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Cake day: July 24th, 2023

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  • The thing this article touches on, and what I’ve found people really need to understand, is what privilege is and what it represents. It took me to a similar age as the author (early 20s) to recognize it. I find most people don’t even in much later years. They feel attacked for having it, and don’t think they do, so they resent those they feel are attacking and right wing groups feed that resentment.

    I know I’m preaching to the choir given this community and server, but anyone else that comes across this statement, please understand you can still be privileged in some ways, even if you’re very much not in others. You can grow up in poverty, in a broken home, or no home, picked on and bullied, and still benefit from an interviewers racism or misogyny. You may even think “fuck that, I was the best qualified” or even “I was the only one that applied” but it’s always possible the company in question already had a reputation amongst disenfranchised groups to encourage exactly that situation. Without trying, you could benefit from a system that holds people back. That’s privilege. It’s not always getting a head start, sometimes it’s just not being set back as far as others.









  • In 21 you could have gotten some of the first Ford Mustang MachEs to come off the line, if you were lucky. Chevy was doing ok with the bolt, but I’ve never personally liked the style of the bolt. Leafs were another OK model specifically for commuting, but IIRC Kelly lives in Tucson and if he was making regular trips to Phoenix a leaf wouldn’t have cut it. Polestar was available, but relatively unknown. And I think a few luxury brands had EVs at that point. So yes there were other EV players, but “strong” is a subjective term, unless you were doing a fair amount of research you likely wouldn’t have known about them.


  • Tanking Tesla stock costs Musk a lot. Trashing unsold teslas means Tesla makes a lot of insurance claims. Short term that’s as good as a sale, well not really, the insurance only pays the replacement value which is less than the sell value, so it hurts their profits a bit, but it reduces stock and that does help a little. But if there’s a pattern of Tesla dealerships getting entire fleets destroyed, their insurance rates go up, which hurts their profits a lot more. So they’ll raise prices and sell fewer cars, which hurts their entire business.

    Once or twice, it’s no big deal for Tesla. If the pattern keeps up then of going to start to squeeze them.

    Musk has been a toxic asset for Tesla for quite some time, even before recent DOGE shit. I’m not sure why they don’t remove him. I get that he has majority shares, but there are still mechanisms for removing him.