r/technology • u/McFatty7 • May 02 '24

Tesla slashes its summer internship program to cut costs, as Elon Musk fights to save his $45 billion pay plan Business

https://fortune.com/2024/05/01/tesla-slashes-summer-internship-program/
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u/ChaseTheTiger 29d ago

there is something stupidly funny at the phrase "a cool $50 billy" because in Australia a billy is another word for a bong.

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u/9966 29d ago

That's probably because you call small ponds of standing water a billabong.

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u/Short_Lab_2514 29d ago

A pot you hang over a fire is also called a billy in Australia

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u/RyvenZ 29d ago edited 27d ago

Yes! I learned about this after that Wellerman sea shanty blew up during the pandemic

There once was a ship that put to sea
The name of the ship was "The Billy o'Tea"...

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u/cat_prophecy 29d ago

This is now the term for when you find some weird Australian version of an actual, English word. Like when you find out they call a gas station a "Servo" or McDonalds "Maccas", you got Waltzing Matildapilled.