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Tesla takes on $30B in credit as it approaches unprofitability

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  1. sidcool · · focus · HN ↗
    Electrek has gone completely biased with Tesla. They have done so bad, that even if this is true, I'd take it with a fistful of salt.
    1. zobzu · · focus · HN ↗

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      1. DaSHacka · · focus · HN ↗
        The funniest thing is how they used to eschew the complete opposite when elon was "funny memer man who's tony stark IRL"
        1. happymellon · · focus · HN ↗
          I don't know anyone who thought he was a funny memer man. And definitely cos-play Tony Stark was inside his head.

          It was always the other way around, he was okay because he pursued improving road technology doing the things we want but car manufacturers refused. He stopped doing that and was only a Nazi waving, drug addled, idiot and is treated as such.

          1. Marazan · · focus · HN ↗
            Elon being crushingly unfunny and being unable to accept that is about 40% of the reason we are in this mess.
          2. DaSHacka · · focus · HN ↗
            > I don't know anyone who thought he was a funny memer man. And definitely cos-play Tony Stark was inside his head.

            I mean, do you think his Iron Man 2 cameo was random? He was absolutely seen as the "IRL Tony Stark" by a decent number of people back in the day. I don't know what circles you have/had been around, but he was generally liked across the board (or at the very least, not widely hated) pre-twitter acquisition.

            1. happymellon · · focus · HN ↗
              > cos-play Tony Stark was inside his head

              > I mean, do you think his Iron Man 2 cameo was random?

              How did you make that jump? Billionaire wants to be viewed as Tony Stark, and then appears in an Iron Man film. He provided access to SpaceX for sets on the condition that he was in the film, much like Trump and Home Alone 2.

              > he was generally liked across the board

              I didn't say that. Before Twitter and his absolute detachment from reality, his backing of Tesla made him liked but his memes were never considered funny, and always cringe.

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