Billiam

Out of curiosity, I looked it up a while back.

It’s 11,631 km from Shenzen to Los Angeles. That’s about 6280 nautical miles.

The average container ship speed is 16-25 knots. Let’s split the difference and call it 20.

6280 nm / 20 kn = 314 hours

That’s a little over 13 days just to cross the Pacific, assuming a steady course and no issues. Add in time to load the ship in China and unload it in LA, and you can see why the most-cited estimates are three to four weeks for cross-Pacific shipping.

If no ships have arrived from China in the past few days, that means it was a month ago (hey, anyone remember “Liberation Day” on April 2?) that ships stopped sailing. And that means it will be at least another month before any more arrive, assuming they leave today.

Trump voters have really fucked over the US.

It’s the Google Images Search button, since that was a quick screenshot from my phone.

Also “give my employees paid time at home while business is slow” sounds exactly like the kind of magnanimity that Elon lacks.

It sounds like they may not have a choice in that matter soon enough.

I think the answer is over there somewhere.

The workers, who are paid hourly, were told they could either take paid time off or come in for cleaning and training but would not be working on the production line.

That wording is ambiguous, but given the alternative is “come in and do cleaning” my guess is “take paid time off” means workers have to burn their own vacation time if they don’t want to lose money. Otherwise, who in their right mind would volunteer to work if the company is offering paid furlough?

That was my intended joke. Guess it wasn’t as obvious as I thought it was. 😕

Trump was directly responsible, though.

So you will believe a rumour based on nothing

Says Tesla. You’re a fool if someone saying “nuh uh!” is good enough for you. Especially when its the reputation of the WSJ vs. the reputation of Tesla.

won’t believe the board of directors denying said rumour unless they sue?

Tell me you know absolute dick-all about corporations, without telling me you know dick-all about corporations.

I’ll give you a hint: what do you think would happen to the stock price of literally any company if the board confirmed they were ousting the CEO before the CEO was out? My dude, your native Australia has a better chance of eliminating every single venomous critter on that island than any corporate board admitting that. And that goes double for the single most overvalued stock on the planet, whose price is driven solely by the hype man’s promises.

So yes. If and when Tesla sues the WSJ, and wins that case, then I’ll believe they were right. Until then, I’m going to treat them like the lying Nazi-enabling shit car company they are.

When Tesla wins a civil suit about this story, then I’ll believe they’re not lying.