• arrow74@lemmy.zip
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        2 days ago

        Unfortunately he paid the engineers to make this stunt for the sole purpose of increasing his wealth.

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            2 days ago

            Yeah, concluding that from 1 day’s worth of trading is brave. Last 5 years or so shows much more volatility but still generally upwards… I can’t be bothered to see what those general spikes align with.

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            2 days ago

            That makes me believe people are seeing though these bullshit marketing stunts but let’s wait until the market opens on Monday after all the video has been marinating over the weekend everywhere.

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      3 days ago

      but, like, not really?

      all that tech already existed, and is used elsewhere on actually cool things that do stuff. it just wasn’t applied to cars because there’s no practical purpose aside from trying to boost public sentiment and stock valuation.

      sure it was sort of neat, but seeing real machines work on those principles is even neater. it just looks less cool because, y’know, safety