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Elon Musk Laid Off Supercharger Team After Taking $17 Million in Federal Charging Grants (gizmodo.com)
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Despite its CEO railing against Biden, Tesla was more than happy to take the administration's money.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Most of us have no intuition about millions of anything let alone billions, same as we have a good handle on seconds and days and years but start talking about nanoseconds or centuries and most of us have completely lost any meaningful frame of reference.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

The difference between a million and a billion dollars is approximately 1 billion dollars.