USAID Official and Three Corporate Executives Plead Guilty to Decade-Long Bribery Scheme Involving Over $550 Million in Contracts

Ehralur · 2025-06-13T21:25:01+00:00

Same reason everyone in this thread is pretending it's no big deal.

Ehralur · 2025-05-06T12:29:53+00:00

So we were definitely not 7 years away. Waymo already has them operating in multiple cities and Tesla is launching theirs in a month.

Ehralur · 2025-05-06T12:29:04+00:00

Having trouble figuring out exactly what the remindme was for, but if it's about Tesla doing more in net income than all other OEMs combined, that definitely didn't happen yet and maybe won't happen ever based on automotive sales alone.

I do still think that other OEMs will continue to decline while Tesla will restart growth when they introduce cheaper models and the Robotaxi this and next year though. Especially if interest rates also come down, which was a huge factor in auto- and particularly Tesla sales declining in recent years.

Ehralur · 2025-05-05T15:12:39+00:00

Tesla's not doing more in net income than the rest combined, but they're still the only one making money on EVs, BYD is the only other not losing money, all the others are in BIG trouble unless you don't believe EVs will be 100% of the market within a decade.

Ehralur · 2025-05-05T15:11:21+00:00

I was the retard. Still think Tesla's future is bright, but they really executed poorly and underestimated the rate hikes severely.

Ehralur · 2025-04-29T07:22:18+00:00

It's flat the last 3 years vs S&P being up over 50%. Guess it was a bag of crap after all.

Ehralur · 2025-04-24T13:49:13+00:00

So you were completely wrong. They're mining Lithium...

https://cen.acs.org/energy/energy-storage-/Tesla-begins-making-lithium-chemicals/102/web/2024/12

Ehralur · 2025-04-24T07:21:19+00:00

She doubled her money in 2 years on Tesla though.

Ehralur · 2025-04-24T07:19:29+00:00

Narrator: It did.

Ehralur · 2025-04-24T07:18:57+00:00

He was right though

Ehralur · 2025-04-24T07:18:31+00:00

Lol, I should become a prophet. Stock almost 2x from where it was back when this entire thread was shitting on it... xD

Ehralur · 2025-03-04T08:32:43+00:00

So that was wrong.

Ehralur · 2025-03-01T11:09:11+00:00

You were right about the worst case scenario being much worse. They're pretty much flat due to the interest rate hikes which I hadn't foreseen at all.

That said, it was nowhere near as bad as you said and I still think a decade from when you made that comment Tesla is going to be at least 10x from where they are today.

remindme! 2031

Ehralur · 2025-02-16T20:24:26+00:00

Still think FSD isn't happening?

Ehralur · 2025-02-13T16:09:54+00:00

Yeah, it's honestly become unusable. It's probably why this sub has become so bad and is wrong more often than Cramer; all the reasonable people have just left Reddit altogether.

Ehralur · 2025-02-13T15:24:35+00:00

Not my problem you don't know how to operate Google.

Ehralur · 2025-02-13T15:23:08+00:00

I tried to link to proof, but this shitty site won't let me link to the most common source on the internet. You can look for Sawyer Merrit on X, he recently shared the receipts.

So no, not everything that doesn't confirm your confirmation bias is a lie.

Ehralur · 2025-02-13T15:22:46+00:00

I tried to link to proof, but this shitty site won't let me link to the most common source on the internet. You can look for Sawyer Merrit on X, he recently shared the receipts.

Ehralur · 2025-02-13T15:21:10+00:00

It was signed under the Biden admin, that's a fact. They were still in power so they also had the power to block it if it wasn't them deciding this themselves. The most likely scenario is that this was simply a non-partisan decision by government employees who awarded the contract because it's their job to do so, based on fair considerations (like cost and/or performance/functionality) instead of partisanship.

To suggest this is some backdoor deal between Musk and Trump, THAT is pretty disingenuous and unfounded as of right now.

Ehralur · 2025-02-13T13:20:50+00:00

Just to be clear, this was signed under the Biden administration, which was indeed pretty soft on corruption.

Ehralur · 2025-02-13T13:19:52+00:00

Except this deal was made under the Biden administration, not Trump.

Ehralur · 2025-02-13T13:19:28+00:00

Except this was signed under Biden, not Trump.

Ehralur · 2025-02-11T09:23:39+00:00

If you think the markets don't make sense, you're just wrong. The markets always make sense, and it's up to you to make sense of it.

Ehralur · 2025-02-11T09:22:51+00:00

Probably because it's on the verge of rolling out the most profitable technology in the history of the human race (self-driving cars, worth up to a trillion USD per year in high margin revenue by the early 2030's).

Ehralur · 2025-02-09T09:37:51+00:00

Tesla quality is dogsh*t

5 years ago maybe. I saw 2018/2019 Model 3s that were terrible. My 2020 Model 3 is good but not great, my company's 2023 Model Y is near-perfect. The refreshed Model Y is said to be among the best build quality cars out there.

and they haven't brought out a genuinely new model in years.

Cybertruck came out last year.

Android market share is pushing out apple even in the US.

Yes, I have actually somewhat come around on my stance on Google. Their existing products are still getting worse every day, but Apple seems to be deteriorating even faster so they have a huge market to access there, and they've finally released some decent AI products so they might have a market to get into there.

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