Rusty Shackleford

So they call their middle managers “POs”

A. k. a., “Pieces Of shit”.)

Nah. It’s underlying assumptions are wrong.

This meme is ass.

Personally, I love that series. I guess whoever made this meme thinks people who watch the show are trying to implement their code examples in production.

Who tf is Bob Martin?

~I know I can just search for him, but I don’t want to go down a rabbit hole on the internet.~

Not in the slightest, at least to me, anyway.

Even though the current administration and many denizens of Lemmy don’t give a shit about legal definitions, philosophies, and frameworks, I still think its valuable to strictly define terms and concepts.

Bullies’ confidence whithers in the face of precisely demanding accountability.

Thanks again for the correction.

What I should have said was “[sovereign immunity, A.K.A. rex non potest peccare] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_immunity?wprov=sfla1)”.

You’re absolutely right and I will correct my previous comment.

Physical self-defense from an existential and immediate threat implies interceptive and reciprocative violence from the defender.

Violence in such situations is not only justified, but is required.

In simple terms, one isn’t justified to start the fight, but one is morally obligated to end it, if they have the power to do so.

I have no idea why you’re being down-voted, but you’re correct.

We citizens don’t enjoy qualified sovereign immunity, A.K.A., “rex non potest peccare”. Neither should law enforcement, if the world was fair.

We go to jail, or worse, if we try the “I feared for my life” defense.

And so many people seem to forget another simple, yet easy to grasp thing:

Tesla must actually make reliable cars that people want and sell them at a price that enough people can afford.

Sounds easy, or at least the concept is simple. This is from a quantitative insights company’s outlook about TSLA:

According to the most recent financial reports and market analysis for January 2026, Tesla is indeed navigating a significant “correction” period. The company has transitioned from the explosive hyper-growth of 2021–2022 into a phase of margin compression, slowing vehicle demand, and a shifting regulatory environment. The following analysis tracks Tesla’s Adjusted EBITDA (the metric most preferred by analysts to gauge core operational health) and the specific factors driving the “trouble” narrative.

Tesla EBITDA Performance Analysis (2021–2025)

Analysis of the “Trouble” Narrative

While the absolute EBITDA remains high compared to most automakers, the quality of these earnings is under fire for three main reasons:

1. The “Regulatory Credit” Cliff For years, Tesla relied on selling regulatory credits to rivals like Ford and GM. In Q2 2024, this was still a $890 million revenue stream. However, by late 2025, this “pure profit” effectively vanished. Under the “Big Beautiful Bill” passed in mid-2025, the US government ended emission penalty enforcement, destroying the market for these credits almost overnight.

• Impact: A ~$2.5 billion annual hole in Tesla’s high-margin revenue.

2. Eroding EBITDA Margins Tesla’s EBITDA margin—a key measure of efficiency—has dropped from a peak of 23.9% (Q1 2022) to a steady 15.0% (Q3 2025). The company is now spending significantly more on CapEx (billions on H100 GPU clusters and AI R&D) while earning less per vehicle sold due to global competition from BYD and others.
3. Stagnating Delivery Growth 2025 marked the first time Tesla faced serious “demand saturation.” Q1 2025 deliveries were only 323,800 units, a 13% decline year-over-year. While sales recovered in the latter half of the year, the “50% annual growth” promise is considered permanently over by most institutional analysts. Enumerated Sources The data provided in this analysis is synthesized from the following primary and secondary financial records:

• Tesla Investor Relations (IR): Q3 2025 Update, Q4 2024 Financial Summary, and Q4 2023 Financial Summary. These provide the definitive Adjusted EBITDA and delivery figures.
• Macrotrends: Tesla EBITDA 2012–2025 Charting. Used for historical year-over-year percentage comparisons and GAAP vs. Non-GAAP reconciliations.
• Finbox Financial Intelligence: EBITDA Margin for Tesla Inc (TSLA). Used to benchmark Tesla’s 11.3%–15% margins against the broader Consumer Discretionary sector.
• Electrek / Nasdaq: “Tesla’s Regulatory Credit Cash Cow Is Fading Fast” (August 2025) and “US Officially Ends Emission Credits” (August 2025). These detail the legislative impact on Tesla’s ancillary revenue.
• IG / Bloomberg Financial: Tesla Q1 2025 Earnings Preview. Used for analysis of the “weakest delivery performance in three years” recorded in early 2025.

They’re both losers.

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My only response to your asinine insulation of the degree of culpability for the state of the U.S.‘s government and ruling class’ political hubris on the entirety of 330+ million citizens is to start by analyzing the voting results of all of our elections for the said past 100 years, look up the definition of “gerrymandering”, and the precedent set in Citizens United vs. FEC.

Maybe if people do that, it’ll seem rightly ridiculous to think that 1/3 of a billion people’s political opinions are all the same.

Oh, wait sorry!

A M E R I C A N S B A D !

There we go. Almost forgot!

Hey man, have a happy new year.

The poor nice ones get beaten by the naughty rich ones.

Some of the greatest Americans of all time were anti-fascists.

Citizens and residents of the United States don’t deserve to be exploited by foreign billionaires, to keep in context to the comment you originally responded to.

What you said implies a justification for the exploitation of the “American poor” (OP’s words) due to or for the “karma for the last century” (your words). If we replace “karma”, with “comeuppance” or “consequences” to keep in line with the “American context”, it still sounds stupid.

So once again, to be clear without sarcasm, an entire nation of millions of people who trace their identities and heritages from every corner of the planet don’t deserve said exploitation from both domestic and foreign billionaires.

As an aside, the “American definition” of karma comes from an incorrect definition from the first British translation of the Bhagavad Gita by Sir Charles Wilkins in 1785 during their colonial occupation of India. I commented about it because of how stupid it sounded to me, given my background and understanding of its concept.

Is this where I say, “NEXT”?

Who needs to pivot?

If we’re playing the game of false equivalencies, my sarcasm said everything that needed to be said about your blithe presumptions about “karma” for entire nation of people.

Also, “karma” doesn’t actually mean “comeuppance”, or “consequences”; it means (roughly) “work”.

Source: I have Northwestern Brahmin Indian blood, and was made to thoroughly study the Vedas, Puranas, Ramayan, Mahabharat (and the Bhagavad Gita contained within it).

Ooooh, I remember this game!

Yes, we average Americans are certainly guilty of the sins of previous generations.

Even first generation Americans, who are children of immigrants, like me, and had no choice in where they were born.

Naturally, we are de facto guilty of everything some rich assholes and our government’s policies have done to the world, and we must pay for it with our lives and livelihoods.

Oh, also, none of the contributions in the sciences, arts, and literature from normal Americans ever made life better for people around the world.

We are a cancer upon the planet and must be exterminated. It’s just “our karma”. We americans are bad and deserve all the bad things in life.

Am I doing it right?