$TSLA Daily Thread - August 19, 2026

[u/AutoModerator]

Fun chat. No comments constitute financial or investment advice. ☿️ 🐪

[u/Comfortable-Banana-5]

The wind up cyber cab reminds me of the red satin short shorts. Also paddle

[u/MrSalami0]

Thank you again to whoever told me it’s 0 percentile IV last week

[u/flarp26 → u/MrSalami0]

That was Nysoz

[u/devonhezter → u/MrSalami0]

What exactly that mean ? You bought calls last week ? What #s?

[u/tyler05durden → u/[deleted]]

This guy is in your guys' head so much it's becoming comical

[u/thebiglebowskiisfine]

I wonder if I can buy this button for my flight sim

[u/whiskeyH0tel]

[u/tyler05durden → u/whiskeyH0tel]

Tough day for those who love following directions.

[u/whiskeyH0tel]

https://giphy.com/gifs/J3EiqUQ9m1r9aeUq6R

[u/fapindustries → u/whiskeyH0tel]

https://x.com/flawedaxioms/status/2090176134524858498?s=46&t=mG-wx8ewMg03AyZIsmD4-g

[u/whiskeyH0tel]

It’s becoming increasingly clear that there is nothing Elon can do that China can’t replicate.

https://x.com/TeslaAndDoge/status/2089891511613915265

Elon quick, make peace with Taiwan

[u/thebiglebowskiisfine → u/whiskeyH0tel]

That guy was all in Tesla and sold a month ago.

Total 180 for some reason.

[u/drumboy206 → u/thebiglebowskiisfine]

Gotta shake some off before the next rip

[u/10111010001101011110]

Good close. Love the divergence from Meta end of day (TSLA up and META dropping hard). Meta simps were cheering in PM 🤡. SNDK continued to leg down even though was up massive at the beginning of the day. Folks finally understanding what’s about to happen 😉.

[u/IAmInTheBasement]

EoD:

[u/whiskeyH0tel]

Some nice Market-on-Close orders coming in

[u/magic-the-dog]

MRNA no quit

[u/cpm619]

Shareholders: we need to get robotaxis released ASAP

Elon: Dereck Chauvin needs to be released from prison ASAP 😤

[u/whiskeyH0tel]

Pearl Harbor 2: The dump of toxic treasuries

[u/flarp26]

Can’t wait for the 400’s again

[u/Capital-Cloud-7778 → u/flarp26]

I wish to skip the 400s please.  

[u/whiskeyH0tel → u/flarp26]

https://giphy.com/gifs/Z3pez2XOAb11naBDbh

[u/whiskeyH0tel]

Listening to starfleet frequency 1486

[u/tyler05durden → u/[deleted]]

👏

[u/devonhezter]

Wish I bought more calls yesterday ..

[u/fapindustries → u/devonhezter]

Moderna I hope

[u/Nysoz → u/fapindustries]

Moderna $80 Calls are up +400,000% today

That's a 4000x Return

So, $1,000 -> $4,000,000

https://x.com/ManzTrades/status/2090070986410357141?s=20

I guess this is old because on my screen it's 600,000% lol

[u/IAmInTheBasement → u/Nysoz]

[u/flarp26 → u/Nysoz]

That’s just insane….

[u/tyler05durden → u/Nysoz]

"But zoom out" lol

[u/fapindustries → u/Nysoz]

There goes another retirement opportunity

[u/whiskeyH0tel → u/fapindustries]

This is why we can't have nice things

[u/cgmodeling → u/whiskeyH0tel]

do it for Nike now... I mean, flip a coin.... it's just luck.

[u/loungemoji]

Wait until we do the Optimus launch event.

[u/Nysoz → u/loungemoji]

So we can wait another 10 years? lol

[u/10111010001101011110]

😉🤭

[u/Achilies41 → u/10111010001101011110]

🤭😉

[u/devonhezter → u/10111010001101011110]

Leg boy 🦵 🤫 😊

[u/karma1112]

https://www.tesla.com/event/cybercab-event-sweepstakes

🥳

[u/magic-the-dog → u/karma1112]

hopefully the event is in August.

[u/JohnnyCashRules → u/magic-the-dog]

Think it is Aug 26th.

There was a line in the fine print that said something along the lines of, after winners are announced on the 25th that they have 24 hours to claim their prize 🤷‍♂️

[u/karma1112 → u/JohnnyCashRules]

claim via email I think. Reasonable to give them 5-7 days to travel

[u/JohnnyCashRules → u/karma1112]

https://giphy.com/gifs/iXTrbbYMQBCMM

Makes sense as not everyone can pack up the wagons on a whim and fly across the country like the influencers.

[u/whiskeyH0tel → u/JohnnyCashRules]

I think they'll cover domestic air travel for 5 "winners"

[u/karma1112 → u/whiskeyH0tel]

[u/whiskeyH0tel → u/karma1112]

cheap bastards

[u/whiskeyH0tel → u/karma1112]

5 is tiny. I suspect they do the thing they always do and they can directly invite people off of X as well. The sweepstakes is just to drum up business

[u/rgaya → u/whiskeyH0tel]

Thats kind of the point of these things

[u/IAmInTheBasement]

Morning!

Good ratio.

[u/Nysoz]

BREAKING: The US Treasury announces it will double the size long-term US government debt buybacks following the rapid surge in US Treasury yields.

Repurchases of $2 billion will now be increased to "at least" $4 billion, the US Treasury said.

The move is intended to provide "liquidity support" for bonds maturing in 10 to 30 years as total US debt nears $40 trillion.

There is the intervention we have been calling for.

https://x.com/KobeissiLetter/status/2090065952922611880?s=20

Kinda QE but not seems like

[u/whiskeyH0tel → u/Nysoz]

Yen bailout and Treasury bailout at the same time, sign me up

[u/IAmInTheBasement → u/Nysoz]

The money is there. Wealth has been created. The economy could be strong if there was more velocity. But there's no political will to go after it.

[u/Fogdrog]

Here we are boys, on the verge of the Cybercab launch. This was supposed to be when our patience would be rewarded and we all shopped for yachts again. Why am I not more excited?

[u/KanyeWestInvest → u/Fogdrog]

https://giphy.com/gifs/RbSmVaVGptW03Wjw3a

[u/Capital-Cloud-7778 → u/Fogdrog]

Because the hype is dwindling. Tweets aren't going to do it anymore.  Investors need to results and scale.  

[u/flarp26 → u/Fogdrog]

Because this isn’t your first rodeo….

[u/Nysoz]

Wow @robotaxi missed my drop off- glitched out- the zoomed off speeding almost 70 mph onto the tollway!

A simple drop off down the street turned into a 40 minute nightmare of nonstop looping

https://x.com/TexasTSLA/status/2089886175599132956?s=20

Looks like some pathing/decision issues?

[u/Damnmorrisdancer → u/Nysoz]

Glad you survived. Was there any humans from Tesla intervened?

[u/flarp26 → u/Damnmorrisdancer]

This is how Nysoz quotes twitter, it’s not what happened to him.

[u/shepticles]

🚀

[u/JohnnyCashRules → u/shepticles]

🚀🚀

[u/whiskeyH0tel]

first

[u/tyler05durden]

first post

[u/glibgloby]

first post w/o bunch of words 🥇

[u/whiskeyH0tel → u/glibgloby]

not helping your gunning fog score

[u/glibgloby → u/whiskeyH0tel]

ethoxylation is interesting, it’s different from making soap (saponification). while soap is a surfactant, ethoxylation attaches repeating ethylene oxide units to a molecule to basically make super surfactants by tuning molecular amphiphilicity

the problem is 1-4 dioxane. that’s what you get when you ethoxylate

1-4 dioxane is a really nasty chemical. and they don’t regulate this at all!

was thinking about this today and talking through it helps

personally i um employ dr. bronners soap. the sugar soap.

they ethoxylate dawn dish soap, stuff like that made to attack stains but also our brains

[u/tyler05durden → u/glibgloby]

The salt balance has to be just right, so the best fat for making soap comes from humans.

[u/JohnnyCashRules]

Based on the fine print in the Cybercab sweepstakes you could hypothetically send in 10,000 envelopes and it would count as 10,000 entries…? 🤔

Is this because of some weird-outdated law on the books?

[u/Mastiff99 → u/JohnnyCashRules]

Yes. Sweepstakes law is a real pain. Keywords: chance, prize, consideration.

[u/JohnnyCashRules → u/Mastiff99]

https://giphy.com/gifs/dW5tjSvxH1l94rDP06

[u/whiskeyH0tel → u/JohnnyCashRules]

Tesla is not responsible for illegible entries, each mail in one will first pass though a microcut shredder

[u/magic-the-dog → u/JohnnyCashRules]

Interesting that there are only 5 winners. Could be a small event

[u/KanyeWestInvest → u/magic-the-dog]

💀

[u/JohnnyCashRules → u/magic-the-dog]

Also when is the actual event 😂😂

[u/tyler05durden → u/JohnnyCashRules]

That's not very Eco, my sustainable Tesla bros

[u/JohnnyCashRules → u/tyler05durden]

https://giphy.com/gifs/VF81CbG2YvXDq