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You could put a blinking neon light ad all over the entire night sky, but if someone farted, you would still look around and ask "who farted?".

The Tesla is so stupid ugly that it attracts attention the same way.

Do you make engines?

Not all companies do that. It is possible to make dual class voting, where some shareholders shares have more votes than others. For instance Google, Meta, Ford, Warren.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/dualclassstock.asp

Yes, he'd still be a large shareholder

If they fire him, he would sell. This would tank the stock value.

They're damned if they do and damned if they don't.

Yes. They all bought into the same bubble. Even if they want to fire him as CEO, they're afraid of the loss in case Musk sells off his stock. The next board meeting will be interesting.

somehow manages to control the company with his minority stake.

.. maybe his job as CEO at Tesla has something to do with that?

I've read a lot of stories about it, because I'm a fan of the game and also used to dabble in assembly myself. His motivation isn't as crazy as it's often presented.

He used assembly because he had always programmed in assembly on a variety of hardware. He basically had every typical function documented or memorized from other projects. Just as any programmer can remember the statements in a language, he had blocks of assembly code that he could put together to do the same things. Like functions, right? If it's made right and you know what it does, then you don't even need to look at what's between the brackets.

At the time he wrote RCT, he simply couldn't be bothered to start a new collection of scripts in a different language.

I get your point, but it's bad wording in this case, because the cost of the bombs that kills people is not the full cost.

WTF is a voluntary search?

"Attention all flight passengers. This is ICE on the speaker. If you want to be searched, please raise your hand and we will get to you shortly."

I wonder how they search it. I doubt they manually read every fucking text message in all apps, so I guess they search for keywords or something.

So, let's say someone wanted to get someone in trouble, they could write them an email with some "incriminating" white text on white background and have them stopped by the thought police at the border.

It would be funny if they stopped some Canadian Mexican returning from Cancun and found shittalk about Trump on his phone.

Btw. Does anyone have Ted Cruz's email address?

The panels are glued on. The glue fails when the temperature changes.

I can't believe that this car is legal to drive in public.

The idea that you're suggesting is called union busting. It only works in USA and very few sectors in Europe where sector agreements are not mandatory by law.

I'd argue that it also doesn't work in USA, since the companies end up spending more money on avoiding an agreement than what they'd save on salaries. They also waste a lot of time and resources on the individual bargaining, which provides no value for neither the company or the employee.

If the employers pay people more to not join a union, the union might even say: "Mission achieved without a fight. See ya'll next time inflation catches up."