calgrants

Just a guy with opinions

[MrBeast @MrBeast]

I’m gonna give 10 random people that repost this and follow me $25,000 for fun (the $250,000 my X video made)

I’ll pick the winners in 72 hours

[calgrants @cal_grants]

Think it could end up being maybe 35k, but unless everything has changed to casts and structural packs, there's no way this is going to be under 30k.

Even if Tesla could do that, I has no reason to do so. There is plenty of demand for the 3, but it just needs enough separation from the Y. It shouldn't ever hit under 30k. Ruins the brand and margins unnecessarily.

[calgrants @cal_grants]

@cav4lier @unusual_whales If you save your employees 2 hrs of commuting a day, maybe they'll work an extra 30 to 60 min here and there as needed. Still a win for the employees (especially if they have stock based compensation)

[calgrants @cal_grants]

@ScottAdamsSays Global warming is real, but the scale of the crisis is manufactured. Tesla is doing great work to help with climate change by reducing overall energy consumption and doing it in a non-invasive way by building better products. Others are trying to make you reduce quality of life

[calgrants @cal_grants]

@DirtyTesLa @DrKnowItAll16 Just had my own trade in go horribly wrong. Had a few items in the car I came with, and they took the car before I could remove anything. Then they took an hour to not even bring back the whole car, then had to go back to bring the car back.

They took the car before I even saw my new Model Y. Is this common practice? Pretty ridiculous that this is a thing.

@elonmusk

[calgrants @cal_grants]

Apple is a house of cards. It is barely holding things together by forcing itself as the middle man and stealing as much as possible as fees from in-app transactions. This is unsustainable in the long run, and should be seen as huge risk to the stock. Short to medium term, no issue

[calgrants @cal_grants]

@thehallnet @TeslaBoomerMama @garyblack00 Institutional investors have no idea what to do with disruption and exponential growth. It's like asking a person who adds and subtracts to do calculus.

Most people have zero idea how to do anything other than draw a line to show an approximation of a linear regression

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@ed_foe11 @TheNBACentral He's passable generally, but he shows surprisingly low ability in the post season where it matters. It's not usually a huge knock on a player like him, but because the Celtics did not have a high quality point guard to man those duties, he was exposed here repeatedly

[calgrants @cal_grants]

It's very simple: With other brands, 2-3 years in, you'll want a new one because it's breaking down, maintenance is annoying, and the software becomes unusable (even on day 1, the entertainment unit/navigation feels like a Windows Mobile device from the early 2000s). With a Tesla, you'll never HAVE to get a new one. It will get better with time across literally every feature from GPS to entertainment to performance, and the only reason you'll want a new one 5 to 10 years down the line is because the company innovates so quickly that you may want to actually upgrade, not replace a stale piece of junk with pretty much the same thing 3 years later just to repeat the cycle

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@RobertKennedyJr @RollingStone If it wasn't for RFK, I'd have just voted as a Republican this coming round. And I say that as a libertarian-leaning Democrat for the better part of my adulthood. Will not vote for any Dem anymore outside of RFK, whether it's federal, state, or local elections

[calgrants @cal_grants]

@mysteriouskat Well no, it's still merit-based and not at all redistribution. This is capitalism at its best, where you get paid proportional to what you generate.

Communism would be if your ad dollars went to a random guy because you just made more than him.

[calgrants @cal_grants]

@Head_Glitch @ElectrekCo It's just the equivalent of asking people what their next phone is going to be and not including Samsung and Apple phones.

If the caption had said "what 2023 EV are you most excited for", there would be no complaints.

[calgrants @cal_grants]

@CPAinNYC Spain or Italy over France. France is imploding. Germany is worth dealing with headaches for. Not France.

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@SFSportsAndTech @lexfridman @RobertKennedyJr Better to listen to a man with a broken voice than a man with a broken mind.

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@Jason My question is just why the US has the ability to instantly create cluster bombs when it has stated it to be a war crime for years? It just kept the manufacturing ability and capacity on standby?

[calgrants @cal_grants]

Community notes aren't automatically "the truth". If a critical mass of people believe in disinformation, misinformation, or malinformation from both sides, community notes will still mark certain statements to be the closest approximation of the truth.

You're basically arguing from authority only when it is convenient.

[calgrants @cal_grants]

@GavinNewsom Let's fix crime, overspending, and corruption in California before branching out into polarizing constitutional ammendments meant only to further your presidential ambitions.