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Maine Cybertruck Owner Sad Everyone Hates His Truck
(jalopnik.com)
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this post was submitted on 16 May 2024
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I have a cyber truck and it's amazing the disconnect between online and real life. This thread is evidence that online everyone hates it and thinks it's the worst thing ever. In person I can't go anywhere without someone wanting to ask me about it and gushing about how cool it is. Seriously, I constantly get thumbs up and smiles and "woah that's so cool who made it?" The sentry mode has seen many children pose in front of it while their parents take a picture.
The attention aside it is genuinely a good truck. 6ft bed, 120v and 240v outlets in the bed for power anywhere, 11000lbs towing capacity, 6000lbs bed capacity, 300 mile range, the battery storage to power my house for a month if I don't use A/C, a week with A/C, super fun and smooth driving, tight turn radius from the rear wheel steering, room for 5. If it looked like a normal truck but everything else was the same noone would care one way or the other.
Kind of a self-selecting phenomenon, isn't it? The haters won't approach you IRL to berate it, and the admirers aren't going to seek out an online forum to gush about it.
My girlfriend follows the Facebook group for our local area and has shown me many posts from people seeing one and posting about how cool it is. And I've gotten only one negative reaction from someone giving me a thumbs down as they drove the other way. Haters have had plenty of opportunity to give me the bird or thumbs down but it just doesn't happen.
That's just confirmation bias my dude...
I have seen people out there with clothes, accessories, hairdo, make up that makes me want to vomit... but I am not an asshole and this is not my problem so I do nothing....
On the other hand, I have seen as many people with clothes, accessories, hairdo or make up that makes me want to say "wow, that is so cool"... being a positive thing, I do sometimes tell them "Bud, what an awesome shirt!"... "wow those glasses are super cool!", etc
The point being, it takes different types of people/attitudes/effort to go out of your way to give a compliment vs an insult... insulting people is harder and riskier, therefore you will see much less of it (how many people go out of their way to warn you you have a bugger hanging out or lettuce on your teeth?)
Except if you only go by what you see online you would think it is universally reviled. That's also confirmation bias.
Which is why you shouldn't go by any one source...
Children taking photos with your car isn't the flex you think it is.
Coincidentally, and also anecdotally, I saw someone pee on a cyber truck the other day.
Everywhere I drive it makes people smile. Plenty of adults have posed with it too. Is making people smile a bad thing nowadays?
I pointed it out to someone in the car with me and my face probably had a smile, as I joked about how pictures don't do it service how ugly/odd it looked in person. Then we switched back to whatever topic we were talking about.
Some people like odd shapes, some people make fun of it, some don't care. There are plenty of things I'd never drive but might like to look at, some in appreciation, some in mockery.
My main issues with Teslas are company and owner issues. Issues with cutting corners, his involvement with manipulating governments for Lithium, and the wild way he hires and fires people due to ego (reportedly fired entire Supercharger group because lead wouldn't do anymore layoffs, and is desperately trying to rehire talent).
I can discuss all that stuff with people without a scowl on my face, because I'm laughing at such dumb decisions. I don't have any personal opinions about you really, other that you either don't know that stuff or don't care. I might make judgements if I confirmed you knew all that and still went for it, or if I knew you simped for him, but I couldn't make that call just seeing one out on the street.
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I wasn't doubting that you went to a store and bought a thing, "a fool and his money soon parted" and all that.
So long as you don't get it wet and it doesn't randomly brake on you and the side panels don't rust and you're ok with the PS1 yee yee ass looks, sure, it's great.
Bruh
No. I live near a lot of them. I hate you offline too. So do my friends and colleagues. Believe me.
There are more Musk fan douchebags IRL than Lemmy, yes. That doesn't mean you're not a fucking loser supporting a neo Nazi who scams the government for my tax payer dollars. You knowingly bought a truck designed to kill humans instead of crumpling. You're trash big dog.
Have you considered people like me aren't flipping you off as overtly as the loser fanboys approach you?
If I see you on the road, I 100% will cut you off, not let you in, skip ahead at stop signs, slow down so you get red light tickets.
Next time that happens, consider whether it's bc what you're driving, not the other person's habits.
Never thought I'd root for big auto to take point on electric vehicles, but anything is better than supporting that dick bag.
Fuck you. Fuck Tesla.