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Bird4um said:
Watch your neighborhoods. 100% more Evs in the next 6 months. The horse and buggy laughed at ford.
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Most of the people in my neighborhood, that have teslas, also have other cars. They aren't buying them to save money lol. Eventually I do think EVs will be the way of the future for all, but not in 6 months. If one was to own 100+ shares of Tesla I could see them selling puts/calls depending on how they think the stock will move, but I can't imagine retail actually buying shares/puts/calls or shorting it right now unless you had an insanely high risk tolerance.
 
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OriginalGatorHater said:
Not mine. I got the librem 5 USA.
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If thats for pleasure, you're absolutely crazy, simple as that. Like walking around with a brick that has compute from 2005. Literally the ONLY thing cool about that phone is removable battery which I used to love about my old phones from a decade plus ago...
 
calinative umstudent said:
If thats for pleasure, you're absolutely crazy, simple as that. Like walking around with a brick that has compute from 2005. Literally the ONLY thing cool about that phone is removable battery which I used to love about my old phones from a decade plus ago...
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But it allows me to counter the "how can you get offended by XYZ, when your phone is made in China" crowd.
 
OriginalGatorHater said:
But it allows me to counter the "how can you get offended by XYZ, when your phone is made in China" crowd.
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I mean if you're willing to use a linux phone the size of the first Nokia ever made, that can't even use the camera, nor play youtube videos, more power to ya man. I would never.
 
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calinative umstudent said:
I mean if you're willing to use a linux phone the size of the first Nokia ever made, that can't even use the camera, nor play youtube videos, more power to ya man. I would never.
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Well the real reason I have is for safety reasons. In my line of work I need it. I was only joking regarding the China thing, but it is a great benefit. Because I have been able to fend off the whatboutism crowd numerous times because of my phone.

The only thingI use it for, is for phone calls and texts.
 
OriginalGatorHater said:
Well the real reason I have is for safety reasons. In my line of work I need it. I was only joking regarding the China thing, but it is a great benefit. Because I have been able to fend off the whatboutism crowd numerous times because of my phone.

The only thingI use it for, is for phone calls and texts.
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$2k is a lot to spend on a phone that you are only going to be calling and texting on. Better off just buying burners, and having a separate phone to do whatever normal **** you want.

Pretty sure you can make an Android very reasonably secure/private. Slap on a VPN, root it, get signal/protonmail or whatever, enable 2FA... I mean obviously Idk what you do, but we got major CEOs that use regular *** iphones no problem...
 
calinative umstudent said:
$2k is a lot to spend on a phone that you are only going to be calling and texting on. Better off just buying burners, and having a separate phone to do whatever normal **** you want.

Pretty sure you can make an Android very reasonably secure/private. Slap on a VPN, root it, get signal/protonmail or whatever, enable 2FA... I mean obviously Idk what you do, but we got major CEOs that use regular *** iphones no problem...
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Well, its not about the privacy of a burner phone. As in I can just ditch it once my line gets compromised or anything like I am Saul Goodman. But we need secure phones since we are texting and sending important info over them. I didn't pay for it either lol, my firm did so the price doesn't bother me too much haha. It actually does work a lot better than you described though. I am not a phone or a tech guy at all. I just do what our security team recommends, but I assume there are a lot of reviewers mentioning the things you stated before, but my phone uses youtube fine. I never really use it for YT since I use my laptop for that, but if I needed to, it runs YT with no issues. We do have VPNs though(my PC uses one too), encrypted document sharing services, etc. I really don't know schit about it, just the little things I have heard from our security team over the years lol. I just know they don't want use using Iphones for work related discussions.
 
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SpikeUM said:
*IF* you ever short, you do it when the market is at an all time high, not now. You could easily get a large "dead cat" bounce now.
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IMO this is a good video yall should watch. But Check out the 40min mark, and 47min mark


Basically look at where **** was in 2019 pre Covid and look at the 5 year targets/trajectories from there, and use those to make price targets for whats likely to happen...
 
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SpikeUM said:
*IF* you ever short, you do it when the market is at an all time high, not now. You could easily get a large "dead cat" bounce now.
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This is terrible advice. This is like saying "if you want to buy shares you need to wait until the market 6 month low or some equally arbitrary number". You short a stock based on that individual companies performance. Plenty of people have made money buying stocks in a bear market and plenty have made money shorting in a bull market. Plenty of bears are shorting stocks, selling calls, and buying puts for a ton of profit right now.
 
JD08 said:
My hybrid minivan has a range of 550 miles, holds more passengers and cargo, and costs a fraction of a Tesla. There is simply no cost-benefit analysis that would show an electric car to be an acceptable replacement.

It's nice that I could conceivably make a cross country trip, but it's still a gamble that a charger will be free and it's a hassle being forced to stop whether I want to or not.
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Do you happen to drive the newer toyota sienna? The wife and I are contemplating replacing her buick SUV with that one.
 
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