Elon’s whole shtick is to toss out high-minded rhetoric about how he’s bringing humanity to the stars and expanding human consciousness and whatever. Like bro, he’s taking humanity TO MARS, who cares if his products occasionally kill people and he makes overt appeals to Neo-Nazis.
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his only gripe with openAI is that he didnt find a way to weaponize this tech before them. everyone’s following the exact same playbook right now. it’s gross. lots of these guys if you look into some of what they believe is either deeply white supremacist in some way, or just plain nuts - I’m talking about simulation hypothesis bs or that dumb malevolent ai thing where you’re supposed to help it take over the world or you’ll be doomed to hell in a future simulation for not helping it. they’re huffing too many designer drugs. I’m terrified, there are no more adults in the room.
I’m talking people like paul graham, altman, etc - they’re all cut from the exact same cloth. zuck comes off as responsible compared to some of this shit.
Are the nazi salutes not going to effect Tesla sales?
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well, mercedes benz still exists
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I know it was mentioned before but the thread title is A+ cream of the crop.
Who’s responsible for it?
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Another Elon is a Nazi data point: He supports fascists in the UK.
Musk reportedly finances legal representation for far-right extremist in the UK
Musk is financing the legal battles of Tommy Robinson, a far-right extremist based in the UK, according to a report from iNews:
Musk has not revealed any donations himself, but a message sent out on Robinson’s X and Telegram accounts stated: ‘We are grateful to Elon Musk and his team at X for agreeing to provide support to Tommy Robinson for two specific legal cases.’ The statement from Robinson’s team says the assistance from the world’s richest man was ‘unexpected.’ ‘We extend our heartfelt gratitude to Elon and his team for their unexpected and generous assistance with these cases. Tommy is immensely grateful for their support, which came as a complete surprise,’ it reads.
Robinson currently faces charges under the UK’s Terrorism Act for refusing to grant law enforcement access to his cell phone. Musk, having spent the better part of the past month dabbling in British right-wing politics, wants to unseat Reform UK Nigel Farage and possibly replace him with Robinson. (Though, per a Financial Times report, Musk has privately walked back his plan to donate funds to Reform UK given his new role in the U.S. government.)
This is from https://www.muskwatch.com/, which has just started up. You know, just in case this thread isn’t enough Elon content for you.
It goes further back. He wanted control of OpenAI and to be declared founder. As always, he wants credit.
Who are Tesla’s customers now?
People still using Twitter.
Many of the places I copy links from no longer use Twitter and I don’t browse myself, ergo I will be contributing fewer Twitter links moving foward.
I saw a comment today about tattoo regrets and Tesla tattoos came up. So those people maybe?
Cybertruck is a perfect car for people who want to own the libs.
cybertrucks are actually kind of cool though, i’d never buy one though because that price tag can buy an absolutely awesome lamborghini, which suggests the owners have bad taste in cars. if it was like 20k and not a tesla vehicle, which have the most insanely invasive spy shit installed in them ever, i would totally go for one. that and everyone thinks you’re probably a nazi now
I did that. Glad people like it.
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- extremely ugly
- useless as a work truck
- extremely unsafe in accidents
- useless for offroading
What’s the reason to own one?
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Not to mention Volkswagen lol.
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I am a car guy, and it has some cool car stuff (to me). Its acceleration for its size and mass are insane to me. I live in the cybertruck capital of the world and see some cool things done to them by people that have money to light on fire. again, i’d never trust the price tag and company and owner, but that thing is an actual fucking tank and a sportscar in one vehicle.
agree it useless. all cars technically are anyway. i collect them because i like cars. if i had infinite money i’d add one to my collection, because its unusual enough. that is its only value. its a memecoin as a car, but from what I think I understand, at the highest level of packages they deliver, its impressive to me from strictly a vehicle perspective. I am quite possibly the biggest elon hater alive, so, this is how you know im not lying
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Any electric car that is powerful enough will have crazy acceleration as torque is insanely high.
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yea, which like, is why i criticize it for what it is marketed for. it’s not a work truck and is extremely impractical. it however will probably never result in driver injury and may injure others, and is fun to drive, if you can believe user reports. I won’t believe it personally til i see it. like, this thing is fucking indestructible in a typical road accident, which is a weird move for a guy who says his self driving tech will solve most road issues. why did you make an offensive vehicle then? isnt ai supposed to solve accidents?
i respect the engineering and tech but not the guy and the idea and the product. i know thats more nuance here than some people can probably handle. i made a massive, maybe life altering bet 2 years ago about tesla that will probably blow up on me, so i have zero incentive to stroke this dudes ego or compliment the car, but, I would drive a cybertruck if it was reasonably priced, not connected to any kind of corporate surveillance, (rofl), and had the exact same specs as what I have seen. also if it didnt make me look like a nazi (lol), electricity and range also isnt appealing with current infra and isnt likely to get better
the people that can afford this can also afford to look like a nazi.
I’m drove one and it felt big and stupid FWIW. It was at an EV event and I drove the Rivian as well and would take the Rivian every day and twice on Sunday.
But I am very, very, biased. But I understand the curiosity, I definitely wanted to try it.