I bought TSLA, 2/3rds of it at $264. And was widely ridiculed on Slashdot for doing so because, dontchaknow, Tesla can't make cars and they're going bankrupt any day now.
A big shoutout to all of you shorts who handed me your money. I'll use it to pay for my Model 3.;)
But please, don't give up on your short thesis. I and other longs look forward to your next surge in short interest, because this next time, THIS NEXT TIME, the bankwuptcy is for REALZ, right? The past 4 short squeezes were just fluke events, rather than a sign that your thesis is fundamentally flawed;)
What subsidies? There is no such thing as "tunneling subsidies".
And as for Musk's other companies, SpaceX has saved NASA massive amounts of money vs. the ULA monopoly. What's your issue with Musk saving taxpayers vast amounts of money? And the subsidies that you damn Tesla buyers for getting? They were designed by GM. Literally, the size of the battery pack that gets the full credit is the exact same size as the original Volt's battery pack (16 kWh). Any automaker can get them, all they have to do is make EVs. It's their choice if they don't want them. Meanwhile, Tesla faces protectionist legislation in many states in the US that supports its competitors' business models and bans Tesla from operating stores there.
Mr. Ramirez was employed by Tesla for less than four months after joining from SolarCity, and during his short time at Tesla, it was his job to identify ways to enhance our safety program, and he certainly was not terminated for doing so. That would make no sense.
Mr. Ramirez was terminated because after an extensive investigation, it was clear that he had engaged over and over again in harassing workplace behavior and used extremely inappropriate language that violated any reasonable standard. We conducted our investigation after we received an onslaught of complaints about Mr. Ramirez’s behavior, with nearly a dozen different employees stating that he engaged in clear bullying, sought to intimidate his colleagues, and repeatedly made inappropriate comments about women. Importantly, this was not a case of he said/she said. There were literally almost a dozen people who came forward to complain about Mr. Ramirez – notably, from a wide variety of different locations and departments within the company, some of whom were Mr. Ramirez’s direct reports and others who were his peers in other departments. Among the evidence that was provided:
One employee said that Mr. Ramirez commented on a fellow employee by saying ‘she’s got some big old [expletive].’ This obviously made the employee very uncomfortable.
One of Mr. Ramirez’s direct reports said that he made inappropriate comments towards women, calling them names like ‘hun’, and that he regularly tried to intimidate others.
Another employee told her manager that because of the abrasive language that Mr. Ramirez repeatedly used against her, she never wanted to interact with him again.
One of Mr. Ramirez’s direct reports said that he regularly mistreated his team, and that she felt he bullied team members and others with abusive remarks. Multiple employees said that they were fearful of coming forward because they had witnessed Mr. Ramirez engage in intimidation and they were scared of being retaliated against by him.
The funny thing is that you actually seem to think that such comments are... what, offensive? Hurtful? Do elaborate on how sexual innuendo is supposed to be hurting my delicate widdle feelings.;)
Slashdot is complaining about the number of characters per line so I'm going to have to add a very long line here. Hipster Ipsum will do: "Lorem ipsum dolor amet whatever scenester post-ironic adaptogen humblebrag narwhal kickstarter asymmetrical tilde direct trade typewriter meggings taxidermy. DIY enamel pin direct trade pug, pour-over occupy bespoke. Kale chips air plant crucifix raclette organic. Prism chambray kickstarter, echo park glossier vexillologist tattooed disrupt air plant synth snackwave unicorn iceland. Microdosing cred next level shabby chic post-ironic snackwave four dollar toast shaman sustainable etsy. Yr selfies put a bird on it palo santo tbh vinyl taiyaki helvetica XOXO succulents, normcore thundercats mustache pinterest pabst. Bitters direct trade vaporware kickstarter, ethical tumeric jianbing waistcoat stumptown vegan post-ironic craft beer crucifix cronut flexitarian. Ugh venmo pitchfork squid, ramps microdosing roof party leggings cloud bread fanny pack 8-bit PBR&B. Salvia meggings semiotics try-hard cronut swag farm-to-table." There we go, that should do. On with our regularly scheduled post.
You apparently didn't follow the instructions I gave. When you do so, recalls are broken down by model.
Tesla:
VEHICLES RECALLS INVESTIGATION COMPLAINTS MANUFACTURER COMMUNICATIONS
2017 TESLA MODEL S 60 5 HB RWD 0 0 50 7 2017 TESLA MODEL S 60D 5 HB AWD 0 0 50 7 2017 TESLA MODEL S 75 5 HB RWD 0 0 50 7 2017 TESLA MODEL S 75D 5 HB AWD 0 0 50 7 2017 TESLA MODEL S 90D 5 HB AWD 0 0 50 7 2017 TESLA MODEL S P100D 5 HB AWD 0 0 50 7 2017 TESLA MODEL S P90D 5 HB AWD 0 0 50 7 2017 TESLA MODEL X 60D SUV AWD 2 0 22 9 2017 TESLA MODEL X 75D SUV AWD 2 0 22 9 2017 TESLA MODEL X 90D SUV AWD 2 0 22 9 2017 TESLA MODEL X P100D SUV AWD 2 0 22 9 2017 TESLA MODEL X P90D SUV AWD 2 0 22 9 2017 TESLA MODEL 3 4 DR RWD 0 0 0 0
Mercedes:
VEHICLES RECALLS INVESTIGATION COMPLAINTS MANUFACTURER COMMUNICATIONS
2017 MERCEDES-BENZ C-CLASS 4 DR 4WD 7 0 31 9 2017 MERCEDES-BENZ C-CLASS 4 DR RWD 7 0 31 9 2017 MERCEDES-BENZ GLE-CLASS SUV RWD 7 0 12 9 2017 MERCEDES-BENZ GLE-CLASS SUV 4WD 7 0 12 9 2017 MERCEDES-BENZ C-CLASS 2 DR RWD 7 0 31 9 2017 MERCEDES-BENZ E-CLASS C RWD 15 0 21 57 2017 MERCEDES-BENZ E-CLASS C 4WD 15 0 21 57 2017 MERCEDES-BENZ CLS-CLASS 4 DR RWD 0 0 0 0 2017 MERCEDES-BENZ CLS-CLASS 4 DR 4WD 0 0 0 0 2017 MERCEDES-BENZ S-CLASS 4 DR RWD 5 0 1 46 2017 MERCEDES-BENZ S-CLASS 4 DR 4WD 5 0 4 47 2017 MERCEDES-BENZ S-CLASS HYBRID 4 DR RWD 5 0 4 47 2017 MERCEDES-BENZ S-CLASS HYBRID 4 DR 4WD 5 0 4 47 2017 MERCEDES-BENZ CL-CLASS 2 DR RWD 0 0 0 0 2017 MERCEDES-BENZ CL-CLASS 2 DR 4WD 0 0 0 0 2017 MERCEDES-BENZ S-CLASS C RWD 5 0 4 47 2017 MERCEDES-BENZ S-CLASS C 4WD 5 0 4 47 2017 MERCEDES-BENZ SL-CLASS C RWD 1 0 0 20 2017 MERCEDES-BENZ SLC-CLASS C RWD 1 0 0 1 2017 MERCEDES-BENZ B-CLASS E-CELL 4 DR FWD 0 0 0 0 2017 MERCEDES-BENZ CLA-CLASS 4 DR FWD 3 0 8 4 2017 MERCEDES-BENZ CLA-CLASS 4 DR 4WD 3 0 8 4 2017 MERCEDES-BENZ GLA-CLASS 4 DR FWD 3 0 6 13 2017 MERCEDES-BENZ GLA-CLASS 4 DR 4WD 3 0 6 13 2017 MERCEDES-BENZ GLC-CLASS SUV RWD 7 0 26 23 2017 MERCEDES-BENZ GLC-CLASS SUV 4WD 7 0 26 23 2017 MERCEDES-BENZ GLC-CLASS COUPE 4 DR RWD 7 0 26 23 2017 MERCEDES-BENZ GLC-CLASS COUPE 4 DR 4WD 7 0 26 23 2017 MERCEDES-BENZ GLE-CLASS HYBRID SUV 4WD 7 0 12 9 2017 MERCEDES-BENZ GLE-CLASS HYBRID SUV RWD 7
How do you define feelings and thoughts? Metacognition (the ability to reflect on one's own thoughts), for example? Be careful if that's your basis, because even rats do that. The same may some day be shown for bees (although I'm not aware of any experiments at present that have attempted to test this).
It's an uncomfortable thought that the world around us is not just mindless automatons, but that it's thinking beings, regularly having their lives snuffed out by others. Including by us, whether by necessity or choice.
But, the world doesn't care what makes us comfortable.
Their communication system alone is amazing. Their mental mapping when flying between locations is based on the direction of the sun, but they automatically adjust for how the sun will move (even at night or when it's otherwise not visible), in a manner that adjusts for latitude and the passing of the seasons. In the hive, they waggle dance to indicate the direction and distance to a resource (the static charges they build up can be perceived by nearby bees when they waggle). Moving straight up means "in the direction of the sun" - not "the direction of the sun when I last set out", but the current direction of the sun. Every second spent on the waggle before looping back to the start represents a kilometer of distance. A waggle dance is usually enough to bring another bee to within a couple hundred meters of a target, wherein they start searching visually. Bees don't blindly listen to waggle dances; if they're having good luck on their own, they're unlikely to listen to it, only bees that have been having trouble finding resources tend to follow them. If a bee had a *bad* experience with the location being danced to - found no resources, found a dead bee, etc - there's a "NO" buzz frequency (380Hz) which they can do. The more impressed a bee is with their location, the more vigorously they waggle dance, while the more opposed a bee is to a location, the more it does its "NO" buzz; they can even end up getting into physical fights over the issue. Advocates of different locations can also get into fights with each other.
It's easy to think of individual bees as mindless drones as part of a "greater whole", but they really aren't; they're impressive even individually. In addition to solar navigation, they also have landmark navigation, visual navigation to small targets, and they learn what sort of things pay good rewards (which as this study shows, can involve significant reasoning). Contrary to the popular image, the queen doesn't "give direction"; she's not a "leader". She just "smells nice", and other bees want to be near her. But beyond that, each bee is an individual.
They're fastidiously clean. They not only will remove debris and any dead bees from a hive, but they're adamant about not defecating in the hive. Honeybees will literally hold it until they die if they can't leave (e.g. in the winter due to weather) rather than foul their own hive. And maintaining the hive is a constant struggle because there's an endless list of pests and predators that want to eat either the bees, their larva, or the honey; a hive is such a tempting resource.
Preserving the honey is of course quite the task, and bees have specific climate requirements in general. They do amazing job at managing the internal climate. Some bees will act like air conditioners, fanning with their wings to create airflow through certain areas. They'll add or remove propolis to the hive to adjust how "weathertight" it is, to get the right amount of airflow without letting in pests. In the winter, they cluster together for warmth in the "winter cluster", which slowly migrates across the comb, eating their honey stores as they go; their collective body heat keeps them from freezing, and they minimize their surface area by clustering together. Some (non-European) honeybees have taken this even further - made famous by The Oatmeal, Japanese honeybees fight off attacks from otherwise impervious Japanese giant hornets (aka real-life Tracker Jackers) by clustering around them and raising their body temperature to the point that they survive but the hornets effectively die of heat stroke.
Key word is "begin to". And just so you know, the real news is that with the last update, Tesla went in the other direction. It used to be that you could have your hands off the wheel for minutes at a time when conditions were good. After the update it's more like 15-20 seconds. A number of people are complaining.
The premise is simply false. Tesla does not have a high rate of recalls. Go here. Punch in "2017 Tesla". Check out the recalls and investigations stats. Now punch in "2017 Mercedes". Note the difference.
Did you go up Kristínartindar? That's an amazing hike.:)
It's a shame all of the people who come just to see the (pretty, but IMHO overcrowded) Svartifoss. The really pretty stuff comes into view once you get some altitude:)
Anyword looks scary if you don't know the roots. Picture how, say, "Yellowstone" would look if you didn't know the words "Yellow" and "stone" - or worse, how English words tend to be structured. Yell-Ows-Tone? Yel-Lows-To-Ne? Ye-Llowston-E? Not knowing how to break something up makes it look alien.
Hval = Whale FjÃrÃur = Fjord Mor = Sediment à = River Vatn = Water JÃkull = Glacier Foss = Falls
For some of those, you can see the English analogue, can't you? Icelandic is a Germanic language too.
Glymur falls down into a slot canyon. Most people go along the top route, along a trail called Leggjabrjótur (literally "Broken Leg" - let's just say that you don't want to fall;) ). The bottom route is spectacular but not really recommended. You have to wade through a freezing cold river, and there's a serious risk of falling rocks, which would be pretty much instant death given how far they're falling. Lots of dead birds usually floating around down there (they nest in the cliffs around the falls).
The story behind how it's created also relates to why so many things in the area begin with "Hval-" ("whale"). According to legend, a man met an elf woman, and ended up sleeping with her, with the promise that if a child resulted, he'd raise the child in the world of humans and have it baptized. Nine months later, he was at church, and a child was abandoned at the doorstep, with a note stating that the father of the child will have it baptized. The priest three times asked if anyone knew whose child it was, but he refused to speak up, despite knowing the truth. Enraged, the elf woman cast a curse on him, causing him to go mad and run off into the fjörd where he changed into a monstrous-sized red-headed whale (Rauðhöfði, "Redhead"), where he lived, destroying ships in his fury.
One day he destroyed a boat containing a sorcerer's son. To get revenge, the sorcerer himself sat out, and when the whale emerged, he enchanged him into going a mindless blind rage. The sorceror sailed to the bottom of the fjörd, pursued by the whale, and ran inland; the enraged whale chased after him, flopping across the surface and digging out what would become the river channel of Botnsá. The sorceror climbed up the nearby mountain (Hvalfell, Whale Mountain), and the whale slowly thrashed its way up the side, gouging out the canyon in which Glymur flows; Glymur means clanging, due to the noise of the whale's thrashing, and the ridge there is Skjálfandahæðir or the Shaking Heights. Exhausted and bashed up, the whale managed only to reach the lake Hvalvatn (Whale Lake) before dying in its centre.
This is of course a totally true story supported by modern science.
We even got a new highest waterfall several years back. The highest used to be Glymur, at the bottom of Hvalfjörður (very pretty waterfall, BTW, strongly recommend the hike out to it). But Morsárjökull (a terminal glacier of Vatnajökull, the giant glacier in the southeast) receded up a cliff, leaving a series of waterfalls - Morsárfossar - which are taller than Glymur (but not as pretty).
I did check the numbers. The surge in short interest, up to ~39M, started at the end of February, mainly picking up in March. It was relatively constant (27-29m) before that.
Your premise is false.
The main point is: you are an ass.
Sorry that your cries of doom and gloom didn't pan out. Better luck next time.
No it wasn't. 12 months ago it was 29M the same as in end of Feb and beginning of March
Apparently you don't know what the word "started" means. "Started at the end of February".
Short interest had been around 29M for the previous year. But starting at the end of February, it surged, up to around 39M.
The stock price isn't "higher" because it is already too damn high. It has a negative 25 P/E ratio and 10 billion in debt!
Which would be relevant if we were talking about a steady-state, dividend-paying company, rather than a company growing by orders of magnitude. You want earnings on a growing company to be as low as it can bear, because you want every cent they can get their hands on going into expansion. Check out Amazon in 2015.
Short interest was comparably low 12 months ago. The short spike started at the end of February; most was bought at a stock value between 250 and 310.
It's worth a reminder that short interest drives the price of a stock down. The stock price would be higher if not for the surge in short interest then.
Slashdot Mirror
I bought TSLA, 2/3rds of it at $264. And was widely ridiculed on Slashdot for doing so because, dontchaknow, Tesla can't make cars and they're going bankrupt any day now.
Check the stock price now.
A big shoutout to all of you shorts who handed me your money. I'll use it to pay for my Model 3. ;)
But please, don't give up on your short thesis. I and other longs look forward to your next surge in short interest, because this next time, THIS NEXT TIME, the bankwuptcy is for REALZ, right? The past 4 short squeezes were just fluke events, rather than a sign that your thesis is fundamentally flawed ;)
What subsidies? There is no such thing as "tunneling subsidies".
And as for Musk's other companies, SpaceX has saved NASA massive amounts of money vs. the ULA monopoly. What's your issue with Musk saving taxpayers vast amounts of money? And the subsidies that you damn Tesla buyers for getting? They were designed by GM. Literally, the size of the battery pack that gets the full credit is the exact same size as the original Volt's battery pack (16 kWh). Any automaker can get them, all they have to do is make EVs. It's their choice if they don't want them. Meanwhile, Tesla faces protectionist legislation in many states in the US that supports its competitors' business models and bans Tesla from operating stores there.
Should the response be something like this? ;)
This is for Loop, not Hyperloop.
Think SkyTran, but faster and underground. And with both passenger capsules and car capsules.
Also, to anyone who doesn't know how Boring Company is working to reduce tunneling costs... Link.
1) That was pre-update. Also, it's not clear whether the person was asleep or having a medical emergency.
2) From your second link:
Is this a vagueness contest? Try again.
Explain what you mean "translating to IRL"? With specifics.
Also explain what you mean by the word "those out there"
Teslahu akhbar.
The funny thing is that you actually seem to think that such comments are... what, offensive? Hurtful? Do elaborate on how sexual innuendo is supposed to be hurting my delicate widdle feelings. ;)
You know, I'm going to have to start using that as a minced oath. ;)
Slashdot is complaining about the number of characters per line so I'm going to have to add a very long line here. Hipster Ipsum will do: "Lorem ipsum dolor amet whatever scenester post-ironic adaptogen humblebrag narwhal kickstarter asymmetrical tilde direct trade typewriter meggings taxidermy. DIY enamel pin direct trade pug, pour-over occupy bespoke. Kale chips air plant crucifix raclette organic. Prism chambray kickstarter, echo park glossier vexillologist tattooed disrupt air plant synth snackwave unicorn iceland. Microdosing cred next level shabby chic post-ironic snackwave four dollar toast shaman sustainable etsy. Yr selfies put a bird on it palo santo tbh vinyl taiyaki helvetica XOXO succulents, normcore thundercats mustache pinterest pabst. Bitters direct trade vaporware kickstarter, ethical tumeric jianbing waistcoat stumptown vegan post-ironic craft beer crucifix cronut flexitarian. Ugh venmo pitchfork squid, ramps microdosing roof party leggings cloud bread fanny pack 8-bit PBR&B. Salvia meggings semiotics try-hard cronut swag farm-to-table." There we go, that should do. On with our regularly scheduled post.
You apparently didn't follow the instructions I gave. When you do so, recalls are broken down by model.
Tesla:
Mercedes:
How do you define feelings and thoughts? Metacognition (the ability to reflect on one's own thoughts), for example? Be careful if that's your basis, because even rats do that. The same may some day be shown for bees (although I'm not aware of any experiments at present that have attempted to test this).
It's an uncomfortable thought that the world around us is not just mindless automatons, but that it's thinking beings, regularly having their lives snuffed out by others. Including by us, whether by necessity or choice.
But, the world doesn't care what makes us comfortable.
Their communication system alone is amazing. Their mental mapping when flying between locations is based on the direction of the sun, but they automatically adjust for how the sun will move (even at night or when it's otherwise not visible), in a manner that adjusts for latitude and the passing of the seasons. In the hive, they waggle dance to indicate the direction and distance to a resource (the static charges they build up can be perceived by nearby bees when they waggle). Moving straight up means "in the direction of the sun" - not "the direction of the sun when I last set out", but the current direction of the sun. Every second spent on the waggle before looping back to the start represents a kilometer of distance. A waggle dance is usually enough to bring another bee to within a couple hundred meters of a target, wherein they start searching visually. Bees don't blindly listen to waggle dances; if they're having good luck on their own, they're unlikely to listen to it, only bees that have been having trouble finding resources tend to follow them. If a bee had a *bad* experience with the location being danced to - found no resources, found a dead bee, etc - there's a "NO" buzz frequency (380Hz) which they can do. The more impressed a bee is with their location, the more vigorously they waggle dance, while the more opposed a bee is to a location, the more it does its "NO" buzz; they can even end up getting into physical fights over the issue. Advocates of different locations can also get into fights with each other.
It's easy to think of individual bees as mindless drones as part of a "greater whole", but they really aren't; they're impressive even individually. In addition to solar navigation, they also have landmark navigation, visual navigation to small targets, and they learn what sort of things pay good rewards (which as this study shows, can involve significant reasoning). Contrary to the popular image, the queen doesn't "give direction"; she's not a "leader". She just "smells nice", and other bees want to be near her. But beyond that, each bee is an individual.
They're fastidiously clean. They not only will remove debris and any dead bees from a hive, but they're adamant about not defecating in the hive. Honeybees will literally hold it until they die if they can't leave (e.g. in the winter due to weather) rather than foul their own hive. And maintaining the hive is a constant struggle because there's an endless list of pests and predators that want to eat either the bees, their larva, or the honey; a hive is such a tempting resource.
Preserving the honey is of course quite the task, and bees have specific climate requirements in general. They do amazing job at managing the internal climate. Some bees will act like air conditioners, fanning with their wings to create airflow through certain areas. They'll add or remove propolis to the hive to adjust how "weathertight" it is, to get the right amount of airflow without letting in pests. In the winter, they cluster together for warmth in the "winter cluster", which slowly migrates across the comb, eating their honey stores as they go; their collective body heat keeps them from freezing, and they minimize their surface area by clustering together. Some (non-European) honeybees have taken this even further - made famous by The Oatmeal, Japanese honeybees fight off attacks from otherwise impervious Japanese giant hornets (aka real-life Tracker Jackers) by clustering around them and raising their body temperature to the point that they survive but the hornets effectively die of heat stroke.
Key word is "begin to". And just so you know, the real news is that with the last update, Tesla went in the other direction. It used to be that you could have your hands off the wheel for minutes at a time when conditions were good. After the update it's more like 15-20 seconds. A number of people are complaining.
BTW, Musk had a comment recently concerning motorcycles.
The premise is simply false. Tesla does not have a high rate of recalls. Go here. Punch in "2017 Tesla". Check out the recalls and investigations stats. Now punch in "2017 Mercedes". Note the difference.
Did you go up Kristínartindar? That's an amazing hike. :)
It's a shame all of the people who come just to see the (pretty, but IMHO overcrowded) Svartifoss. The really pretty stuff comes into view once you get some altitude :)
Thank you, cell phone, for mangling my post...
Or was it Slashdot this time?
Anyword looks scary if you don't know the roots. Picture how, say, "Yellowstone" would look if you didn't know the words "Yellow" and "stone" - or worse, how English words tend to be structured. Yell-Ows-Tone? Yel-Lows-To-Ne? Ye-Llowston-E? Not knowing how to break something up makes it look alien.
Hval = Whale
FjÃrÃur = Fjord
Mor = Sediment
à = River
Vatn = Water
JÃkull = Glacier
Foss = Falls
For some of those, you can see the English analogue, can't you? Icelandic is a Germanic language too.
Pretty much ;)
Pictures: Glymur, Morsárfossar.
Glymur falls down into a slot canyon. Most people go along the top route, along a trail called Leggjabrjótur (literally "Broken Leg" - let's just say that you don't want to fall ;) ). The bottom route is spectacular but not really recommended. You have to wade through a freezing cold river, and there's a serious risk of falling rocks, which would be pretty much instant death given how far they're falling. Lots of dead birds usually floating around down there (they nest in the cliffs around the falls).
The story behind how it's created also relates to why so many things in the area begin with "Hval-" ("whale"). According to legend, a man met an elf woman, and ended up sleeping with her, with the promise that if a child resulted, he'd raise the child in the world of humans and have it baptized. Nine months later, he was at church, and a child was abandoned at the doorstep, with a note stating that the father of the child will have it baptized. The priest three times asked if anyone knew whose child it was, but he refused to speak up, despite knowing the truth. Enraged, the elf woman cast a curse on him, causing him to go mad and run off into the fjörd where he changed into a monstrous-sized red-headed whale (Rauðhöfði, "Redhead"), where he lived, destroying ships in his fury.
One day he destroyed a boat containing a sorcerer's son. To get revenge, the sorcerer himself sat out, and when the whale emerged, he enchanged him into going a mindless blind rage. The sorceror sailed to the bottom of the fjörd, pursued by the whale, and ran inland; the enraged whale chased after him, flopping across the surface and digging out what would become the river channel of Botnsá. The sorceror climbed up the nearby mountain (Hvalfell, Whale Mountain), and the whale slowly thrashed its way up the side, gouging out the canyon in which Glymur flows; Glymur means clanging, due to the noise of the whale's thrashing, and the ridge there is Skjálfandahæðir or the Shaking Heights. Exhausted and bashed up, the whale managed only to reach the lake Hvalvatn (Whale Lake) before dying in its centre.
This is of course a totally true story supported by modern science.
We even got a new highest waterfall several years back. The highest used to be Glymur, at the bottom of Hvalfjörður (very pretty waterfall, BTW, strongly recommend the hike out to it). But Morsárjökull (a terminal glacier of Vatnajökull, the giant glacier in the southeast) receded up a cliff, leaving a series of waterfalls - Morsárfossar - which are taller than Glymur (but not as pretty).
I also control the British crown and keep the metric system down.
I did check the numbers. The surge in short interest, up to ~39M, started at the end of February, mainly picking up in March. It was relatively constant (27-29m) before that.
Your premise is false.
Sorry that your cries of doom and gloom didn't pan out. Better luck next time.
Apparently you don't know what the word "started" means. "Started at the end of February".
Short interest had been around 29M for the previous year. But starting at the end of February, it surged, up to around 39M.
Which would be relevant if we were talking about a steady-state, dividend-paying company, rather than a company growing by orders of magnitude. You want earnings on a growing company to be as low as it can bear, because you want every cent they can get their hands on going into expansion. Check out Amazon in 2015.
Further reading: How can the price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio mislead investors? (article has nothing to do with Tesla, just discusses P/E in general, and how it's commonly misused - in exactly the way you're doing it).
Short interest was comparably low 12 months ago. The short spike started at the end of February; most was bought at a stock value between 250 and 310.
It's worth a reminder that short interest drives the price of a stock down. The stock price would be higher if not for the surge in short interest then.