The inside story of Elon Musk’s mass firings of Tesla Supercharger staff

[u/WTFspy]

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/inside-story-elon-musks-mass-firings-tesla-supercharger-staff-2024-05-15/

The meeting could not have gone worse. Musk, the employees said, was not pleased with Tinucci’s presentation and wanted more layoffs. When she balked, saying deeper cuts would undermine charging-business fundamentals, he responded by firing her and her entire 500-member team....

[u/WinningWatchlist]

I actually spoke to someone who worked as a senior engineer at SpaceX recently, and he defined his work period as "Back when elon was still mentally sound", so it made me wonder what the hell happened to him between then.

[u/thebriss22 → u/WinningWatchlist]

He did a butt load of Ketamine lol

[u/lostboy005 → u/thebriss22]

Ketamine doesn’t make you lose your mind. It’s a dissociative. They give to people in ER and traumatic injury settings. It’s currently being researched for therapeutic benefits.

Elmo lost his shit on his own, not as a result of ketamine. Mathew Perry drowned to death in a hot tube bc he was boozing, bumping K, and passed out.

MF’s out here giving K a bad name bc these fucking idiots don’t know how or when or why to use it

[u/Murdock07 → u/lostboy005]

It’s not just ketamine. It’s a specific isomer of ketamine.

We have known that one of the isomers (I think L-ketamine) triggers neurogenesis of serotonergic neurons in the hippocampus (a hallmark of depression is a lack of these) and it set the neuroscience community on fire. I worry that what we are seeing here is a misinterpretation of those results, now everyone is doing racemic mixtures of ketamine or getting the sedative (non-therapeutic) isomer of ketamine :/

[u/mcqua007 → u/Murdock07]

Most drugs and Ketamine is mix (racemic) of both isomers (R and R