re: Tesla posts massive 702 million dollar loss in first quarter

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I don't know shite about stocks, is that normal? Results were twice as bad as expected but didn't really affect stock price?

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earnings season is weird. Stocks react differently to similar results.
For example iRobot (makes the roomba) posted a mixed bag of results on Tuesday evening and the stock has been down almost 25% since. And their results were much better than what tsla showed.
Now, keep in mind that Tesla was already down 30% this year, which coupled with the overall market run can be described as a net ~50% negative. So that plays into it. Meaning, even they missed badly, people already kind of had that factored in.

But yeah in a vacuum, you post results like what they did, and you should drop way more than the 3% they're down right now.