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I always felt that Tesla was the compromise you'd have to make if you wanted an EV. Now the compromise is Electrify America if you go for an EV from an establis

I always felt that Tesla was the compromise you'd have to make if you wanted an EV. Now the compromise is Electrify America if you go for an EV from an established auto manufacturer, but fortunately that's changing. One thing Tesla is exceptional at is building and maintaining a rapid charging network. Now that they're opening up to non-Tesla EVs I can only imagine a more rapid decline in their market share. Tesla superchargers and a Toyota or Lexus EV? Sign me up yesterday!

KerrAvon 2y ago
Don't count on it. He's ruining that too. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/05/tesla-does-180-on-superchargers-rehiring-laid-off-staff-amid-new-plans/ https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/05/tesla-does-180-on-super...
- nxm 2y ago
  Twitter/X seems to be doing OK after getting rid of a lot of fat
  - dylan604 2y ago
    a social platform is not the same thing in any way shape or form.
  - threeseed 2y ago
    A lot of that fat was in areas like trust and safety. Which is now coming to bite them as EU is expected to announce the final warning to Twitter about the spread of toxic content before they impose a 6% fine of total revenue. All whilst advertising revenue has plummeted and continues to drop. No matter where you look Elon is not showing a lot of business acumen.
    - al_borland 2y ago
      From what I understand, Elon’s primary motivation behind buying Twitter was to preserve free speech on the internet. That’s kind of an American thing. I don’t see Elon changing that to bend to the laws and rules of the EU. I have my opinions, but one of them that’s mixed in there is respecting the willingness to stay true to the ideals and value of free speech, even if it means losing advertisers or whatever else. Freedom of speech is important, and we can’t have honest debates about serious topics without it.
      - orwin 2y ago
        I mean... https://www.businessinsider.com/free-speech-censorship-elon-musk-throttled-tweets-turkey-presidential-election-2023-5 https://www.businessinsider.com/free-speech-censorship-elon-... https://restofworld.org/2023/twitter-blocked-access-punjab-amritpal-singh-sandhu/ https://restofworld.org/2023/twitter-blocked-access-punjab-a...
      - defrost 2y ago
        He did say that, sure .. he just doesn't walk the talk.
      - scblock 2y ago
        It was to buy a place no one could shut him up. He adores censorship as long as its of other people. Dude gives exactly zero shits about free speech.
  - verdverm 2y ago
    if stagnation is doing OK, then I suppose, but growth has basically stalled https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40924369 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40924369
  - jitl 2y ago
    The website barely works for me on my phone anymore. Just spinners whenever I try to open anything or load more content.
  - TheAlchemist 2y ago
    Twitter as a software system ? Yeah, that's not really hard. Twitter as a platform ? It went horrible - spam bots multiplied, the 'pussy in bio' were everywhere, and I've stopped using it completely when there were literal nude / porn pictures in the answers, on topics that have nothing to do with that.
  - timeon 2y ago
    Twitter stopped working for not logged-in people. Which is most people. It worked before. But now it is apparently in maintenance mode.
favorited 2y ago
> One thing Tesla is exceptional at is building and maintaining a rapid charging network I wonder if laying off the entire 500-person Supercharger team will affect this at all.
- deleted 2y ago
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- dylan604 2y ago
  That's been my concern as well. Having a charging network so reliant on Tesla => Musk does not seem the most secure foundation and much more like the shifting sands parable. I would be much more happy to have a Tesla/Musk free system, but so far we haven't seen any serious candidates.

KerrAvon 2y ago

Don't count on it. He's ruining that too. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/05/tesla-does-180-on-superchargers-rehiring-laid-off-staff-amid-new-plans/ https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/05/tesla-does-180-on-super...

nxm 2y ago
Twitter/X seems to be doing OK after getting rid of a lot of fat
- dylan604 2y ago
  a social platform is not the same thing in any way shape or form.
- threeseed 2y ago
  A lot of that fat was in areas like trust and safety. Which is now coming to bite them as EU is expected to announce the final warning to Twitter about the spread of toxic content before they impose a 6% fine of total revenue. All whilst advertising revenue has plummeted and continues to drop. No matter where you look Elon is not showing a lot of business acumen.
  - al_borland 2y ago
    From what I understand, Elon’s primary motivation behind buying Twitter was to preserve free speech on the internet. That’s kind of an American thing. I don’t see Elon changing that to bend to the laws and rules of the EU. I have my opinions, but one of them that’s mixed in there is respecting the willingness to stay true to the ideals and value of free speech, even if it means losing advertisers or whatever else. Freedom of speech is important, and we can’t have honest debates about serious topics without it.
    - orwin 2y ago
      I mean... https://www.businessinsider.com/free-speech-censorship-elon-musk-throttled-tweets-turkey-presidential-election-2023-5 https://www.businessinsider.com/free-speech-censorship-elon-... https://restofworld.org/2023/twitter-blocked-access-punjab-amritpal-singh-sandhu/ https://restofworld.org/2023/twitter-blocked-access-punjab-a...
    - defrost 2y ago
      He did say that, sure .. he just doesn't walk the talk.
    - scblock 2y ago
      It was to buy a place no one could shut him up. He adores censorship as long as its of other people. Dude gives exactly zero shits about free speech.
- verdverm 2y ago
  if stagnation is doing OK, then I suppose, but growth has basically stalled https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40924369 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40924369
- jitl 2y ago
  The website barely works for me on my phone anymore. Just spinners whenever I try to open anything or load more content.
- TheAlchemist 2y ago
  Twitter as a software system ? Yeah, that's not really hard. Twitter as a platform ? It went horrible - spam bots multiplied, the 'pussy in bio' were everywhere, and I've stopped using it completely when there were literal nude / porn pictures in the answers, on topics that have nothing to do with that.
- timeon 2y ago
  Twitter stopped working for not logged-in people. Which is most people. It worked before. But now it is apparently in maintenance mode.

favorited 2y ago

> One thing Tesla is exceptional at is building and maintaining a rapid charging network I wonder if laying off the entire 500-person Supercharger team will affect this at all.

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dylan604 2y ago
That's been my concern as well. Having a charging network so reliant on Tesla => Musk does not seem the most secure foundation and much more like the shifting sands parable. I would be much more happy to have a Tesla/Musk free system, but so far we haven't seen any serious candidates.