Tesla is facing issues with the bare metal construction of the Cybertruck, which Elon Musk warned was as tricky to do as making Lego bricks

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[–] 55 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Two things, not necessarily related.

  1. The cybertronk looks highly regarded when put together correctly. Imagine if it has the panel gaps of other cars TSLA makes.

  2. My tinfoil hat theory on why Elon is acting all right wing all of the sudden is to get those idiots to buy electric bare metal Pontiac Aztecs with "unbreakable" windows instead of F-150's

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    My theory is he's a wealthy dude, so he's going to have right wing tendencies since the right wing benefits wealthy dudes.

    Also, one of his kids came out as trans, he went nuts, blamed social media for making his kid a "degenerate". Then bought twitter to destroy it out of revenge.

    He's kinda like a James Bond villain, but so much dumber.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    My tinfoil hat theory on why Elon is acting all right wing all of the sudden is to get those idiots to buy electric bare metal Pontiac Aztecs with “unbreakable” windows instead of F-150’s

    can he recoup $44 billion tho....? it's a bold move.meme

    wouldn't it be nice to have some kind of logical explanation for his demented thrashings?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I don't think he actually cares about the money he blew on Twitter. Money is a construct and that is even more true for rich people. If he cared about the money, he wouldn't have tossed Twitter down the shitter.

    I think he cares more about the impression he is making, whether it be good or bad. People are talking about Elon and that's all that matters.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    While I don't know the cost to develop the cyber truck assuming it was 0 dollars to make the cost of the Twitter deal from cyber truck alone, it would take 88 thousand of them at elon getting 100% of the money from the sales. ( how he expects to sell an electric truck for 50k is beyond me)

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    100% everyone is making fun of teslas already, so imagine how the people feel who pre-ordered some garbage years ago. Now with their "leaked" email they can tell people how their future car will have toleraces that are on an qtomic level. These are also the prople who believed that teslas can fly in 3 years. Which was in 2016 i believe

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    highly regarded

    Did you mean highly retar...? Is this a mistake or are you avoiding the r-word?

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  • [+] -101 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    I had exactly the same theory for 2. He seems to genuinely want to save humanity (reusable rockets, electric vehicles etc) and so converting right wingers to electric would fit the goal

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    "Theory" is "a supposition or system of ideas indended to explain something". I didn't say that it was the most likely theory

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Electric vehicles aren't meant to save humanity. They are meant to save the car. If we removed all gas vehicles off the road right that wouldn't even stop 30 percent of emissions. The only way to save humanity at this point is to stop capitalism. As long as we continue to expect the market to find a solution to a problem that has no profit motivator we will never save humanity. Elon included.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago*

    Ahem, if we removed all gas vehicles from the road right now, including farm vehicles, humanity would starve to death within a few months. Some subsistence farmers in developing countries that don't need fertilizer would survive.

    But it would definitely be the end of industrial society.

    Emissions from transportation are a large proportion of global greenhouse gas emissions, so it absolutely does make sense to decarbonize them. This isn't really debatable. It's been part of the ICC strategy and negotiations for decades now.

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