Demon Of The Fall posted:

not being able to read any actual Twitter comments is kinda pog

Asproigerosis posted:

Yeah how's this passing any road crash worthiness requirements?

Nitrousoxide posted:

Lithium mines, while not great for their immediate surroundings, are not a global ecological disaster decades in the making like fossil fuels are.

Elon Musk posted:

"I want to temper expectations for Cybertruck," Musk said, while making the absurd claim that "there have not been new car [brands] that have been successful for 100 years, apart from Tesla."

"We dug our own grave with Cybertruck," Musk told investors, calling it the type of special product with lots of bells and whistles that only comes along once in a while.

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UFOTacoMan posted:

elon please make a giant umbrella pop out over my car when it's raining

Juul-Whip posted:

when was the last time he crusaded for the climate. newer tesla models are even less green than the old ones

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Important to note that what happens on Earth’s surface (eg farming) has no meaningful impact on climate change.

Overwhelmingly, the risk of climate change is due to moving billions of tons of carbon from deep underground into the atmosphere.

Over time, if we keep doing this, the chemical makeup of our atmosphere will change enough to induce meaningful climate change

Mr Interweb posted:

wait was there actual sex involved? i thought it was just one dude getting naked and dry humping the desk?

Setec_Astronomy posted:

by the desk?

In Training posted:

Nice. Would anybody else like to share some fanfiction about Elon Musk.

Glumwheels posted:

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1738658290295275967

So much winning

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The rocket and satellite maker SpaceX was accused by a US labor agency of unlawfully firing eight employees for circulating a letter calling the founder and CEO, Elon Musk, a “distraction and embarrassment”.
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The letter sent to SpaceX executives in June 2022 focused on a series of tweets Musk had made since 2020, many of which were sexually suggestive. The employees claimed Musk’s statements did not align with the company’s policies on diversity and workplace misconduct and called on SpaceX to condemn them.

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On Slack, employees weren’t afraid to directly mention the company’s co-founder Jack Dorsey, or its C.E.O., Parag Agrawal; if someone poked fun at @jack or @paraga, the executives often responded with sassy repartee. But, when Musk took over, questioning of him led to swift firings. A number of employees debated Musk’s actions in the company-wide #social-watercooler channel, and, the day after, we woke up to find many of their accounts gone.

moist turtleneck posted:

https://twitter.com/greggertruck/status/1743869439169503597?t=QtnU0mO8PNOYycQwnuLi5A&s=19

CubanMissile posted:

If it drives like that on fresh pow it’s gonna be hilarious when all that poo poo gets compacted into ice.

HAIL eSATA-n posted:

Citing “crew safety,” NASA delays upcoming Artemis missions by about a year

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/01/citing-crew-safety-nasa-delays-upcoming-artemis-missions-by-about-a-year

hmm yeah about that first part

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So, flight 2 actually almost made it to orbit. So, in fact, ironically if it had a payload, it would have made it to orbit because the reason that it actually didn't quite make it to orbit was we vented the liquid oxygen. And the liquid oxygen [inaudible] led to fire and an explosion, because we wanted to vent the liquid oxygen because we normally wouldn't have that liquid oxygen if we had a payload. So, ironically, if it had a payload, it would have reached orbit. And so I think we've got a really got shot of reaching orbit with flight 3, and then a rapid cadence to achieve full and rapid reusablity.

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After the man's in-depth explanations amassed half a million views, the Cybertruck lead engineer confirmed that the quarter-mile race didn't happen. Morrill argued that it wasn't necessary because the best eighth-mile time the tri-motor Cybertruck got while towing the 911 was 7.8 seconds. Meanwhile, the manual Porsche needed 8.0 seconds to cross the eighth-mile marker.

Morrill said that going through with the quarter-mile race was unnecessary, and it might have even been unsafe. The trailer they used was rated to 80 mph maximum. The Cyberbeast crossed the finish line at 88 mph, whereas the 911 was clocked at 93 mph.

So, the team behind this marketing stunt ran a simulation of the quarter-mile race where the all-electric pickup truck won. "Our simulations showed the full 1/4 mi race would be close but with the same net result, so no need to risk it. We also had some room to further lightweight the trailer but didn't need to," added the Cybertruck's lead engineer.

As such, the quarter-mile drag race didn't happen. Does that make the Cybertruck or Cyberbeast look like flops? No. Is it a useless exaggeration? Yes. I will even go as far as to say that the engineer-turned-YouTuber's suggestion to have Elon Musk issue an apology to Porsche still stands.

Some might argue that advertisements don't have to tell us the whole truth, but the world's most valuable automaker should arguably be held to a higher standard than other companies. Tesla didn't even bother to mention that the 911 it used for this drag race had a seven-speed manual transmission.

Dr. VooDoo posted:

Considering the stuff that collects in rain water, especially over high car use areas, The best way to keep your Cybertruck from looking like poo poo is simply to not use it and never let anyone touch it while keeping it in a sterile environment bing bong so simple

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In conversations with 35 current and former Tesla employees, CEO Elon Musk is described as a polarizing figure who inspires but micromanages to an extreme.

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"No one can join Tesla, even as a contractor, until you receive my email approval," Musk said in an email reviewed by outlets such as Reuters and Insider.

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In 2015, Musk described himself as a "nano-manager" in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.

"Diamonds are created under pressure, and Elon Musk is a master diamond maker," Dolly Singh, former head of talent acquisition at SpaceX, previously told Insider.