The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

Goofyernmost

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Yeah, there's no way that I would want to work for any of his companies. He's one of those people who thinks people should be in the office doing their jobs, which is all I need to know about him. At the ripe old age of 27, I'm past the point in my career where I come into an office everyday. 🙃 That alone tells me never ever go to work for Tesla, Twitter, or SpaceX.

As far as the board of directors goes, I wouldn't expect a board of directors in a private company. A board of directors is there to serve the interests of shareholders. Twitter only has one shareholder now that they're private, so the board isn't needed. Major higher ups in the company going isn't unexpected either.
If he can't find away to generate more revenue he will probably have to go public, but then he will have his own "brand" of BoD. He has already attempted to get the big users, that are celebrity status, like AOC and entertainment stars to pay a $20.00 subscription to use Twitter. After AOC picked him apart for it, he dropped it to $8.00 and still was laughed at. He's suppose to be this high power business man and yet he paid hundreds of billions of dollars for something that wasn't worth that much and he didn't even have a solid plan in place to fix the money hemorrhaging that it is now presenting. The guy is a little, rich kid that always got his way and like others think that the merry go round never stops. He is an idea man and not afraid to push the envelope, but what he pushes isn't always what is needed. I read somewhere that even the Tesla cars are declining in popularity because of problems with quality and maintenance costs. I don't know if that is true, but I read it someplace, can't remember where.
 

StarWarsGirl

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In the Parks
No
If he can't find away to generate more revenue he will probably have to go public, but then he will have his own "brand" of BoD. He has already attempted to get the big users, that are celebrity status, like AOC and entertainment stars to pay a $20.00 subscription to use Twitter. After AOC picked him apart for it, he dropped it to $8.00 and still was laughed at. He's suppose to be this high power business man and yet he paid hundreds of billions of dollars for something that wasn't worth that much and he didn't even have a solid plan in place to fix the money hemorrhaging that it is now presenting. The guy is a little, rich kid that always got his way and like others think that the merry go round never stops. He is an idea man and not afraid to push the envelope, but what he pushes isn't always what is needed. I read somewhere that even the Tesla cars are declining in popularity because of problems with quality and maintenance costs. I don't know if that is true, but I read it someplace, can't remember where.
Well, it's not just about increasing revenue (though every company wants to steadily increase their revenue). A quick look at their financial statements shows that their costs are out of control, particularly their research and development costs. Their last year of reporting was fy2021, and the last year that they were profitable was FY2019. Between 2019 and 2022, their revenue has increased from $3 billion to $5 billion, but their research and development costs have doubled in that time. They also had a $20 million SG&A increase between 2019 and 2020.

Which is also why jobs at Twitter are probably going to get cut because you can't run a company on inflated expenses unfortunately. Although they operate in a high COL area, so if they consolidated some of their office buildings and allowed more remote work, that would help, but we all know how that will go...
 

donaldtoo

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There is a lot of inconsistency's in the motor vehicle operations world. For example, to drive large "commercial" vehicles you have to take a variety of written tests depending on what you are planning on driving and a road test with a vehicle of the type you are aiming to drive (Different classes of vehicles, standard trucks, Semi's or buses),require a Commercial Drivers License (CDL). Yet you can go out and buy a monster Motor Home and legally drive it even if you never drove anything bigger then a VW Beetle. Everytime I see one of those coming toward me all I can do is hope that this isn't the first time they have been behind the wheel.

I’ve never needed a CDL, but, years ago when Carolyn worked at the day care center she needed one to drive their small busses on field trips.
And, those busses were considerably smaller than some of these modern day behemoth motor homes.
Those things are the size of large tour busses (or larger), and they’re always towing an auxiliary vehicle.
 

donaldtoo

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My experience here has been when I was growing up not necessary to go to a formal driving school. I did why back in 1965 after I already had my license. The benefit was for lower insurance rates. Parents usually did the drivers training. Later, when my kids were old enough I taught them how to drive, but the schools were just starting to offer Drivers Ed. and most kids took it. Here in NC when my grandchildren were learning there was a requirement that a certain number of hours on the road, with a licensed adult before one could get the first restricted license. In some places that meant no driving after dark and no driving with a carload of kids your age. But it is still pretty easy to get that initial license. Throughout the Pandemic they have not even required anyone to take a road test.

We had both drivers Ed classes and driving at our HS back in ‘78.
The class was taught by an assistant football coach/government teacher, and the driving was with an assistant football coach/gym teacher.
The class was where they showed us all the “Blood on the Highway!!!” movies, and the car for the driving part had a brake pedal on the passengers side for instructor “emergency” use…!!!!! :hilarious:
 

donaldtoo

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Wyoming you can drive either as long as you have a license. But my understanding is that manuals are hard to come by these days. One of my good friends from high school said she searched high and low for a manual to teach her daughter on and couldn't find one. When my dad died and we were going through all the ranch vehicles, I figured there'd be at least one manual there, but they were all automatic. I thought pickup trucks were generally stick, but I guess that's not true anymore. I want my kids to learn on manual, just so they can drive either. Since manuals are the norm over here, it's better that they can drive any car available. If they need to borrow a car from someone, chances are it will be manual.

My grandparents on my Pops side only ever owned one car at a time, and they were all manual.
The last one was a bare bones ‘69 Chevy Nova with 3-on-the-tree.
My grandparents on my Moms side owned several. The 1929 Ford Model A ragtop, the 1953 Ford F-350 truck, and the 1954 Ford sedan were all manual. However, the 1975 Ford (see a pattern here…? ;)) “church” car had an auto tranny.
I definitely like the flexibility of being proficient driving a manual…!!! :)
 

donaldtoo

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Yeah, we had to do three sessions with an instructor on the road in one of those cars. The only time the instructor had to step on it was because someone cut me off in a parking lot, and my foot was on the brake at the same time, but I could feel hers was on it too. It was weird.

We took the actual tests in our own cars, though.

Yep, I took my actual driving test at the DPS in my parents Boaty McBoatface ‘77 Buick LeSabre…!!!!! :hilarious:
 

StarWarsGirl

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In the Parks
No
Yep, I took my actual driving test at the DPS in my parents Boaty McBoatface ‘77 Buick LeSabre…!!!!! :hilarious:
An Oldsmobile Bravada for me. Yeah, they don't make those anymore! It was between that and the Aurora, and it was easier to see out of that car.

Man, I hated that car. I mean, it did get me from point A to point B, I was grateful I had transportation to college, and I learned how to drive an SUV really well because of it, but I also was very happy to get rid of it. 🤣
 

donaldtoo

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An Oldsmobile Bravada for me. Yeah, they don't make those anymore! It was between that and the Aurora, and it was easier to see out of that car.

Man, I hated that car. I mean, it did get me from point A to point B, I was grateful I had transportation to college, and I learned how to drive an SUV really well because of it, but I also was very happy to get rid of it. 🤣

Yep, GM doesn’t even make Oldsmobiles anymore…!!!!! :hilarious:
Other than my ‘85 Mustang GT, the ‘90 Jeep Cherokee Laredo SUV we owned was the next most fun to drive. It was small-ish, sat up high, and had the torquey 4.0 liter straight-6 with the 5-speed manual tranny.
A joy to drive…until it started to spiral into falling apart at every other turn…!!! :facepalm:
Was so glad when we finally dumped that piece of carp.
Only problem…
We dumped it for that ‘01 Dodge Grand Caravan, which turned out to an even bigger piece of carp…!!!!! 🤣
Finally dumped that for a ‘10 Toyota Camry, which is still tickin’ along just fine…!!! 🙂
 

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