Nobody hates the Cybertruck because it’s all electric. They hate it because it was designed by a 10 year old in 1978, because it’s “bulletproof”, because it’s “apocalypse proof”, because it’s designer is a ridiculous man-child who want’s to destroy our government and repopulate the planet with more people like him.
Thank you. Standing in line right now to get my birthday donuts!
From Tesla, maybe. There are already other, non-shitty all-electric pickup trucks on the market. The Ford F-150 Lightning, for example.
And lest we forget, the scale of its failure was entirely avoidable. Elmo built his plans on the basis of producing 250,000 of these abominations a year because he claimed in 2023 that over 1 million people had made reservations for them.
Just like his popularity numbers, he probably counted all the Twitter bots and trolls in that figure
Maybe he counted on California-style mandates for non-petroleum vehicles by a certain date, to give him a captive market.
California style mandates when he was putting his chips on Texas and Trump? C’mon, he really would be a dumbass if that was the case.
Shhh, we’re not supposed to remember when Trump wanted to ban electric vehicles.
For a day, asking Grok about pretty much any topic would result in it talking about the “white genocide” in south africa. As is common with LLMs, you could simply ask it why it was bringing up this topic, and it would respond that it had been programmed to do so, and that it didn’t really believe that there was evidence of significant racially-motivated violence.
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Fake news. He loves TESLURR
“The car is all computer!”
#ETTD, including Elmo.
Long story, short: Trump hasn’t Twuthed about Elmo since the beginning of April. Elmo has shut up about Trump. The GOP blames Elmo for losing the WI race.
Musk himself may be out, but the team of wrecking balls he infiltrated into the government are still hard at work.
This little bit of schadenfreude in the form of a short by Legal Eagle just popped up on my feed:
I remember reading that little exemption clause in my auto insurance way back in the dark ages when I got insurance on my first car and being amused by it.
And Elon is out of DOGE.
I guess he’s done stealing all of everyone’s personal info.
He dramatically reduced his target for cutting spending — from $2 trillion to $1 trillion to $150 billion — and increasingly expressed frustration about resistance to his goals.
Considering the fact that he had no legal authority to do ANYTHING, I’d say he got far too little resistance.
NYT issues report saying that last year Musk, “was also using drugs far more intensely than previously known, according to people familiar with his activities.” Yes, I know plenty of people here knew he was on multiple pharmaceuticals: the point is that GOP sources are slipping in the shiv. You get lots of downstream reporting from Times stories.
For example, from the Daily Beast:
Ketamine - Adderall - Ecstasy - Shrooms
No cocaine?
Even in his drug use, he’s at best a 5
Cocaine is for peasants.
Maybe more of a 6.5, if we’re treating (3,3) as a ten.
In other news, DUH!!!
All you had to do was watch any of his CPAC appearance last year. I got contact high just watching him for a couple of minutes.