Malloc Voidstar posted:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1724060062853767183
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1724053897398919402

The Top G posted:

This but unironically. People did fine without them for decades and then Big Auto found another way to nickel and dime us. Now cars have 16 airbags and they turn a 5mph fender bender into a $30,000 repair bill that totals the car.

Goons love to poo poo on Musk out of envy but he’s the only one who’s producing straightforward automobiles these days.

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Malloc Voidstar posted:

In order for the West to win this civilizational battle, it must:
1) Proudly and unequivocally defend Western values;
2) Reject cultural relativism and the unicornia vision of multiculturalism;
3) Recommit to individual dignity over the celebration of collective identity politics;
4) Recognize that all cultures are not equal;
5) Recognize that all religious beliefs are not equally consistent with Western values;
6) Recognize that all immigrants are not equally likely to assimiliate and adopt Western values;
7) Recognize that immigrants who espouse intolerable values that seek to destroy our civilization will be deported (en masse);
8) Implement a rational immigration policy that recognizes the importance of cultural homophily (choosing immigrants who hail from cultures that possess similar values to those of the host nations);
9) Exhibit zero tolerance for seditious belief systems; such systems can be criminalized if they constitute an existential threat to our freedoms and liberties.

I could go on but the latter nine items (some of which are correlated) would be a good start.

Here is the problem: I don't think that the West has the testicular fortitude to implement more than a small subset of the latter nine. Hence, to reiterate a prediction that I've been making for several decades, the West is in death spiral. It will be ugly, painful, and bloody. The greatest tragedy is that the West brought this on itself because of parasitic "progressive" follies. The most dangerous weapon in nature is a human mind infected by ideological parasites.

The Top G posted:

This but unironically. People did fine without them for decades and then Big Auto found another way to nickel and dime us. Now cars have 16 airbags and they turn a 5mph fender bender into a $30,000 repair bill that totals the car.

Goons love to poo poo on Musk out of envy but he’s the only one who’s producing straightforward automobiles these days.

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Elias_Maluco posted:

I got infected by the woke virus from an airbag

Also "straightforward automobiles" now means: car needs a mobile app to even open the door

Nenonen posted:

There's only one good way to steer any vehicle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp1TQJb5hQk&t=90s
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The Top G posted:

This but unironically. People did fine without them for decades and then Big Auto found another way to nickel and dime us. Now cars have 16 airbags and they turn a 5mph fender bender into a $30,000 repair bill that totals the car.

Goons love to poo poo on Musk out of envy but he’s the only one who’s producing straightforward automobiles these days.

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shyduck posted:

really isn't hiding it anymore, in fact he's screaming it out loud

WoodrowSkillson posted:

as a guy who helped set the pricing for car safety stuff just lol at this post since even if this was a joke there are people that think this.

car safety is so much better now than it has ever been and all of those advancements are likely how tesla was able to make a car without crumple zones presumably not murder every occupant since even Tesla is not THAT stupid (musk is). if anything this post is perfectly aimed at the cybertruck since in the absence of good crumple zones its likely using pretensioners, ratcheting locking tongues, and multi step force limiters on the seat belts along with a poo poo ton of steering wheel, dash, knee, side, and roof airbags to help people not die.

It also means in a 25-30mph crash the occupant might get broken ribs from the overtuned force limiter keeping them held against the seat way too long

Plank Walker posted:

counterpoint: i think if elon saw the words "force limiter" on a bom he'd cross it off and fire the guy who put it there

dr_rat posted:

Well I for one think it possibly a bad thing that the richest person in the world is openly promoting people who are frothing at the mouth to start a world wide race war.

Oglethorpe posted:

The Top G posted:

This but unironically. People did fine without them for decades and then Big Auto found another way to nickel and dime us. Now cars have 16 airbags and they turn a 5mph fender bender into a $30,000 repair bill that totals the car.

Goons love to poo poo on Musk out of envy but he’s the only one who’s producing straightforward automobiles these days.

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

moist turtleneck posted:

Wasn't there some robot dipshit that got accosted at a McDonald's for having a pretend bionic eye that just recorded everything around him

He should sign up for the free hole in his head thanks to musk co

Lladre posted:

The grid in the picture is what the person can see. Each of those holes would be a gray scaled pixel for them to see the world in.

WoodrowSkillson posted:

their other cars are not insanely bad or anything.

webcams for christ posted:

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Glumwheels posted:

https://twitter.com/ehananoki/status/1724088377350271107

Glumwheels posted:

https://twitter.com/ehananoki/status/1724088377350271107

Circle Nine posted:

as someone who gets ketamine infusions on a fairly regular basis i have no idea how anyone on it functions in even the slightest amount. it's a tremendous feat for me to be able to change which album i'm listening to let alone do anything else.

tenderjerk posted:

holy poo poo they are really paying randos money to post? i thought this was some ruse elon did with a handful of cooperative accounts in order to gin up more blue check purchases, but they are actually doing it lol

Desert Bus posted:

I wonder how much the account that posts sexy AI generated pics of Linda is making.

Circle Nine posted:

gonna need a link to this so i can look for ai lindas feet