Tesla to lay off more than 10% of its staff

Re:Tesla to lay off more than 10% of its staff by cbeach on Monday April 15, 2024 @09:11AM (#40040110)

I'm his customer base. I have solar panels on my roof and a Tesla on my drive.

And I LOVE that Musk defends freedom of expression. I LOVE that he defends free market economics and border control.

I assure you I am MORE likely to buy a Tesla because of Musk.

We can do better than pigeonhole all EV customers into a single political tribe.

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Re:Tesla to lay off more than 10% of its staff by klyrs on Monday April 15, 2024 @11:59AM (#40042295)

> And I LOVE that Musk defends freedom of expression.

As long as that expression is in line with his values and doesn't criticize him? That isn't "free" speech he's defending.

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Re:Tesla to lay off more than 10% of its staff by EasyMark on Monday April 15, 2024 @01:15PM (#40043183)

Right, he has definitely removed and shadow-banned reporters who put up things that he didn't like, while Chinese and Russian blue check propaganda accounts spam Twitter with hundreds of tweets and retweets every day PER account.

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Re:Tesla to lay off more than 10% of its staff by suzzer99 on Monday April 15, 2024 @01:49PM (#40043577)

Yeah when he removes accurate community notes on his own tweets, that's not exactly promoting freedom of expression.

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Re:Tesla to lay off more than 10% of its staff by silverquiet on Monday April 15, 2024 @09:35AM (#40040381)

Wouldn't a free market for labor eschew any kind of border control? What do you think Musk cares most about - the nationality of the workers who assemble a Tesla, or the cost of their labor?

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Re:Tesla to lay off more than 10% of its staff by Solvency on Monday April 15, 2024 @09:27AM (#40040276)

it's wild watching you worship musk relentlessly on him comment after comment. you LOVE him. we get it.

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Re:Tesla to lay off more than 10% of its staff by blitzar on Monday April 15, 2024 @11:03AM (#40041504)

Elon promised a horse and she is going to get it.

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Re:Tesla to lay off more than 10% of its staff by dang on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @03:40PM (#40056291)

Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

We ban accounts that post like this, so I need to ask you to stop.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

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Re:Tesla to lay off more than 10% of its staff by EasyMark on Monday April 15, 2024 @01:13PM (#40043166)

I think you can recognize that OP was talking about the 80% of his customers who buy EVs because they are green friendly or tech geeks, and not 20% who buy because they like Musk

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Re:Tesla to lay off more than 10% of its staff by jimbokun on Monday April 15, 2024 @01:40PM (#40043467)

Yes, but the problem for Elon is that the people like you in the intersection of all those sets is rather small.

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Re:Tesla to lay off more than 10% of its staff by dang on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @03:40PM (#40056289)

Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

We ban accounts that post like this, so I need to ask you to stop.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

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Re:Tesla to lay off more than 10% of its staff by cbeach on Saturday April 27, 2024 @06:53PM (#40184327)

It’s useful to know how the site moderators view my comments, and how this might influence their behaviour against my user account.

Thank you for admitting this.

I will be more wary of this site than I already was.

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