Comments by "Bo McGillacutty" (@Mrbfgray) on "CNBC" channel.

  1. She turned out to be less of a Steve Jobs more a bad Apple.
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  2. Yeah I always take those with a half grain of salt, what hubby is going to say it sucks even when it does?
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  3.  @1310beth  Those out of work in service sector should look to the trades--endless opportunities and shortages there for decades now. Excess regulations are a big problem too.
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  4. Unfortunately 40 yrs of excessive Left policies have substantially degraded the state. I'm entrenched and can't stand flatlands, love the High Sierra backcountry, climate, natural landscape, otherwise would probably be packing too.
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  5. 10 tons of sand for 1 ton of concrete??? How is that possible!? I call BS.
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  6. It wasn't "ppl ripping out copper wire and plumbing" it was cranksters.
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  7. Let'em FAIL as they've been begging for. GOOD RIDDANCE.
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  8. 36 units delivered or CGI models presented?
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  9.  @ThinhLe-xt1ky  How many tons of salt do you want with your steak dinner?
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  10. Climate alarmist sure don't.
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  11. "If you can't pay for it twice in cash you can't afford it." Why the hell would anyone make payments in the 1st place? Get an old Honda and get ahead.
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  12. Folks who purchase American names no matter how crap they are.
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  13. Multi-century high water markers.
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  14.  @noneshere  Yeah I'm happy to be rid of carbs because I HAD to work on them. Haven't done a damn thing on injection systems in 30 yr.s and 4 vehicles. Not to mention power, efficiency and so on.
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  15. Let'em go away. Obsolete biz models with crap vehicle models. GOOD RIDDANCE.
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  16. It's stupid to judge a person by the car they happen to occupy at the moment--but I always thought anyone who purchases an Escalade must be stupid, don't know the new ones but there was nothing but cheesy Chevy in them traditionally. Horrible drama styling with cheep plastic chrome crap everywhere, dashboard made out of half a trash bin....rubbish on road and off, unreliable, totally tasteless. I'd have to be in best humor to be seen in one, sort of the expensive version of the laughable PT Cruiser.
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  17.  @brodiapunch  FL is a 'free state', so naturally everyone is fleeing the Commies and driving up prices there, TX, etc.. Plus the reckless shutdown disaster will still be paid for by your grandchildren. Did you expect no consequences for insane political policies? Maybe you'd prefer NYC, Los Angeles or Frisco progressive disaster areas? Realize that being anti-leftist does not mean being Republican, it's not a binary world.
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  18. @Nobody here but us Chaotic Neutral chickens Instead of mindless regurgitated non-thinking nonsense why don't you become prosperous yourself instead? Farmers aren't destroying produce for profit. Why don't you come up with a solution instead of blaming everyone but yourself? I've been transforming my modest lot into a beautiful food producing landscape for many yr.s, that's my partial solution.
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  19.  @pdougall1  Assume it's sarcasm.
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  20. I just added 4 orders for 10 shares each in the mid $700's....started accumulating at $190 last June, basis low $300's. It's not about where it's been but where it's going. Deciding to stay long today is exactly the same as deciding to BUY at today's price. (emotionally ppl have a hard time with that idea but emotions are the enemy of every investor)
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  21. I agree with balance but living frugally is NOT living badly necessarily.
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  22.  Richard Skipper  WTF? What are you talking about?
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  23.  @mattlane2282  WTH?? Solar is being installed all over the place, that's been worked out decades ago. Add batteries and you can go off grid if you invest enough in the system, it may not pencil out just yet but it's getting closer every year.
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  24. It started several centuries ago, remember the Luddites?
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  25. Dealerships days are numbered.
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  26.  @charlesmichaels6648  It was decent for it's day, drag coefficient of 0.48, back when manufacturers barely considered drag. But not by today's standards of around the low/mid 0.3s. It doesn't have sharp edges and relatively clean underneath where much of drag typically comes from, two good things for it, but that's it. It became very "floaty" at today's normal highway speeds and was terrifying in crosswinds. It's fuel economy was mainly the result of small size, lite wt. and small engine. Don't forget that drag coefficient and DRAG are two different things, a bigger vehicle can have a better coefficient and still more drag.
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  27.  @Stressless2023  I don't know about the Pacifica per se but Chryslers are known to be crap, no offense. Pickups the exception. I bet you will have major problems with it over time, transmission particularly. It will fall to pieces.
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  28. Please keep them OFF the road where they belong. ;-)
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  29. Walmart most soul destroying bit of America, wouldn't frequent there for free food.
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  30.  @T0198  Torx bolts are for a damn good reason--they are far superior to the always strip prone allens they replace and they are uniform across industries with common tools, if adding a set of torx bits to your socket sets overwhelms you then you have no biz DIYing anyway.
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  31.  @htaukkyanmyo4437  It's a complicated problem that money alone WILL NOT solve. Vast majority are substance abusers, you could give them all homes for free and those properties will be effectively destroyed within a yr. But we need to cut ALL SPENDING or we're in deep trouble. Military spending is extremely inefficient (what government spending isn't), we could get a lot more for our buck.
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  32. Where is the compare to other plants? These folks aren't working there by force.
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  33. Yeah the lottery is for fools, I wouldn't bet against Elon, but I can't quite put my money on Tesla either.
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  34. Does he miss flipping vehicles? ;-) Way back when the Bronco was known for that.
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  35.  @charlesmichaels6648  Just keep those rubbish relics OFF the highway please. Don't know what you'er talking about regarding EPA but I remember when the air in big US cities would gag you, burn your eyes and just plain STUNK. Oh....and USA rivers were so polluted they sometimes caught on fire. Not to justify EPA overreach but things were FAR worse before it existed.
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  36. A tangent-- Berkshire minimum requirements for acquisitions: (I especially appreciate the last one) "Berkshire has laid out six criteria for acquiring a business. It must be a large purchase, at least $50 million of before-tax earnings. The company must have demonstrated consistent earning power and have businesses earning good returns on equity while employing little or no debt. It also must be a simple business -- Buffett noted that "if there's lots of technology, we won't understand it" -- and management must be in place. Lastly, there has to be an offering price. Berkshire said it will not engage in unfriendly takeovers."
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  37. "'beamed down from space to show us all how it's done'" Pretty insightful in hindsight Bob.
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  38. Love the guy but BOX has not aged well so far. (it's OK if he's wrong once in a while or just early)
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  39. Hayden Macfarlane There is no 35k Tesla at this point, not even close. I hope they can accomplish that in the near future but I wouldn't bet grocery money on it right now.
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  40.  @angelgjr1999  It's proving to be much more expensive than wind and solar. Solar continues a multi-decade price decline trajectory with no end in sight and already about the cheapest new source available. (hydro aside as it's mostly tapped out)
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  41. This advertisement isn't much better than the crude unimpressive machines they sell, they are fun for a while but prone to failure and problems and haven't much improved in 20 yr.s. Amazing they are still in business.
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  42.  @charlesmichaels6648  Maybe a little but not a lot. They get lift, get light at highway speeds for one thing. I understand the attraction to antiques, simplicity and so on, but old cars are inferior in most respects, certainly performance, comfort and especially safety. The Bug was shaped in early 1940's so it's bound to be even worse than most of it's contemporaries by say the '80's. They are great offroad however, as far as stock cars go. Can be fun at low speeds/shorter distances.
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  43.  @tjwoosta  Salting roads is a stupid practice IMO. Coarse sand does the trick just fine without destroying infrastructure, vehicles and damaging the environment.
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  44. ALL consumer electronics, most appliances and many other things are dramatically cheaper. Your phone alone replaces several thousand $ worth of 1990 equipment, camcorder, camera, calculator, maybe even desktop computer. Cars today are vastly superiour to 1970's death traps that got 12mpg, had bad brakes, crap acceleration and handling, no AC, homes are vastly bigger and better today and so on.
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  45.  @_TbT_  Exactly. The old one's were good in a roll over only but of course they had 'low rolling resistance' too, easy to tumble. Also the original had atrocious aerodynamic qualities, not so bad at 50mph but much above that it became scary, floaty and highly inefficient.
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  46. Everyone seems to forget that we have been subsidizing the heck out of fossil fuels since day one. Trillions of of tax dollars have gone into protecting the Persian Gulf ONLY to protect the oil shipping lanes, the environmental cost associate with consumption are NOT being paid upfront as they should be....difficult to estimate but certainly not zero. (those are a couple *indirect subsidies*) If you believe bin Laden-- 9/11 would not have happened if not for our relations with Saudi which were, obviously, all about petroleum. Direct subsidies (according to Forbes): "between 1994 and 2009 the U.S. oil and gas industries received a cumulative $446.96 billion in subsidies, compared to just $5.93 billion given to renewables in those years."
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  47. Tires are far cheaper today then when I started buying in the early 1980's, adjusted for inflation, quality and longevity. They have advanced fantastically in recent decades too.
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  48. A dramatic reduction in extractive industries will result and it's already happening, coal mining, oil and gas are tapped and used once, coal is already dying fast in the West. (China the big exception, they continue to increase consumption) While fossils are burned one time, ALL battery elements will be endlessly recycled just like aluminum has been since day one, ultimately reducing mining to a small fraction of what it is today. 70% of all the aluminum ever mined is still in use today, likewise for Li and other batt elements in the future.
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  49. I did some contracting for the Silver Peak, Nevada brine mine in late '80's. It was a small salt flat where essentially no life could exist to start with, they pump brine from underground, extract the Li salts and when they are done, it will remain a salty flat wasteland not too different from how they found it. Not all Li mines are brine but those can be about as environmentally benign as any mine can be, the composition of remaining salts will simply be missing one component and the landscape won't be much altered, a little local subsidence is about all.
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  50. And anger at the media for hyping and creating this disaster.
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  51. It's the nature of being listed on a stock exchange and offering equity, if you can't handle criticism from all sides, too bad. It's not a realm for fragile children. Best not own individual stocks if you can't consider both the bear case and bull case.
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  52. That was a stupid comment.
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  53.  Politically Incorrect Bender  HA! You got me there.
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  54. OH NO. Not another GM partnership with a start up! :D (I suspect this one might actually be real)
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  55.  @enriquegentry5629  GOOD to hear that, it's supposed to be a pretty good car for many folks. Chinese are soon going to 'flood' American market with much more advanced less expensive options. GM is screwed best I can see, drowning in debt slow innovation and crippled by UAW, etc.
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  56.  @cnordegren  It would have to become unrecognizable almost, the original shape is aerodynamically terrible.
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  57.  @charlesmichaels6648  Obviously I'm not reading all that. Maybe you don't remember what it was like in America BEFORE the EPA. I do. You might remember when closing the garage door and leaving the engine running was a quick easy way to commit suicide...doesn't work near as well today. Free markets should dominate but they fail anytime you have "concentrated rewards with distributed costs." ....making the environment toxic might profit one entity while they only pay the small, universally distributed price along with millions of others, naturally the 'others' are polluting too. Soon things become unlivable. See Beijing in recent yr.s or Los Angeles in 1970. Agencies involved in dirty deeds, corruption or whatever--it's not trivial, but don't think it's OK for you to simplify your car by removing emissions equipment, society rightly won't put up with it. When's the last time you happened to find yourself behind a 1960's American car?...just ONE CAR stinks up the whole road, they all used to be that way in the bad old day's when USA rivers literally caught on fire as they were industrial/general sewers. I'll put up with some form of EPA first.
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  58. $3500 now. hahaha
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  59. OK Newsom--- slash the heck out of crippling regulations, Cali ran mining out of town decades ago, I'll be shocked if YOU can make it viable again. Washington could help by getting out of the way. I used to do contract process equipment fabrication for Silver Peak operation. (was Foote Mineral back then)
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  60. Hay wagons (pickups) and SUVs are crap on the road anyway, I only suffer one when I absolutely have to which is much of the time.
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  61. Market cap covers all bases. No need to have a complex formula including "safety", bla bla bla. I think it's great they are not only upsetting all other conventions but CEO pay as well, tied directly to the most fundamental performance indicator and in a way that it can't be manipulated. Elon can't just pop the stock and sell his shares, he has to wait half a decade.
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  62. And then do WHAT with the salt? No conceivable use for that much. Natural evaporation is causing vastly more 'brine' constantly, it's just distributed evenly. It's not as tho desal has any effect on ocean salinity on average what so ever. Same amount of salt in the oceans so it's just a matter of dilution/distribution.
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  63.  @billolsen4360  And now we have the worst sort of corrupt seniors, the one's legally insider trading in DC, subsidizing GM.
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  64. forever Are you high on something? What's the matter with you?
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  65. Self discipline maybe?? No one could be that clueless.
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  66. Governments are the ultimate monopoly, that means they have no incentive to serve their customers, us.
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  67. And the societal stigmatization of ALL trades, especially if they get your hands dirty. Mention to a young person all the 6 figure opportunities in the trades (there's plenty) and their eyes glaze over, they've been indoctrinated to believe any job including manual work is beneath them, only for losers or whatever. It's mindless. Some of the smartest most disciplined workers I know are freelance diesel mechanics, much smarter than many engineers I've known.
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  68. Same here, only added 10 just over $400 but if you believe in the long term story it's still "cheap". I'm going to buy more, cash is trash and I have a bit too much of it.
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  69.  @Ftroo-eu3cx  Even if that's the case your talking about massive pumping costs and pipeline investment making an already expensive water maybe several times more expensive.
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  70. Can't remember last time I bought OJ. Grow and squeeze my own, not even the same stuff really, vastly superior but requires significant time and effort.
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  71. Repurchasing shares doesn't make earnings "look" better, it automatically makes EPS better. It's often criticized as not the best use of capital but it's not generally a negative either. Reducing shares outstanding, by itself, increases the value of remaining shares.
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  72. Maybe, or he agrees with you? It's a decent bull case but there are also good bear cases to be made. Only time will tell, TSLA could crater too. If you really have so much conviction you should put everything you got into the stock.
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  73. Yes they would. The US is not the biggest threat to most nations today.
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  74. For what purpose? To pile up endless mountains of salt???
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  75. 3 yrs later--this should be entertaining and usefully informative. Sure happy I backed up the truck about a yr after this vid aired, starting at $38. The real torrent was the 10's of billions transferred from such as Chanos to the likes of ME!
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  76. The new bus looks good but don't forget we live in an atmosphere, boxy shapes push a lot of air, inefficient and the original bus was terrifying to think of a front end collision with your toes right behind the bumper. It's going to have to be only superficial resemblance to the past. Welcome all EVs.
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  77. Over 2M preorders (call it 1M conservatively if 50% don't go thru with order) and many more orders coming as ppl learn about how superior and advanced it is. Will always be "very difficult to make"? Based on what?
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  78. If this vid offended you then you have NO biz investing in individual stocks, your way too childish or religious about the subject.
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  79.  @Nonamelol.  Dunno about those numbers but point taken, I'll take your word for it tentatively. Plenty of room for improvement including procurement procedures designed to incur endless cost overruns. We pay some 10X more for a fighter plane than China and Russia I'm told. Possible that is justified as a mere 20% advantage could make all the difference in a fight and there is always far greater cost to get those last few percent. But our system is designed for overspending. Bottom line is we won't be able to afford anything if we allow continued financial irresponsibility out of DC.
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  80. My home is not an investment it's a quality place to live with autonomy.
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  81. Solo Consciousness Are you seriously that NAIVE and STUPID. How about all the other disruptors who are still with us? Grow up. Sheesh.
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  82.  @tiramisu8359  They are already too late, the EV revolution is unstoppable now. Reality ain't "Dallas" the silly TV show. Auto and oil industries are invested in alternatives too and they don't go around shooting people, that's a childish fantasy.
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  83. William Doubles I assume you have mortgaged your house to short TSLA then? Put up or shut up, talk is cheap unless you have skin in the game. I suspect your confidence in Tesla's demise is completely fake.
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  84.  @HighSockDavid  "Stunning design"? Always cheesy IMO.
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  85. Really? That simple? How much have you made in the markets this yr.?
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  86. blableka They all knew the risks or should have. Some make a pretty good case for the possibility that TSLA could gain by a factor of ten in as many yr.s, you don't get that sort of upside without high risk. There is always two sides to every "trade". I would say that many don't want to hear this sort of criticism which is stupid from an investment stand point...one should always challenge their premises.
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  87. What's "not always the case"? The risk of equity getting wiped out is based on the management and prospects of a given company, always complex. It's about as useful as "buy low and sell high" to point out it can go to zero...if you don't have that much understanding then you have no biz in markets except for maybe low cost index funds. I agree that the cult is keeping a floor on TSLA price, that's both reassuring and concerning for me. I need more than that. I love the "Musk Mission" but I need to have confidence in a decent risk/reward scenario which is ALWAYS hard but especially with Tesla.
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  88. What's the real cost tho? Is your ticket heavily subsidized? No doubt Euro passenger rail is vastly ahead of US, freight maybe not.
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  89. MNejc Fooled? What foolish comment.
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  90.  @sb-ns2fr  It only shakes out the weak hands anyway. Memories are short--this is about the 6th time Elon has done this!! ('price too high')
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  91. Sure turn Nevada into a sterile salt flat at massive cost. What a thoughtless idea.
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  92. Mark Baum You seem to have a lot of confidence in that assessment--obviously you must be short TSLA with all your worth, or maybe your just another cheap talker.
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  93.  @tlr9403  Are you one of those entitled worthless union "workers"? You were a failure from day one.
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  94. How so? Cramer was properly skeptical and asked the most pertinent question he could.
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  95. tcampbell2186  Hahaha. Indeed.  Yeah just about every other time that I buy a spec for a trade without doing due diligence I get spanked too.  :-)
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  96. +olli tuovinen It depends. He was clearly wrong about KMX but he was right on target for the "FANGs" (FB, AMZN, NFLX and GOOG, take a look at those over the last 24 months) that he promoted starting about two years ago with 100 times the conviction he had for KMX or anything else. Had you done the opposite you would be in a world of pain. That's the nature of markets, no one is right or wrong all the time and only damn fool children think that there is anything remotely akin to a sure bet. Otherwise just bet against everything he promotes and make a fortune for yourself.
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  97. Anyone with that attitude is guilty and I would NEVER hire YOU, you are certain to have massive negative value.
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  98.  @ofadetergentsud  Exactly. As independent industrial contractor I've come across hundreds of unions, every one of them creates a toxic work environment destroying productivity and causing senseless conflict. I can smell 'em when I set foot in a plant for the first time, they ONLY serve to keep useless deadbeats on the job.
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  99. And Commifornia is much worse than the media shows you bc it doesn't fit their narrative. 40 yrs of one party rule is toxic.
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  100. I grow a dozen miscellaneous citrus on modest home lot farther N. Cali lowland. Zero pest or disease problems SO FAR, always productive.
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  101. As usual Cramer and stocks (and life in general) are just TOO COMPLEX for most posting here to grasp. Jim has consistently praised the car and both praised and made fun of Elon. One can love the product, the mission and the man, and still shun the stock. Jim is right to advise viewers to neither be long nor short TSLA...it's just too hard to value, professional trader territory. (I say that as I consider a small long, speculative position myself, but I'd recommend many other stocks to a friend, not TSLA)
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  102.  @MarkH10  Yeah it's called "Elon time", and as a new TSLA small stock holder it makes me nervous. He has consistently been WAY behind 'scheduled' on everything. "I do have a problem with punctuality" he joked once. On the other hand--Tesla cars have exceeded performance claims in some ways. Eventually these tiles will likely be viable but I wouldn't hold my breath as much as I love the idea.
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  103. Slash regs across the board but especially those designed to put small farms at a disadvantage. Bring on Elon and Vevik Ramaswamy! 😉
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  104. Is there any industry more subsidized than farming? NO question small farmers need relief from punitive excess regulations. Such as corn-ethanol for fuel should be fazed out starting immediately. Corn for fuel is a fiasco.
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  105.  @zeroshepard9513  Yeah, missed our chance to complete our transition to full on Banana Republic.
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  106.  @joesterling4299  The analogy still stands as Saudi oil depletes. ;-)
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  107.  @teejaye110  He's tweeted similar high price IMO's half a dozen times in recent yr.s, it's NO BIG DEAL....just a gift to us buyers.
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  108. Geeze I hope Biden doesn't squander my money on H, governments are the WORST at making choices markets should be making. 6:50 Dude is yrs out of date, BEV semis will rule. (Ohhh! he's invested in H, that explains a lot)
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  109. Sounds GOOD to me, no good employee needs protection except from excess government like the rest of us.
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  110. They are ALL friends you fool--this isn't their first get together.
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  111.  @cmdr1911  Folks get addicted to the pork, it's a national shame. Let the corporate welfare recipients of my tax dollars defend the practice. It's nothing but throwing resources and money in the toilet. It doesn't even create any energy as it requires about as much energy to produce as it returns. A complete sham of the sort that brings nations to their knees if done extensively enough.
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  112. YES. Crucial point.
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  113. When it 1st rolled out I literally was wishing I hadn't bet the ranch on TSLA...but it rapidly grew on me. Put it next to any other pickup and the other looks like a grandma's grocery getter.
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  114. ONE MORE reason to be very wary of all these EV stocks other than TSLA.
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  115. Guess I'm old, remember when Herbie came out as a kid I was totally enamored. lol
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  116. Profit means delivering more than you are consuming to deliver, it's not optional.
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  117. F3ND1MUS Not illegal because it's entirely public, you can trade off the same information he does. It's a vote of confidence by Elon, putting his own money on it.
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  118.  @leovrivera  You got that WAY backwards.
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  119. Good to hear. Still good to go?
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  120. Why would any established adult be considering minimums like that? You should have elevated your value well beyond that by late teens.
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  121.  @NickRussoTV  Doing what? Work within their "not pointless field"?? Maybe they should get trade skills where 6 figures is relatively quick and easy and shortages across the nation in the trades.
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  122.  @NickRussoTV  We in the USA have stigmatized anything that requires physical effort or gets one's hands dirty, for decades. This opens a massive opportunity for those not concerned about status. I'm far from new at it but can easily command $120/hr (again not net, cost me 20 to $30/hr to operate) with a well equipped "portable welding shop", pricey specialized service truck plus high skills. High quality, very experienced diesel mechanics I know can get at least that much with significantly lower operating costs but boy they EARN IT. Someone did a study on reasonably well off (millionaires or more) on what characteristics were most important to achieving such prosperity, they came up with a list of 30 or so attributes. The NUMBER ONE quality for such success was determined to be INTEGRITY which is not always easy to find but anyone can achieve it.
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  123.  @caseydorn3309  You challenged my assertion that forced "equality" is immoral. Now defend your position. I get the power of my OWN LIFE. YOU DON'T. Get it? I get 1st say where the fruits of my labors go or there will be ZERO fruits for you to LOOT. Got it?
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  124. T- Smooth No need childish insults. He's correct that both nations are inducing consumers to purchase EVs and that will effect the GLOBAL market, regardless of his (sloppy?) use of words. I think you knew what he meant.
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  125. Amar Khandve He certainly knows what he's talking about but that doesn't make him right in the end, only time will tell, it's complicated.
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  126. Mark Baum And how about YOU Ace? Have you shorted TSLA with all you got or are you just another cheap talker.
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  127. For those confused--mix of humor/sarcasm and dead serious from Cramer, but I know him well enough to decipher, first 90 seconds he MEANS IT.
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  128. I bet they have stock options with Tesla matching funds too? If so many will be well off long before retirement age likely.
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  129.  @nemo663  You are more than welcome to open a hospital that loses money.
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  130.  @brucebasile5083  Why don't YOU open one and be a hero?
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  131.  @IDIturboDiesel  Yeah probably not much worse than my Chevy 3500 HD with solid beam front suspension.
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  132. I got 5 yrs out of previous phone which is typical for me.
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  133.  @Comeback180  For most products I don't have all day to research it. For big purchases sure but for $20??
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  134.  D Brick  I recently paid $10 more for a $30 product on Amazon bc Walfart would have me drive half way across town and suffer their misreble store to pick it up! You gotta be kidding me, I can't even leave my drive for less than $5. hahaha "Convenience" is a hell of a lot more than easier it's typically cheaper if your time is worth squat.
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  135. It's not the virus but mostly our insanely stupid reaction to it. Restaurants seating half as many ppl is not viable for most of them, margins were thin at full cap.
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  136. Yes Kevin is very good but he sure didn't help us HERE did he. I made a small fortune betting against Kevin's take on TSLA.
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  137.  @1984johnson  OK, that makes sense but it's still misleading as the other 90% is useful. Also that would mean more like 1 ton of concrete to 5 tons extracted bc concrete isn't just sand but also gravel and cement.
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  138.  @T_Burd_75  Nothing wrong with econoboxes but some of us have moved on to pay up for highly capable fun cars.
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  139. With your own shop you can charge $150/hr and be overwhelmed with business, assuming high quality and integrity. The biggest problem you'll have is hiring a few good mechanics to work for you but as a one man operation you can still thrive. (I do so in the field welding biz, not quite to $150 yet but can command that except I won't for old loyal customers)
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  140. Always enjoy O'leary, one of the most candid free thinking guys you'll ever hear from publicly.
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  141. How many here have actually made the effort to examine the science and tried to understand it instead of just being spoon fed by popular media like CNBS? There's never been a time in my 60 yrs where reality wasn't sacrificed on the alter of revenue, drama, fear and/or politics, nor a time when reporters knew or cared anything about science. The data, trends, charts, comparing various greenhouse gasses, etc?
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  142.  @jaredbarker9515  I don't know who's worse, dems or R's, but that's a tangent. Digging up the truth is difficult but raw data can be found as well as, century or 150 yr old publications reporting max temps, fatalities from heat, wild land fires, sea ice, glacial melting, etc., all over the N. hemisphere. Or even recent yrs reports of 2000 yr old Viking mountain trails just uncovered by retreating glaciers (think about THAT) in Norway or similar in other places like Switzerland....ya gotta plant a seed of doubt somewhere or the intellectually lazy masses will never consider they might have been duped therefore can't self correct.
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  143.  @jaredbarker9515  I mean you can't toss an encyclopedia at anyone so I have a handful to a dozen pertinent considerations that, amazingly (or not), few climate alarmists have even considered: 1) over last few M yrs CO2 has definitely correlated with temp change but it has lagged temp as often as led it. So what's really the driver? 2) if CO2 was the driver of climate then we would never escape a glacial maximum but instead the entire planet would likely freeze over bc such time is when albedo is max and CO2 is a minimum. 3) what is the minimum level of CO2 for plant life? My understanding is mass plant extinction, to a degree Earth would never recover from, occurs around 100 to 150ppm. This indicates we have repeatedly been extremely close to global catastrophe in recent geologic history of 170/180ppm. NO question plants are more drought tolerant, healthier and stronger at 400ppm then 300 and life flourished at 15X higher, 7000ppm in distant past. And of course we live in near unprecedented LOW CO2 levels over life's history. Why would we think the random level we inherited is optimal? Does one suppose Earth was made for humans ? 4) CO2 is a greenhouse gas but a puny one compared to water vapor and the irradiance spectrum blocked by CO2 almost entirely overlaps the H2O spectrum, it's like tossing a bed sheet on top of a 6cm thick goose down quilt.
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  144. WILSON! 'Less capable semi'?? How so? Sounds like by far the most capable big rig ever conceived of. You may be one of the last but you too will be driving EVs and grateful for all the ICE headaches left on the side of the road.
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  145. keijo456 How do you know the will never make a profit? I bet you would have said 8 yr.s ago they will never make a car people really want too.
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  146.  @Bud131  No one is that stupid, it's about monetary discipline, deferred rewards, living below one's means or struggle. Simple.
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  147. Sort of poor tho right? Not a lot of job opportunities?
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  148.  @erikeggenbakstad  Rectify what? The need to earn a living?? A free pony for everyone???
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  149.  @erikeggenbakstad  I have a modest lot with a nascent 'jungle', a beautiful place to be with more types of organic fruits and nuts, avocados to apples, than I can list here...heading toward 200 not counting ornamentals. A private productive paradise. How about you?
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  150. As much as I like Euro nations, and to visit, I'm sure happy not to live there in relative poverty. In the USA a decent common tradesman can earn over $100k after only a few yr.s training or they can create their own job and do even better.
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  151.  @dr.livesey7595  Better areas? Most areas are better than you can afford in Euro nations depending on your priorities. I can earn $200k (if I want to work that hard) and my cost of living is reasonable, but I have decades of experience. There are literally millions of job openings without qualified applicants to take them, been that way for many yr.s. Been over a decade shortage of truck drivers even. I have a friend who has only been a welder for 5 yr.s or so, not even all that good and he's getting $120/hr, yes he's in a more expensive area but that can be managed. Maybe you don't believe it because most folks who are doing well are not wasting time sniveling on these posts.
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  152. Never had anything like Tesla culture but yeah they had a chance to survive this decade at least.
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  153. Yeah it's always easy to say in hindsight. I take it you were heavy long in AMZN and GOOG(L) for the last 15 yr.s, or at least in the mid 2000's? To say there was "no risk of losing your investment" in those is wrong, there is always that risk, but it's also missing the point....it's no fun to see your money cut in half either and that is CERTAINLY possible with ANY stock. I have done well with AMZN but it too can be hard as it's valuation is extreme and it has dropped some 35% on several occasions over the years, to NOT SELL low can be very difficult when you don't know where it's going to stop falling and you have suffered big losses already, and you never know where it's going to stop. If you think it's ever easy I suggest you haven't had real money in the game for long. I could never quite get my head around NFLX either and I missed out on a stunning 10X!!!....gain in a mere 5 yr.s on that one...that's the way it goes, you miss some of them. TSLA I'm always watching but only traded it a few times, if they manage to really produce it, cut costs, drastically improve quality and start making real money I will reconsider but it may be too late by then if it's reflected in the stock price.
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  154.  @darkwoodmovies  Suffice to say you'd pout and turn up your nose to the well used (near worthless even at the time) Ford Pinto I rellied on for many yrs, or the mini pickups that followed for another couple decades. No aircon, no power anything, max speed 85 mph with a tail wind, 45 ponies... NO you don't have to buy anything, learn to take responsibility for yourself and your choices. If you are over 16 and making minimum wage that's on YOU for not investing in yourself and becomming more valuable. I doubt you'd be worth minimum to ME.
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  155.  @darkwoodmovies  I invested everything in my skills, work ethics, experience, saving every dime from mechanicing/welding at an underground mine, back to back double shifts for weeks straight, etc. Since the toxic union culture diluted my efforts with a bunch of lazy slackers, I started my own biz at 20 to set my own terms. Anyone in the USA can create their own job and command as much as you are actually worth. NO it's not easy, nothing good ever was, but anyone of near average health and intelligence can do it. Today I'm financially independent, drive the car I WANT not need, own modest place outright, only work part time.
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  156. Failure to shoot enough thieves is the primary problem, we need to eradicate the vermin just like the rats they are.
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  157. Patel Vidhu American unemployment is about as low as it can get, effectively within about 1% "full employment". You don't have any idea what your talking about. BTW--how much have You made in the markets in recent years???
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  158. I seem to get extra bad service from A. as I've never complained about late deliveries. Sometimes I need it ASAP but most of the time I don't.
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  159.  @PassportGaming  Success "guaranteed"?? You don't know what a stock even IS if you actually believe that. Were YOU all in all that time? It was SO obvious to you, right!? I invested well over $100k--I'll let you guess where that has me now, but don't kid yourself it could crash tomorrow.
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  160.  @PassportGaming  Up until about 2 yrs ago Elon repeatedly said they were on the verge of failure, that's why he floated the idea of Apple purchasing Tesla, remember?
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  161. How many here have actually made the effort to examine the science and tried to understand it instead of just being spoon fed by popular media like CNBS? There's never been a time in my 60 yrs where reality wasn't sacrificed on the alter of revenue, drama, fear and/or politics, nor a time when reporters knew or cared anything about science. The data, trends, charts, comparing various greenhouse gasses, etc?
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  162. Credit for them creating EV1 now it's time for them to fade away. NO MORE bailouts for failed Co.s
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  163.  @LynxStarAuto  Yeah but one can get much more rewarding, challenging creative work in the field. I have mech engineering background/degree but never officially worked in that capacity. However it's been crucial in some aspects of my own biz.
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  164.  @y0nd3r  It's about Meritocracy. Profits are a fundamental high moral good, we can't exist without them, it means producing more than consumed to create that production. If you have a job you are a capitalist unless it's 100% for charity. (I realize such obvious facts are left out of typical Marxist college indoctrination) Governments theoretically can limit fraud which has nothing inherent to do with profits, but governments are the ultimate monopoly which means poor performance.
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  165.  @monacorising  Fortunate to be able to grow everything from apples to avocadoes, and I do, all organic, peaches and plums in recent weeks, but have to pay the "Commifornia tax," lol. Keep thinking we'll reach peak insanity and the political pendulum will swing but--"markets can stay irrational longer than U can stay solvent" comes to mind.
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  166.  @JanaiB72  Fiber in fruit is one reason sugar behaves differently I believe. Only OJ I've had in recent yrs is home picked and hand squeezed the hard way, vastly superior stuff and time/effort to make it limits consumption.
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  167.  @rianhatch5459  Thanks for the advice I'm not familiar with them.
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  168. It seems a lot of Tesla fan-girls can't handle the bear side of TSLA. Those who are currently or thinking about buying this stock should listen to all sides, there is ALWAYS both a bear and bull case except maybe in the case of Sears or the like.
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  169.  @juniorsir9521  Houses are built far better than ever in the US.
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  170. Just wait till 2021! Oh...wait, that's NOW. Hahaha
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  171. Those with the poverty mentality don't even realize they are the most blatant bigots in America today, vilifying the creation of wealth while drooling over it at the same time. Disgusting...well represented by obscene trash like Bernie Sanders and Robert Reich (yes there are other reasons to pan Bezos but that's the main one IMO)
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  172. Salsabilla It's ALL about the economics, if Elon's estimates are accurate (remains to be seen) then it will sell far faster than they can build them until competitive options arrive. Cummins stock took a hit--that means some smart money is betting for Tesla. If YOU know better--short TSLA. This is the beginning of the end of diesel trucks. I bet you'd have said something similar about e-sports cars a decade ago. The Saudi's are expecting petroleum to have zero marginal value in 20 yr.s. With a few exceptions such as airliners and heavy equipment, combustion vehicles days are numbered.
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  173. Aegis Kay What if, as claimed, a trucker can charge another 400 miles during a 30 minute break? Why would even long haulers have a prob with that? And one need not take the time to manually pump fuel for 20 min, plug in and go have lunch.
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  174. Chalky Wilston Yes they have disrupted the entire industry even with such low production...that say's almost nothing about their prospects for existing as a company going forward however. They already accomplished Elon's stated goal for the Co....to accelerate the conversion to EVs globally.
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  175. 30 models but can they mass produce and sell them at a profit? I doubt it.
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  176. Nice compare: Crony Capitalism and Socialism, both destructive to the general prosperity.
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  177. The Tag Market My god, how old are you? Don't you get tired of yourself regurgitating the same mindless BS for decades?? I heard the same crap rhetoric about the "BIG BAD OIL COMPANIES" since the 1970's, it's getting old by now. Cramer has only praised Tesla cars!... and both made fun of and praised Elon but advised to avoid the stock. Elon earns both praise and criticism, I personally love the man. The stock is a different thing entirely. You can love the car, the mission and the Man and still shun the stock. To complex for you to grasp? This is a stock show in case you didn't realize.
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  178. Robert Foedisch HOW SO? Sounds like cheap slander to me. BACK IT UP or SHUT UP.
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  179. Nice to see new ideas but this looks like rubbish. Imagine the slightest lateral G loading on that setup, can it turn at ALL without going sideways? I doubt it. Parking is not a big problem for me anyway. First and last we will see of this concept.
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  180. Oiseau Denuit My idea? For those who find parallel parking such a problem which I do not: A) learn how, if you can't then you probably shouldn't be driving anyway, B) purchase a newer car with automatic parking features. Can you not see the obvious sever problems with this set up in the vid? It necessarily has thin round tread making for a relatively tiny contact patch on the road. But the main problem would seem to be extremely limited lateral load capability, dangerously so. And it's an inherent aspect of the design. It's sort of a cute but ridiculous solution to a minor problem that's already been solved in a far better and cheaper fashion. Maybe there is a place for it on some sort of machine but not on a normal car or truck. I would bet money that you will never see it on the market for autos.
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  181. Walber Macedo An aside--I don't even want "runflat" tires as they compromise performance and add costs, and for what? That one or three flats per decade that I already have a good solution for? No thanks. I favor some models/yrs of smaller BMWs for example, (own an older one) they adopted runflats and initially trashed the suspension behavior then adapted the suspension to the compromised tires. Now the suspension is compromised for proper light wt. normal tires. Even if the concept in the vid did not have the fatal design flaws I mentioned above, there is for certain a big price and weight penalty to pay for those wheels. Weight is the enemy of car performance and the wheels are by far the worst place to add weight. More mechanical complexity is a negative unless well justified and the more things you try to make it do the less proficient it tends to be at any of those tasks. I want my tires to be optimized for low resistance, high G capabilities for acceleration, breaking AND cornering. And to be affordable and long lasting. That's enough to ask from tires. Have them go sideways is guaranteed to compromise all the other features. There is a darn good reason you don't see high performance road cars (or motorcycles) that are also superb off road. Inherent compromises are unavoidable. It's one or the other. Let alone a boatcar or a flying car,...that's an extremely expensive car, a very expensive plane and it will NEVER be great, if even decent, at either flying or driving. They have been attempted for 3/4 of a century only to prove that point.
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  182. Probably hung over and obese. I've worked in direct midday sun up to 114 deg. F many times and with heavy leather clothing and never came close to passing out. Some folks are wimpy.
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  183. One or two worthless entitled idiots you mean. Shame on Tesla for hiring THAT sort of trash.
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  184. +Alexandre Milandro One bad call or even a hundred does not define a man who expresses that many opinions on the average day. Only idiots think ANY prediction is a sure thing it is up to you to sort it out and take responsibility for your decisions and sources. He pushed the "FANG" group hard for the first half of last year, far harder then anything else he talked about, and you would have profited exceptionally well being long that group over over that time frame. One could select only his winners and make him look like a genius or just his losers and make him appear to be completely inept, either conclusion is damn foolish.
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  185. tcampbell2186  Yeah he's often wrong about a particular show featured stock but he has been right on target concerning those that he has persistently focused on again and again.  Had he convinced you a little over a year ago to get into FB, GOOG, NFLX and AMZN when he first promoted them (if I remember correctly), you would have done very well even though the market as a whole was flat for the year. I just added substantially to both my FB and GOOG positions just a few days to hours before they reported earnings and gained 18 and 11% respectively since then, hard to beat results like that...in part due to Cramer's input although the timing in this instance was the result of other sources.   Cramer has backed off on those four above in recent months as they have run up so much last year but he was sure right to push them in late 2014 and the first half of 2015.
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  186. Seriously GOOD Idea! I mean how can he NOT improve on what we have NOW.
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  187. Diego Almora Possibly. I assume you have put all your spare money long TSLA then? Talk is cheap. Cramer has always praised the car but (properly IMO) advised to avoid going either long or short TSLA, and he has both praised and made fun of Elon as he does here. You can love the car and the CEO and still shun the stock, too very different things.
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  188. forever Like WHAT? More Cynicism = more wisdom?....in Your simple mind only. Back it up or shut up please I have gained some 30% in the last yr. in the markets. How about you?
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  189. Transparent Motives   Fine.  That's YOUR loss.  I learn from dozens of sources including JC and they all help me a lot or I wouldn't keep coming back. I could care less if he has direct skin in, he does indirectly in a big way, sorry if you can't grasp that.  But ultimately he is useful, informative in some fashion or not.  You don't know how to benefit from him then DON'T bother with it.  If it was a given that any stock(s) would double in two years, the opportunity wouldn't be there in the first place.  SHEESH.  Get real. Did YOU double or triple your dough on the FANGS???  A lot of others did.  I only got in late and only had conviction in GOOG and FB, they are up nice to very nice in less than a year.  NFLX I could never understand so I never put money on it, missed it and that's ok.  AMZN I believe in long term but only trade it a bit due to extreme valuation....I will buy for medium to long term one day I expect. Lagging indicator?...again...it depends, look at the FANGs two years ago to later 2015 when he stopped promoting the group but still behind the G and the F to a limited extent.  Again he's been right on target for those. And I could make a list that makes JC look brilliant or retarded depending on cherry picking his best or worst calls.  If you think ANYONE is going to be more accurate then a Long Range weather forecast with stocks your far too simple for the stock market.  Stay away, it's for responsible adults only.
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  190. Transparent Motives   It wasn't for useless children like yourself obviously, there are occasional adults here believe it or not.
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  191. Bill Gates for Prez after DT impeachment!!! (can we do special elections?)
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  192. A2Kaid There are plenty of successful traders and billionaires on the other side of this too, only time will tell who is right. If it was easy everyone would be rich, it's only easy in hindsight.
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  193. Rational Thinker Cramer has consistently praised the product, the CARS, he has both praised and made fun of Elon as he does here, EM is both worthy and deserving of it. I bet Musk would greet Jim with a smile, high achievers like Elon Musk are not normally petty simpletons. Jim has been consistent in advice to "Buy the car if you like the car, don't buy the stock. But don't short it either." GOOD ADVICE because unless you are a pro trader/investor, it's just too hard to figure out and too risky to recommend. Cramer has also driven the Model S of course, and had nothing but good to say about it. A yr. later--I am again considering a small long position in TSLA, could be a wipe out or a home run. If YOU have a strong opinion then put your money on it, talk is cheap, go long or short TSLA. I would tell a friend to buy GOOG, AMZN, CRM, ADBE, FB, MSFT, NVDA, or others instead of TSLA. One of my nephews is a Elon fanboy (I am too!) so I may buy him a tiny bit of TSLA. :D Loving the product, the car, and/or the CEO, does NOT mean you love the stock
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  194. That's gotta be an expensive way to do it tho, No?
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  195. Thank You! :-) I purchase "almost everything" from Amazon, the few times I have bought perishables (special cheese) it came in it's own little ice box with necessarily very high shipping costs. Naturally I have Prime but those things are not covered.
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  196. Gosh some folks are SIMPLE, Cramer has both praised and made fun of Elon (as he does here) and he has only praised the CARS. It seems you Tesla Fangirls can't grasp complexity. Sorry folks, life ain't simple, Elon and Tesla are NOT simple.
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  197. Tesla is going to gain further distance from the supposed competitors, they are all delaying or scrapping EV investment plans.
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  198. His pay package is not only linked to stock price but also other crucial relevant company performance metrics.
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  199. Great times we're living in. Long LIVE Capitalism!
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  200. AND those numbers requested were written up for everyone to see...he didn't need to regurgitate redundantly.
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  201. WTH?? Sheeeeesh. lol
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  202.  Davidfails  Sure there's a LOT of money in salt. hahaha And how are you going to disperse it back in the sea without fantastic costs? Not to mention the extreme expense of drying the brine, scrapping it up, hauling it, etc.
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  203.  @frozenlettuce293  Hard to say.
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  204.  @frozenlettuce293  I definitely prefer to consume ancient sea salt (aka. mined salt) than modern polluted sea salt.
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  205.  @w.wilson5800  Sure we can all consume 100kg of salt per week, humans go extinct, problem solved.
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  206.  @w.wilson5800  Your an idiot.
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  207.  @thesolarfutureenthusiast1102  Fun while it lasted.
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  208. A lot of Tesla Fangirls got offended. There are two sides to every trade folks. Elon AND Tesla are rightly controversial, he's a 'genius' and the cars are great by all accounts but that does not necessarily mean TSLA is a good investment. If you are going to invest you better be open to both sides or get your head handed to you.
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  209. "increased storms" BS like that undermines credibility of entire vid.
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  210. Of course.
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  211. It doesn't change the salt content of the oceans AT ALL.
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  212.  @ryankraft9897  Desal has ZERO effect on average salinity, it doesn't increase it AT ALL.
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  213.  @ryankraft9897  Do you really think the ocean is getting shallower from desal?? It isn't. Only two things can increase salinity, more salt or less water. All the water taken out returns to the sea one way or another, the level is NOT DROPPING, and no additional salt is added. So what's the potential issue here? Relative concentration near the brine discharge, that's all. YES areas around plants will be higher, (assuming runoff from the extra fresh water is not also localized which it may well be) NOT THE AVERAGE salinity of the oceans as a whole.
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  214.  @ryankraft9897  Your innitial comment stated ocean salinity would increase, that's not the case.
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  215.  @ryankraft9897  Here's another way to look at it--the desal plant created fresh water soon returns to mix with the brine in the ocean just as tho one were to (pointlessly) mix the manufactured fresh with the brine right out of the plant, zero change in ocean salinity either way. The point in the vid is that the brine may not mix well immediately, becoming stratified AND the runoff (evaporated or whatever) fresh water may not be local to the desal plant causing differences in salinity, not differences in average ocean salinity overall.
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  216.  @ryankraft9897  Do you really think the ocean levels will drop due to desal?? Yes or NO? Quit being obstinate and learn something.
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  217. Sure to filter out disinformation like Hunter's laptop is real and crucial, Covid shutdowns are ineffective and disastrous, masks don't work.....
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  218. "Everything got turned around 360 degrees." :D Well that doesn't help does it.
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  219.  @mattlane2282  Yet folks are DOING IT all across the land. So you are obviously missing something. In fact, Cali (unfortunately with it's excessive heavy hand of regulation) have mandated solar for new homes. Have you not noticed it everywhere? Yes the grid is typically used as a 'battery'.
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  220.  @goatfromhell666  If U have a point to make, please do so.
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  221. What was "negative" about it?
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  222. forever WTF??
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  223. stephen geraci I like the fact that they have a diverse group of 'reporters', most of whom are pretty good at challenging the interviewees or at least asking pertinent questions. But some are much better than others, Becky IS very good and Joe just has trouble getting his thoughts into words--always, very hard to listen to often and I tune into them daily.
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  224. Trust him to lie 94.6% of the time.
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  225. I bet those workers have stock options and matching by Tesla, if so many will likely wind up moderately wealthy. One thing for certain they don't want to build much more in California, Nevada maybe.
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  226.  @pattyayers  BAD is what made it funny to ME. :D Too obvious to be original but I hadn't heard it before.
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  227. Cramer certainly doesn't "fight Tesla", he has always praised the CARS and both praised and made fun of Elon as he does here. He just can't recommend such a risky, difficult to value stock. One may love the product and the man, the CEO, and still shun the stock! Life ain't simple, nor are people or stocks.
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  228. These guys almost universally clueless about demand of CT, not remotely comparable to Model X. "Nothing else looks like it." Trivial compared to how vastly more advanced it is than anything else out there.
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  229. I never get upset, but often entertained. Chanos by now learned an expensive lesson--never bet against Elon.
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  230. And THAT is why you are penniless! Simple minds earn stupid rewards, hahaha.
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  231. Good points. Nothing was "due to covid" but due to authoritarian insane reaction to covid which accomplished nothing but destruction and death.
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  232. "One man's problem is another's opportunity." As more T's hit the road more after market everything will gradually follow, parts to shops. Great to see this.
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  233. Hahaha! 1st laugh out loud in nearly a week. I was thinking she's trans but she got preg so.....
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  234. Funny and hyperbolic, extremely critical which of course benefits a short seller. I wouldn't dismiss Chanos however, he's worth listening to right or wrong.
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  235. Absolutely-- but not as priceless as Chanos and kind transferring 10's of billions to dumb retailers like ME. Hahahaha
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  236.  RandomX  Half is less than a whole, get it?
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  237. Bit insulting to use the God word on an engineer. ;-)
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  238. It's a lot harder to live hand to mouth and pay double for everything which is exactly the result of failing to live below one's means "If I can't pay cash for it twice I can't afford it."
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  239. Even fewer need a truck or SUV.
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  240. Replace them ALL with robots, problem permanently solved and you ungrateful snivelers can find something else to whine about.
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  241. 40 yrs of progressive politics (Cali) severely degrades everything. That's why folks are leaving Blue states.
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  242.  @truantray  Your way out of date on Tesla profits, another reason you failed to make a fortune on TSLA which apparently makes you emotionally unstable.
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  243.  @AuralioCabal  Starting with Cammisa as he's one of smartest and most entertaining, also had CT for 3 days where others only had it one day I believe.
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  244. Let's not forget it was a big American diesel engine maker that pulled this stunt first over a decade ago. (Cummins I believe)
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  245. The vast majority of water consumption is for farming in the USA, terminating the scandalous corn ethanol shameful waste of money and resources would be a far more effective place to start.
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  246.  @cmdr1911  Ethanol isn't the problem per se, it's CORN ethanol that's a disaster. If made from cellulose or even sugar cane like Brazil does it might make sense. Yes your right about all that.
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  247.  @cmdr1911  Didn't we already say that?
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  248. It's not coming for MY JOB in my lifetime, don't do dumb work. This has been going on for millennia, it's THE reason we are prosperous, the worst jobs are the 1st to be mechanized. Who want's to run a horse pulled plow all day everyday, or worse, be the human mule?
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  249. Socialism, that's the problem 1% pay half the income tax, WTH do you expect to happen??
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  250. Funny but not as fun as Chanos and kind transferring 10's of billions to dumb retailers like ME. Hahahaha
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  251.  @mle7231  Folks who went to the trouble of persistent pursuit of productivity sure can. I KNOW.... to take responsibly for one's self is so last century!
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  252. Ancient history. Most of these jobs have or will soon be replaced by robots, end of problem.
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  253.  @rlsedition  In a way but maybe that's OK. Ultimately for me form follows function to a large degree, in this case that depends a lot on how one will use it. Most seem to want it as a fashion statement just as pickups typically are now. For ME a truck is crap on the road they are only for off road/dirt roads and hauling a load.
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  254.  @MyUniversalUniversity  So predictable too, typical market herd mentality with the savvy, smart money running in front of the retailers and gamblers, the former will cash out early leaving the reckless, lazy momentum playing many holding the bag as the sector crashes.
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  255. Let'em downsize, merge and go under, they earned it. Call it FGM, reminiscent of FJB.
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  256. Nonsense. They have Teslas in the recommended list after the early deliveries high rate of innitial defects comes down as reported by customers.
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  257.  @hddun  Honda and Toy produced the most reliable utilitarian vehicles of all time. Do you suppose that had something to do with it? And when were the Takata airbags recalled??...10 or 15 yr.s after car was sold? I'm not sure they follow through on cars that old. Did they report the same for BMW and all the other brands that also had airbag recalls?
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  258.  @hddun  Anecdotes aside yes H. and Toy. set the reliability bar, prior to some crappy auto transmissions, etc. I wasn't thinking about trucks but mainly econoboxes...utilitarian. Trucks are only good for two things--off road and hauling a load, most I know use them as such but for most Americans they are grocery getters and simply a fashion statement. Tesla is an entirely different animal altogether, very pleased to have finally gone long TSLA starting early last June after watching the drama from the sidelines for yr.s.
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  259.  @hddun  I'm of similar vintage apparently. A high school friend had access to his mom's early Honda in '78 and it was also remarkable for how quick and efficient it was compared to the garbage out of Detroit. Yeah it was tiny but it sure had it's place. Remember how little we had to choose from back then due to trade barriers to subsidize Detroit largess and laziness? Big 3 was NOT enough competition and still isn't. Very grateful that we have so many good options today. And why not be "proud" of what Japanese or Germans offer, are we so primitive and tribal that we can only be proud of something that originated (if only in design) within some arbitrary borders?
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  260. Market Cap says it ALL ultimately. Price is truth. Simple and all encompassing. TSLA is valued as a tech Co., not remotely valued as an auto manufacturer. I welcome counter views but Betsy is sort of lame here, this program takes chances on a lot commutators and some of them don't pan out well, that's OK....Betsy probably won't be invited back.
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  261. Let 'em go belly up. About TIME.
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  262. Tune into the vid before commenting?? Some of the worst traffic cities have the best mass transit.
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  263. Are you so simple as to see that bit as dissing Elon OR Tesla? He was both praising and making fun of Elon. You must be a Fangirl who can't grasp complexity.
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  264.  @KoushiroIzumi85  It can be worth it for someone who never uses mass transit to pay a little for it, subsidize it, to reduce the automobile traffic on the roads they use.
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  265. Cramer has been consistent. Always praised the cars but recommended viewers to "stay on the sidelines" for the stock...it's just too difficult to value. Don't buy it nor short it. Professional trader/investor territory, or IMO, a small speculative bet for retail investors. Cramer has also always both praised and made fun of Elon as he does here. You understand the difference between loving the product and CEO versus loving the stock? Too very different things.
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  266. Yeah he never makes his points well, can't seem to get his thoughts together. But I don't mind him challenging the interviewee.
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  267. Seismic activity is non issue. It's all about tech and economics. We have more good alternatives today then ever, future is bright.
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  268. VERY entertaining, that's refreshing.
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  269. F3ND1MUS I doesn't matter what you and I think, it's clearly legal whether you like it or not, and it's not as though EM is getting some massive benefit out of it, if you think otherwise than you can follow his moves with your own similar trades.
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  270. Correction: 95% of new vehicles will be EVs by 2030.
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  271. I just got a decade dose of rap crap.
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  272. The entire premise of vid is false.
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  273. And STILL beating the same drum in recent months.
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  274. BIG OPRESSIVE GOVERNMENT that takes too much and gives too little. Bureaucracy is stifling. We need a radical overhaul and slashed regulatory burdens.
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  275. Of course but the demand destruction from half the working population suddenly becoming poor is going to be much worse I believe.
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  276. Did you think those insane lockdowns and stimulus checks were FREE? Good GRIEF.
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  277.  @NickRussoTV  Wrong masters degree if they can't find quality work sounds to me, or maybe they aren't willing to relocate? Starting out at least one must be willing to move to where they are in demand. National housing and associated labor shortage. $36 in Bay Area is crap, should be getting double or more although Cali punishes us for employing ppl and for high wages. I know many cases like this--relatively green welder (tho with his own service truck, etc, not free to operate) making well over $120/hr....gross not net naturally.
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  278.  @NickRussoTV  There has been high demand for coders, techs and engineers for decades (along with the trades). Very good pay right out of college green as can be.
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  279.  @StefanReich  What IS your alternative?
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  280.  @StefanReich  Sounds good if unrealistic but doesn't replace the need for a unit of exchange. Do you expect me to tote crates of avocados, potatoes or whatever I might produce--to trade for a tank of fuel?? Pay my phone bill in a truck load of carrots?
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  281.  @StefanReich  Because you CAN'T.
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  282.  @StefanReich  Yeah? What did I win? So you think we should be forced to trade without money? What always happens when a nation collapses along with the local currency is ppl create their own currency. It was packs of Kent cigarettes for some yr.s post the Soviet Socialist Republic implosion for one nation, I believe it was Bulgaria. Money has nothing to do with inequality, I have no intention of giving the fruits of my labors to the undeserving. Be it dollar or peaches. I created them I'll decide how they are distributed. Inequality is justice to some extent. I suspect you'd be content to make everyone destitute like your dream state the USSR....everyone (except the leaders) were equally poor.
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  283.  @StefanReich  If you succeeded in outlawing money it would be replaced by just about anything. But let's imagine your dream state was so repressive as to somehow eliminate even IOU notes, at least when you come to confiscate my produce it will take a truck and I can make sure it's all rotten, distribute spoiled fruit and potatoes to the lazy. I won't be a slave to your toxic ill considered ideals and the rest of your kind will starve long before I do. Those of us who create wealth will trade between eachother and let you looters die, sure we will be far poorer too so that will make you 'happy' I suppose.
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  284.  @caseydorn3309  Do you REALLY think the bum drunk next door has equal claim on the fruit trees I have earned, on land I have worked for decades for, dug holes, planted, paid for, pruned, watered and cared for for YEARS?? Yes or NO?
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  285.  @caseydorn3309  YOU don't get to decide the distribution of the fruits of my endless efforts. Nor do the masses if they side with you. THAT is why we have a constitution of fundamental individual freedoms. There are no human rights without individual rights in a society of individuals. I will fail to produce if it kills me rather than be victim to those I rightfully loath. I'm a caring considerate compassionate thoughtful man, don't push me into becoming something else. (edit's were for brevity and typos only)
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  286.  @caseydorn3309  Dude! Quit projecting on me. I'm one of the happiest folks you'd ever meet. I will do most anything to assist an individual struggling to succeed, to prosper and achieve any worthy goal, nothing unique it's human nature to help. If there is a selfish side to it, it's that I gain a little when others gain a lot. I love to see success around me and I DO! But when I'm told "equality = justice" in the context of wealth, I'm going to push back. Equality under the LAW absolutely. Income tax within limits, fine. Yes we all rely on public infrastructure, justice system, etc. But when I'm hearing "you have too much we will confiscate most of it", something to that effect--damn right I'm going to react harshly. Wealth is created by people before it can be extracted from them and we better not forget it or there won't be much for anyone or anything. Forced economic equality = poverty for all, you can't force someone to create a Tesla company, you can't even force them to do a good job tending a farm field without terrorizing and beating them constantly. Some degree of 'socialism' is necessary but when it becomes: "From each his ability TO each his need."....the definition of Communism, forced "equality", you have created hell on Earth. It may sound good on the surface to those who haven't thought it through but humanity is far too good for it. The best and brightest will become examples of mediocrity, you won't even know they are out there.
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  287. @pointoftranquility ME! And loving it, who knew we'd have yet another insane May 2019 moment to accumulate.
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  288. @pointoftranquility Only the Noob dummies who had no biz in it in the first place. Did they think this was EASY?? Never was nor will be but it was much harder last decade.
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  289. @pointoftranquility Hard to think of a yr when marginally smaller "corrections" haven't happened. But memories are short. This time it's been the predictable implosion of the BEV bubble (look what it's done to Lucid, Rivian and the rest) plus China Covid, recession, inflation/high interest rates, etc. I care about the fundies and tho Tesla margins may well be trimmed for a yr or 2, we'll be fine, while the rest of the industry is whacked as they are drowning in debt and can't afford to reduce minimal margins. Tesla will emerge even more dominant. Tesla energy is just beginning to become significant, completely ignored by most everyone as it's been trivial previously, it's even more recession resistant as E-utilities provide unlimited demand for batt storage, similar for the semi truck...on and on.
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  290. It's hot outside and a record was broken somewhere therefore CO2 causes climate change.
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  291. How many here have actually made the effort to examine the science and tried to understand it instead of just being spoon fed by popular media like CNBS? There's never been a time in my 60 yrs where reality wasn't sacrificed on the alter of revenue, drama, fear and/or politics, nor a time when reporters knew or cared anything about science. The data, trends, charts, comparing various greenhouse gasses, etc? Consensus is not science even when it's "scientific consensus", such consensus is wrong all the time, it's just a matter of degree.
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  292.  @stefanossmitty3318  Comfort is a luxury most can't afford and it's overrated anyway. Been driving for 45 yrs and never owned bran new car, never made payments, exception for a 1-ton service chassis crucial for business. Also DIY most everything, maintenance, etc. Last used car I bought cost me $45k cash but I can afford it after decades of driving econoboxs.
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  293.  @Joeblo-i9c  NO. A home is not generally a depreciating asset and living in one is partially paid by rent saved, cars devalue very fast especially from new.
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  294.  @Joeblo-i9c  Suit yourself, I've been driving for 45 yrs and never owned a new car. By now I can buy anything I want for cash 20X over. (I don't desire anything I can think of worth more than $100k new) "Live poor to become wealthy."
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  295.  @Economivision  Hahaha! THAT didn't age well did it!!! But never mind, many of us, self included, have gained FORTUNES on your self deception, greatest transfer of wealth from the wealthy to us "dumb retailers" in the brief history of humanity.
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  296.  @Economivision  Yes it was still very vulnerable at that time. I had to see successful mass production 1st, didn't load up for long term until May 2019. How about you? But you said it was 'destroying itself' which was silly even for that moment. It was still roughly on Elon's 2014 target of 500k cars delivered in 2020 and doing plenty otherwise right despite the struggles. 1000X?? Only in the minds of those who hadn't followed the story closely, MANY called it correctly and profited handsomely! That's what has supported the stock all these yrs.
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  297.  @Economivision  " we didn't have the funding..." interesting choice of words. Maybe it's too much of an outlier to matter much but instead of making excuses for faulty predictions perhaps WE should learn from our mistakes? ;-)
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  298.  @Economivision  You won't ever see 200B market cap from here.
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  299.  @Economivision  Your expecting nearly a 4X crash? Anything is possible but I made a modest fortune betting against that sort noise since $38. It was the increasingly shrill shorties that gave me the final dose of conviction to bet against them. I expect at least a $4T market cap before 2030. And although I timed my entry with intense focus I don't expect to repeat such an alignment of factors ever again....timing the market is generally a fools errand.
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  300.  @Economivision  What comps? Amazon or Alphabet perhaps? Those are the only two I can think of remotely comparable and they both pale in terms of spectacular accomplishments although a decade or so older. Apple??
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  301.  @Economivision  As for valuation: Zoom and many other notable tech stocks have price to revenue numbers far greater than TSLA.
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  302. You don't get it. They have a several yr. backlog already, Tesla needs to PRODUCE CARS! What they didn't produce last quarter MATTERS. It's the key metric right now The demand is far beyond their ability to meet it already, "the market will grow" is meaningless if they can't begin to meet current demand and so far they can't. (I have high hopes going forward but 'hope is not an investment strategy') There are well over half a million pre-orders for the 3 and so far they have delivered a couple thousand. They need to hit 5 then 10 thousand per WEEK to get your 3 in three years if you order it today. Are YOU going to wait several yr.s for your car? It's well understood that they offer a great product but that means nothing if they can't get them out the door by the hundreds of thousands. Missing projections is normally devastating to a stock which is the context here, it's stock market news. Tesla gets a massive, perhaps unprecedented break on Wall Street in this regard because no one takes the over optimistic, 'ridiculously ambitious' projections literally and because TSLA is a cult stock...the base of stock holders love the product and the Musk Mission (so do I) and don't seem to care about the risk or valuations. (I care about all of it)
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  303. Have YOU shorted TSLA?? If not then please STFU!
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  304.  @alexanderh8377  Good point but when it's flat over 5 yrs it's either a wound spring ready to breakout or a dog.
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  305. What qualifies?
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  306.  @qjtvaddict  Yeah it was as pathetic as most of the rest of the West blindly following the evil CCP. If you have a point to make please do so.
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  307. Actually he's both sarcastic and expressing his admiration for Elon at the same time, it's complicated. (1st 1:30 minutes Cramer means it)
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  308.  @Y2Kvids  More because of entrepreneurial culture, that's why we get the best and brightest, universities too but those seem to be going down the toilet now.
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  309. Nikhil Pande This is a STOCK show. Cramer has always praised the product, Tesla cars, and both praised and made fun of the amazing and hilarious Mr. Musk. One may love the car, the mission and the Man and still shun the stock, it's just too hard to value TSLA. Cramer has also consistently advised to stay out of TSLA, don't go long or short. Good advice as it's professional trader/investor territory mostly.
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  310. Few closest friends relayed on Beetles and Bus. One 60's Beetle was run probably into the 2000's, most of the time daily 20 miles plus for work alone. It saw it's share of dirt and back roads too! Rebuilt the engine at least once, had a crude bike rack WELDED to the body and roof. Hahaha Totally utilitarian. Loved it.
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  311. Elon announced he's moving HQ and any new production out of Cali to Nevada and TX!!! Good for him. As a NorCali resident and stockholder, Cal is the last place you want to do biz if you have a choice, the only advantage is Silicon Valley expertise.
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  312. Sure. About a million times more than we can use.
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  313. Smaller thing but too bad they got stuck with clunky charging connector standard.
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  314.  @antandros69  Indeed. Tho petrol isn't anywhere near as limited as it appeared to be 15 plus yrs ago. Fracking has 10Xed economic reserves, legal hurdles aside.
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  315. For some of you anything but an all positive glowing fanboyish report is panned. Did you even bother to listen to the video?
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  316. I'll take 15 or 20 minutes for another 80% on a charger and pay less. Swapping is cumbersome, expensive and there will be a line of cars often making it a 20 plus minute 'charge' anyway. Swapping will fail.
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  317. Coming to home near you SOON.
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  318. So another $70B in debt for WV--that'll be around $330B total. Treacherous road on the surface of it.
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  319.  D Brick  I'm not scoffing at $20 but my time is precious. I know Walmart shoppers don't give a flying F__k about time for example, another reason to avoid the depressing place. An hour is $100 to me should I spend that on a $20 purchase?
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  320.  @Hypohair  You SURE CAN! It will take several yr.s of often frustrating building of basic skills and you won't like any of it unless you are quite unique. Then a decade on the job experience (at least you'll be making decent change by then) often intensively exasperating situations exercised with maximum self discipline in some conditions you probably haven't fully conceived of--in direct sun at over 110 deg. F. dressed in heavy protective gear, clinging to not much 100 ft. in the air (tho not often) or in spaces so tight many would panic. In the winter maybe laying on your back on ice and slush. It's typically dirty and hazardous and disrespected by ignorant society. No glory no prestige except among coworkers and customers. Still want to sign up? I earn every goddamn penny but you don't need a Nobel Prize for it. PLENTY of demand for it as long as I've been around.
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  321.  @Hypohair  OH--and I'm always looking for someone to train to assist or even replace me as I can't do it for ever. But it's damn tough finding a man worthy of the label and physically demanding enough to filter out women kind. You also need to develop business skills and highest level of integrity. You'll need to invest 100 to $250k in equipment (requires yr.s of living a spartan life with no luxuries) which you will maintain on own along with billing, collections, looking at jobs all on your time and expenses out of pocket. You'll need to build a substantial savings account bc when anything goes wrong your income will go to negative. Sound enviable?
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  322.  @Hypohair  It should go without saying but I fear it may not--despite all the trials and demands just sketched out above, failure is not only an option but the most likely outcome at any step along the way. Still up for it? The "good life" never was easy and never will be. You get out what you invest into it.
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  323.  @tony001212  Why then do we see some posts with "Verified Purchaser" and others without?
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  324.  @cyberrock9018  WELL beyond that--I'm a fan of individual responsibility. Ever heard of it? Sort of old fashioned concept you may not have been exposed to.
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  325. Insanely energy intensive, that's why it's not used. And then what do you do with the mountains of salt or brine?....that solves nothing even if energy was free.
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  326. One of the great things about having states is the unavoidable competition for businesses and productive ppl. Cali needs a radical overhaul, it won't be easy, it will be met with a flurry of leftwing hysteria but it must be DONE. (Cali lifer here)
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  327. Being "early" is being WRONG. What if he's 10 yr.s "early"?....not helpful then, just wrong...we shall see.
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  328. They should test the abuse deliberately caused by box handlers who are griped by heavy contents.
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  329. They are the poster boys of tasteless crap, rubbish on road and off. If someone was to offer me a bran new one for free with the stipulation I had to keep it for a decade--I'd say NO THANKS. No use for a minivan anyway.
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  330.  @flackstar007  I don't think there is much of a problem to start with, very localized in any event. It's not as tho there is any change to the salinity of the oceans as a whole. Mixing it with sufficient ocean water at discharge might fix local issues.
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  331. Anything slightly skeptical, anything less than Elon worship is "hating" according to the fervent followers.
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  332. Reality always gets complicated ALL by itself! Cramer has only praised the cars, but he can't value TSLA, it's just too hard and too risky. You can love the product (the cars) and/or the CEO but still shun the stock. Don't go long or short TSLA is Jim's advice, which is good as it's professional trader/investor territory. Or a small speculative bet IMO, for "retail" investors.
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  333.  @retrocloud760  Largely due to personal preferences, you can create your own schedual.
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  334. They must be talking econobox "sports cars", I paid $1250 for new set over a yr ago.
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  335.  @Stressless2023  Yr model and your own driving style and so on, all make a big diff. There have been many poor automatic trans from all over but Toy usually gets it all right. I've never owned anything but manual rear drive anything and never had anything worse than an oil leak in 40 odd yrs except for lunching an input shaft from running a trashed clutch too long. Did preemptively rebuilt a couple personally in my youth but probably unnecessarily. Sounds like you do fine. I don't spend a lot on cars as a rule either tho my BMW M3 is bit of an exception. But that's sort of a replacement for the "crotch rockets" of my youth, not something I'd recommend to others.
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  336.  @Stressless2023  I was actually thinking about the Chrysler concerning your lack of trans issues, not impinging you on the Acura :D I believe there are two major autotrans mfgs that Toy and Honda use, one much better than the other, I think it was H that fell short in that dept, IDK for sure. There are a lot of good trans options today, I had difficulty deciding between manny and dual clutch semi-auto for the E92 M3. Dual clutch performs a little better in every metric including fuel economy with 7 sp vs 6. The extra complexity and potential maintenance leaned me toward manual but ultimately I just couldn't imagine NOT having the third pedal for that sort of car NO one but me will ever drive it, hehehe. Plus a trusted mechanic on, hopefully rare, occasions. The fact that many don't even know how to drive it is a small bonus to me.
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  337. @KR It's never easy and you have to be all in on it. Started my own tiny contracting biz at 20 not even knowing if there was an adequate market for it. Drove worthless econoboxes, had no TV, no toys no sterio, all my savings, time and energy went into it. Eventually it paid off, in a sense it pays off almost immeadiately from the experience, confidence built of taking on more than you know how to finish but figure it out as you go and get it done reasonably right, learn a ton. Under bid things and bust your ass long hours for free but still deliver a quality product, and so on.
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  338. And critical thinking, physical ed., anything beyond babysitting would be good. Smart parents will choose private schools if they can.
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  339. @Beyond The Light Why then do most look miffed when you mention compounding on investments? My brother had a high school class where each chose a stock to invest an equal imaginary amount in and see who performed best by end of semester. Simple but useful bit of real world experience. (he won and wished he'd talked dad into putting real money on it, HP had just came out with calculator with trig functions, lol)
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  340. Just avoid Eucalyptus, they are born to burn everything around them and be the only left standing alive.
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  341.  @johnlarson111  Which trees?
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  342.  @jaredbarker9515  GOOD! Most apparently are not exposed to such or didn't bother considering.
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  343.  @ricktd6891  But it does make my organic gardens thrive! Amazing the power of simply repeating a mantra endlessly, it becomes imbedded in the common consciousness as factual no matter how false. I blame parents brainwashing their young children with religious nonsense as the first exposure, practice to such non-thinking behavior. Once you establish rhetoric as a substitute to reason it's easy to apply it other places. We use the term "religion" as a pejorative any time it's not our own religion , including regarding climate beliefs, we all inherently know it's to be disrespected.
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  344. You must be wealthy beyond measure! Just do the opposite and roll in the easy money, right? Put your money where your mouth is or STFU.
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  345.  @liliadams1  Don't worry, Governments spend it well like paying off the reckless loans of a select minority, I'm sure the recipients are very grateful.
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  346.  @mocheen4837  Common way before social media too. Is it not the entire reason for "The Rate Race" trap? Constantly over extended. Spurred on by advertising but ultimately "keeping up with the Jones's" a personal problem. Why do this yr car models look different than last yr? ONLY so everyone can see that YOU have the new model so YOU must be better off then others when more likely you are simply hamstringing your future. Fam friend, mid class, EXCEPTIONAL at his teaching job , drove beat up VW beetle for decades past due date (rebuilt the engine personally, and whatever...). Always admired that, got the job done at minimal cost and he didn't give a crap about status.
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  347.  @moritzwille  A job is something that one does to be productive and support themselves, it's an old fashioned concept not very popular among some groups today but was once the norm.
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  348.  @dr.livesey7595  The ONLY reason 'most Americans' are two paychecks away form homelessness is because they have zero monetary self discipline and pay double for everything as a result. It's ridiculous to be in that situation, but your right many are!
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  349.  @erikeggenbakstad  NOT farm per se, but many in the US, Australia and other places are into creating our own "food forests" (don't like the phrase but its commonly used). It just means we pack in a lot of eatable plants, anything we can grow and like instead of vast useless lawns or pavement. I'm just a hobby home gardener but intending to become as self sufficient as possible along with simply creating a place you want to BE. It's a lot of work but it doesn't feel like work, it's more of a "useful escape". I have a real job, lol.
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  350.  @erikeggenbakstad  I didn't intend to divert the topic it was simply an example. But I'd rather talk about fruit trees I guess anyway. hahaha It's a relevant consideration in the context of this thread. I love the fact I can own and do as I please, with in reason, my little piece of prime land. I can dig in the dirt at all hours, call in truck loads of wood chips, scour the internet for info and ideas on endless plant types. And when I want some thrills I can take out the wonderful BMW E92-M3 on some mountain/canyon roads. I don't think disagreements makes us enemies, some of my smartest most loved and respected friends even support the Catholic Church and Trump!! HA! It's complicated, that's life.
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  351.  @erikeggenbakstad  Our health care system is a sad joke, not all of it but results/$ overall. It's broken. We had more socialistic medical system before the 1960's or '70's ish. (pardon my lack detailed understanding) but it seemed to work well. Always a doctor would treat a patient without regard for ability to pay going back to the 1st legit docs in the 19th century. It's human nature. I'm a hard core free enterprise, individual freedom, as far as is practicle, proponent (I don't want the right to a granade launcher or to dump nuclear waste on "MY" land), it's always a matter of degree. Free markets are absolutely indispensable, NO Tesla spear heading low carbon transportation without it. Obviously... private police, military, courts, etc., don't work, toss in prisons and maybe healthcare. As clumsy and inefficient as government appendages automatically are--we can't live without them. USA like all nations has a lot of work to do. Still a ton going for it, just ask Elon. :D
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  352. Join the 21st century? Teslas are the highest performance and safest cars ever made, and they were close to that in 2013. You should try one.
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  353. Pete A No it's not. But that doesn't mean it's a sound investment. Only time will tell but it's too hard for ME when there are so many other things to focus on.
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  354.  @darkwoodmovies  Never been easier to earn $130k, and you don't need to live where you do. Most American families get by on less than that. If your spending $300 going out for a night that's just reckless unless you too are an everyday millionaire, no shortage of those today. But they didn't get there by living beyond their means as it sounds like you are, live poor to become rich and THEN live a little more rich. Minimum wage is for kids and those just entering the workforce. NO EXCUSE for being stuck there, YOUR CHOICE, own it.
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  355.  @darkwoodmovies  There never was any such thing as "guarantees" in life, you must have a fantasy view of the past when it was far more difficult, pick any prior decade, things have never been easier it's just that NOW many think they are entiteled to XYZ. They are NOT. Someone elses entitlement becomes MY BURDEN, I won't be a slave to anyone's wants or needs. It won't work unless universal poverty is your goal. Working hard was never enough, you have to be productive , become difficult to replace, god forbid even creative and take risks! You can work hard going in circles or attepting to compete with machines, or by doing a job that a kid can learn in a day....all recipies for poverty.
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  356.  @darkwoodmovies  If you can afford to fritter away $300/night very often, then you can afford to invest, make your money work for you and become financially independent....eventually work only if you want to. Takes time and effort but anyone can do it. Just something to consider.
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  357.  @darkwoodmovies  NOT saving means living poor and working for the rest of your life. Living hand to mouth is expensive! And it's out of control, it's where the term 'rat race' comes from.
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  358. Lithium cobalt and copper are NOT rare Earth's. Good grief.
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  359. In part but it's also a value proposition, no one so far has seriously challenged them on efficiency, range, performance in general for similar price and that's before you even consider electronics, software, over air updates, AP, charging speed and supercharger network......... Hopefully T. improves it's servicing, interior quality and DIY situation soon.
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  360. So it will continue the tradition of squeaky rattly cheesy interior apparently.
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  361. Not much to smile about under Communism-- a parallel with American Progressives who also have no sense of humor and want to turn USA into USSA.
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  362. blableka Talk is CHEAP. Are You short TSLA for all your worth? If not then STFU, speak with conviction then ACT ON IT.
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  363. How so?
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  364. About 4 liters.
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  365. Angry?? This is his normal demeanor discussing any topic.
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  366.  @Pygmonicus  MOST trades, you don't have to pick the exceptions and you don't need to rely on wages--create YOUR OWN JOB and set your rates to what the market will bare. I started building my own biz at 20 and never looked back, just focused on increasing my value to customers. It didn't happen overnight but I charge about $120/hr and still have far more demand than I can to do. (overhead cuts my net to maybe $80/hr)
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  367. CALM DOWN, it's coming with or without your stress.
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  368. Cali is the center of the known universe.
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  369. You got that backwards, it's the DEBT that makes things out of reach. DON'T buy what you can't pay out of pocket twice over , living beyond your means is extremely expensive.
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  370. Prove yourself right. You expect others to be enslaved to provide for your needs? Get off your ass and get to work....no one owes you sustenance or anything else.
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  371. Hard for kids to grasp but ADULTS change their minds openly when their awareness or the facts change.
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  372.  @PassportGaming  If you look at the chart he was only several months later than optimal for the prior 6 yrs. But if you go back to the IPO--yes in hindsight we all should have been in it. However, before mass production was proven and they were perpetually on the edge of going under...it was just to risky for most of us.
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  373.  @PassportGaming  IF one was to follow Cramer on TSLA they'd gotten in at around $60/share, NOT BAD, fortunately I backed up the truck starting $38.
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  374. WTH does that have to do with anything here?
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  375. You Cultists are toxic to Tesla. Did they say anything misleading or false?
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  376. Why the negative rating for this vid?? Cramer was properly skeptical and did a decent job here.
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  377. Shame on Tesla for hiring that sort of toxic TRASH.
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  378. There's a new kid in town called E-storage via batteries. No argument against nukes but wind, solar plus storage is becoming a viable alternative.
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  379.  @Les_S537  I'm only considering competitive economics. Have you updated yourself recently?
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  380.  @antieatingactivist  I too was indoctrinated that way, mainly by my father but also by society. My brothers and I all dropped out to do other interesting things anyway. (eventually returned and finished for our own reasons) You are responsible for your choices regardless of societal infulences, religion, public school brain washing or whatever. Thinking for one's self was never optional. "Tasked" with keeping vehicles on the road?? WTH?
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  381.  @nGUNNARp  If that happens in America it's on the idividual. NO excuse for that, I know 'apprenticies' (Noobs without much experience) making 5X that.
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  382. Skyler Drabing Net buying is JUST THAT. Naturally they are probably selling as well that's what they DO, they buy and sell stocks. That's their job genius!! It could be that they are ONLY BUYING based on that statement. YOU don't know! What about yourself?...buying or selling stocks or both?
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  383.  @y0nd3r  The prices of everything going up is 100% due to reckless irresponsible government spending, insane unscientific shutdowns and so on. Why don't you start your own business? With your attitude I seriously doubt you are worth a dime more than you get. What value do you add? You can make yourself very difficult to replace and THEN you can right your own ticket. That's capitalism and it's vastly superior to any alternatives ever devised. Meritocracy IS JUSTICE.
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  384.  @y0nd3r  OH! So greedy corporations just happened! I thought they always existed yet prices were controlled by competition, inflation, etc. (see the blatant flaw in your regurgitated lack of thoughtfulness?) At the risk of presumptuousness--let me guess, you've learned your entitlement and Marxist ideology from Leftist universities and public schools? I don't owe you a job nor even an existence nor does anyone else. Better get used to self responsibly as when your ideals turn us into Cuba, USSR or N. Korea--you'll be on your own struggling to survive anyway. Right? You can't loot wealth from a society that doesn't allow the creation of wealth.
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  385.  @y0nd3r  I take back the college assumption, pretty sure there's not one in existence that has Econ 101 teaching your willful ignorance. It's worse than that--any 7 yr old can understand that doubling the supply of dollars while GDP stays constant (for example) will double prices of everything. Common sense. Correct we have nothing to talk about if you insist on such dishonesty. You can fool yourself but not escape the consequences.
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  386.  @shrenp.1313  What IS the root of money? It's providing goods and services to humanity, generally essential to existence, otherwise enhancing health and happiness. Profit means producing more value than the required inputs to those ends, not only GOOD but essential. Externalities, the environment in particular, are not well considered by the market place alone unless the consumers demand it as they sometimes but not always do. That's why the necessary evil of government, as lousy as they inherently are, the ultimate monopolies, must play a crucial roll. It's YOUR direct decision in a relatively free market, to decide the trade offs, to be responsible for the broader consequences of your choices and consumption. Would you go to work for no profit? Would you consider it "good" to spend as much to do your job as the job paid you? Get over your indoctrination and think for yourself as hard as it is.
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  387. R D Subsidies for EV's don't even come close to leveling the playing field. Have you ever considered the TRILLIONS of $ taxpayers have spent subsidizing petrol??
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  388. IS Tesla a car co? Some good reasons to think of it as a tech or an alternative energy and transportation company. The electronics and battery technology on the Model 3 are apparently miles ahead of anyone else in the biz. The 3 did NOT simply leverage S and X batt tech, they improved it significantly. The 3 has major room to improve structurally/production efficiency just by using common industry methods. All the car and truck companies 'that matter' will be offering competitive options soon, Freighliner claims it will trounce Tesla semi, on and on. I believe Elon welcomes all comers, he's man enough to compete or fail on merit, he wants to transform the world more than have Tesla survive...good for the world more than the stock, HA! Always two sides to any trade. I've done well with FB and NVDA prior to this yr., one always needs to check their reasons for betting long or short so these sort of discussions are important to me even if one of the guys wasn't quite up to the job.
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  389. 2yrs on--Yes and No. Fun to visit for couple weeks but....frozen hellscape with a far away sun and Earth you can't get to, no rivers forests life....confined in stinky stale air.
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  390. Listen CHILD, Cramer isn't even allowed to own individual stocks bc of his TV show. Tune into reality before broadcasting your ignorance and simple mind.
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  391.  @mactek6033  It's a charitable trust and there are no secrets and no personal profits. You can check but I'll bet good money he had ZERO in TSLA at the time for the trust.
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  392.  @mactek6033  Hahaha. Yeah fortunes are made writing niche books everyday...anyway that's all a GOOD thing. One's reputation damn well better reflect their track record. He makes mistakes and it's up to us all to judge HIS judgment, you don't get to be lazy and just blindly follow anyone You realize Jim booked a couple hundred million (in today's dollars) back in his old hedge fund, right? SURE he's desperate for a couple ten grand more!...damn near under a bridge already.
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  393. And minus 30% the next hour.
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  394. It wasn't an hour vid, there are many things that could have been delved into otherwise.
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  395.  @Eusantdac  Good point.
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  396.  @dmuth4484  Damn I knew I should have worded that differently but trying to be brief. :D ((cash in my trading account, always want some for unexpected opportunities but to say it's a "non-performing asset" is an understatement))
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  397.  SpinazFou  I have recently but not currently, I think it's a good one tho I tend toward NVDA which I also sold recently.
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  398.  @Ftroo-eu3cx  Are you thinking of Utah?
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  399. Be insane to do otherwise. Would U work for $20/hr when U can command $35/hr?
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  400.  @rianhatch5459  Good to know , thanks.
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  401.  @rianhatch5459  I went through 4 or 5 Roomba's including floor washer and shop type before I wised up and tossed them all in the recycle bin. lol
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  402. @Jeremiah Madsen My experience IS a decade old, now that I thk of it. A lot could have changed. Used for half a decade, 4 diff units inc. shop and floor washing versions. ALL became more trouble than the were worth well before I got my moneys worth. Washer was especially problematic with expensive special detergent required, probably cost me $100/hr as little as I used it. All the fussing, filling, cleaning unit and still did lousy job. By now maybe they are even practicle and powerful enough, but I need to use one myself and not about to buy after old experience where there was little improvement over time.
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  403. Becky is off the rails on this one. How could there be any better measure of performance that stock price plus other crucial company performance metrics?? Just bc it's never been done before! How much better might public companies be if they were incented like this? Tesla, SpaceX and Elon have never been done before. (Like Becky but GOOD GRIEF)
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  404. Koug Arpaw Baloney. Simple minded childish comment. This is ONE piece, I have seen absolute Tesla bulls on CNBC as well as harsh critics. That's their job, present multiple angles on any potential investment and *challenge their thesis*.
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  405.  @angelo_alexpaguntalan411  Made of stone or pottery but sort of buried in the undergrowth.
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  406.  @angelo_alexpaguntalan411  ....referring to Japan's tsunami high water markers that is...not USA homes. :D (forgot this topic branched)
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  407. It won't be after desal.
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  408.  @TheBECK321  Are you sure about 'micro plastics' getting through? Doesn't sound right to me, it's not as tho they are in solution like salts.
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  409. @pointoftranquility Absolutely! Tesla is thriving and these laughably low prices are like May 2019 all over again. It's hilariously out of touch. 10X up from here in 4 or 5 yrs easily.
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  410. Interesting looking back, hmmm? I always thought it was ideal that he'd have "gone down with the ship", he'd have been bankrupt with half billion in personal debt...prior to this 1st ever stock sale.
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  411. I have limited experience here but the few times I've gone to such clinics ("Doc in a box") they have been excellent--quick, professional and affordable.
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  412. Yes but a BIG diff between the company and the STOCK, Cramer only got fully behind the stock some $60/share mid 2019. Fortunately I happened to switch to believe in TSLA in 2018, tho I long believed in Elon and his enterprises I had to see mass production succeed...backed up the truck from $38 and never looked back. HA!
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  413. One bad pothole can do more damage every 10 minutes to cars than it would require to fix the damn hole. Stupidly inefficient. Higher gas taxes are a nobrainer if the funds actually go where they are intended. Vastly higher vehicle mpg and inflation have drastically cut effective money over the last 2 decades.
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  414. Some of us have actually looked at the science and data instead of being lazy and manipulated by popular media that has zero interest in reality but thrives on 'clicks' and manufactured fear.
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  415.  @k.nielsen5589  Explain the Younger Dryass where some 12 deg C swings in as little as half a century. Compare that to the hypothetical 1 or 2C this century. The "Midlevel Warming" only half a millennia ago with similar temps to today. I don't care about personality X thinks this and another thinks the opposite. DATA and SCIENCE is all I care about, address that or nothing.
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  416.  @NaumRusomarov  Few fun facts from the IPCC a few yrs ago, paraphrased::: "There will be minimal net global economic impact from human caused climate change at least through this century." (implies a hell of a lot) "Greenland Ice sheet is melting no faster today then 80 yrs ago." "There have been no increase in hurricanes is last century." (also true for weather extremes in general) Granted authorities and consensus are not science but IPCC is often cheery picked by establishment media or otherwise misused, and shamefully most folks get their "science" from Yellow Media.
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  417.  @15longway  Because Leftist have made it a thing. We'd largely beat it in the USA and the evil Establishment made it a centerpiece of everything in recent yrs, we even have segregated dormitories at some colleges. It's insane.
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  418. CONTRA Wages will likely rise but the number of drivers will decrease over time, that's a good thing as it's a boring job that's hard to fill these days.
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  419. CONTRA How do you know that? It's not what has happened in other instances of mechanization. Sure eventually there will be NO ONE behind the wheel but the person monitoring a dozen trucks will make more than a trucker today. A century ago or so half of us were farmers, now it's less than 2% and farmers and workers are making far more than they did way back when.
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  420. Then you haven't seen a union operation.
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  421. With Chamath there is barely any difference--do you think he LIVES in $10B house?
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  422.  @MrBeatboxmasta  Fair point maybe but she mixed up specifics to HIM and for others and he was properly reluctant to say what others should do.
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  423. Yes that IS a stupid idea and solves nothing.
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  424. You Tesla Cultists never fail to amaze me. Did you ever consider how toxic you are to Tesla? Did they say anything that was even misleading here?? There is a big global backlash against Tesla because of you overcharged hyper sensitive worshipers, many understandably want to avoid T. despite how great the cars are because they are sick of the Cultists.
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  425. The BIG BOYS are coming for Tesla (and the Little Boys apparently) and so far it hasn't mattered. The question now is when will Chanos flip and try to gain some of his losses back on the long side. :D
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