You mean like 99% of Twitter useres? Hot pithy takes seems to be Twitter’s bread and butter.
Musk loves trolling. What he hasn’t figured out apparently (or doesn’t care) is that trolling may be fun for him and was acceptable when he was just another user, but now that he’s the owner he needs to take more care with his messaging.
Wow, I was actually going to give him the benefit of the doubt because I assumed the second tweet Sam posted was in fact a direct reply to the first, but this is ridiculous. “Lol no, newton’s third law” is not the tweet of an intelligent man who knows a lot about rockets, it would have taken no more effort to say “Electric rockets are far from lifting payloads into orbit, but have been used on satellites in orbit for decades.”
He didn’t say that, though, no matter how much you want to believe he said that, he said something dismissive that, at a minimum, demonstrates he didn’t think very hard about the question. Am I supposed to respect him for this? He comes off as an ignorant douche, which only plays into the increasing popular perception of him as an ignorant douche.
Yup. That’s basically what I’m (and other people are) saying. When he acts like an arrogant ass and inadvertently says something stupid in the process, he gets dunked on, and properly so.
Correction - Musk is like most conservative public figures - mediocre intellect, says a lot of stupid stuff, hand-waves it away by saying “lol I was trolling”. Or, he was kidding. Or, it’s not a big deal.
Anything except saying “I was factually wrong and I accept correction from my critics.” That’s something right-wingers won’t do.
Hey, Alright! Since your giving me options, I’ll take this one!
As someone who routinely uses his truck for trucky things, I am repulsed by the current crop of electric pickups and their useless beds. I too realize that for many people a truck is just a station wagon with an open back, but for a very large number of us it’s actually a - Truck -
(IMO, if I can’t put a 4x8 sheet in it, and if I can’t load it with a bobcat, it isn’t a truck)
I’m a semi-retired contractor, and a 6’4" bed with a headache rack is just fine. I will note the Ram Rev with the pass-through will accommodate 18’ material…
I have no idea what this means, but I am memorizing it so that I may pass among the humans undetected.
Agree- but I can put a 4x8 sheet in my 6’5" (?) bed. If I have lots of them I leave the tailgate down and use a strap. If I have a couple (and they aren’t too flimsy) I just slide them in and let them angle up over the tailgate.
I don’t know the dimensions of that thing, but it doesn’t look like you’d practically get a sheet in it to me.
ETA: Also why I insist on a sliding rear window. From tailgate to dash is about 14 feet, which is handy for things like moldings
I think the Ram and the Chevy are 6’+. Lightning is 6’4". Cybertruck, no idea. My snowbike was 10’ long and hung off the tailgate but worked just fine. My beef is with everyone who has a pickup with a semi-permanently closed tonneau cover. This might be a sign you don’t really need a pickup
I loved my Ford F150, but it finally rusted out and I’ve never replaced it. I’ve casually looked at the Ford Lightning…
the problem is my F150 bed was 6.5 feet, and that was just long enough, but the Ford lightning is 5.5 feet… I’m not even sure what I would do with that.
Ford is already looking at a new line of electric trucks though, so either way I wouldn’t buy anything like that right now.
ETA I see the post above mine says the lightning is a little over 6 feet, that wasn’t my understanding. Just looking online, I’m saying 67.1 inches, 2” longer than I thought.
Agreed. I like the extended (not crew) cab because I use the back “seat” as a trunk / doghouse. I removed the seats and cut a piece of wood to make a smooth floor. I don’t want the extra length of the crew cab and I don’t need the seats of one.
And I have a boring office job and a decrepit old house.
Sorry–I might have mis-remembered. The full-size pickups have really upped their tailgate game, so I feel like it may be less of an issue. If you DON’T have a tonneau cover, the big cab is a nice place to store/stash stuff.
Can we say there is at least some degree of consensus that as a truck, that concept “Cybertruck” was daft? Whether or not Elon was in any way directly involved?
Meanwile, back at the ranch… I say that Elon IS someone who believes being a troll who is rich enough to escape consequences is peak cleverness. Because as long as he can tell himself he is in our heads rent-free, and we can do nothing to him, he thinks he’s winning.
I can’t sort by latest tweets.
I found this article:
Hopefully, it’s a glitch and everything will be normal again soon and there will be no need to panic/get angry at evil Mr Twitter Man.
The fact that you didn’t capitalize “bobcat” worries me…
What a man does with wildlife in the bed of his truck is a private matter.
In other works, Lord Elmo (or his AI minions) will decide what you get to read and you will like it. Big Brother is Good.
So, does that mean if he poots out a sufficiently large or sufficiently fast baby elmo he will lift off from the toilet seat?
Rail gun, aka mass driver. Electric launch system.
TBF the question was about an “electric rocket”. So I’ll give him that. Which is not much and he still acted dickish and gave a silly answer.