that he could eliminate any obstacles to his consolidation of even more wealth. People the world over will die so that Elon can get richer. He doesn’t deserve praise, he deserves to be viewed as a ghoul who represents the worst of humanity. He is a greedy kleptocrat whose life’s work boils down to stealing from the poor to pad his own bottom line. That’s his legacy. He could’ve changed the world for the better; he had every resource available to him. Instead, he made it markedly worse. And we should never forget that.
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Meanwhile, the town that Elon bought is proposing a citywide rezoning which is probably aimed to start forcing out the people who aren't SpaceX employees.


Really wouldn't surprise me if in a few years all SpaceX employees are required to live there and they're getting paid exclusively in company scrip or Dogecoins or something.
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To be fair the people who lived there, and based on street view from 2011 there weren't many, are probably not worth caring about.

The real atrocity here is that the central street through Starbase is called Meme Street.
 
I'm not sure if this is strictly an Elon Antic ™ , but I'll post it anyway, since it seems relevant.

Google News has algorithms to curate stories. Sometimes the combinations are, well, "odd". Or maybe it was Tesla's Tweet timing which was odd...

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