idk, i heard that it was an 11 micron measurement that made Grimes leave him
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 17:29 (eight months ago) link
I think you mean eSports, a billion dollar industry. Maybe now that he's been mocked, Musk will buy all eSports for $100 billion and then put it out of business.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, August 27, 2023 6:26 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink
esports at least in the u.s. (korea is probably more stable just due to the history there) it kind of a financial house of cards, it's really been decimated recently
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 17:46 (eight months ago) link
just showing receipts cuz this is ilx
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 17:48 (eight months ago) link
i dunno if it's joy div as much as it's
https://post-punk.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/public_image_ltd_metal_box.jpg
― 龜, Wednesday, 30 August 2023 18:03 (eight months ago) link
cold metalwhen I start my vancold metalin my garbage can
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 18:09 (eight months ago) link
I repeat, how is that a 'truck'
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 30 August 2023 18:33 (eight months ago) link
its very big has a flatbed 4wd high clearance etc
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 30 August 2023 18:36 (eight months ago) link
tho it does have a unibody which is anti truck, elon was claiming it was going to have a unique "exoskeleton" construction but that like many things he says turned out to be a lie
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 30 August 2023 18:40 (eight months ago) link
Esports is quite one of those things I cannot wrap my mind around
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 19:42 (eight months ago) link
idk I'll watch people try to speedrun Mario 64 for an hour so I kinda get it
― frogbs, Wednesday, 30 August 2023 19:47 (eight months ago) link
yeah i’m just deeply not a video games person— my main interactions have been with either the first two Mario games for Gameboy (the original) and Mariokart for N64. I like playing the latter but the whole thing— watching other people play video games— feels so abject and horrible to me, even in theory.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 19:53 (eight months ago) link
i mean, i like foosball way more than esports, but i don’t care about either, really. I’m more fascinated by whether esports are easy to rig for gambling, because that seems like the real money?
― you need magical thinking ay my name is david blaine (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 20:00 (eight months ago) link
Does that cybertruck have duck tape holding two panels together?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 21:29 (eight months ago) link
kinda looks like it! maybe that's an optional extra
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 30 August 2023 21:31 (eight months ago) link
gotta pay your monthly fee or else Elon will sneak into your garage at night and rip the duct tape off
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 21:44 (eight months ago) link
Tryna figure out who thinks that looks ok. Like it looks neither next level or quality. Like some kind of joke i just don’t get.
― you need magical thinking ay my name is david blaine (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 22:08 (eight months ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4zry0PX0AAeokP?format=jpg&name=medium
lol
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 22:39 (eight months ago) link
hope it's flex tape at least
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 23:11 (eight months ago) link
they look like they're always gonna be kinda grubby
I think DeLorean clear-coated the stainless just for this reason
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 30 August 2023 23:24 (eight months ago) link
This car is never going to production
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 23:36 (eight months ago) link
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA— Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) July 11, 2023
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 31 August 2023 00:10 (eight months ago) link
In repsonse to...
Oh come the fuck on https://t.co/tdkwY6VINK— Wampler™ (@ScottWamplerRIP) July 11, 2023
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, August 30, 2023 7:36 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
yeah i wonder if those big stainless steel panels will even meet the gov standards as far as crumpling in a crash and so forth, regardless pretty sure the shape with those sharp corners isnt compliant
― lag∞n, Thursday, 31 August 2023 01:15 (eight months ago) link
how dare you question innovation
― mookieproof, Thursday, 31 August 2023 01:19 (eight months ago) link
you know it was the last thing i wanted to do
― lag∞n, Thursday, 31 August 2023 01:21 (eight months ago) link
The thing is, that stupid truck think is so totally Homer's dream car, but that is so otm and on the nose that we're all just wishing there is a better comparison, but no, that truck is akin to one of the (fictional) dumbest things of all time, but real life.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 31 August 2023 01:30 (eight months ago) link
Such a dolt. His existence is embarrassing on a global scale, a species scale.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 31 August 2023 01:36 (eight months ago) link
Meanwhile, Rivian just rolled out their dual-motor truck today. Overall a better alternative to the quadmotor Rivians and certainly far more useful than Elon's dumb truck.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 31 August 2023 14:38 (eight months ago) link
next they should roll out round headlights haha i joke but seriously they should
― lag∞n, Thursday, 31 August 2023 14:40 (eight months ago) link
world historical cringe
― budo jeru, Thursday, 31 August 2023 14:43 (eight months ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F42SKW8WMAABqJi?format=png&name=medium
― lag∞n, Thursday, 31 August 2023 14:45 (eight months ago) link
poor volkswagen its tough out there, maybe stop doing fraud idk, but then u look at tesla and think maybe do more fraud
― lag∞n, Thursday, 31 August 2023 14:47 (eight months ago) link
make self-gaslighting your brand
― rob, Thursday, 31 August 2023 14:47 (eight months ago) link
my former coworker juiced VW so hard on trade-in when that fraud thing came throughthey practically paid him to accept a new gti by the time the deal was done
― mh, Thursday, 31 August 2023 15:03 (eight months ago) link
only do cool fraud
― actual veggie mexican pizza received (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 31 August 2023 15:36 (eight months ago) link
Tesla superchargers on I5 powered by a diesel plant.
“One of the real tragedies of Tesla, in my personal opinion, is the extent to which well-meaning people were convinced that this company whose mission is in fact extreme wealth generation by any means necessary is somehow a force for good, to be supported like one would a real mission-driven nonprofit,” the investigative journalist wrote SFGATE.
https://www.sfgate.com/centralcoast/article/tesla-interstate-5-supercharger-power-plant-18343119.php
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Sunday, 3 September 2023 15:09 (eight months ago) link
article does make it clear that all of this energy just goes into the grid in CA, and that these chargers aren't only powered by the energy source that was built to help support them, but the journalist's point there stands, I think.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Sunday, 3 September 2023 15:18 (eight months ago) link
ah, but maybe it was biodiesel! (not likely)fwiw, California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard system is mostly gamed by swapping credits in a Musk-like fashion. most of the metrics mention the fuel is nearly all produced outside of California, but as far as I know, it’s also sold outside the state. so someone incentivizes the production and sale of biodiesel or gasoline blended with ethanol and it’s produced, sold, and consumed elsewhere but a CA company buys the renewable energy credits and claims compliance
― mh, Sunday, 3 September 2023 15:29 (eight months ago) link
Edward Niedermeyer is great on Tesla smoke-and-mirrors stuff - really enjoyed the War on Cars ep with him on.
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 3 September 2023 15:36 (eight months ago) link
yeah def the most knowledgable tesla expert out there, including understanding the politics
― lag∞n, Sunday, 3 September 2023 15:46 (eight months ago) link
this is frankly why any sort of shaming over EVs or etc is utter bullshit— such scolds should go work in a lithium or coltan mine.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Monday, 4 September 2023 11:33 (eight months ago) link
I'd been following a solar electric car company called Aptera for a bit, who seem to be actively encouraging comparisons to Tesla (probably to gin up investors), which makes me wonder if their claims of moderate commutes being totally powered by CA-level sunshine is similarly Musk-esque bluster.
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 4 September 2023 16:08 (eight months ago) link
Elon Musk went from being the Henry Ford of our generation (admired carmaker, brilliant salesman) to being the Henry Ford of our generation (conspiracy theorist, Nazi-enabler)— Frank Lesser (@sadmonsters) May 3, 2023
― lag∞n, Monday, 4 September 2023 17:18 (eight months ago) link
why do you need Kanye when Elon's around
Dragging all your former advertisers into discovery is totally going to win them back! Excellent move, sir pic.twitter.com/3TvdsrLvyL— c a i t l i n (@hello__caitlin) September 4, 2023
― frogbs, Tuesday, 5 September 2023 03:38 (seven months ago) link
I wonder where Elon got the idea to shut down Starlink on the frontlines? https://t.co/i6LzgJwqSg pic.twitter.com/t5sAWITWNa— Pekka Kallioniemi (@P_Kallioniemi) September 7, 2023
― lag∞n, Thursday, 7 September 2023 17:57 (seven months ago) link
where's the malay wet-ops arm of the cia when u need it most
― mark s, Thursday, 7 September 2023 18:05 (seven months ago) link
release the ants lads
― mark s, Thursday, 7 September 2023 18:06 (seven months ago) link
jfc
To everyone arguing against Tesla removing the gear shifter: what looks easier to you? pic.twitter.com/DwkmnAdv6D— Jeff 💙✌️ (@JeffTutorials) September 5, 2023
― lag∞n, Thursday, 7 September 2023 21:59 (seven months ago) link
wait, is that how you change gears in a Tesla?!? Swiping on a screen?
― Cow_Art, Thursday, 7 September 2023 22:34 (seven months ago) link
some ppl just love screen time
― lag∞n, Thursday, 7 September 2023 22:42 (seven months ago) link