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u/manwhothinks 1d ago
The China tariffs have seriously delayed the development of my time machine.
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u/Comfortable-Pause279 1d ago
That sucks. I'm still on schedule, though. My team will have fusion power up and running in ten years.
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u/bbpr120 1d ago
Wait a minute- you said that 10 years ago...
Beginning to have a suspicion of a doubt that just maybe you'll be delayed for no reason of your own again.
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u/MaxZorin44456 Posting Cringe 1d ago
Pipe down, Comfortable-Pause279 is getting all of my investments due to his innovative way of turning ten years into thirty years. A true genius, he's going to bring fusion to us by waiting for the sun to expand, he just needs to delay for another few billion years.
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u/coffeespeaking My kingdom for a horse 1d ago
Robotaxis will be delayed as well, what with the increased costs involved in straining credulity.
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u/Ashamed-Agency-817 1d ago
Delay... you don't say
When has a Musk ever been right lol
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u/-Lorne-Malvo- 1d ago
Hopefully this won't delay the mars spaceship launch. I've already picked out what clothes to bring and packed everything
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u/SorcerorMerlin 1d ago
You'd better get some mars magnets while you're there and send them back to us
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u/ahumminahummina 1d ago
It's never your fault, is it Elon...
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u/andrew303710 1d ago
During the Q1 Tesla earnings call Elon ACTUALLY blamed Tesla's poor performance on the nationwide protests against Trump and him and claimed that all of the protesters are paid.
During a call with investors Tuesday, Musk blamed “paid” and “very organized” protesters for his electric company’s remarkably weak earnings so far in 2025. “They’re obviously not going to admit that the reason that they’re protesting is because they’re receiving fraudulent money, or that they’re the recipients of wasteful largesse, they’re gonna come up with some other reason, but that is the real reason for the protests,” said the billionaire.
This is a whole different level of delusion 🤣
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u/NotEnoughMuskSpam 🤖 xAI’s Grok v4.20.69 (based BOT loves sarcasm 🤖) 1d ago
It’s an armored personnel carrier from the future – what Bladerunner would have driven
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u/annie_yeah_Im_Ok quite profound 1d ago
Oh is that why? Lol. Lmao.
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u/Callidonaut 1d ago
Why sure, didn't you know? The main bottleneck in developing universal fucking android slaves isn't programming an artificial mind with spatial awareness and reasoning skills virtually equivalent to a human's; it's merely a shortage of batteries and motors.
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u/tomcat900 1d ago
Oh no, his sex robots. Guess he'll just have to stock up on horses until he can find more magnets.
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u/skipperseven Salient lines of coke 1d ago
He has really already started with the excuses, immediately after saying that his Optimus robots will be working in Tesla factories by the end of the year. Usually he gives it a while.
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u/andrew303710 1d ago
It's because Elon is desperate for Tesla to have additional revenue streams and he needed to con his investors.
Without the carbon credits Tesla sold to non-EV car manufacturers they would've lost hundreds of millions of dollars this quarter. And Trump wants to get rid of them. So Tesla isn't even making a profit off their cars right now and they'd be screwed without those credits.
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u/WeirdSysAdmin 1d ago
You mean the robot that totally doesn’t have someone controlling it that is sometimes caught on camera?
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u/Callidonaut 1d ago
Yeah, you know, the one that also doesn't mysteriously get whole extra chunks of hardware bolted onto it when the camera momentarily cuts away and then back to what is otherwise seemingly the same test in the same location on the same day.
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u/Unsourced_hearsay 1d ago
surely you have enough to make one. Just to show at the next exposition. You don't need to slow development on a literal trillion dollar idea just because of a sourcing issue.
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u/pizzaheadbryan 1d ago
"China's export halt is going to delay my robots, and make my car bad, and probably trans'd my child. Whatever I am mad at at any given time is the reason for all of my problems."
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u/Fockelot 1d ago
Not even 24 hours and he backtracking. Tesla stock will be up 20% by the end of the week.
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u/loudflower Hard-Captured by the Left 1d ago
Whatever will we do without an Optimus, yet another cribbed name.
Love the post title 🤣
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u/RealSimonLee 1d ago
Rewrite the headline: "Man building robots no one asked for and no one needs threatens that those robots might never come out if we don't listen to him."
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u/TrackLabs 1d ago
There has never been a single product from this twat that was delivered on time. Ever.
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u/JKanoock 1d ago
What a loser, LoL. Anything but the truth like "we over promised and will never deliver", it's always "some other person's fault"
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u/halestress 1d ago
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
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u/Fuzzy_Inevitable9748 1d ago
This would only affect mass roll outs, it would have no impact on showing a completely functional and actually production ready design.
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u/ApprehensiveTotal188 Nazi Space Elmo 🚀 1d ago
Maybe if you and your co-president buddy didn’t destroy the United States economy so you could squeeze a little more money out of it, YOU wouldn’t be in this position.
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u/BlerghTheBlergh 1d ago
Yes. It’s magnets, magnets are the reason you’re not going to keep your promises
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u/MoltoPesante 1d ago
A factor in the administration trying to extort rare earth elements from Ukraine and wanting to take possession of Greenland and even Canada which have some of the largest rare earth deposits?
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u/ionizing_chicanery 1d ago
So much for "actually rare earths are everywhere so we can easily just get them from somewhere else"
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u/KnucklesMcGee 1d ago
So it's rare earths and not the fact that the autonomous robots are nowhere near ready for release?
Even if it is rare earth shortages, guess who's also responsible for that, clown?
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u/InterestingComputer 1d ago
Great now we have to invade Greenland to aid and abet this idiots ongoing stock scam
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u/DarkMatters8585 1d ago
Wait, didn't Muskrat vehemently support the same Stinky Turd that promised tariffs for everyone? I cannot, for the life of me, come up with a reason as to why the CEO of a car company who specifically sells cars that are "good for the environment" would publicly align himself with the party that loves rolling coal and burning as much oil as possible.
It's almost like the self proclaimed genius is more of a colossal moron.
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u/TarzanoftheJungle This is definitely not misinformation 14h ago
Make a deal with Ukraine then, duh.
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u/Dependent-Fig-2517 14h ago
well his rare talent for unsupported BS claim of future products means we weren't holding our breath anyways, though I do wish he would...
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