I’m actually getting really pissed by this narrative that Musk only recently became a massive piece of shit. Check out his Behind the Bastards episodes, he’s ALWAYS been a horrible person. Just like his father.
His image was pretty good though. He hadn’t seriously fucked up in the public eye until he called that guy a pedo who saved all those kids in Thailand back in 2018. It was all downhill from there.
Just a friendly reminder that Elon Musk won that defamation lawsuit, so you can call Elon Musk a pedo guy as much as you want and it isn’t defamation in the US.
I’ll at least give people with Teslas the benefit of doubt, but if I see you with a Cybertruck I’m going to judge you.
Dude, I was one of the first pre-orders for the cybertruck, but I canceled my order when I got the email that production started, and it was time to complete my pre-order.
We striking the line at the Nazi salute or the “pedo” comment about the cave rescuer?
Howabout SolarCity?
Totally fradulent demonstration.
Hyperloop?
Laughably stupid in concept, Musk pretends he invented the idea… he did not. Never amounted to anything, other than its actual real purpose: setting back high speed rail in California by a decade +.
Neuralink?
Hired the assistant to an actual pioneer in the field, possibly illegally replicated his work, proceeds to torture a bunch of pigs and monkeys to death, most of the original team bails, and currently has produced a brain implant that is no better than, and may actually be worse than existing brain implants designed to help parapalegics and those with serious nervous system disorders, etc.
Rewriting history to pretend he actually founded Tesla?
Saying he’s going to put cold gas thrusters in Teslas to make flying cars?
The Tesla Semi being a shitshow of false promises that were not delivered on?
All of the insane nonsense around BFR, now Starship+Superheavy?
Oh yeah, I’m still waiting to catch my reusable ICBM trip from Seattle to Tokyo, where the ICBM will be ready to go again in 2 hrs.
Starlink sats fail at such a high rate they are now about 90% of all known orbital debris that could endanger aircraft or the ground.
Starting out saying AI is a potential grave threat, being a skeptic, then suddenly doing an aboutface when maybe he can make more money by … doing exactly what he’d warned against, barreling forward, developing it without extreme caution?
He’s been an obvious con artist for at least half a decade now, more like a solid decade, purely from anyone just looking at his actual ‘business acumen’, ignoring all of his personal views or opinions of a political nature.
… But he developed a cult of personality around him, a whole bunch of emasculated, aggreived male dorks looking for the dork messiah, just believing Elon was personally the man who would transform today into the tomorrow of our dreams from the 80s and 90s.
Very few people actually stopped to check if his math actually mathed, and when they did check, and found it to be very, very sketchy at best… well Elon’s fanboys and bot armies harassed them mercilessly.
It is a condemnation of the general public, all society, that it took until Elon just overtly became a goddamned supervillain Nazi Lex Luthor President for the general sentiment toward Elon to actually go negative.
SpaceX has legitimate national security value and should be nationalized. Falcon and dragon are top of the class.
I don’t know about Solar City.
The boring company has no value.
Twitter has no (real) value.
Tesla makes shit cars.
Neuralink is immoral.
Add those optimus robots that he “unveiled” in 2021 using a performer in a robot suit. Promised they’d be in production in 2023, then most recently showcased them again very clearly being controlled by human operators.
Yep, I forgot that one.
They can either do very basic pre planned routines, or they’re controlled by guys in VR helmets and gloves.
Basically he remade Asimo from the late 90s with modern tech and materials, he is literally decades behind Boston Dynamics, hasn’t innovated anything.
When he tweeted about taking the red pill was the line for me. He was getting weird but that was when he took the mask off.
There is no line. He’s always been this way, he just wasn’t as bold about it before.
I can see no way one could know about the cybertruck to buy it without also knowing how stupid Elon is. Even when they announced it, my first thought was “I like the look, but it’s a Tesla so fuck that noise.”
And yes, I do like how it looks. It’s different, and I like the low-poly shape. If it wasn’t also a huge piece of shit, made by a racist asshole I’d probably want one. Though I also thought it was half the size until I saw one in person.
You forgot the hazard sharp geometries pose to the world around you. Sadly, this car shape must not be allowed. That being said they are not allowed to be driven where I live due to these reasons.
I thought the same thing; I’d love to see more low-poly style IRL. The CT looks impressively terrible from the back though.
Not low poly but the boxier jdm cars are a good design. They know how to use sharp angles, but still incorporate curves to make an actual well rounded design. Things like the toyota ae86 (one of the most iconic one) and nissan pulsar nx (my favorite because of the tailights) are really good designs imo.
There is also the hyundai n vision 74, a more modern take on jdm style cars (though mostly a concept car)
Example of the pulsar nx
My dream car is something like this but electric. Small, maneuverable, and sustainable is what I want in a car.
Look at the n vision 74. Its unfortunately a concept car (i think they were planning a linited run but not feasible for the average person). It is a really cool hydrogen electric dual though. Could probably be outfitted as pure electric tbh if they decided to fully release it
One of the things I learned after they were actually made is that making a car look that way is, in fact, part of the design problem. It’s apparently harder to make everything flat and line up than it is to be curved. Not to mention the areodynamics suffer, which in turn lower the energy efficiency of the vehicle. Which is really why we don’t get interesting fractal designs like this more often.
They look so much better painted. There’s one in my area with an iridescent paint job that actually looks pretty awesome, or it would, if it wasn’t an oversized nazimobile.
My current theory is that the Muskrat knows this and just figured out how to pass the cost for a paint job directly to consumers.
I like the shape too but this car is a terrible, worthless pos in the most useless category of vehicles.
There was never a time when the truck was not a stainless steel turd. I have never seen a review (by a technical person, not an influencer wank) that said “buy this truck, it’s pretty good.”
Just yesterday, on a return trip from weekend camping, my wife and I saw like 4 Cybersucks. Also on that same trip, we saw a either a Model 3 or S with a bumper sticker that read “Tesla? Yes. Elon? No.” Imagine tanking your company’s image so hard that owners have to put fucking disclaimers on their cars. Ford Edsel and Delorean owners had more pride in their purchase.
Not all owners are putting disclaimers - I’m in Vegas this week and the first thing I saw when I left my hotel this morning was a cybertruck with an iron cross on the side. So some of them are into that swastikar lifestyle!
There are more beautiful cars than the cybertruck.
*Buys a Pontiac Aztec, drives it through some brush and into a ravine, smears shit all over it, and lights it on fire*
“Yup, still more beautiful than a cybertrash”
Elol has been a dipshit for years but ok.
On the other hand, driving around with an advertisement saying, “Elon is crazy and this was a bad investment” isn’t the worst thing in the world.
you could pre order it like, a year or two before it actually released? Does the pre-order timing line up with this?
OFC you could still probably cancel that pre order, but idk what the timing looks like on that one.
anyone who is not banking on it to become a wild collectors item in 50 years or is a complete braindead idiot with too much money cancelled their preorder.
He was a nazi long before these were out for pre order. Remember when he called the thai divers pedos? That was the beginning
One could argue that anyone who could design the Cybertruck as it is must be crazy.
that would be a shit argument just like tying being a fascist with being mentally ill
Pre-orders started in like 2019. It is possible you ordered one before it became super obvious Musk was nazi trash, I think? Maybe you could have canceled it later, I don’t know. It’s possible some people got stuck in the deal.
Buy the ticket, Take the ride!