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"Whether you hate me, like me or are indifferent, do you want the best car, or do you not want the best car?" [Apartheid Manchild] told audiences at an event in November.

Well, for starters I don't want a car at all. I'd rather use public transit. You know, an actually effective means of reducing emissions.

If I were in the market, yes, I would want the best car. Which is why I'd never buy a Tesla. I'd buy an XPeng or a BYD or the like.

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[-] VantaBrandon@lemmy.world 19 points 13 hours ago

They used fake robots at their latest event. They were secretly controller by humans. Tesla is a scam company.

[-] Alpha71@lemmy.world 9 points 12 hours ago

I wonder how much longer it will be until the board of directors of the various companies he's involved in start a serious revolt and push to get him out of the company?

[-] ZDL@ttrpg.network 5 points 1 hour ago

It won't happen. Ever since he got ousted from one of his companies he's structured his companies carefully so he can never be ousted again.

[-] LuuTuyen@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

No real chads would buy a shitty Tesla car, because real chads has old cars

[-] fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee 1 points 22 minutes ago

Real chads ride bikes and public transportation

[-] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 12 points 14 hours ago

I'd buy an XPeng or a BYD or the like.

Well, good for you. Personally I'm not buying an internet connected Chinese car. If a car has the option of spying on you, and potentially be used in a hybrid attack, I'd prefer to get a car from a western manufacturer. And not Tesla either, Musk is too unstable and seems to be influenced by the same powers that has Trump's ball in a vise.

My current car is an internet connected EV, but it sure isn't Chinese or a Tesla.

[-] chakan2@lemmy.world 1 points 17 minutes ago

China can spy on me. I feel safer with them having my info than Musk (Or if you really want to get in the weeds, GM or Ford who's happy to share that info with big insurance and law enforcement)

[-] ZDL@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 hour ago

Why the flying fuck would I want a western car spying on me here in China?

[-] fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee 1 points 20 minutes ago

Because some American car company won't disappear you for having the wrong political opinion.

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[-] BigBenis@lemmy.world 15 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Pretty much up until 2020 I was thinking about a Tesla for my first EV. In '22 the time came for a new car and I went with a different EV because Tesla's quality control has plummeted due to Elon's reckless leadership.

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 hours ago

I never liked Teslas for their lack of things like physical volume knobs for the stereo. In my brutal dictatorship, being an executive, manager, engineer or shareholder at a company that manufactures vehicles that installs touch screens at stations for required crewmembers will be punishable by death by coal power plant. "You have to take your eyes off the road to change the radio station." Report to your new job working for the power company. As fuel. Get on the conveyor belt, you'll know when your shift starts.

[-] Imhotep@lemmy.world 8 points 15 hours ago

I was considering Starlink

Not anymore

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 26 points 20 hours ago

I'll never buy one, and it's 66% because of him. The other 34% is the fact Tesla's are shit quality vehicles. Geico literally refuses to insure the cyber cuck. I didn't misspell that.

[-] Pieisawesome@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

The geico stuff was fake news

[-] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 5 points 17 hours ago

The cybertruck is bad enough, there is no spread misinformation that you read on Reddit

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

In reality, the average person doesn't care and doesn't follow news about Elon.

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[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

It's interesting that two of his proposed three options are "hate" or "like." It seems like most people would have said "hate" or "love."

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The Muskrat is the reason why I can't even feel good about anything SpaceX does. Every time they do something to propel space exploration forward, all I can think about is how he and his cronies are going to use it to privatize space for profits.

[-] Nurgus@lemmy.world 9 points 14 hours ago

Every time i hear about SpaceX, I wonder how much further along we'd be if we had proper taxes and gave the money to NASA/ESA. Even if the answer is "about the same" then at least they treat their engineers well.

[-] fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee 1 points 17 minutes ago

And at least NASA is beholden to US citizens instead of shareholders and a sociopath billionaire.

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 16 points 20 hours ago

Honestly SpaceX is WAY overrated.

Yes, they have some good engineers, i dont doubt that, but:

They still haven't been able to replicate what NASA did way back in the 60s with a bunch of rulers, they still haven't gone beyond low earth orbit.

Their heavy rocket's best attempt got it empty into an unstable spinning Leo, and thanks to fucking musk it destroyed a launchpad, polluting kilometers around which I'm sure they cleaned up, right?

They're entire shtick was that they'd be super cheap and they're fucking expensive, even after everything they have done is basically funded by tax payers.

All that is steered by a lying narcissistic psychopath who now uses his crashing Twitter system to get a dictator elected. The guy is like trump, every second word out of his mouth is a lie. Seriously every project he coined was bullshit, every claim he made was bullshit, none of it happened. Hyperloop, anyone? It killed high speed rail, so yeeeeiii? Tesla's with rocket engines? Ballistic missiles to transport humans across the globe in 30 minutes? The boring company making tunnels 1000x cheaper? And SpaceX? We will be on Mars in ~~2016~~ ~~2018~~ ~~2020~~ ~~2022~~ ~~2024~~ 2026, for sure! They're still in Leo, which is the (relatively) easy part of getting humans to Mars....

ALL of it, bold lies.

So yeah, I honestly think that SpaceX is not really helping space exploration forward. I think it's 90% bloat aimed at getting as much money for musk as possible

[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 2 points 12 hours ago

Getting to Mars is a cover.

Musk is using his fortune, tax dollars, and rich investors to develop the means for the rich to escape the hell they've created and/or the mobs of common folk that will surely beat down his, and other wealthy oligarchs, doors when society inevitably flops. That's why he's ignoring regulations and laws like they don't matter to him. When your entire purpose is to help the rich escape their fate, you don't give a fuck about rules.

He's an accelerationist with more money than god.

[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 8 points 18 hours ago

They still haven’t been able to replicate what NASA did way back in the 60s with a bunch of rulers

A bunch of rulers and a LOT of money and industry, courtesy of tax dollars. It was basically a concerted national effort.

I'd say SpaceX is doing great given modern financial constraints for spaceflight.

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[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago

My pillow car!

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