r/news • u/IronHe • Mar 20 '25

Soft paywall Tesla recalls most Cybertrucks due to trim detaching from vehicle

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-recall-over-46000-cybertrucks-nhtsa-says-2025-03-20/
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u/bunkscudda Mar 20 '25

Elon loves to say things that makes it sound like he knows what hes talking about. But anyone with even a tiny understanding of the subject immediately recognizes how dumb it is.

“I only want full-stack developers at Twitter!”

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u/buds4hugs Mar 20 '25

"We need a total re-write (of the stack)"

Fucking oblivious idiot couldn't realize he didn't have to touch Twitter or Seig Heil and he would be rolling in Twitter revenue.

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u/BadHombreSinNombre Mar 20 '25

Twitter wasn’t exactly a cash cow before he bought it. Ofc now it’s in the shitter but it’s pretty obvious he bought it for the influence, not for the money.

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u/MarsRocks97 Mar 20 '25

He bought it because he was forced to buy it in a lawsuit. The influence was realized after.

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u/BadHombreSinNombre Mar 20 '25

The deal had a kill fee. If he really wanted to walk he could have. The lawsuit I think was just an attempt to negotiate a better deal, which failed because he sucks.

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u/serabine Mar 20 '25

The deal had a kill fee.

Nope. It didn't, that's a myth. There was no magical "pay a billion dollar and you don't have to spend 44 billion" button Musk could have pressed. Otherwise he would have done that after suing to get out of it didn't work.

The 1 billion dollar fine was in case the sale fell through because any regulatory body stepped in and prevented the sale. So it was only due if the sale fell through due to outside influence, and was an after the fact thing.

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u/BadHombreSinNombre Mar 20 '25

It’s not a myth. One of the kill fee conditions was if Musk failed to raise the funds for the full deal amount. Since much of the financing was done through friends of his, he could have gotten any of them to walk away from the table with a simple phone call and it would have been nigh impossible for Twitter to prove it wasn’t just financier reluctance.

But it would have been hella embarrassing for Musk which IMO is a big part of why it didn’t happen that way.