Elon Musk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAb3J7WONhE

its fake sorry https://bsky.app/profile/fullslack.bsky.social/post/3kpsvckl7vr2f

it’s him pic.twitter.com/E0YPvf1Ies

— full slack (@full_slack) April 25, 2023

The end of 2020 was drawing near, and Andrea Turley, a 36-year-old self-employed hairdresser, had to figure out how to afford gifts not only for her two daughters’ birthdays but also for Christmas. She came up with a solution: a job working on the floor of Tesla’s auto manufacturing facility in Fremont, California. It paid about $20 an hour.

Turley’s grandparents had worked at the same plant when it made cars for General Motors. She knew what working on an assembly line would entail and hoped to stay; her grandparents had worked there for decades. “I don’t have a problem with doing hard labor,” she told me.

“The problem was the sexual harassment. It was the racism,” she said. “It’s the constant disrespect.”

On her second day of training, Turley noticed the phrase “Black bitches need to go home” written on the bathroom walls. Once she started working on the line, she heard her white male lead—the person who supervised her on the floor—use the N-word and other racial slurs like “coon,” according to a legal complaint she filed later. He also frequently used the words “bitch” and “cunt.” He “used just about every awful and offensive word I can think of,” Turley said in the filing. It wasn’t just him; other white coworkers also often used the N-word around her and her fellow Black coworkers. She frequently saw the word “bitch” written on the bathroom walls alongside the N-word and “KKK.”

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/tesla-racism-sexual-harassment/

Jesus fucking Christ.

What a rotten company, starting from the top

This video is hilarious, even if you don't speak Russian. Some Russian rapper is driving around L.A. in his Cybertruck and just getting angrier and angrier about the shitty quality of basically everything:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6Nmb7UTAjQ

you can get some pretty bad auto generated translated captions on there if you want fyi

Lmao

How the fuck are these things legally on the road pic.twitter.com/iqDKDVHpRm

— Eoin Higgins (@EoinHiggins_) April 14, 2024

jesus christ

it's a legit question in general, how are any of these cars on the road? can I just legally make a car and sell it without going through any sort of oversight?

This shit would be a lot funnier if the Cybertrucks weren't driving around on the same roads as the rest of us.

what are they doing over there that they cant even get the break pedal to stay in place

that pedal looks like a spatula

“It’s not an ar-15 it’s a …” in this case the accelerator lol

The federal government’s safety regulators are captured by industry so anything goes man, caveat emptor!

If this were the 1950s though Elon would be in the same hot water for fraudsters and snake oil salesmen as Wilhelm Reich and L. Ron Hubbard.

all cybertruck deliveries reportedly halted due to the accelerator issue it seems like

recall (pun intended) that there was a massive toyota recall in the aughts due to a similar issue. really fucked with toyota's image as ol' reliable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%932011_Toyota_vehicle_recalls

i remember this because we had a corolla at the time

gotta put some more glue on there

https://twitter..com/Scottcrates/status/1779528552716865932

cool guy alert

hes like, imitating poses from Marvel movies. its really embarrassing

I mean, I dunno. maybe it wouldn't be embarrassing if someone cool was doing it. I just fuckin hate this guy so much

He knows enough to keep smiling. That much has been dinned into him. The poses he strikes are silly and surely he could be coached better on this, but it's low stakes for him and he doesn't care enough to be good at it. Hard for me to care much either. He's an ass in so many other, more important ways that this particular asininity is trivial.

nah I think it's still a kinda important window into his mind, like the way he's just thinking epic memeface all the time no matter the situation. the fact that he wants to be the real life Doge meme informs most of his decisions first and foremost and has actually became a very good case study in how that turns you into a Nazi

he looks like a K'd up incel in an ill-fitting suit

Musk and Marvel movies occupy exactly the same cognitive space for me. I don’t think it’s that much of an insult to either since each is the shittest thing possible.

Musk is a racist transphobe who's squandering his cash to promote fascism and bring about a second Trump reich. I can understand your not enjoying these movies made for children but I don't really think they're equivalent.

he was probably like this when he just had daddy's millions but

Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day

— Thing Bad (@Merman_Melville) January 24, 2019

Actually I guess we know he was exactly this lame pre-billions, the McLaren story with Peter Thiel, his obsession x.com, etc..

obsession w/

Musk and Marvel movies occupy exactly the same cognitive space for me. I don’t think it’s that much of an insult to either since each is the shittest thing possible.

otm

Uh oh

Big news to start the morning via my BN colleagues @danahull @EdLudlow: @Tesla to cut workforce by 10% globally. Check out the piece 👇🏻 https://t.co/fHs4qqeeI9

— Corey Cantor🌕 (@CoreyBCantor) April 15, 2024

"There is nothing I hate more, but it must be done.”

Imagine how terrible the situation must be there for someone to successfully convince Musk to do anything sensible.

Musk: Now is the perfect time to launch our self-flying car!
Exec: Elon, that was just a picture one of your kids doodled.
Musk: My child is a genius, like me. Start production now!
Exec: But Elon, there is no product.
Musk: Well, sell down-payments on my future flying car, let the people reserve one. How long until we can get one operational?
Exec: Back of the envelope ... 20 years?
Musk: Let's aim for 2026! How much will it cost?
Exec: We would need to hire thousands of people, and develop technology that does not exist yet.
Musk: Great, this is what I do! How much will that cost?
Exec: Magnitudes more than what we have. We can't even offload these Cybertrucks.
Musk: Hmm. What if we made the Cybertruck fly?
Exec: We just can't do that.
Musk: You're fired. You!
Exec 2: Me?
Musk: Can we make a flying Cybertruck?
Exec 2: Yes?
Musk: That is the can-do attitude we need! You get a big raise. I will transfer you novelty crypto.
Exec 2: I was looking at the books, Elon. And we're kind of in the red.
Musk: Red is cool!
Exec 2: Um, no, Elon, red is not cool. Black is cool.
Elon: That sounds woke. You're fired. Who else is here to say yes. Actually, never mind, fire 10% of everyone. We need to cut costs. And start work on the flying Cybertruck now!!!! And make it run on crypto! And have it emit fart sounds from the clouds! And use a stronger glue on the parts this time. And make it cost half as much, but make twice as much money. And send it to Mars! And make it submersible. But also AI, like KITT. And have it solve crimes, too. Not mine, but other crimes. Woke crimes. And do it now!

https://img.gifglobe.com/grabs/peepshow/S06E04/S06E04-hCdpVXbN-subtitled.jpg

https://img.gifglobe.com/grabs/peepshow/S06E04/S06E04-zEzmz2yj-subtitled.jpg

In Tesla news today - the Cybertruck's accelerator pedal falls off and gets stuck
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/04/tesla-stops-cybertruck-deliveries-accelerator-pedal-may-be-to-blame/

thankfully they haven't sold that many so the recall will be easy to deal with

Elon: Can't we just deliver this fix via software?

a good gas pedal that doesnt fly off your foot while youre driving

just stick it back on with some gum

funny thing about quoting the ITYSL sketch is that steering wheels have fallen off of Teslas too

also the fact that Elon truly has no good car ideas

drive them through tunnels isn't a good idea?

The sliding gas pedal is extra dumb on the Cybertruck - if any vehicle's design would justify some exposed rivets and bolts it's that monstrosity.

Tesla's senior vice president of powertrain and energy engineering, Drew Baglino, is leaving after 18 years at the auto-maker, he said in a post on social media site X on Monday. Tesla's vice president of public policy and business development, Rohan Patel, has also left the carmaker, according to a post on X by a Bloomberg News reporter.

It's almost like Elon put the whole Tesla Corporation into the cargo bed of a cybertruck and then decided to test his claims about the cybertruck's amphibious abilities.

>Image of cybertruck jumping off canyon cliff thelma and louse style<

I always wonder about guys like this how much *actual* money they have, like not company stock or corporate valuations but money in the bank or easily accessible low risk funds, blue chip stocks etc

Isn’t Elon basically homeless

Lives in a Cybertruck down by the river, IIRC.

I always wonder about guys like this how much *actual* money they have

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they have credit lines