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From first google result: > TSLAQ (pronounced "Tesla Q") is a loose, international collective of largely anonymous short-sellers, skeptics, and researchers who

From first google result: > TSLAQ (pronounced "Tesla Q") is a loose, international collective of largely anonymous short-sellers, skeptics, and researchers who openly criticize Tesla

tromp 4y ago
Somewhat confusing considering that Tesla Model Q is one of the rumored names for the new cheaper compact model (aka Model 2). https://topelectricsuv.com/news/tesla/tesla-model-2-design-details/ https://topelectricsuv.com/news/tesla/tesla-model-2-design-d...
- FireBeyond 4y ago
  Musk has a habit, a la Boris Johnson, of "snowing" search results that are likely to be unfavorable with his own (Johnson made a big show of repeatedly talking about "painting wine boxes to look like buses" to distract from a campaign issue about Brexit and contentious claims painted on buses). "Did you mean Tesla Model Q?", might say Google in the future, when someone looks for Tesla Q. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/boris-johnson-model-google-news https://www.wired.co.uk/article/boris-johnson-model-google-n...
  - kennyadam 4y ago
    I've never been particularly convinced of the whole "he says he paints buses so that the brexit bus is pushed off Google" thing. It seems like the sort of thing that sounds right, so everyone starts repeating it, but really, is there any evidence at all?
    - lordnacho 4y ago
      The thing has his just enough believability to make it possible and is unimportant enough to make it not worth investigating. It's believable that some advisor thought it was a good idea to try, but also what if he did? Everyone remembers the bus thing in any case.
    - KingOfCoders 4y ago
      Boris will not tell, and the PR consultant - as long as they are in business - will neither. So there is no proof possible for the forseeable future.
    - VBprogrammer 4y ago
      It could be entirely coincidental but he also proposed a bridge between Northern Ireland and Scotland which was a useful distraction from his Garden Bridge which wasted somewhere in the region of £200M.
eecc 4y ago
The etymology is that bankrupted stocks that get pulled off the Exchange used to get a Q appended to their ticker name. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/q/q.asp https://www.investopedia.com/terms/q/q.asp

From first google result: > TSLAQ (pronounced "Tesla Q") is a loose, international collective of largely anonymous short-sellers, skeptics, and researchers who openly criticize Tesla

tromp 4y ago

Somewhat confusing considering that Tesla Model Q is one of the rumored names for the new cheaper compact model (aka Model 2). https://topelectricsuv.com/news/tesla/tesla-model-2-design-details/ https://topelectricsuv.com/news/tesla/tesla-model-2-design-d...

FireBeyond 4y ago
Musk has a habit, a la Boris Johnson, of "snowing" search results that are likely to be unfavorable with his own (Johnson made a big show of repeatedly talking about "painting wine boxes to look like buses" to distract from a campaign issue about Brexit and contentious claims painted on buses). "Did you mean Tesla Model Q?", might say Google in the future, when someone looks for Tesla Q. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/boris-johnson-model-google-news https://www.wired.co.uk/article/boris-johnson-model-google-n...
- kennyadam 4y ago
  I've never been particularly convinced of the whole "he says he paints buses so that the brexit bus is pushed off Google" thing. It seems like the sort of thing that sounds right, so everyone starts repeating it, but really, is there any evidence at all?
  - lordnacho 4y ago
    The thing has his just enough believability to make it possible and is unimportant enough to make it not worth investigating. It's believable that some advisor thought it was a good idea to try, but also what if he did? Everyone remembers the bus thing in any case.
  - KingOfCoders 4y ago
    Boris will not tell, and the PR consultant - as long as they are in business - will neither. So there is no proof possible for the forseeable future.
  - VBprogrammer 4y ago
    It could be entirely coincidental but he also proposed a bridge between Northern Ireland and Scotland which was a useful distraction from his Garden Bridge which wasted somewhere in the region of £200M.

eecc 4y ago

The etymology is that bankrupted stocks that get pulled off the Exchange used to get a Q appended to their ticker name. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/q/q.asp https://www.investopedia.com/terms/q/q.asp