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It looks like the memecoin was created by a previous owner who hasn't been involved with r/buttcoin for a decade. Who still held Twittter's @buttcoin and buttcoinfoundation.org.

The r/buttcoin mods don't seem to particularly care wether that person got hacked or actually started a meme coin.
January 12, 2026 at 2:22 PM
I vaguely remember Elon's first actions as CEO included canceling practically all vendor contracts

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
January 10, 2026 at 1:32 AM
> “The car is to Tesla what the book was to Amazon,” Adam Jonas, an analyst with Morgan Stanley, said this summer. “Tesla used cars as a laboratory to get good at other things.”

I tend to give people the benefit of a doubt, esp. when it comes to single quotes w/ little context, but what the f
January 3, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Also, for anyone smart enough to care, there is an implied "Elon and xAI refuse to accept responsibility" here, in the space of just 4 letters.
January 3, 2026 at 1:15 AM
I got an email "resubscribe to starlink before Dec 24th and get a full month free", so they are at least somewhat concerned about the sub numbers...
December 16, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Ugh did I miss waterbeds? How were they
December 16, 2025 at 3:10 AM
I vaguely remember ecosia advertising themselves as a "green alternative" to Google, at a time where G was running on 100% renewables; yet they sourced search results from Bing which was running on fossil.

Ecosia has always been a bit off.
December 15, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Two now. He said "three weeks" one week ago.
December 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Robots! Taxis! Pickleball! Anything but their core business model
December 13, 2025 at 6:24 PM
> It was a true engineering collaboration" [...] "Tesla's design group and our R&D team spent more than a year trading data, refining geometry, and stress-testing prototypes."

I'm sure investors are happy that this is what the R&D + Design team are putting resources in
December 13, 2025 at 6:24 PM
If fewer people are building cars within Tesla, then more people can focus on building Optimus or self driving chips. That's where the real money is! This is great! (/s)
December 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
TBC not saying this is a good idea, I don't think it is, I was just curious what kind of arguments the bullish people are hanging on to.
December 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
(although we'd still be talking about absolutely giant, heavy radiators of course, that you'd need to lift)

Radiation shielding is anoter thing that doesn't seem to be that required anymore, apparently the ISS runs off-the-shelf HP servers these days.
December 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
So I spent a bit googling around here. It looks like the (steelman) argument for cooling is that the radation heat dissipation capacity is Area * BoltzmanConstant * (Temperature ** 4), and you can run servers much hotter (~80C) than astronouts, reducing the need for surface area somewhat.
December 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Do they even pretend to have a solution for this? Like, what's the steelman argument here even?
December 11, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Good christians all around
December 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
AI is the new Google+
November 25, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I guess that means they'll announce layoffs soon
November 17, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I'd imagine the AAPL engineers working with Tesla on this are very excited; and will work extra hours to make this bug-free and successful
November 13, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Thank you! Just a quick follow up here if you allow me -- in this specific case, were you/FIRE worried about this setting a "bad precedent" at all or was that not less of a concern?

(My home country doesn't use case law that much, so I'm wondering how that works)
November 7, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Do you see this specific case/precendent risky enough to have long-reaching consequences (and if so, is it possible to sketch how those could look like)?
November 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Hi Ari,

General question from an immigrant still learning the US legal system ---

I was wondering how FIRE choses which cases to engage with. In this specific case, if you don't support the content of the speech, why not let this one slide and engage with other ones instead? (1/2)
November 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Jesus did that guy get any sleep in the last few days? He sounds like he's barely there
October 22, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I don't think this is completely bad, strategically? By keeping him in (for now), they can criticize him publicly but still have some leverage against Elon going nuclear publicly in response, as he did with other orgs (media matters for example)
October 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM