Thankfully nothing is ever really removed from the internet.
Such as this picture
Lmaoo this is the picture ElMo doesn't want us to see
He only wrote that to improve image and sales. He still knows it's the right thing, but he never cared about that.
Remember when Elon started leaning into being an internet sensation and memelord? I think that's when his campaign for more power started. Economic power is no longer enough.
His interview with Trump shows nothing less than Elon trying to get himself in good standing with the MAGA crowd. I guess he decided that conservative and reactionary politics are best for amassing power.
Wouldn't surprise me if Elon runs for president or some other influential position once Trump is gone. He clearly wants to be perceived as a younger, smarter, more moderate Trump.
Thankfully, he can't run for president. And he's doing the exact same thing as Trump who even said publicly that he would become a Republican because they are easier to grift.
The U.S. Constitution uses but does not define the phrase "natural born Citizen" and various opinions have been offered over time regarding its exact meaning.
Don't be too sure. This particular SC might allow Elon to run because...reasons. And by reasons, I mean free chartered flights anywhere in the world, brand new RVs, and paying rent for justices' mamas.
Thankfully, he can't run for president
Oh my God, thank Christ.
Almost all "altruism" and "philanthropy" is just whitewashing/ego stroking some Capitalist's ill-begotten gains.
Yep. He has an interview in a movie called Racing Extinction, and it was watching that that made me realise he only cares about money, he didn't do it to improve anything.
He only wrote that to improve image and sales.
Along this line of thought, what are the chances he’s being (more of) a right-wing chud in order to sell more of his stupid pickup truck?
Low. He's a right wing chicken because of the tax cuts and all the other benefits the rich get from that party
I hope I live long enough to see Musk bankrupt
I'd love that, but the way our stupid society works I think it's literally impossible to lose that much wealth
He'll become the Edison from our era, and I'm just want to stop hearing his name.
It's probably too "woke" for Musk's new fanbase and he doesn't wanna look like he got hit by the "Woke Mind Virus".
Btw, I love the guys over at Edison Motors, who got fed up waiting for an all electric hauling truck, so they're retrofitting their own, under the slogan "Stealing Tesla's Ideas".
So long as we're talking about Tesla knockoffs, gotta love Nikola's attempt to fake it til they made it with absolutely no tech, rolling the prototype down a hill n hoping no one noticed.
I noticed something stupid while on the interstate yesterday and passing or passed by multiple Teslas: they don't tell you which model they are on the back. If you see a Tesla you like and want to know which Tesla it is, I guess you'll have to figure that out for yourself.
They only have 4 models (not counting the cyber dump truck) that are pretty easy to tell apart. Small sedan or big sedan, small SUV or big SUV. Then basically do they have a dual motor badge and is that badge underlined (or does it have a plaid logo on the back). There you go. Almost literally all the permutations of Teslas.
Ok, but letting people know what model of car they are looking at is just basic marketing.
Do they need to market anymore than their name though? Marketing is getting you interested in the product. You say “oh that’s a nice Tesla” you go to the site and look from there most likely based on your budget.
(I am by no means a Tesla fan, frankly their build quality sucks) but I really don’t think that you need badges of every type plastered on a car.
Nope. Tesla is distinct enough that they don't need model badges. You know it's a Tesla, and they have very few models and model variations. Compare that to something like Toyota, who has 12 different models of sedan just in current production. There are quite a few more not in current production, but you'll still see them on the road.
My understanding is that this is a deliberate choice, at least for Mercedes and BMW having their models be letters and numbers instead of memorable names. The idea is that all models seem closer together, kind of elevating them all.
Compared to when you look at an Accord and think this is the nice Honda, unlike the other not nice Honda. The implication is that all of the Mercedes ones should be nice.
But what do I fucking know. I like quirky weird cars, I like shitboxes, I’m one of those simultaneous fuckcars car guys (I hope I don’t need to explain how I can be in both camps at once?). I’m not the person any of these companies are marketing for.
Right, but they at least have those letters and numbers of the back of their car.
Unless you know which Tesla is the model 3, you won't know which model it is when you pass it or is passes you. You'll just know it was a Tesla. The back of a BMW i3 has a big "i3" on it.
My car doesn't have the model or engine size written on the back either, this is not exclusive to Tesla (although, depending on the make it might be an option to remove it when buying a car).
The manufacturer badge is usually enough, in my opinion. If you can't identify the model on the spot, as long as you can identify the brand and want to learn about the specific model you saw, you'll hit their website or dealership and identify it there. And with a brand like Tesla, that only has 5 fairly distinct models, it should be fairly easy to retroactively point out the model you saw - compared to a brand like BMW for example.
Which car apart from Tesla doesn’t have a model name badge? Just curious.
I struggle with my own mortality, but reminded by this asshat why life limits are a good thing.
Climate traitor
Tesla is going to release an ICE car, i guarantee it
But the only thing they have going for them is the electric side of things. If you put a combustion engine in a cybertruck it has nothing left.
Yeah... I doubt that.
There's just no reason to.
Why move backwards? Why give up the area where you have first mover advantage, making cars of the future, to instead try to compete with auto manufacturers who have been making that kind of car for the last eighty years. It's a losing proposition. It's not economical, it's not smart.
Well, for one thing, they've lost first mover advantage by squandering their lead. Every other company that makes an EV now makes one that works better, lasts longer and looks better than Tesla does. Besides which he's pandering to crowd that largely believes that their cock and balls will shrivel up and fall off if they purchase an electric vehicle.
Why move backwards? Why give up [...]
Why would you rebrand Twitter? You've got the largest and most recognizable website and logo on the internet, why would you want to scrap all that and start almost from scratch with a new name and nondescript logo that no one recognizes? First year marketing 101 tells you this is nearly the worst possible thing you can do with a recognized brand name.
Musk is most well known for bad business decisions. More than anything else he's done, he's famous for his ability to rampage through a previously functional company and burn it completely to the ground. Pivoting Tesla into creating an ICE vehicle is completely on brand for him.
Why does the whole world think Flanderization is a guide to be followed?
I've never heard that word before so I had to look it up. Because obviously my first thought was Ned Flanders from The Simpsons.
For anyone like me here you go...
Flanderization is the process through which a complex fictional character's essential traits are oversimplified to the point where they constitute their entire personality, or at least exaggerated while other traits remain, over the course of a serial work.
Well, not only those cars suck but also he starts to ignore the ecology part 🤷♂️
Do they suck? Tesla is king when it comes to efficiency. I hate it, I'm in the market for EV and while I'm buying a car on paper of the same spec and at half price.... It is a worse car and I wish someone else did model 3 but not tesla.
Hopefully Lucid or Xiaomi (yes I'd sooner give money to them than Musk) come soon enough.
I prefer my cars with quality testing, hardware that is not consumer grade that lasts more than a year, and mechanical doors so if the battery dies after buckling a kid in the car seat they aren't trapped in the vehicle with the only option to smash the window. I'd love to live in fear with no guarantee the steering wheel won't fall off while I'm driving on the highway.
Well yes, especially when talking about reliability, they do not have very good scores.
They are just over complicated
Dude still thinks the truck-o-sexuals are going to buy his car if he panders to the MAGAt crowd.
Manifesto LMAO, yeah he's exactly the type of toxic dude who thinks in Manifestos, like all the shooters and amok guys.
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