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bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
Only makes sense. Ask a CHUD what communism is and the especially bright ones can maybe vomit out a talking point about "government controls everything!" and then they're completely done, having exhausted their store of knowledge. The average ones just scream poo poo about not-freedom-America-MAGA.

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Best Friends
Nov 4, 2011

The right wing hasn't faced real rhetorical opposition in generations and are completely incapable of arguing against feeding the hungry and healing the sick. Their entire mindspace is focused on defeating tax credit schemes, gender ambiguity and windsurfing.

Grognan
Jan 23, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Terrifying Effigies posted:

Twitter placed a 12 hour posting lock on him earlier, guess Elon called in some favors.

Highlights included photos of using bamboo sticks and a dremel to sand down and reapply incorrectly applied battery bandolier casings, with bamboo and plastic dust left mixed into the adhesive. Also a bunch of bent as hell battery cooling strips that were apparently being reused in new builds. He posted a listing of VINs for Model 3s with damaged batteries installed.

They Tripp deleted his account.

edit: was just about to correct when I saw that VV

Grognan fucked around with this message at 18:14 on Aug 16, 2018

Crakkerjakk
Mar 14, 2016


Grognan posted:

They deleted his account.

His lawyer is saying he deleted his own account.

Solaris 2.0
May 14, 2008

Nostalgia4Butts posted:

Also didn't japan hate communists more than we did

About the only thing Chiang Kai Shek and the Japanese could agree on was that communists should be executed, en mass. Hell Chaing was so busy executing communists (to the delight of the Japanese) that his own officers had to kidnap him to force him to fight against the Japanese who were literally invading his country

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi%27an_Incident

Viva Miriya
Jan 9, 2007

This is some poo poo: https://www.wired.com/story/syria-civil-war-hala-sentry/

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

Solaris 2.0 posted:

About the only thing Chiang Kai Shek and the Japanese could agree on was that communists should be executed, en mass. Hell Chaing was so busy executing communists (to the delight of the Japanese) that his own officers had to kidnap him to force him to fight against the Japanese who were literally invading his country

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi%27an_Incident

The PRC is lucky we never released Chiang!

Nostalgia4Butts
Jun 1, 2006

WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

Surprised the Manaforte jury isn't back yet

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Nostalgia4Butts posted:

Surprised the Manaforte jury isn't back yet

They have a metric assload of documents to get through. The trial ran quick because they kept the questioning down (federal trials go fast and the judge was pushing the tempo), but there are still hundreds of pages of dense banking records to go through.

shame on an IGA
Apr 8, 2005

Hot Karl Marx
Mar 16, 2009

Politburo regulations about social distancing require to downgrade your Karlmarxing to cold, and sorry about the dnc primaries, please enjoy!

https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1030095581442711552?s=19

UP THE BUM NO BABY
Sep 1, 2011

by Hand Knit

What?

Immanentized
Mar 17, 2009

Forget it, it's brainworms.

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010


A bunch of news papers collaborated today and released a bunch of commentary pieces calling Trump a brain wormed fascist because he keeps calling journalists enemies of the people at the same time. Trump of course, not a fan of this.

That Works
Jul 22, 2006

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFoC3TR5rzI

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost
https://twitter.com/mckaycoppins/status/1030117149036175360?s=21

Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB


For gods sake an adult in the room needs to cancel this.

I wonder how much his military uniform alone is gonna cost.

As Nero Danced
Sep 3, 2009

Alright, let's do this

LingcodKilla posted:

For gods sake an adult in the room needs to cancel this.

I wonder how much his military uniform alone is gonna cost.

He can probably get something that belonged to Idi Amin. They're about the same size and there's still a bit of room to add at least one more medal.

Nostalgia4Dogges
Jun 18, 2004

Only emojis can express my pure, simple stupidity.

He’s gonna be all North Korean general with 100 medals dangling

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost
Good news! Road analysis says the Abrams tanks won’t ruin the road, so they’re planning to roll down the streets!

Handsome Ralph
Sep 3, 2004

Oh boy, posting!
That's where I'm a Viking!


Holy poo poo.
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1030171099252891650

:stare:

That's a proper "Respectfully, go gently caress yourself, sir." if I've ever seen one.

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

Handsome Ralph posted:

Holy poo poo.
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1030171099252891650

:stare:

That's a proper "Respectfully, go gently caress yourself, sir." if I've ever seen one.

In Trump's second term SF-86s are just going to be processed by the KGB directly.


edit: China probably won't actually get the forms then!

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


Nostalgia4Dogges posted:

He’s gonna be all North Korean general with 100 medals dangling
Somebody Photoshop Donnie's face onto the deformed guy from 300 asking for a uniform.

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Nostalgia4Dogges posted:

He’s gonna be all North Korean general with 100 medals dangling

It's going to be great and I hope it happens.

psydude
Apr 1, 2008

Wonder how wannabe operator CHUDs are gonna respond to that.

joat mon
Oct 15, 2009

I am the master of my lamp;
I am the captain of my tub.

psydude posted:

Wonder how wannabe operator CHUDs are gonna respond to that.

Bitch-rear end noble stealing credit from are operators.

As Nero Danced
Sep 3, 2009

Alright, let's do this
I almost expect he'll put on a medal of honor. It's like part of his subconscious brain says to do everything he can to piss people off because it gets him attention.

Immanentized
Mar 17, 2009
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/16/tesla-ex-security-employee-alleges-theft-drug-dealing-and-wiretapping-at-gigafactory.html

Musk man having a really bad week. Another highly credible whistle blower has come out with some really shady poo poo going down at the "Alien Dreadnought" Gigafactory.

Nostalgia4Butts
Jun 1, 2006

WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

quote:

Failing to disclose to shareholders that $37 million worth of copper and other raw materials were stolen from the Gigafactory in the first half of 2018;

How?

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008


Thrown in the giant scrap piles with all the batteries, then have your buddy pick it up?

Immanentized
Mar 17, 2009

hobbesmaster posted:

Thrown in the giant scrap piles with all the batteries, then have your buddy pick it up?

Yup, as I understand it, there are just piles of material scattered around the Gigafactory because of the rushed tent assembly line. Wouldn't be too hard to get a load of copper out with the refuse.

not caring here
Feb 22, 2012

blazemastah 2 dry 4 u
Yeah, it looks like a huge shitmess there that if you were so inclined that if a truck full of steel turns up and you could just hook it up to another truck and just drive it out of there, let alone all the cast offs.

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

I suppose its also possible that the missing $37m in material never existed and their record keeping is that lovely.

Wasabi the J
Jan 23, 2008

MOM WAS RIGHT

hobbesmaster posted:

I suppose its also possible that the missing $37m in material never existed and their record keeping is that lovely.

Machine-learning to-cook-the-books

MA-Horus
Dec 3, 2006

I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

Hahaha I wonder if the guy I used to work with who quit to lead up Tesla's injection molding division has drunk himself into a coma yet.

shame on an IGA
Apr 8, 2005

Somebody else posted photos of his brand new Model 3 interior with 3 brown door panels and one white one

Like, in any halfway competent factory those wouldn't even be on the assembly line at the same time

It should not even be physically possible to gently caress that up, much less ship it

Nostalgia4Infinity
Feb 27, 2007

10,000 YEARS WASN'T ENOUGH LURKING

MA-Horus posted:

Hahaha I wonder if the guy I used to work with who quit to lead up Tesla's injection molding division has drunk himself into a coma yet.

Imagine being QA for the bullshit.

Johnny Five-Jaces
Jan 21, 2009


it's really, really amazing watching middling software engineers try their hand at other things because they think their competence at a small section of discrete mathematics means they know how to do everything else, and then fail spectacularly

shame on an IGA
Apr 8, 2005

Any Tesla shareholders that didn't see the writing on the wall when he pulled that poo poo Solarcity merger deserve what they get

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MA-Horus
Dec 3, 2006

I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

Imagine being QA for the bullshit.

I work in QA, I'd be DEEPLY medicated if I was working for Tesla.

Actually I'd be fired rather quickly because I have a bad habit of...let's say 'speaking my mind' in regards to quality concerns.

Apparently asking a mech eng when they're going to unfuck themselves and the product they designed isn't workplace appropriate.

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