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rotor posted:is there a place i can go to pay $X an hour to play with excavators and bulldozers and poo poo? Just like a half acre sandbox with some heavy equipment in there. If there is, why isnt there one closer to me? you could do like hal in that one episode of malcolm in the middle where he rents a steam roller for a week
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FMguru posted:yeah, gifted kid hitting The Wall is a story old as time (and the later it happens, the worse the fallout) i taught a few summers at one of those camps for creepily smart middle/high school kids and it was always a kick watching some fifteen-year-old who's the smartest person in his entire regular school district experience being the dumb kid for the first time in his life. it wasn't even mean, it was genuinely good for everyone, especially the kid in question, even if it was often a rough time in the short term. (and as icing on the cake they all got to practice actual socialization because at a camp full of nerds nobody is a nerd.) i assume that the smartest kids at nerd camp all grew up to be serial killers though.
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Tesseraction posted:adam something's "you're $!00k in debt for a meme and you feel nothing" but it's "you're $100k in debt for a meme and you hear the debt collectors warming up the shin breakers" cybertruck sucks for debt collectors, it's a piece of crap not worth repossessing and you can't threaten to cut off the debtors' fingers because the truck already did that for you
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raminasi posted:i assume that the smartest kids at nerd camp all grew up to be serial killers though.
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infernal machines posted:honestly, it's hard to believe the sun set on the british empire the only time I will give our horrible governmental system its due is that Elizabeth (pbuh)'s dad actively sought the dissolution of the empire after travelling overseas and realising it was just as bad as the nazis he saw our country fight
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Plank Walker posted:cybertruck sucks for debt collectors, it's a piece of crap not worth repossessing and you can't threaten to cut off the debtors' fingers because the truck already did that for you if you can afford a cybertruck you likely have objects of actual worth that can be repossessed instead well, unless your wife is smart enough to instigate the divorce fast enough to get first dibs
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Tesseraction posted:if you can afford a cybertruck you likely have objects of actual worth that can be repossessed instead what if it's one of those "cybertent" people (not the ones that build the thing, the ones that live in it)
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then everything worthless has left to hide in the woods and the family can start changing the locks
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just had a hearty lol remembering the concept of what that was supposed to be: a camping tent with a bunch of nice appliances that could be powered by the truck and room for at least two people, some kind of bar thing for serving food, etc. then what it actually is,  $3,000  e: source Beeftweeter fucked around with this message at 01:03 on May 18, 2024 |
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lol when looking for that i found this, from today:quote:Tesla Model 3 Performance price hiked $1k again, under a month after release extremely glad some rear end in a top hat is getting tax credits on a piece of poo poo that can slam into a wall from a complete stop at 60 mph in 2.9 seconds while basic necessities are unaffordable to some without government assistance that keeps getting cut further and further. apparently our money is better spent on some techbro buying a tesla instead of the people's wellbeing
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rotor posted:is there a place i can go to pay $X an hour to play with excavators and bulldozers and poo poo? Just like a half acre sandbox with some heavy equipment in there. If there is, why isnt there one closer to me? Diggerland! (usa) In Berlin! (new jersey)
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lol at buying a tesla with 70k miles on it for any amount of money, that's near the end of its lifespan 
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Tesseraction posted:if you can afford a cybertruck you likely have objects of actual worth that can be repossessed instead what? lol nearly everyone who has one is a cultist who went deep into debt to buy it. they're all dead broke just like their trucks
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...! posted:what? lol ehh as much as i hate the thing, and elon, i don't think that's true at least a couple of wealthy (by any definition) people seem to have bought them, although apparently some that could be described as celebrities were just given them
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RoastBeef posted:Diggerland! (usa) In Berlin! (new jersey) [extremely homer simpson voice] New Jersey??! Awwww
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rotor posted:[extremely homer simpson voice] New Jersey??! Awwww hey, at least it's not one of those states where the "d" would routinely be defaced into a "n"
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low bar but ur not wrong
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Beeftweeter posted:hey, at least it's not one of those states where the "d" would routinely be defaced into a "n" yeah it could be on long island
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qirex posted:yeah it could be on long island
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Beeftweeter posted:ehh as much as i hate the thing, and elon, i don't think that's true i guess you're right. after all, being rich is a sign of high intelligence and excellent decision making. buying a cybertruck is one of the smartest decisions you could make, thus the rich must be the primary customers 
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...! posted:i guess you're right. after all, being rich is a sign of high intelligence and excellent decision making. buying a cybertruck is one of the smartest decisions you could make, thus the rich must be the primary customers nah they just cost over $100,000. anyone buying one is, by almost any definition, rich. wealth very obviously does not directly translate into intelligence
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qirex posted:yeah it could be on long island ehh. the real long island, i.e. encompassing brooklyn and queens? nah the pretender nassau and suffolk counties that should've been relegated to district status? maybe
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rotor posted:is there a place i can go to pay $X an hour to play with excavators and bulldozers and poo poo? Just like a half acre sandbox with some heavy equipment in there. If there is, why isnt there one closer to me? sign up for a cert class, skip theory & get wild during practice
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i did so many donuts in the cellar forklifts man
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Beeftweeter posted:nah they just cost over $100,000. anyone buying one is, by almost any definition, rich. wealth very obviously does not directly translate into intelligence um excuse me but elon musk is one of the wealthiest men on the planet and he's also the most intelligent man on the planet. he's taking us to mars
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Beeftweeter posted:nah they just cost over $100,000. anyone buying one is, by almost any definition, rich. wealth very obviously does not directly translate into intelligence imagine how insane the danes who buy teslas are. models s/x are ~110–130k, 3 and y start at 50k. obvs cybertruck is illegal for that money, you can get a lotta car that wont try to kill you
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i have friends with kids who bought teslas and i dont like being an rear end in a top hat and dunking on them so i just discreetly tell them to make sure they know how the backdoor opens from the inside. which is super condescending but its good info i think
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Carthag Tuek posted:imagine how insane the danes who buy teslas are. models s/x are ~110–130k, 3 and y start at 50k. obvs cybertruck is illegal the s and x aren't eligible for the government subsidies here, so the s starts at $72,990 for the base model and $87,990 for the plaid. the x starts at $77,990 and $92,990, same configs, both are without any options at all. so it's not like they're cheap here either the 3 and y are only "cheap" due to the government subsidies, and with them they're still over $32k, which is not exactly cheap imo. without them they'd both start at or over $40k, and that's for a completely base, unconfigured car, too and keep in mind most people are not buying a completely base, unconfigured car, because the range and speed sucks. you could get a better, far more luxurious ice or even hybrid for the same amount, or less, and it'll have the bonus of not being a variation on an over 10 year old design regardless of model (i guess excepting the cybertruck, although it's been 5 years since it was revealed, lol)
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Carthag Tuek posted:i have friends with kids who bought teslas and i dont like being an rear end in a top hat and dunking on them so i just discreetly tell them to make sure they know how the backdoor opens from the inside. which is super condescending but its good info i think i have a few friends that have bought them too, and whenever they bring it up i just tell them what i know about them. i don't flat out say that they bought a piece of poo poo and should feel lucky to be alive, but if they have some complaint or something i'll go into detail about why it's happening or why it's designed that way etc., and at least some of them have said because of my comments (and to be fair, a lot of them are also at least peripherally aware of elon's behavior) they won't get another tesla lol most of the others just don't want another one anyway, although i do know one guy that doesn't want another but also doesn't want to get rid of his model s. i forget which year it was, i think 2013. either way, it's old enough that it doesn't have autopilot or fsd and isn't capable of them. he says he's got like 70,000 miles on it and still gets like 180 miles on a charge, so he loves it, and to be fair, that does sound good. and an older tesla without fsd? that's fine in my book i also told him he's lucky he got one back when elon wasn't as loving nuts and tesla actually cared about their product's quality. he agreed and said that's basically why he doesn't want another lol
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Carthag Tuek posted:i have friends with kids who bought teslas and i dont like being an rear end in a top hat and dunking on them so i just discreetly tell them to make sure they know how the backdoor opens from the inside. which is super condescending but its good info i think when i came back to fastly like my first meeting with my cohorts - some old some new - one of my buddies asked "hey jonny, you know cars and i kind of want to buy one. What do you think about teslas?" and i did the usual neckbeard "well they're built by a racist idiot freak and fall apart constantly and you can't get them fixed. I say avoid" and one of the new folks unmuted and quietly said ".....well, ive got one and, yeah, he's right on all points" lol
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Jonny 290 posted:when i came back to fastly like my first meeting with my cohorts - some old some new - one of my buddies asked "hey jonny, you know cars and i kind of want to buy one. What do you think about teslas?" and i did the usual neckbeard "well they're built by a racist idiot freak and fall apart constantly and you can't get them fixed. I say avoid" and one of the new folks unmuted and quietly said ".....well, ive got one and, yeah, he's right on all points" lmfao Beeftweeter posted:i also told him he's lucky he got one back when elon wasn't as loving nuts and tesla actually cared about their product's quality. he agreed and said that's basically why he doesn't want another lol in 2040, well-kept pre-elon teslas will be a premium. like serious cash
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Beeftweeter posted:that's called shenmue and it was released on dreamcast in 1999 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_WVJJ2N7rE&t=115s
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Sagebrush posted:incidentally, fun fact re bioengineering, the big problem with lab-grown meat is: it needs to pee how much of a pee taste are we talking about. obviously it's not for everybody but i can think of a particular irish author whose self-insert enjoyed it quote:Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods’ roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.
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congrats to elon on recovering the namecheap password
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*scrolling through scifi cliches* oh this one fits
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well-read undead posted:my monitor is on please turn it off
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well it's bedtime, so ok
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well-read undead posted:well it's bedtime, so ok belated jk
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