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    2 hours ago

    The date is arbitrary but the event isn’t.

    It’s a bit off the mark of the Winter Solstice, which is the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere.

    So I wouldn’t even call it arbitrary. It’s highly relevant to a person on Earth, waiting for the day when nights start growing shorter and we can look forward to a spring harvest season.

    I might argue that the problem with the New Year is that we don’t also celebrate the Summer Solstice (longest day of the year) and the two Equinoxes.








  • none of them should have more than a few percent in them

    Tesla makes up 2.3% of the S&P 500 and 4.5% of NASDAQ. Then you have business downstream of Tesla - Luminar Technologies sells the majority of it’s LIDAR systems to Tesla, Hertz’s EV fleet is plurality Tesla, Panasonic co-owns Gigafactory 1.

    I was more speaking of the lenders who enable Musk’s bullshit like buying Twitter or fucking around with our elections.

    They do it so they can be first in the door for future IPOs. JP Morgan has been a close ally of Musk’s for decades. And he’s repaid them with numerous opportunities to resell their debt. The Twitter loan was a small price to pay by comparison.