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Endit. You know who you are. Now.

Not only are Mods working overtime and tag-teaming in extracting useless, garbage, and sometimes bizarrely OffTopic posts from this thread but… I have found myself with needing eye surgery to roll the eyeballs around from the back of my skull from the numbingly repetitive, unhelpful and...

You’re huggingly sweet.

2. Anyone posting that I or any other thread Moderator may be a troll is not going to be silenced or otherwise throttled, but he goddamned very well may be finding himself at the pointy end of a libel suit. That is beyond reprehensible.

1. Regarding the “$5 fee to gain the right to post” suggestion: I would never charge money for someone to exercise the right to post anything. But….what about: “Gee, nice post you just put out there. Be a shame if you thought having it stay up is worth more than one share of TSLA, delivered...

@Maarten’s idea can work on this platform. Yours, which I had many years back, cannot, unfortunately.

How would we (1) expand permitted contributors to the Exalted Few?, including those who Maarten overlooked? I always have maintained this thread is not a democracy. A meritocracy, though? Hmmm. By the way, @unk45 most certainly would be one of them.

I wonder whether Tesla can - and if it could, would it be an appropriate act - do as SpaceX does with Starlinks and geofence-disable any Teslas brought into Russia in contravention to sanctions?

I agree that few - in fact, no one - can amass all information from prime sources. Knowing how and where to collect, review and synthesize material, however - if that is not one of the facets of creation that absolutely defines what it is to be human, then what is? And if this is not veering...

I have very clearly stated my position on the Ignore function. Are you ignoring that, or ignorant of it? I have zero sympathy for any who use that crutch.

My wife and I agreed wholeheartedly that this comment encapsulates perfectly where the danger to intellect, to society and to humanity itself comes in. It is one thing to let the latest development in labor - autonomous and animatronic robots - perform heretofore human functions, although...

I strongly agree that the words lie/lied/lying are inappropriate in the case that @scaesare and @DarkandStormy currently are arguing. I ALSO am using this situation to buttress my roundly blackthumbed position of about two weeks back that it was inappropriate to so label Reuters for its coverage...

Economically, there is zero difference between a subsidy and a non-costed externality.

It doesn’t matter. All of that commentary is becoming far too close to Solely Politics for it to continue here. Done.

I’m having a difficult time taking seriously a company whose name’s first five letters spell “Felon”.

In that it is not “…in the continent (of Africa)”, hard logic says it doesn’t count. Summary: Imperialism regarding neighbors ≠ Imperialism elsewhere. Summary’s Summary: Some Imperialism is less unequal than others. Summary’s Summary’s Summary: 1984 was not a one-off thing.

You forgot my ACH Inbox number

TMC has been set up in such a way that the black thumb can not be waved away by any Mod. Were it to be used in abstemious fashion then it, like any tool, might have some value. Unfortunately, its overuse, more so by a few less than gruntled sorts but quite a bit by many, is at least as...

Had you been able to average the nigh-impossible 80mph (Hello, Wickenburg PD!) for that 130 mile stretch, you would have saved a blessèd 14m 40s. And yes: my wife is from Wickenburg and our winter house was right on that road. Those who treat it as an Interstate have nothing but my ire.

That approach remains, to me, not conversation or discussion, but a popularity/non-popularity poll. AND FURTHERMORE, this entire thread incontrovertibly would be so blessedly better off if everyone read up to the most recent post before contributing anything. One of the most tiresome features...

That would indeed be strange. People who want thoughtful discussion DISCUSS; they don’t BlackThumb and run away.

Ask and ye shall receive: Re-instituting two long-neglected, but never repealed, policies: Participants who state that they have placed others on Ignore; Participants who campaign in any fashion for others to place others on Ignore; Participants who state indirect “I’ve Ignored” comments...

You are assuming that, for example if the dropped headcount of 500 in the SpC team statement is true, at least some fraction will not be replaced?

Talk of Ukraine’s draft dredged up this from the Oligocene and my days as a tadpole. Certainly the earback-dry crowd will remember this, even though I’ve changed the lyrics enough to protect the innocent…and perhaps me from buck-nekkid plagiarism*. Besides, the words and meter are so beautifully...

Ah - all on the same page now, I’d say.

Preprosterous!

Not the best on your CV is “Preprototype Driver”

I didn’t think there was much debate that Vikings or pre-Viking traders founded Kyiv and Rus itself? That by no means determines the dominant genotypes emanate from there, of course.

Let's see whether it does better, worse or the same as a human with what one encounters on the Denali Highway:

I find myself in the amusing position of defending an avowed short-seller. Anyone who has spent any time reading my non-Mod, non-wordplay, non-family posts knows I consider short selling antithetical to the capital markets; that the SEC has acted unforgivably in formally declaring short sellers...

Ten minutes before the bell, and volume is at 6.99MM. The last number I recall from yesterday’s aftermarket was a whopping 62MM shares, but did anyone catch the final number? It all adds up to a reasonably significant repositioning; of course short-covering is going to have been the dominant...

Moderator note: Less than half a day after the single most serious action I will undertake: locking down the thread for a spell so all can cool down AND ensure Moderator posts are followed, @raffiniert decided snarkiness and personal attacks were more important than getting banned. I said...

Me, @ggr AND @Right_Said_Fred all in the same car? It, and this thread, would crash for sure. Besides, I don’t understand your suggestion of using a seat with me but I’m not sure I like its sound.

Thank you. I just witnessed for the first time ever our entire extended family, at dinner, simultaneously choke and guffaw. You’re not wholly to blame: I’ll take 50% of that by being the one to recite to them your comment.

The thread is now open.

NOTE TO ALL: I am this close to shutting the thread for an undetermined amount of time, so that ALL have the opportunity to calm down. In a need to catch up after two days, I just had to wade through the most unproductive, vituperative, repetitive, boring and just plain shameful set of posts I...

Get off your high semantic horse. This is supremely tiresome, not the least for its picayunity.

I must have been looking in all the wrong places. Perhaps someone here knows the answer and can tell me if I'm wrong or correct. I do have the advantage here: not just decades of experience first somewhat as an insider, then as a very fascinated outsider, of American foreign policy...AND with a...

One poster just got slammed for posting no comments, just one meme. New - but really not - policy. Not unexpected from someone whose earbacks dried many moons ago, and whose principal reason for having created this thread was to have a Roundtable Discussion. NO MORE POSTS that consist...

Well, one COULD assert the proximity between "Perpetual" and "Investors" settles any such debate. Of course, to know the answer unequivocally, it would be necessary to ask the thread's owner/originator. Anybody seen him?

NIMBY I mean, Not In My Thread

I am amused by the following; I have no idea if others are: My reaction to the news today that Tesla appears ready to re-submit to shareholders Mr Musk’s 2018 incentive plan was: THIS time I very well might vote for it. I opposed it the first time because (1) my bullishness regarding the...

Housekeeping: Too many of you (even one is too many but it’s quite a bit more than that) have gotten sloppy with your overabundant use of abbreviations. YOUR microseconds of saved time absolutely do not balance out against the time-wasting collective hours of others’ musings as to what it is...

There is too much occurring today to focus on everything but, irrespective of the absolute merits of these numbers, I wish all would bear the following in mind. Just file it away to keep a perspective: Some number of years decades ago, either the CEO or CFO at Pfizer, then with Merck far and...

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A fun day down south today….back in Alaska in a bit😁

1. Yes. I think I’d have been better to have written something like “…then why on earth would they shut the line…” in order to emphasize that I was rebutting those who are saying it was shut. Thank you. 2. Yes. That is why I wrote “screws (etc.)”. I will say it is mysterious that issues with...

Hmmm. Great points. If only I could start a thread where everyone had to enter only via longhand. Or verbally. That would be wonderful! Oops: this refers to @unk45’s (who else?) rejoinder-rejoinder. You who are interested: go find it yourself. I’m busy. 😁

Why would merely “screwing on” (etc) accelerator pedals precipitate the entire shutdown of a production line? Has the latter not occurred, or are there other forces at play?