The last couple days I’ve noticed every post that shows Tesla not looking good, has been removed from some higher directive. Not deleted by OP.
and yesterday an OP tried at least twice to post an article about Tesla factory ordering $16,000 worth of pies from a small independently-owned Silicon Valley bakery, owned by a sweet hard-working lady who worked overtime all night and had to go out and buy more ingredients to get the order finished in time, only for Tesla to call up the next morning and cancel the order just as the pies were about to be delivered to Tesla. As of press time, that lady lost $16,000 on that order but hopefully Tesla came back and made up for it.
The OP posted that article twice because the first one had been removed, then I tried to comment on the second one and it had been removed also.
There seems to be some Tesla brigade working hard to remove everything from the internet that makes them look bad.
Edit: Update:
How does cancelling a pie order at delivery mean that you don’t pay? You try to cancel a dental appointment in less than 48hrs and you still get charged for that appointment
Depends on the terms of the contract…
Yeah, apparently, because it was some small business owner, she only invoiced the order, and didn’t have some elaborate no cancellation policy in a contract for an order that size. It’s terribly unfortunate, but she probably should’ve known better (as a freelancer, myself, I once had to learn this very lesson the hard way, although it did not cost me nearly so much). I guarantee she’ll never ever make that mistake again, but, sadly, it may be because she is now going out of business.Tesla are such shit for doing this to her, and the very least they could do is pay for their order.
Eh, if she really wanted to take it to court I’m relatively sure her case is sound. A reasonable man knows you cannot cancel such a large order of perishable goods on short notice. She probably had her own reasons, whether lack of savvy, a belief the media campaign would serve her better, or maybe even just that she doesn’t want to go to court.
yeah, well, that’s all fine and good if she could afford a good lawyer to take up her case, but she’s financially screwed because of this and is already struggling to even keep her business open. rich people can afford to just sue everyone who makes them mad, but small business owners like this lady who went out on a limb for this huge order and got screwed may not be able to afford to shell out the money it would cost to engage in a lengthy lawsuit with the legal powers of Tesla.
so, what the law allows her to do and what she is practically capable of doing are probably two very different things in terms of her being able to seek legal remedy.
Just go directly after the person who made the order and take them to small claims court. She could only recoup $10,000 that way, but I believe the person would have to show. Not some lawyer on their behalf. I believe in California, lawyers are not allowed to represent anyone in small claims. Chances are the tesla person wouldn’t even show and several months later the baker would eventually end up with a check.
What’s stopping anyone from going to small claims with elon musk or any other high profile Californian? Just curious, I’m not from the US.
I don’t know that there’s anything that would stop it, really.
Depends on the location, some places would have considered the purchase a contract of itself.
Good luck sending Elon the bill when you can barely get the richest man on Earth to pay rent for Twitter’s headquarters.
I mean how does Twitter not pay rent?
Cancel the standing order, put the wrong figure on a cheque
Reason the thread complaining about the pie post being taken down was removed from this c:
reason: Using this instant as a platform for complaints against the actions of other mods
The top comment in that thread describes the reason it was removed originally.
A constant stream of meta whining sucks. Doesn’t need to be some pro-Tesla conspiracy to dislike that.
Exactly. And this is Lemmy, the modlogs are public. People always want to believe things are a conspiracy instead of logically considering more plausible reasons.
You sure try modlogs are public? Some already use the name “mod” to hide their own mod profiles when doing actions and it’s trivial to setup admin actions to remove posts / comments without listing them in the modlog, while I agree it’s better than nothing it’s still up to each individual instance to decide what they give price of their admin / mod actions.
This is entirely subjective - I haven’t gone around counting things up - but I’ve noticed both more pro-Tesla and pro-SpaceX posts and increased arguments on the anti-Musk posts. It seemed (on lemmy) to be coming from the same small number of accounts, so it could just be an enthusiastic handful of fanboys.
If one of them became a mod, that might explain it. They were very active in the Tesla and SpaceX subs with multiple articles posted within minutes of each other within the past couple of days.
The pie story kept getting removed because OP was posting it to irrelevant communities.
So normal internet marketing machine is working as planned?
Makes you wonder about times you have looked at reddit for a review of an item and haven’t seen negative comments.
At this point we are in the situation where PR companies that are pro and against Musk are fighting eachother in public spaces in the hopes that both brainwash as many people as possible, into their narrative. Nobody can tell the truth anymore, we’re in that period now.
That pie post is one post up from this one, on my feed…
I was driving around doing errands and passed by that pie place. I was all “Hey! Is that the famous pie place now?” Yup, sure enough. The shop was closer then I thought. Best of luck to them!
I remember modest coffee had something like that happen and bought a box of beans to help them out.
How’s that “fULL sELf dRiviNg” coming along that their valuation was supposedly based on?
The story posted twice and removed by mods, were because he broke the rules. First he posted on c/technology when it has nothing to do with tech. Then he posted on c/news with a headline complaining that it was removed, where it’s against the rules to change the headline. So this has nothing to do with being silenced, but everything to do with not respecting the subs he posted to.
The exact same article was posted again, but with correct headline, and has not been taken down.Aye, Thank you for noticing the issue and explaining. I keep wondering why my post keeps getting up votes. I was in some sort of conspiracy theory mindset when I wrote it 🤷🏻♀️
We really need Luke Cage for this.
Dude it’s been going on for 10 years.
he isn’t just the biggest troll in history, he is also the idol of all other trolls
Tesla is a massive stock pumping Ponzi scheme that just happens to have a poorly ran car company attached to it. People need to realize what the goal of Tesla marketing is really about. It will be remembered as one of the great investment scams of our time.
it’s not really surprising that anyone still into Elon at this point is going to be a little autistic at least.
I dunno, man. Sometimes I’m really concerned with the echo chamber here. If you look at Lemmy and Reddit, it’s nothing but an Elon-hating amphitheatre, yet objectively, the guy still seems to be soaring up all the lists that matter.
So, something isn’t right. The guy is obviously popular in places that matter, and it’s worrying that places like this never, ever, ever show it.
I’d like to think Lemmy isn’t one-sided and biased but it clearly is.
And for the record, I’m not pro or anti-Elon. I’m not plugged in (or care) enough to know shit about the guy. But what I’m not going to do is Boomer-lean into one source and parrot the sentiment. Isn’t that what us Gen-Ys and Gen-Zs are supposed to despise, and be too internet savvy to fall for, or are we following our parents into ignorance?
