Tesla CEO Elon Musk and a pair of top aides to President Joe Biden met in Washington on Friday to discuss the electric vehicle industry and the broader goal of electrification.Musk and Biden did not meet, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said.
The two haven’t had the smoothest of relationships, with Biden, a big supporter of labor unions, disappointed by Musk’s refusal to allow them into his factories.
White House aides Mitch Landrieu and John Podesta sat down with the Tesla chief — who also owns Twitter and SpaceX — at Tesla’s office in downtown Washington to discuss shared goals around electrification.
Their discussion touched on how infrastructure and climate legislation that Biden signed into law last year can help boost the production of electric vehicles and charging stations, and encourage more people to switch from gas-fueled to electric-powered vehicles and to choose more electric appliances, like heat pumps and stoves. Rebates and tax credits are available to encourage that shift.
Landrieu oversees federal spending on infrastructure, which included financial help for the electric vehicle industry. Podesta is the president’s point man on spending on Biden’s climate and clean energy initiatives.
Asked whether the meeting signaled a new phase in White House relations with Musk, Jean-Pierre said it “says a lot” about how Biden sees the importance of both pieces of legislation.
“I think it’s important that his team, senior members of his team, had a meeting with Elon Musk,” she said.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk and a pair of top aides to President Joe Biden met in Washington on Friday to discuss the electric vehicle industry and the broader goal of electrification.Musk and Biden did not meet, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said.
The two haven’t had the smoothest of relationships, with Biden, a big supporter of labor unions, disappointed by Musk’s refusal to allow them into his factories.
White House aides Mitch Landrieu and John Podesta sat down with the Tesla chief — who also owns Twitter and SpaceX — at Tesla’s office in downtown Washington to discuss shared goals around electrification.
Their discussion touched on how infrastructure and climate legislation that Biden signed into law last year can help boost the production of electric vehicles and charging stations, and encourage more people to switch from gas-fueled to electric-powered vehicles and to choose more electric appliances, like heat pumps and stoves. Rebates and tax credits are available to encourage that shift.
Landrieu oversees federal spending on infrastructure, which included financial help for the electric vehicle industry. Podesta is the president’s point man on spending on Biden’s climate and clean energy initiatives.
Asked whether the meeting signaled a new phase in White House relations with Musk, Jean-Pierre said it “says a lot” about how Biden sees the importance of both pieces of legislation.
“I think it’s important that his team, senior members of his team, had a meeting with Elon Musk,” she said.
Again, it would be a time saver if you just stuck with what the articles actually are about, instead of inventing what they say. The article isn't about "technical expertise".
Tesla CEO Elon Musk and a pair of top aides to President Joe Biden met in Washington on Friday to discuss the electric vehicle industry and the broader goal of electrification.Musk and Biden did not meet, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said.
The two haven’t had the smoothest of relationships, with Biden, a big supporter of labor unions, disappointed by Musk’s refusal to allow them into his factories.
White House aides Mitch Landrieu and John Podesta sat down with the Tesla chief — who also owns Twitter and SpaceX — at Tesla’s office in downtown Washington to discuss shared goals around electrification.
Their discussion touched on how infrastructure and climate legislation that Biden signed into law last year can help boost the production of electric vehicles and charging stations, and encourage more people to switch from gas-fueled to electric-powered vehicles and to choose more electric appliances, like heat pumps and stoves. Rebates and tax credits are available to encourage that shift.
Landrieu oversees federal spending on infrastructure, which included financial help for the electric vehicle industry. Podesta is the president’s point man on spending on Biden’s climate and clean energy initiatives.
Asked whether the meeting signaled a new phase in White House relations with Musk, Jean-Pierre said it “says a lot” about how Biden sees the importance of both pieces of legislation.
“I think it’s important that his team, senior members of his team, had a meeting with Elon Musk,” she said.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk and a pair of top aides to President Joe Biden met in Washington on Friday to discuss the electric vehicle industry and the broader goal of electrification.Musk and Biden did not meet, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said.
The two haven’t had the smoothest of relationships, with Biden, a big supporter of labor unions, disappointed by Musk’s refusal to allow them into his factories.
White House aides Mitch Landrieu and John Podesta sat down with the Tesla chief — who also owns Twitter and SpaceX — at Tesla’s office in downtown Washington to discuss shared goals around electrification.
Their discussion touched on how infrastructure and climate legislation that Biden signed into law last year can help boost the production of electric vehicles and charging stations, and encourage more people to switch from gas-fueled to electric-powered vehicles and to choose more electric appliances, like heat pumps and stoves. Rebates and tax credits are available to encourage that shift.
Landrieu oversees federal spending on infrastructure, which included financial help for the electric vehicle industry. Podesta is the president’s point man on spending on Biden’s climate and clean energy initiatives.
Asked whether the meeting signaled a new phase in White House relations with Musk, Jean-Pierre said it “says a lot” about how Biden sees the importance of both pieces of legislation.
“I think it’s important that his team, senior members of his team, had a meeting with Elon Musk,” she said.
Again, it would be a time saver if you just stuck with what the articles actually are about, instead of inventing what they say. The article isn't about "technical expertise".
Podesta and Landrieu talked with Musk about how to electrify the economy. That's a technical subject that involves EVs (cars, trucks, buses and semis), charging stations, solar power (residential and industrial), battery back-up systems (residential and industrial), heat pump technology and virtual power plants all of which Musk is involved in as an engineer and a business man. With proven results. That's why the Biden admin overcame its political hostility and cancel culture to sit down with him.
Podesta and Landrieu talked with Musk about how to electrify the economy. That's a technical subject that involves EVs (cars, trucks, buses and semis), charging stations, solar power (residential and industrial), battery back-up systems (residential and industrial), heat pump technology and virtual power plants all of which Musk is involved in as an engineer and a business man. With proven results. That's why the Biden admin overcame its political hostility and cancel culture to sit down with him.
Still struggling to understand what any of this has to do with twitter. We can just pin this run of posts to this thread as the standing reply to any post by Paul I guess:
Ah, Twitter. A great place to type ones thoughts before critically thinking. (click to see the full picture, and then the comments of the Tweet. ETA: Some NSFW).
Re-ETA: It looks like the tweet was deleted. For reference, it was an image of this series of texts:
Girlfriend sends boyfriend image of a positive COVID test
Boyfriend responds "Why are you sending me this?"
Girlfriend says "Because I was with you last night"
Boyfriend says "I had a vasectomy, it's not mine"
The comments were predictably bashing the boyfriend for ditching his responsibilities; bashing the boyfriend (and girlfriend) for not realizing that positive pregnancy tests are not achievable overnight so it wouldn't be his; bashing the girlfriend for being promiscuous, and for some who realized it was a COVID test, providing COVID misinformation and amazingly, some even intermingling COVID misinformation with pregnancy/vasectomy misinformation (like that he couldn't have gotten her pregnant because COVID immunizations make people sterile, so it was a fake test she was sending him to trap him).
While there were plenty of comments trying to bring the mistaken posters' attention to the fact that it was an image of a COVID test (which it said right on the stick), it didn't matter. People were happily rage-posting their obviously oblivious points of view to the world.
Still struggling to understand what any of this has to do with twitter. We can just pin this run of posts to this thread as the standing reply to any post by Paul I guess:
or possibly that Musk is a great, great man who may occasionally do some crappy things, but other people do crappy things too, and we should shut up.
I'm struggling to understand why someone would struggle to understand why a thread about Twitter would have posts about Elon Musk. Especially when they contributed a few of those Elon posts themselves.
By the way, the Biden admin recently expressed appreciation for Elon's high-tech expertise:
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk and a pair of top aides to President Joe Biden met in Washington on Friday to discuss the electric vehicle industry and the broader goal of electrification.Musk and Biden did not meet, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said.
The two haven’t had the smoothest of relationships, with Biden, a big supporter of labor unions, disappointed by Musk’s refusal to allow them into his factories.
White House aides Mitch Landrieu and John Podesta sat down with the Tesla chief — who also owns Twitter and SpaceX — at Tesla’s office in downtown Washington to discuss shared goals around electrification.
Their discussion touched on how infrastructure and climate legislation that Biden signed into law last year can help boost the production of electric vehicles and charging stations, and encourage more people to switch from gas-fueled to electric-powered vehicles and to choose more electric appliances, like heat pumps and stoves. Rebates and tax credits are available to encourage that shift. ...
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk and a pair of top aides to President Joe Biden met in Washington on Friday to discuss the electric vehicle industry and the broader goal of electrification.Musk and Biden did not meet, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said.
The two haven’t had the smoothest of relationships, with Biden, a big supporter of labor unions, disappointed by Musk’s refusal to allow them into his factories.
White House aides Mitch Landrieu and John Podesta sat down with the Tesla chief — who also owns Twitter and SpaceX — at Tesla’s office in downtown Washington to discuss shared goals around electrification.
Their discussion touched on how infrastructure and climate legislation that Biden signed into law last year can help boost the production of electric vehicles and charging stations, and encourage more people to switch from gas-fueled to electric-powered vehicles and to choose more electric appliances, like heat pumps and stoves. Rebates and tax credits are available to encourage that shift.
Landrieu oversees federal spending on infrastructure, which included financial help for the electric vehicle industry. Podesta is the president’s point man on spending on Biden’s climate and clean energy initiatives.
Asked whether the meeting signaled a new phase in White House relations with Musk, Jean-Pierre said it “says a lot” about how Biden sees the importance of both pieces of legislation.
“I think it’s important that his team, senior members of his team, had a meeting with Elon Musk,” she said.
Again, it would be a time saver if you just stuck with what the articles actually are about, instead of inventing what they say. The article isn't about "technical expertise".
Podesta and Landrieu talked with Musk about how to electrify the economy. That's a technical subject that involves EVs (cars, trucks, buses and semis), charging stations, solar power (residential and industrial), battery back-up systems (residential and industrial), heat pump technology and virtual power plants all of which Musk is involved in as an engineer and a business man. With proven results. That's why the Biden admin overcame its political hostility and cancel culture to sit down with him.
The technical details weren't part of the discussion, the financial and policy ones were. You doubled down on inventing what the article said happened.
And don't be "that guy" who blames "cancel culture", because it makes you seem not serious.
The technical details weren't part of the discussion, the financial and policy ones were. You doubled down on inventing what the article said happened.
And don't be "that guy" who blames "cancel culture", because it makes you seem not serious.
it's my personal bias of course. But if I read the term "cancel culture" and it's written non-ironically I consider the writer to be a troll, deluded, or an idiot. In this case, I lean toward trolling.
A pro-Kremlin Twitter account tweets a nonexistent Turkish newspaper, claiming “NATO soldiers” have been killed in Ukraine. @elonmusk, evidently very concerned about media corruption and fake news, takes the bait, then is asked by the account to “mediate.” pic.twitter.com/lKbB7kP1E0
By the way, the Biden admin recently expressed appreciation for Elon's high-tech expertise:
...
Tesla CEO Elon Musk and a pair of top aides to President Joe Biden met in Washington on Friday to discuss the electric vehicle industry and the broader goal of electrification.Musk and Biden did not meet, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said.
The two haven’t had the smoothest of relationships, with Biden, a big supporter of labor unions, disappointed by Musk’s refusal to allow them into his factories.
White House aides Mitch Landrieu and John Podesta sat down with the Tesla chief — who also owns Twitter and SpaceX — at Tesla’s office in downtown Washington to discuss shared goals around electrification.
Their discussion touched on how infrastructure and climate legislation that Biden signed into law last year can help boost the production of electric vehicles and charging stations, and encourage more people to switch from gas-fueled to electric-powered vehicles and to choose more electric appliances, like heat pumps and stoves. Rebates and tax credits are available to encourage that shift. ...
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk and a pair of top aides to President Joe Biden met in Washington on Friday to discuss the electric vehicle industry and the broader goal of electrification.Musk and Biden did not meet, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said.
The two haven’t had the smoothest of relationships, with Biden, a big supporter of labor unions, disappointed by Musk’s refusal to allow them into his factories.
White House aides Mitch Landrieu and John Podesta sat down with the Tesla chief — who also owns Twitter and SpaceX — at Tesla’s office in downtown Washington to discuss shared goals around electrification.
Their discussion touched on how infrastructure and climate legislation that Biden signed into law last year can help boost the production of electric vehicles and charging stations, and encourage more people to switch from gas-fueled to electric-powered vehicles and to choose more electric appliances, like heat pumps and stoves. Rebates and tax credits are available to encourage that shift.
Landrieu oversees federal spending on infrastructure, which included financial help for the electric vehicle industry. Podesta is the president’s point man on spending on Biden’s climate and clean energy initiatives.
Asked whether the meeting signaled a new phase in White House relations with Musk, Jean-Pierre said it “says a lot” about how Biden sees the importance of both pieces of legislation.
“I think it’s important that his team, senior members of his team, had a meeting with Elon Musk,” she said.
Again, it would be a time saver if you just stuck with what the articles actually are about, instead of inventing what they say. The article isn't about "technical expertise".
Podesta and Landrieu talked with Musk about how to electrify the economy. That's a technical subject that involves EVs (cars, trucks, buses and semis), charging stations, solar power (residential and industrial), battery back-up systems (residential and industrial), heat pump technology and virtual power plants all of which Musk is involved in as an engineer and a business man. With proven results. That's why the Biden admin overcame its political hostility and cancel culture to sit down with him.
The technical details weren't part of the discussion, the financial and policy ones were. You doubled down on inventing what the article said happened.
And don't be "that guy" who blames "cancel culture", because it makes you seem not serious.
It's a policy discussion about a technical issue. So if you don't understand the technical aspect you risk making bad policy.
And my favorite posts are when you tell me not to do things. Like a child.
The technical details weren't part of the discussion, the financial and policy ones were. You doubled down on inventing what the article said happened.
And don't be "that guy" who blames "cancel culture", because it makes you seem not serious.
it's my personal bias of course. But if I read the term "cancel culture" and it's written non-ironically I consider the writer to be a troll, deluded, or an idiot. In this case, I lean toward trolling.
The technical details weren't part of the discussion, the financial and policy ones were. You doubled down on inventing what the article said happened.
And don't be "that guy" who blames "cancel culture", because it makes you seem not serious.
It's a policy discussion about a technical issue. So if you don't understand the technical aspect you risk making bad policy.
And my favorite posts are when you tell me not to do things. Like a child.
The description in your article shows that’s not the case, they didn’t need to discuss how the technology worked.
I could have used more adult language to describe your use of the nonsense about “cancel culture”, maybe next time.
The technical details weren't part of the discussion, the financial and policy ones were. You doubled down on inventing what the article said happened.
And don't be "that guy" who blames "cancel culture", because it makes you seem not serious.
It's a policy discussion about a technical issue. So if you don't understand the technical aspect you risk making bad policy.
And my favorite posts are when you tell me not to do things. Like a child.
The description in your article shows that’s not the case, they didn’t need to discuss how the technology worked.
I could have used more adult language to describe your use of the nonsense about “cancel culture”, maybe next time.
The article is very terse, so one needs to use a little common sense. Musk has a deep grasp of and experience with the technical issues that underlie the goal of electrification of the economy (the subject of the talks) -- from power generation to equipment and products -- so that likely came into play during the talks.
Edited to add: And I'm fascinated with this new theory that cancel culture doesn't exist.
The article is very terse, so one needs to use a little common sense. Musk has a deep grasp of and experience with the technical issues that underlie the goal of electrification of the economy (the subject of the talks) -- from power generation to equipment and products -- so that likely came into play during the talks.
Scott Ritter is having problems with the Twitter. He’s being impersonated by someone who writes things that are more offensive than what he posts. Elon’s people aren’t helping.
The article is very terse, so one needs to use a little common sense. Musk has a deep grasp of and experience with the technical issues that underlie the goal of electrification of the economy (the subject of the talks) -- from power generation to equipment and products -- so that likely came into play during the talks.
Edited to add: And I'm fascinated with this new theory that cancel culture doesn't exist.
the "cancel culture" you're imagining doesn't exist.
The cancel culture that ended Colin Kaepernick's career, stalled The Chicks' career, and has people freaked out over the 1619 Project -- yeah, that cancel culture exists.
The article is very terse, so one needs to use a little common sense. Musk has a deep grasp of and experience with the technical issues that underlie the goal of electrification of the economy (the subject of the talks) -- from power generation to equipment and products -- so that likely came into play during the talks.
Edited to add: And I'm fascinated with this new theory that cancel culture doesn't exist.
the "cancel culture" you're imagining doesn't exist.
The cancel culture that ended Colin Kaepernick's career, stalled The Chicks' career, and has people freaked out over the 1619 Project -- yeah, that cancel culture exists.
Again, it would be a time saver if you just stuck with what the articles actually are about, instead of inventing what they say. The article isn't about "technical expertise".