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The people selling based off of tweetstorms or breaking news are not mom and pop investors saving for retirement. They’re day traders trying to squeeze profit out of fluctuations.
It's also possible in the last few days people sold shares at the discounted price, who were saving for retirement and other things.
Eli Lilly pulls millions in Twitter advertising after fake account debacle
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I thought it would use a service similar to this from Canada Post [1]. Obviously would only work for Canada, but I'm sure many other countries have a similar service. People will balk at the in-person side of things, but it would create a safer service if your real identify was verified. For users, not wanting to use their real name, perhaps they could opt into a low tier service with a different badge. I know there…
Woah what is this thing? I've never been prompted to use it though, have you? in which context?
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This is just completely untrue for Tesla. Carbon credits make up less than 10 percent of Tesla's profit. They had 250 million in carbon credits last quarter and 3.3 billion profit.
The Federal government, and state governments, and various EU governments have given tax credits to buyers of Tesla cars since almost the beginning of Tesla. https://www.tesla.com/blog/what-you-need-know-about-federal-... https://www.tesla.com/support/incentives Tesla claims they pay up to 7500 for every Tesla (depending on the time bought), up to 30% + 400$ for every powerwall for example.
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This is just completely untrue for Tesla. Carbon credits make up less than 10 percent of Tesla's profit. They had 250 million in carbon credits last quarter and 3.3 billion profit.
Government incentives helped them get to their current level of profitability. Not just in the US either: in Norway, for instance, there's a huge environmental tax on gas-burning cars, but EVs are exempt since they don't burn fossil fuel, so Teslas end up being quite cheap by comparison and are therefore very popular there. You're being disingenuous by claiming carbon credits are the only form of government largesse…
Don't fault Tesla for that as if the government is propping them up. At this point very little of Tesla's money comes from.
You using Norway is disingenuous they have just over half the population of New Jersey. They are incredibly small. Meanwhile Tesla is #1 in all of Europe.
Re: Eli Lilly pulls millions in Twitter advertising after fake account debacle
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Rather confusing thing to try and pin on me. Could you elaborate on how I’ve caused you to think that?
Well you seemed to do everything but acknowledge that the Nintendoofus context was obvious parody, so what else are we to think?
Here’s a story anyone at home can confirm or not, before I posted the first comment, I tried to look it up to see if it was true: ‘did Elon musk institute a rule about impersonation’ had to reword a few times and scroll through many pages of news articles from all around the world repeating what I would call the same outrage clickbait from seemingly the same script, before I found a snopes article that actually answered the question and no he did not institute such a rule. That’s interesting and worth pointing out imo for the readers here that are interested in getting full stories, because as I’ve already said, that he instituted such a rule is widely reported and repeated, and is (afaik) incorrect.
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Well you seemed to do everything but acknowledge that the Nintendoofus context was obvious parody, so what else are we to think?
So let me get this straight: what I think about whether a picture of Mario being rude is a joke or not determines if Elon Musk instituted a rule about impersonation? That makes no sense. You also throw ideas around like me pretending to be an arbiter around, makes no sense either. Why do you need it to be about me? “What else are ‘we’ to think?” That’s arbiter talk buddy. Seems to me like you’re trying to drag me per…
No, what you think about the Nintendoofus context reflects upon your judgment. Which I pointed out was incredibly questionable seeing as how you are somehow incapable of putting the words together to acknowledge it is obvious parody.
That your next step is to write this whole ridiculous long response based upon a premise that isn't even in question is... telling.
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> It's really a bit surprising that noone told him that his tweets are worth anything only because people reading them can know they come from Elon not some guy who paid 8$ to call himself Elon on Twitter. I'm aware of no less than 3 formerly verified individuals who did tell him[1] before the feature launched, and he responded by banning them for impersonating him and instituting a "no lying about who you are" rule…
Musk didn’t institute that rule, the rule was already in place. Musk’s change was to ban without first giving a warning.
Elon lowered the bar for triggering the rule , and made the punishment harsher: insta-ban, from someone who was against perma-bans less than 20 days ago - that change to an old rule is so large,it might as well be a new rule.
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So let me get this straight: what I think about whether a picture of Mario being rude is a joke or not determines if Elon Musk instituted a rule about impersonation? That makes no sense. You also throw ideas around like me pretending to be an arbiter around, makes no sense either. Why do you need it to be about me? “What else are ‘we’ to think?” That’s arbiter talk buddy. Seems to me like you’re trying to drag me per…
>"So let me get this straight: what I think about whether a picture of Mario being rude is a joke or not determines if Elon Musk instituted a rule about impersonation? " No, what you think about the Nintendoofus context reflects upon your judgment. Which I pointed out was incredibly questionable seeing as how you are somehow incapable of putting the words together to acknowledge it is obvious parody. That your next s…
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#219Aah, yes, the company who lost billions in "value". And yet their stock is already back up 60% of the amount it dropped in a mere 3 days. I have to imagine they're doing this for the continued exposure. There's no such thing as bad press and all that.
> https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/... They also lose a lawsuit on the day of that tweet (and the drop was pretty typical for that day on the market) so I'm not really convinced their stock was altered much by a fake tweet.
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> Since Musk was a key player at PayPal That's mostly a legend. In actuality he took some part in some company that got bought by another company which eventually became PayPal.
Although, especially since he still made significant fortune from it, it still seems sufficient exposure to at least understand the concept of a minority of scammers & criminals who must be identified & shut off in real time (maybe even more exposure if he came up through two precursor companies). Heck, it is something that is already obvious to everyone here, and most of us were never employed in banking or payments…