JohnnyHerz

I regret that Tesla doesn't make trucks, so i can replace my fleet with Tesla's; I'd buy 120 of them tomorrow if they made one.

While there is certainly a lot of crap out there for business books, especially on sales/marketing and management, there are some core books that are must reads if you want to save 30 years of trial and error.

1. E-myth Revisited (absolute must read for small to midsize business owners) 2. Competitive Strategy 3. Discipline of Market Leaders 4. Good to Great 5. Built to Last

This is a political story about govermental issues and initiates a back and forth discussion between liberal and conservative idealogies.

Definitely NOT a technology topic.

should be flagged.

"homologation" ...thanks for teaching me a new word that nobody would understand if i ever used it.

“Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.” ― Mark Twain

Nope. No Tesla Stock_ Not an Elon Fanboy_ Not a Trumper

just can't stomache ignorance

Nothing in your post has anything to do with the fundamentals of Tesla's business. You are just echoing the anti-elon propoganda. The anti-Elon movement is a moment in time that will not affect the longterm viability of Tesla's business model.

Like it or not, Tesla as a company is still years ahead of other US competitors and has a significant competitive advantage in the marketplace.

Tesla is not "in bad shape" relative to the competition. IF you are going to talk about auto companies in "bad shape", Tesla doesn't even make the top 10

i refuse read the biased news from CNN or FOX or MSNBC

However, I've read countless Bloomberg articles on Tesla, and the company has significant competitive advantage over every automaker (Including BYD) when it comes to manufacturing and selling EV's in the US and elsewhere.

If you are inclined to drive an EV, or own stock in an EV company, Tesla is still the gold standard.

California farming is a major resource for US food and should be protected as a national security issue. Why haven't previous administrations implemented this apparently simple fix?

If it does i'll be using it

(Don't take what follows as a judgement of your product. i haven't tried it and it may be amazing!)

What you are struggling with is simply a fact of life for any entrepreneur.

Get an idea, work on it, launch and discover if there is a market fit. IF no, move to next idea, start process over. Almost every great business has examples of pivoting from the original product or service and trying other ideas until landing on the one that hits.

You've built a tool. call it a your "prototype". first test case is you. do you like using it? does it truly make your life easier and more productive? IF your answer is meh, then put it aside and move on to other things.

It's depressing to leave an idea for dead. It's your baby and you love it, but it may just not be that idea's time, you may be able to come back to it at a later date with new eyes and find a way. Regardless, the journey of building something is of value to you - you can't help but learn from the experience and apply those lessons to the next endeavor.

Also, I'll state the obvious here... Building a tool for the market and building a company to sell it are two very VERY different things.

The fact that you hit the wall when it came time to take your product to market might be an indicator for you. Maybe your are Woz and you just need to find your Steve.

If this try is a failure, continue to believe in yourself and never give up.

So many successful entrepreneurs are serial failures, until they aren't.

"The Real Anthony Fauci" is absolutely damning.

Fauci has stated that RFK's book is full of lies. If that was true, then why has Fauci not sued RFK for libel?

"Methinks he doth protest too much"

I find it interesting that Michael Bloomberg penned an oped this morning in which he warns against RFK JR's potential influence in govt, using RFK's stance against fluoride in our water as one of his attack points.

Yet here we have WAPO - another bastion of liberal thought media - taking what virtually amounts to an opposing stance to Bloomberg while providing tacit support for RFK.

looks like the billionaire media moguls aren't quite on the same page. They might want to check their jersey color to see if they are still on the same team.

The authors dismissal of govt incompetence and data manipulation as the cause is naive. Human history and US history is absolutely littered with examples of this behavior at all levels and degrees of scale.

Two Thumbs Up!

"I'd much rather live in a country that embraces everyone's right to BE FULL OF SHIT"

feels like turnabout fair play to me as i sit here eating my bowl of popcorn...

Twitter was biased against Conservatives and the Right screamed and cried foul.

X is biased against Liberals and the Left screams and cries foul.

(Shrug)

feels like turnabout fair play to me as i sit here eating my bowl of popcorn...

Twitter was biased against Conservatives and the Right screamed and cried foul.

X is biased against Liberals and the Left screams and cries foul.

Are you arguing that Google doesn't hold a monopolistic position in the Search Space? or are you trying to precisely define my usage of the term?

Regardless, Google is playing bully with money and power that the rest of the search engines don't have(ex:Bing).

Headline deception

Let's be real here. Google paid Reddit big money and Reddit is giving them special access by blocking Googles competition.

Looks like more big tech monopolistic behavior to me.

Seems to me that the title should reference a United Airlines plane (NOT Boeing) since UA is the owner and entity responsible for the maintenance and safety inspections of the 30 YEAR OLD plane. The article even mentions that the "incident was the latest in a string of incidents involving United Airlines planes"

Tossup between Apple Mail and Outlook - both are underwhelming. Apple Mail is feature light and Outlook locks up and crashes.

I'm about to test out Kerio's mail client for mac, since i run my own Kerio mail server.

With all the security fails that the big mail providers routinely have, I am regularly reminded of how happy I am that i've stuck with running my own mail server

I experience the same type of issues with Spotify on my iphones. it's followed me through every Spotify upgrade and across every iPhone i've owned.

At minimum, Elon has drawn attention to the inaccurate data supplied by the federal govt (SSA).

If you read to the bottom of the article, the Feds SSA statistics should make you raise your eyebrow and ask what the #$%& is up.

Awesomeness. thank you for sharing!

Time for a new word to describe this type of fix. Clearly the word "Recall" does not accurately define this event.

If all "recalls" where this simple to fix, the word "recall" wouldn't carry the same negative implication. I'd call this a "re-mod" - quick upgrade repair or modification to existing software.

I disagree. The high end of the market is a proven niche and the target high-end buyer has demonstrated a willingness to spend freely on premium grade products.

The is a reason why LVMH (Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton) is one of the most successful and valuable companies in the world.

I'm not saying it's easy. Any business endeavor, regardless of product market fit, still requires execution. Easier said than done, but many an entrepreneur has proven their critics wrong.

Americans are known for their willingness to take business risk and fail then pick themselves up and try again. Makes life exciting and worth living.

But that said, I'm not going to buy "American Made" just because it is, i'm going to buy "Quality Made" and if it happens to be a domestic manufacturer than all the better!

I personally lament the total lack of quality kitchen appliances and would gladly pay a premium for quality long lasting appliances.

I think that a toaster is a good place to start!

LULZ

Hey Friend. This topic is not about Musk. Start a new thread if you want to go down that rabbit hole.

This is about our government and it's abuse of power.

And the argument that disclosing the "number of requests made" should be a state secret is...? Oh right, it would expose the plenitude of the misbehavior by our government.

You make the legal argument for me with your quote... "(sic) One (Judge) for instance, said that the issue is that the Colorado law doesn't explicitly say that the "expedited process" for challenging someone's qualifications includes the 14th amendment. Another (Judge) says that without a criminal conviction, due process hasn't been followed."

Trump is not my guy and never was. So don't conflate my handing out a dose of legal reality with support for him.

Furthermore, don't confuse my refusal to go into the finer points of the legal argument on this thread with being uninformed on the topic.

Lastly, your hatred of the Big Orange Head has clouded your ability to think logically.

Jan 6th doesn't qualify as an insurrection. It was nothing more than a stupid attempt at protest.