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ol’ musky on april 2: “so yeah we really are bankrupt.  “
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Lmao i love hubris
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Apr 1, 2018 23:31
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Elon is the only remotely interesting capitalist lord.
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Apr 1, 2018 23:38
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it owns when people who won the lottery have no sense of irony
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Apr 1, 2018 23:41
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https://twitter.com/JillianneTweets/status/980579189203009536
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Apr 2, 2018 00:37
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please hire me o, great deity of capital
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I got kind of mad when a local business was crowdfunding for expansion because that’s literally the purpose of running a business, to generate capital, not take donations. to be fair they were a small burrito shop beloved by the community so sure whatever. imagining a fundamentally unprofitable business that has run through billions of dollars of capital running a gofundme is just absurd. more absurd is that people would give to it and literally subsidize investors who could conceivably get a return.
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saving this tweet for 3 months from now when Tesla ceases to exist
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Sounds like trouble in shortsville 
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TerminalRaptor posted:In all seriousness is there some sort of conspiracy to make these things ugly af? I can understand making a car "pretty" being difficult given the constraints a designer has to work with and shifting fashion tends, but you can't convince me that's the best they can do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2HX5wsQVEA i assume it's this
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bankwupt
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In all honesty, how much longer does Tesla have of losing billions of dollars before people totally give up on it?
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Apr 2, 2018 01:24
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Hurt Whitey Maybe posted:I got kind of mad when a local business was crowdfunding for expansion because that’s literally the purpose of running a business, to generate capital, not take donations. to be fair they were a small burrito shop beloved by the community so sure whatever. they should really look into microloans for that or comedy option hoodwink a dead gay internet forum into paying for their range hood
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Hurt Whitey Maybe posted:I got kind of mad when a local business was crowdfunding for expansion because that’s literally the purpose of running a business, to generate capital, not take donations. to be fair they were a small burrito shop beloved by the community so sure whatever. A dive bar/venue did that a few years back and I felt the same way. It was cash only with an ATM that charged like $5 to withdraw from
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TerminalRaptor posted:In all seriousness is there some sort of conspiracy to make these things ugly af? I can understand making a car "pretty" being difficult given the constraints a designer has to work with and shifting fashion tends, but you can't convince me that's the best they can do. see the first prius versus the first commercially successful prius
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PCjr sidecar posted:see the first prius versus the first commercially successful prius yarp the first prius looked like a slightly different corolla or echo. nobody bought it. the second-gen prius looked like a space pod and visually signaled "i am driving an electric car." it had virtually the same performance as the original. leonardo dicaprio bought one, natalie portman bought one, they sold 1.2 million of the things and "prius" is now synonymous with "hybrid car"
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Apr 2, 2018 01:48
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also they’re real quiet. good for sneakin up on mothafuckas
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:also they’re real quiet. good for sneakin up on mothafuckas don’t they make a special noise below 30 mph or something? e: i might be thinking of some other car. or imagining the whole thing! who knows!!
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President Beep posted:don’t they make a special noise below 30 mph or something? our company's 2011 one doesnt its fun taking it on popular dam hiking trails for work and all the people walking dont hear you as you folllow them at 2MPH until they realize theres been a car behind them. its actually kinda annoying
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tesla moving to the star citizen model by taking reservations on concept cars that will never be produced. looking forward to the model 3 with a built in soda fountain.
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President Beep posted:don’t they make a special noise below 30 mph or something? new priuses make this weird sort of chiming hum (generated by a speaker, specifically to warn pedestrians) when they're moving and the gas engine is off, yeah. so do all current electric cars except for those from one company -- i'm sure you can guess who. i'm not sure exactly when manufacturers started doing that but it was probably after a few blind people got run over in the UK. all hybrids and electric cars will be required to make the noise by 2020~ though iirc
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:also they’re real quiet. good for sneakin up on mothafuckas that show took the biggest nose dive in quality after season 1 edit: wait i think its 2
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Apr 2, 2018 01:55
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Sagebrush posted:yarp i think it was probably a confluence of factors that lead them to becoming more popular and not change in looks: new yellow HOV sticker program, news discounts for buying them, rising awareness of climate change and most importantly rising gas prices circa 2007 where it was over $4.50 a gallon in california though my loving god the new 2017+ prius's look like absolute poo poo, they at least looked neutrally-OK before Xaris fucked around with this message at 01:57 on Apr 2, 2018 |
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Apr 2, 2018 01:55
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Tokamak posted:tesla moving to the star citizen model by taking reservations on concept cars that will never be produced. looking forward to the model 3 with a built in Sagebrush posted:so do all current electric cars except for those from one company -- i'm sure you can guess who. jfc.
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Apr 2, 2018 01:55
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Xaris posted:tbf i dont think virtual-signalling like its a southpark smug episode is or was actually ever a thing. i consider "looking unique~~" a big downside actually and the early hybrid models with covered wheels and poo poo looked like rear end. the discounts and yellow stickers were only in california, which is a large market, but it's far from the only place where the cars were popular. the 2nd gen prius came out about when the iraq war was getting real deep and oil prices were starting to shoot up, but it wasn't that much more efficient than some of the other options, and it was an expensive car at the time. but celebrities sold their ferraris and bought priuses to conspicuously demonstrate their eco-consciousness, so that's what people started to ape
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hey cool prius. i didnt know they made a minivan version. my grandma has one but hers doesnt have lambo doors
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Xaris posted:i consider "looking unique~~" a big downside actually and the early hybrid models with covered wheels and poo poo looked like rear end. hey go gently caress yourself buddy the OG honda insight is still the coolest hybrid car on the planet  
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Apr 2, 2018 02:01
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Sagebrush posted:hey go gently caress yourself buddy my neighbor has one of these. i'm jealous.
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Sagebrush posted:hey go gently caress yourself buddy it even came in a manual
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Sagebrush posted:hey go gently caress yourself buddy ugghh nooooo. thats exactly the one i was thinking of too
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of course you were, it's the only one with covered wheels and it's the fuckin best
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Sagebrush posted:new priuses make this weird sort of chiming hum (generated by a speaker, specifically to warn pedestrians) when they're moving and the gas engine is off, yeah. so do all current electric cars except for those from one company -- i'm sure you can guess who. the leaf has always made a noise when going under ~15mph, except in the uk, they said there was a law about cars making artificial noise after 10pm. i presume that law has changed since
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Apr 2, 2018 02:33
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i still think they should all make the jetsons car sound
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real weird turf war in the “maker” (DIY elec engineer?) community i came across on twitter that seems to consist of a chinese celebrity engineer of some sort vs VICE https://twitter.com/i0n1c/status/980604958721519616?s=21 apparently vice doxxed her in their article? but the only article i can find from vice about it: https://twitter.com/jason_koebler/status/977910286580580352?s=21 quote:Wu told me she didn’t want to discuss her marital status, but before publishing the piece, I followed up with her. I hoped to discuss the Reddit conspiracy theory that claimed someone she’s in a relationship with was behind her work. Wu has spent significant energy proving these conspiracy theories false, and shutting down this harassment has inspired other women who have faced similar treatment online. rest of the piece is extremely positive about her and interesting tho. 
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duz posted:the leaf has always made a noise when going under ~15mph, except in the uk, they said there was a law about cars making artificial noise after 10pm. i presume that law has changed since like, what even is artificial, man? 
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Sagebrush posted:hey go gently caress yourself buddy my mom has an 05 with the cvt. it’s a really neat car. the manual ones had that lean burn mode that would bump them up to like 100+mpg iirc
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