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Another starship launch failure yesterday. That’s four failures from eight launches.

No way that thing should be licensed to put humans into space.
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Biffer wrote: Fri Mar 07, 2025 8:21 am Another starship launch failure yesterday. That’s four failures from eight launches.

No way that thing should be licensed to put humans into space.
I’d be ok with him on board it if he wanted to go into space though :)
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Biffer wrote: Fri Mar 07, 2025 8:21 am Another starship launch failure yesterday. That’s four failures from eight launches.

No way that thing should be licensed to put humans into space.
Oh, and of the four ‘successful’ launches, two of them blew up on the way back down.
And are there two g’s in Bugger Off?
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Biffer wrote: Fri Mar 07, 2025 8:44 am
Biffer wrote: Fri Mar 07, 2025 8:21 am Another starship launch failure yesterday. That’s four failures from eight launches.

No way that thing should be licensed to put humans into space.
Oh, and of the four ‘successful’ launches, two of them blew up on the way back down.
Just as well the FAA has been gutted by DOGE then?
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dpedin wrote: Fri Mar 07, 2025 10:25 am
Biffer wrote: Fri Mar 07, 2025 8:44 am
Biffer wrote: Fri Mar 07, 2025 8:21 am Another starship launch failure yesterday. That’s four failures from eight launches.

No way that thing should be licensed to put humans into space.
Oh, and of the four ‘successful’ launches, two of them blew up on the way back down.
Just as well the FAA has been gutted by DOGE then?
They already bent over to let him launch this one - the investigation from the last explosion - where they rained debris down on inhabited islands - hasn't completed yet. And this one blew up at about the same time into launch, with similar symptoms.
And are there two g’s in Bugger Off?
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Biffer wrote: Fri Mar 07, 2025 8:44 am
Biffer wrote: Fri Mar 07, 2025 8:21 am Another starship launch failure yesterday. That’s four failures from eight launches.

No way that thing should be licensed to put humans into space.
Oh, and of the four ‘successful’ launches, two of them blew up on the way back down.
I think you mean a rapid unscheduled disassembly, not blew up.

It probably shouldn't but that does make me giggle like a child when I hear it.
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Slick wrote: Fri Mar 07, 2025 11:02 am
Biffer wrote: Fri Mar 07, 2025 8:44 am
Biffer wrote: Fri Mar 07, 2025 8:21 am Another starship launch failure yesterday. That’s four failures from eight launches.

No way that thing should be licensed to put humans into space.
Oh, and of the four ‘successful’ launches, two of them blew up on the way back down.
I think you mean a rapid unscheduled disassembly, not blew up.

It probably shouldn't but that does make me giggle like a child when I hear it.
If something's been disassembled, it can be reassembled.

I'm not prepared to buy into Musk's giggling up his sleeve bro culture by using those descriptions.
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Biffer wrote: Fri Mar 07, 2025 8:21 am Another starship launch failure yesterday. That’s four failures from eight launches.

No way that thing should be licensed to put humans into space.
People wealthy enough to afford a flight to space in a shuttle that blows up 50% of the time are wealthy enough to figure out the risks involved. I say let them?

No self respecting astronaut would take that risk anyway.
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I like neeps wrote: Fri Mar 07, 2025 3:46 pm
Biffer wrote: Fri Mar 07, 2025 8:21 am Another starship launch failure yesterday. That’s four failures from eight launches.

No way that thing should be licensed to put humans into space.
People wealthy enough to afford a flight to space in a shuttle that blows up 50% of the time are wealthy enough to figure out the risks involved. I say let them?

No self respecting astronaut would take that risk anyway.
Musk wants Starship to be the workhorse so anyone wanting to be an astronaut wouldn't have a choice. He'll look to gut NASA and pass most of its responsibilities around launch over to SpaceX
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Biffer wrote: Fri Mar 07, 2025 11:24 am
Slick wrote: Fri Mar 07, 2025 11:02 am
Biffer wrote: Fri Mar 07, 2025 8:44 am

Oh, and of the four ‘successful’ launches, two of them blew up on the way back down.
I think you mean a rapid unscheduled disassembly, not blew up.

It probably shouldn't but that does make me giggle like a child when I hear it.
If something's been disassembled, it can be reassembled.

I'm not prepared to buy into Musk's giggling up his sleeve bro culture by using those descriptions.
It's notable too that this POS rocket is supposed to have a working self-destruct, so that once it becomes obvious the launch has failed, they blow the fucking thing up at altitude, so it's turned into millions of little bits, instead of what has happened the last two failures where we could all see large pieces that could easily have taken down aircraft re-entering the atmosphere.
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Tesla sales down 76% in Germany in February despite a 30.8% rise in EV sales.
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dpedin wrote: Wed Feb 26, 2025 10:18 am
Marylandolorian wrote: Tue Feb 25, 2025 6:58 pm
dpedin wrote: Tue Feb 25, 2025 3:43 pm

For Europe and Canada it is a bit of a Ratners moment for baby racist Musky. Hopefully we will see a continued slump in sales of Tesla and continued increase in folk leaving the cesspit Twitter/X.
Tesla sales crumble 45% in the EU
This could be getting worse when the European companies start to undercut the prices of their older stock.

https://www.carscoops.com/2025/02/tesla ... plodes-37/
I am not an expert on the world of high finance, corporate financing, etc but increasing number of reports from folk who do understand that world suggesting that the crumbling of Tesla stock price, already hugely overvalued, could lead to significant financial problems for Muskybaby and once a trickle of money exiting his businesses starts then it doesn't take much for that to turn into a flood! Fingers crossed!
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Tesla is not in any sane world worth trading at 4x any of the other "Magnificent 7" stocks !

They're a car company; all the rest of the shit like robots or tunnels, or "solar city", or robotaxis is just another con.

All they will sell you or me is a car, or maybe a battery for your house, but the Traitor is in the process of gutting all the federal programs that support EV purchases, or renewable programs, or CV charging installs, which used to be the one bright spot on Teslas quarterly earnings.

The other program that Tesla benefited from was in trading credits they got from selling EVs to Auto makers that sold a mix of ICE & EVs, so if they didn't sell enough EVs, they met the program goals. This credit was so good for Tesla, that if it didn't exist, they would never, ever have had a Qtr in the black !!!
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Hedge funds are starting to short Tesla stock.
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Hellraiser wrote: Sun Mar 09, 2025 9:41 pm Hedge funds are starting to short Tesla stock.
A day after he sent the email to all those Federal workers asking them what they did in the last 5 days, one of his big booster analysts sent a tweet asking him what he did in the last 5 days for Tesla !!!

Also, one of the major teaching unions in the US sent a letter to their pension administrator asking them to divest all their holdings in Tesla last week due to the volatility of the stock & its CEO being MIA.

The thundering herd are finally smelling the smoke, & trying to work out what way to stampede.
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Hellraiser wrote: Sat Mar 08, 2025 2:45 pm Tesla sales down 76% in Germany in February despite a 30.8% rise in EV sales.
Proudly here in the UK I think they went up for the Jan-Feb period, perhaps down as a market share but overall sales were up. We'll have to wait and see if we continue to buck the trend emerging across Europe.

Germany is perhaps more sensitive in this area than many, even if normally their consumer purchasing wouldn't have the activism one sees in the UK, and certainly not in Vs the USA. So that swing in Germany might even be bigger given they'd normally just carry on.
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Bit surprised to hear that Cybertrucks aren't actually road legal in UK. Presume it is the same in other countries?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz0lldd30xlo
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Uncle fester wrote: Sun Mar 09, 2025 10:06 pm Bit surprised to hear that Cybertrucks aren't actually road legal in UK. Presume it is the same in other countries?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz0lldd30xlo
Yep, they are engineered so they could never get an NCAP rating as they are fundamentally too dangerous to other road users.

The one that surprised me was that Tesla still has idiots who pay £6k+ for FSD when it's illegal to ever use it in the UK or EU as I understand it, & Tesla pretty much can never make it legal, or ever hope to do so because of things like GDPR, & basic rules.

Was it PT Barnum who said, “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.” ?

Whoever said it might be proven wrong by Space Karen.
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Canadians are smelling a rat...

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fishfoodie wrote: Sun Mar 09, 2025 10:19 pm
Uncle fester wrote: Sun Mar 09, 2025 10:06 pm Bit surprised to hear that Cybertrucks aren't actually road legal in UK. Presume it is the same in other countries?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz0lldd30xlo
Yep, they are engineered so they could never get an NCAP rating as they are fundamentally too dangerous to other road users.

The one that surprised me was that Tesla still has idiots who pay £6k+ for FSD when it's illegal to ever use it in the UK or EU as I understand it, & Tesla pretty much can never make it legal, or ever hope to do so because of things like GDPR, & basic rules.

Was it PT Barnum who said, “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.” ?

Whoever said it might be proven wrong by Space Karen.
It was H.L. Mencken.
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Tesla stock down 12% so far today :shock:
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robmatic wrote: Mon Mar 10, 2025 4:47 pm Tesla stock down 12% so far today :shock:
Too many women and minorities buying and selling stocks :razz:
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Yanks protest at Tesla and smash a few windows. French protest at Tesla and burn the place to the ground. 😂
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Guy Smiley wrote: Sun Mar 09, 2025 10:21 pm Canadians are smelling a rat...


FFS. These twats are just legalised OCG's.
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Blackmac wrote: Mon Mar 10, 2025 5:52 pm Yanks protest at Tesla and smash a few windows. French protest at Tesla and burn the place to the ground. 😂
In 'Murica burning down a building is probably categorised as a terrorist attack, will invite Homeland Security to blow thru your front door and lock you up for 75 years. :shifty:
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robmatic wrote: Mon Mar 10, 2025 4:47 pm Tesla stock down 12% so far today :shock:
All the gains since the election have been wiped out as of today.
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Twitter's been shitter today

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Sandstorm wrote: Mon Mar 10, 2025 6:00 pm
Blackmac wrote: Mon Mar 10, 2025 5:52 pm Yanks protest at Tesla and smash a few windows. French protest at Tesla and burn the place to the ground. 😂
In 'Murica burning down a building is probably categorised as a terrorist attack, will invite Homeland Security to blow thru your front door and lock you up for 75 years. :shifty:
Very true.
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Sandstorm wrote: Mon Mar 10, 2025 6:00 pm
Blackmac wrote: Mon Mar 10, 2025 5:52 pm Yanks protest at Tesla and smash a few windows. French protest at Tesla and burn the place to the ground. 😂
In 'Murica burning down a building is probably categorised as a terrorist attack, will invite Homeland Security to blow thru your front door and lock you up for 75 years. :shifty:
While in the UK glueing your hands to a road, or using a megaphone outside Parliament is what's categorised as a terrorist attack
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fishfoodie wrote: Mon Mar 10, 2025 6:55 pm
Sandstorm wrote: Mon Mar 10, 2025 6:00 pm
Blackmac wrote: Mon Mar 10, 2025 5:52 pm Yanks protest at Tesla and smash a few windows. French protest at Tesla and burn the place to the ground. 😂
In 'Murica burning down a building is probably categorised as a terrorist attack, will invite Homeland Security to blow thru your front door and lock you up for 75 years. :shifty:
While in the UK glueing your hands to a road, or using a megaphone outside Parliament is what's categorised as a terrorist attack
The world is fucked.
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Still dropping as a trend

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Xitter hacked and taken down for four times today. Anonymous claimed at least one of them.
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sockwithaticket wrote: Mon Mar 10, 2025 9:26 pm Xitter hacked and taken down for four times today. Anonymous claimed at least one of them.
Shame he sacked all those folks who made the platform secure & robust, but I'm sure as the great coder he is he'll be able to fix it before the weekend ........
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tabascoboy wrote: Mon Mar 10, 2025 8:45 pm Still dropping as a trend

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Now down -17% and still descending in after hours .... this might just be the end of the biggest Ponzi scheme of all, & unfortunately the end of millions of Americans & who knows how many millions others around the worlds hopes of a financially secure retirement !
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US markets generally are taking a hit.
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The prick's fuckin' trying to pin the Twitter hacks on Ukraine even though two separate groups who've nothing to do with Ukraine have claimed credit for different hacks.

Appropos of nothing...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... ay-reports
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How the hell do consumers "illegally" boycott something...?

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tabascoboy wrote: Tue Mar 11, 2025 10:45 am How the hell do consumers "illegally" boycott something...?

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Not to mention the number of things he's encouraged people to boycott over the last few years.
And are there two g’s in Bugger Off?
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sockwithaticket wrote: Tue Mar 11, 2025 1:47 am The prick's fuckin' trying to pin the Twitter hacks on Ukraine even though two separate groups who've nothing to do with Ukraine have claimed credit for different hacks.

Appropos of nothing...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... ay-reports
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tabascoboy wrote: Tue Mar 11, 2025 10:45 am How the hell do consumers "illegally" boycott something...?

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That comes over as quite panicky
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