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WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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Elon!

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WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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Admiral Ray posted:

So I guess this is the new steering wheel they sell instead of the yoke. This thing looks cheap as poo poo.



Why the gently caress would you ever put the turn signals on the wheel itself?

elon hates stalks so he forced this. its entirely not industry standard and dumb as poo poo.

the one cool thing is it looks like they are using haptic feedback on them which is something ive seen at trade shows and poo poo for years

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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rodbeard posted:

what is this thread about?

cars

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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jesus christ

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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id love to see how little elon understands of how car safety works lol

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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the milk machine posted:

"safety third ... though there's nothing in second place, safety is not getting promoted to number two"

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/elon-musk-the-architect-of-tomorrow-120850/

lmao

tenderjerk posted:

I think the cybertruck thing kind if demonstrates what happens alot is elon lays down just the dumbest, least feasible ground rules and his staff have to work within these new constraints or risk termination if you point out "hey this actually wont work"

absolutely, you can already see in the new demo version they have out how they have abandoned a ton of the original concepts because it just can't work with a modern vehicle. any time that thing crashed into something heavier than itself the occupants would be horrendously injured/killed

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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How does he keep getting worse at posting

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1646051952042680322?t=2YhZsFoexKvwx3TkRtzeRA&s=19

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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spacemang_spliff posted:

lmao @ the probe reason

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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remember when elon tried to have a threesome with grimes and azelia banks

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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moist turtleneck posted:

he wanted iggy azalea tho

hell, same

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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apatheticman posted:

Consistently buying avs for people and using your wealth to bully others is very un-cspam posting.

Go gently caress yourself who ever is doing it.

lmao

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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moist turtleneck posted:

lol that Tesla keeps slashing prices on cars in a time when all car prices are going up

Good fundamentals

they know they have to capture consumers now because all of the other OEMs are putting out BEVs either right now or in the next 2 years. A bolt is still a better deal in every way than a model 3.

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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Old James posted:

It's probably just bad lighting, but it feels like the front end got even more pug-nosed.



lmao

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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bigstupidjellyfish posted:

you stupid gently caress! where do you think your fuckin money comes from!?

i cannot grasp how he thinks courting the people who think BEVs are useless is a good idea. my OE is going to be releasing one soon and we are totally all in on eco friendly messaging (just please don't blame us for the last 100 years do not look behind the curtain)

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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punished milkman posted:

i thought they just reduced appetite?

correct. it does so by altering your blood sugar so that your appetite is reduced. that's why it started as a diabetes drug and then they noticed a direct correlation between diabetes patients taking it and weight loss. its already been in use for a while treating diabetes.

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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Schmoe Cwead posted:

my twitter handle is my real name but luckily its not super unique so i still have plausible deniability

you can change it. people can dig the history up but unless you have a stalker no one is doing that

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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Mr. Pizza posted:

elon musk has died

inshallah

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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jisforjosh posted:

Thanks to Elon Musk, I've been recommended this flat earther, gravity denying, traditionalist account that doesn't believe in satellites

https://twitter.com/TedLogan1010

https://twitter.com/TedLogan1010/status/1658292572689760256

man flat earthers keep multiplying and it rules. people on tiktok spend hours on shared lives arguing over the flat earth. we literally have entirely failed to educate like 3 generations in a row on the most basic science.

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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Asproigerosis posted:

I'm still trying to understand why our very special boy needs bodyguards to protect him walking down the hall to the bathroom in his office building at night.

its so funny to me that he is this paranoid. I've never heard of this from other CEO types

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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office space seems worse over time because it is Too Real.

also the new beavis and butthead movie is loving hilarious. Like outright one of the funniest movies to come out in a decade at least. A few scenes had me cry laughing.

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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16-bit Butt-Head posted:

cant believe beavis and butt-head destroyed us relations with russia...

them each looking through the telescope is one of the best gags in forever

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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Brrrmph posted:

so is this account sincere or not? Sometimes the levels of irony get stacked pretty high.

the rest of that account gets pretty racist, but i think its reductio ad absurdum to mock Retvrn types. its not very funny though and should just stop

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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Beeftweeter posted:

xpost from yospos because that thing is pretty long, but worth a read for the lols

there's much more in the article

literally everything everyone in automotive said on first glance was true lol

article posted:

The contents of the report do not deal a fatal blow to the Cybertruck. As one veteran automotive engineer, who spoke on condition of anonymity to prevent backlash from Tesla fans, says, the company has enormous financial resources which will allow it to address the issues detailed in the report. However, he said, “my first reaction is I am astounded. These are classic mechanical automotive engineering challenges that you have in pretty much any vehicle. I'm blown away that they would be struggling so much with the basics.”

https://www.wired.com/story/a-leaked-tesla-report-shows-the-cybertruck-had-basic-design-flaws/

WoodrowSkillson has issued a correction as of 19:40 on Jun 8, 2023

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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leftist heap posted:

None of that matters because they're never going to ship that thing lol

they will ship a thing that looks like the cybertruck. the yare way too deeply invested now to just pull the plug entirely

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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Desiderata posted:

Unlike other forms of camouflage the intention of dazzle is not to conceal but to make it difficult to estimate a target's panel-gaps, wheel-womp, and aggressive-mode-autopilot-direction.

Just lol at putting that on this hunk of poo poo like other OEs are going to gain useful data from the panel gaps so hot you can park a car in them

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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Zokari posted:

lmfao at camouflaging your loving car

its just dazzle camo. herein the detroit area you see it pretty commonly on test vehicles that are being driven around. makes it harder to discern details on the exterior so other OEs can't infer information as easily

no one is going to copy the loving cybertruck lol

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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Slotducks posted:

imagine dazzle camo-ing a loving flat steel sheet lmao what a loving joke

gotta hide the that angle on the rear fascia so Ford does not realize we are using the same supplier and can ask them how much it costs

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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if zuck has actually been doing even the remotest bit of BJJ or whatever he'll trounce musk unless its a boxing only fight. a billionaire wanting to pretend they are Paul Atreides and spending their insane amounts of free time training a martial art is not really a surprises to me since it lets them have their ubermench fantasy.

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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LegoMan posted:

I wanted to destroy something boerful

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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16-bit Butt-Head posted:

guess im going to have to learn to read a clock smh

a day in 16 bit's life

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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PawParole posted:

If anyone has a bluesky invite code plz invite me

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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lexx loving ruled lol

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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this is art

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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RealityWarCriminal posted:

man who has had penis surgery: let's have a penis contest

after the last chapo episode i hope he did indeed get that surgery

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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Zodium posted:

wont be doing that

yeah i dont see how you could actually pull that off with the world as it is today. even if some country attempted it, pandora's box has already been opened regarding globalization and poo poo. so until there is 1 world government i think the best option that is actually achievable is some kind of socialism that at least provides housing, UBI, and healthcare.

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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still loving laughing at those panel gaps and SS finish

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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16-bit Butt-Head posted:

its made of something that is superior to metal use your brain

This is exactly how musk is going to sell switching cybertruck to fiberglass fascias

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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ex post facho posted:

what happened to abey

Posts on Twitter and has an excellent dog

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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Stefan Prodan posted:

It's honestly been so long since I had an actual toaster or ate pop tarts that I think maybe mine did that also but I can't remember, I think maybe mine did but they still didn't come far enough out that I felt safe just grabbing them.

Basically agree with Mr. Lobe, I used to eat them a lot in college but now I eat them like...very occasionally, just far apart enough to go "hey were these good?" and then get my answer of "no"

pop tarts rule. I am about to go backpacking and one of the best parts is eating like absolute garbage for a week cause you're burning so many calories every day. Got pop tarts of multiple flavors for breakfast.

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WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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Virtual Russian posted:

Why is it americans have such infantile breakfasts? Honestly curious, American breakfast is so much sugar, and always delivered in bright colors on insanely processed wheat or corn products. It is food designed for a baby's palette. Grown rear end adults are eating chocolate frosted sugar bombs like they are bart simpson or something.

food marketers convinced parents to feed their kids cereal over the years because it was a way to shove more corn syrup into things and make more money for that lobby. most of the commercials will still extoll the vitamins and nutrition in whatever sugar cereal they are selling to convince parents to buy that since their kids will eat it and its one less headache in hellworld.

edit: also most adults are not eating loving pop tarts for breakfast lol. they are expensive for what they are and no one thinks they are good for you.

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