Tesla didn’t so much pioneer the modern electric car as it did the modern electric car grift.
Posted by freedomforall 1 year, 7 months ago to Government
Excerpt:
"It worked like this:
The people who constitute the federal government decreed that businesses that earn money via free exchange would either have to waste money complying with federal regulations obliging them to reduce their “emissions” of the dread inert gas carbon dioxide – as by manufacturing “zero emissions” EVs themselves – or pay Tesla for credits that could then be credited against their own “emissions” for not manufacturing EVs. Tesla being given credit for producing cars that don’t “emit” the dread inert gas carbon dioxide at the tailpipe but never mind the “emissions” emitted in the course of making them – and powering them.
In this way, Tesla got the government to finance its business while at the same time hobbling rival businesses. GM, Ford, Stellantis (the combine that owns Dodge, Chrysler, Jeep and Ram trucks) spent money financing Tesla, via the carbon credits they were essentially forced to buy from Tesla.
It’s the crony capitalist analog of the wasp that stings – and paralyzes its prey and then lays its egg on the victim, which remains alive while the baby wasp gradually consumes it, alive."
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If we participate, if we do not protest, if we do business buying the products that can't compete in a free market and accept the crumbs that government offers for our participation in the conspiracy, we are consenting to enslavement of our children and grandchildren for their entire lives.
Now is the time to STRIKE back against these cronies of government.
Bankrupt these b@$t@rd$ while we still can survive.
"It worked like this:
The people who constitute the federal government decreed that businesses that earn money via free exchange would either have to waste money complying with federal regulations obliging them to reduce their “emissions” of the dread inert gas carbon dioxide – as by manufacturing “zero emissions” EVs themselves – or pay Tesla for credits that could then be credited against their own “emissions” for not manufacturing EVs. Tesla being given credit for producing cars that don’t “emit” the dread inert gas carbon dioxide at the tailpipe but never mind the “emissions” emitted in the course of making them – and powering them.
In this way, Tesla got the government to finance its business while at the same time hobbling rival businesses. GM, Ford, Stellantis (the combine that owns Dodge, Chrysler, Jeep and Ram trucks) spent money financing Tesla, via the carbon credits they were essentially forced to buy from Tesla.
It’s the crony capitalist analog of the wasp that stings – and paralyzes its prey and then lays its egg on the victim, which remains alive while the baby wasp gradually consumes it, alive."
------------------------------------------------
If we participate, if we do not protest, if we do business buying the products that can't compete in a free market and accept the crumbs that government offers for our participation in the conspiracy, we are consenting to enslavement of our children and grandchildren for their entire lives.
Now is the time to STRIKE back against these cronies of government.
Bankrupt these b@$t@rd$ while we still can survive.
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Killing someone is normally considered wrong; yet, there are times that it is acceptable (self defense) or carried out by the state (Capitol Punishment) or even encouraged (war).
What Elon has done with Tesla, is legal and moral. You can argue over whether or not it is right.
Everyone who has lost freedom to the Deep State is poorer.
Accepting the bribes of the state by Tesla is still looting.
They need not have invented looting to participate.
From an old Star Trek episode, "Landrue, guide us!"
I'm more bothered by Musk's Solar City, where he both had a more direct connection to starting the grift and played a shell game with Tesla funds to bail out Solar City when its subsidies ran out. I suppose this is a cautionary tale, the moral being never to invest in the companies of someone so rich it is effectively impossible to sue him when he screws his shareholders.
Maybe I'm wrong. Let's discuss this more.
But he is working towards what he believes is his best interest.
As you point out, Stalin and Hitler thought the same. The question is whether or not Reality agrees. And it would only agree if it were subject to the whims of man...
Heck unless one has taken an oath to support and defend the Constitution, much as military members or elected officials do, I don't believe there is any inherent duty to defend the constitution.
I don't even think that stuff make sense. Shouldn't the carbon credits work by having people who extract carbon get paid by those who put it out? As far as I know Tesla isn't extracting carbon.
It is anything but lightweight. At a minimum, you have to establish ALL of the following:
1) Method for determining size/scope of a given swarm.
2) Method for adding a vehicle to a given swarm.
3) Method for determining how a swarm member is promoted to boss/controller.
4) Method for determining how a swarm member is demoted.
5) Method for removing a vehicle from a given swarm
6) Method for communicating between swarms to determine co-membership/exclusivity ***
7) Method for determining events necessary to broadcast to swarm
8) Method for transmitting event information to swarm (bandwidth-intensive)
9) Method for tracking ALL operations of EVERY vehicle in a given swarm
10) Method for sharing ALL tracking information with every member of a swarm
11) Method for continuous polling of swarm members
12) Error handling of continuous polling for swarm members
13) Broadcast networking technical details such as range/power, frequency, etc.
14) Broadcast networking band plan based on area to prevent conflicts
Some of those items are less intensive than others, but overall, that's a HUGE amount of data you've got constantly flying around plugging up the airwaves. That's a TREMENDOUS amount of EM being generated and keeping it sorted and manageable (not to mention safe for the human occupants).
It's a lot bigger project than first glance suggests.
Twitter is a completely different issue which is yet to play out.
Elon may yet prove to have some good principles, but his actions at Tesla
are in conflict with such.
If his looting acts at Tesla are praised he will never learn and never be
comparable to D'Anconia.
Except that AI now plays Chess, Go, and most other strategy games better than humans. And AI Fighter Pilots are already winning, and can take the equipment beyond human capabilities.
They will never be "fool proof" because "fools are too ingenious!" LOL... That's why they will self-insure.
The networking for swarm drones is fairly light weight, since it doesn't communicate backwards to home base. It's a local area network. Combined with absolute sensors. They can even detect a single vehicle in the midst that is not able to participate.
The interesting part with cars will be one one car can be at the BACK of one swarm, and the HEAD of another.
I do believe the singularity will come in my lifetime. I was lucky enough to be alive when Kasparov MISSED the date when computers would crush him...
With ALL of the training videos. The ability to have AI Generate more training videos, of ever increasing complexity.
The inherent destruction of value will be startling.
In Swarm mode... Very few body shops are needed. All car insurance companies will end up out of business. (besides nobody can afford the cars).
I just watched an old buck mechanic who spelled it out clearly. He is done fixing modern cars. Too much to go wrong. He finding cars that would look totally in place on a used car lot but are in a salvage yard because what is wrong with it exceeded cars value. This is only going to get worse as time goes on. Older repairable cars are going to increase in demand for all the obvious reasons. Think of what happened in Cuba and you’ll see the picture
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