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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2025 10:30:45 JST Paul Cantrell

   - Tesla Q1 profits down •71%• YoY
   - Earnings per share of $0.27 lower than analyst expectations of $0.41
   - Without carbon credits, company would have posted an operating loss

   Bad as all that sounds for Tesla, keep in mind that this company regularly publishes falsified data. It hacked its odometers to push customers out of warranty. It wildly exagerrated Cybertruck orders. It almost certainly published fraudulent sales figures in Canada to get in on an expiring gov benefit.

   I’m assuming this dismal quarterly earning report isn’t reality, but is the rosiest lie they could manage to sell to investors. The reality is probably even worse.

   https://gizmodo.com/elon-sounds-extremely-depressed-after-tesla-profits-plunge-71-2000593013
   #TeslaTakedown

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2025 10:43:28 JST Paul Cantrell

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     I would especially be suspicious of the figures that drive those carbon credits. They’re the only thing that’s keeping the company profitable, maybe the only thing keeping it afloat in the near-to-medium term. Do I believe that this unscrupulous, data-faking company suddenly became honest for this “you report numbers and we give you money” scheme on which its existence depends? No, no, I do not.

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     Donnie (macbraughton@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2025 10:51:41 JST Donnie

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     @inthehands it makes more and more sense why he would align with Trump, he’s such a massive fraud that this was his only chance of getting away with it

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2025 10:53:33 JST Paul Cantrell

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     Am I putting my life savings into shorting Tesla? No, no I am not. As the old saying goes, the market can stay irrational a lot longer than you can stay solvent.

     But am I •buying• Tesla stock? No, no I am not. Even without its owner being a Nazi, just on the fundamentals, this is not a company whose future I’d bet on.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2025 11:31:50 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Nazo

     @nazokiyoubinbou

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     Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2025 11:31:51 JST Nazo

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     @inthehands

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2025 11:37:46 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Nazo

     @nazokiyoubinbou
     No, because the tardigrade is one of the few living creatures that can survive long-term in a Tesla

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     Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2025 11:37:47 JST Nazo

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     @inthehands Looks like we had to go even smaller to find anything willing to play a sad tune for them.

     But can a tardigrade shed even a single tear for Tesla?

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2025 11:55:28 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • T Alex Beamish

     @talexb
     It’s ridiculous. The bull story for the stock is that Musk is a supergenius who’s going to make the company make infinite money at some indeterminate point in the future with self-driving cars and magical robot farts.

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     T Alex Beamish (talexb@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2025 11:55:29 JST T Alex Beamish

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     @inthehands Also, a P/E of 130+ seems somewhat on the high side. Are there any other stocks in the segment that high?

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2025 12:03:31 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Marko Vujnovic

     @dawngreeter
     Were the markets still open for the call?

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     Marko Vujnovic (dawngreeter@dice.camp)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2025 12:03:32 JST Marko Vujnovic

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     @inthehands Yet the stock ticked up after the earnings call. It's a cult.

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     Jenniferplusplus (jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2025 13:47:07 JST Jenniferplusplus

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     @inthehands His only real skill has always been securities fraud

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     Ian Z (soviut@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2025 14:15:46 JST Ian Z

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     @inthehands May this sinking ship be composed entirely of rats.

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     Ben Ford :grinchsmile: (binford2k@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2025 15:02:58 JST Ben Ford :grinchsmile:

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     @inthehands so without the “government welfare” that Elon is trying to kill, Tesla is operating at a loss?

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 24-Apr-2025 04:40:27 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Jenniferplusplus

     @jenniferplusplus
     Indeed. It is, alas, a very real and lucrative skill.

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     Nicole Parsons (npars01@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 24-Apr-2025 04:42:20 JST Nicole Parsons

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     @inthehands

     Musk has become bored with Tesla. His main investors, the fossil fuel investors, want to end all EV's anyway.

     https://www.americanbanker.com/news/peter-thiel-backed-palantir-plots-ai-tech-for-banks

     According to Kara Swisher & Scott Galloway, they suspect that the next mirage that Musk wishcasts will be a pivot to AI-enabled surveillance state IT infrastructure.
     https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/12/larry_ellison_wants_all_data/

     That's where the next big cash cow will be launched.

     Leveraged by a merger of SpaceX, X, xAI, & Tesla.
     https://youtu.be/r4N7BKtgJHo?si=j_CBnYTzUHyLb7hU

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     Canovitch (canovitch@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 24-Apr-2025 04:42:52 JST Canovitch

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     @inthehands lying about quarterly results has serious legal consequences. Should we expect jail sentences?

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 24-Apr-2025 04:42:52 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Canovitch

     @Canovitch
     Sure, because that’s totally what happens to people in the Trump admin who do illegal things

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 24-Apr-2025 04:46:43 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • T Alex Beamish

     @rgulick @talexb
     The sad truth of the matter is that he’s a talented con artist, and with confidence schemes as with pyramid schemes, there •is• money to be made if you get in and get out at the right times.

     The best hope for tanking Tesla once and for all is to convince enough people that it’s time to get out.

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     Ray Gulick, he/him/wtf 🇺🇦 ❌👑 (rgulick@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 24-Apr-2025 04:46:45 JST Ray Gulick, he/him/wtf 🇺🇦 ❌👑

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     • T Alex Beamish

     @inthehands

     Betting on anything that depends on Elon's 'genius' is a sure way to kiss your money goodbye.

     @talexb

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 24-Apr-2025 04:48:50 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Parade du Grotesque 💀
     • Ben Ford :grinchsmile:

     @ParadeGrotesque @binford2k
     Whole lot of people think they’re seeing government downsizing when they’re really seeing regulatory capture.

     Whole lot more know exactly what they’re seeing and are betting on the winner.

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     Parade du Grotesque 💀 (paradegrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 24-Apr-2025 04:48:51 JST Parade du Grotesque 💀

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     • Ben Ford :grinchsmile:

     @binford2k @inthehands

     That Elon is trying to kill... For everybody else except his own companies, of course.

     Of course.