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infernal machines posted:They basically are, but then why have "tow mode" at all? Why have a booby trapped tow mode that disengages automatically after a certain time, all but guaranteeing some idiot will try to use it when their car is towed, and cause an accident? So you can get it up on the flatbed, otherwise it shifts from neutral to park when you exit the car.
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orcinus posted:https://twitter.com/Latrilife/status/1043979898421895168?s=20 the funniest profile i found was this: https://twitter.com/Wickedpissah4 Bio: Not a bot. *is clearly a bot* "You are desperate. Wow." edit: god i hate twitter's interface. i can't stand clicking all this poo poo. it's like it's purposely punishing you for trying to read threads edit2: jesus christ half these tlsaq guys feel like bots too. how the gently caress does twitter work? it's like a white noise machine. edit3: its like im a 1930s old lady looking at a disassembled a-bomb. and putting random bits of it in my mouth. im depressed lol has issued a correction as of 03:27 on Sep 24, 2018 |
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Suspicious Dish posted:Musk is in a different mood than he was at SpaceX, and that’s something that those who’ve come to know Musk observe. One moment, he may be reciting favorite lines from an animated TV show he just saw, the next he may be curtly giving detailed instructions, the next he may be ignoring you while lost in a thought, the next he may be asking for your advice on a problem, the next he may be breathless with laughter while riffing on a humorous tangent for five minutes, the next he may be acting as if you’ve both never met. And through it all, you learn not to take it personally, because chances are that it has nothing to do with you. genius or drugged out idiot
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im depressed lol posted:
thi sis a bit off topic but this constant necessity of interaction is by design to keep you Engaged Facebook took it up hard in the last eighteen months too, scaled up almost every bit of their visual presentation to maximize Clicking-of-things and Scrolling actively
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There are fields, Neo, endless fields where Tesla's are not sold... they are stored indefinitely.
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infernal machines posted:huh. maybe desert dirt lots weren't the ideal storage solution after all 
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I keep thinking about Ryan. He's working for free to foist off broken cars on hapless marks, taking time off from his day job at IGN, the least respectable publication in the least respectable segment of what could be called "journalism" if you've suffered brain damage, as the "Executive Editor of Previews" where he presumably just uploads whatever junket a publisher sends him and has an intern barf up 500 words about how great a youtube video from E3 of a video game is. He does all of this with an internet identity tied to when he used to be a guy who owned a specific piece of 80s nostalgia. This dude is just an amalgamated brand. He's barely alive. I'll bet dogs ignore him.
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Bushiz posted:I keep thinking about Ryan. He's working for free to foist off broken cars on hapless marks, taking time off from his day job at IGN, the least respectable publication in the least respectable segment of what could be called "journalism" if you've suffered brain damage, as the "Executive Editor of Previews" where he presumably just uploads whatever junket a publisher sends him and has an intern barf up 500 words about how great a youtube video from E3 of a video game is. He does all of this with an internet identity tied to when he used to be a guy who owned a specific piece of 80s nostalgia. This dude is just an amalgamated brand. He's barely alive. I'll bet dogs ignore him. Which would be worse? If he was a failson making a princely barely 5 figgies for it, but subsidized by parents, or if he actually makes six figures being such a waste of oxygen?
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Trabisnikof posted:I’d just assume that Teslas are flatbed only. How do you get them off the flatbed?
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Rex-Goliath posted:you'll have to find an older version of the yospos tech bubble thread but believe me when i say we were ragging on him then too This particular thread got started because like two thirds of Doomsday Economics thread were chatter about Tesla and musk, which got banned from that thread with that.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:How do you get them off the flatbed? One wheel at a time
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Megillah Gorilla posted:How do you get them off the flatbed? Tie them to a tree and drive the truck out from underneath.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:How do you get them off the flatbed? Just wave a red cloth in front of them.
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orcinus posted:That's a nicer comparison, yeah, but even Sinclair wasn't completely clueless. Sinclair built the first mass-market digital watches and pocket calculators (as in actually designed the circuitry and built the prototypes by hand). He only turned into the proto-Musk "visionary" when Chris Curry spun off Acorn, although even then he did a far better job than Musk because he recognised his own limitations when it came to microcomputers and contented himself with futzing around with the case design. Also - flawed as they were - the ZX line all shipped on-time, on-price, in massive numbers, and with a development cycle shorter than that loving stupid door handle design. He did go pure Musk after that though, the QL failing hilariously because he absolutely refused to listen to his engineers telling him the specs he made up on-the-fly at a press conference were not only impossible but actually contradictory (the retail price he promised for the QL was lower than just the parts cost, for example).
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Can someone tell me if SpaceX is as utterly terrible as Tesla? Both companies are run by the muskrat but SpaceX can land rockets and reuse them which seems cool.
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Can someone tell me if SpaceX is as utterly terrible as Tesla? Both companies are run by the muskrat but SpaceX can land rockets and reuse them which seems cool. To work for? It has an appalling reputation. You'll find true beleivers online who freely admit that most engineers are expected to work 12 hour days but that's okay because personally they beleive in elon and anyone who doesnt is free to leave.
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underage at the vape shop posted:To work for? It has an appalling reputation. You'll find true beleivers online who freely admit that most engineers are expected to work 12 hour days but that's okay because personally they beleive in elon and anyone who doesnt is free to leave. well I’m not surprised but more asking about the technology/rockets they produce.
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gschmidl posted:Those constant factory fires have more than made up for the electric car bit in emissions. Also the emission credits sold to other carmakers so they could make more conventional ICE cars.
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Sep 24, 2018 08:55
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Elon Musk is getting arrested today.
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etalian posted:Also how the media gave him such softball coverage while ignoring more boring things like the actual Tesla balance sheet and lack of any FCF. also basically literally taking his or his immediate subordinates word for him being a genius with photographic memory who only sleeps 4 hours per night and works every waking moment because he's just so driven and unique and awesome and soooo many loving idiots read these glowing pieces about him and are like "yeah sounds reasonable"
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:well I’m not surprised but more asking about the technology/rockets they produce. Space-X works because they don't really disrupt technology, just the extreme stale economy of that particular market. They use decades proven engine base (Soviet pioneered regeneratively cooled nozzle, etc), the tail-landing of boosters has been repeatedly tested and proven through the space race, the asparagus staging principle is the basically second major "thing" to figure out in Kerbal Space Programme as you're figuring out the engineering. It's just; with so extremely few companies competing and massive stakes in failing big R&D or even infrastructure sunk costs of orbital launches, there was a lot of room of putting pretty well understood technology in use and undercutting others, granted you could fundrise enough of a bank to pull it off all at once. Unlike with cars, the competition was pretty much nonexistent, so even relatively conservative improvements could lead to massive savings. Basically, the existing situation in the aerospace industry was so bad that as long as you don't use compressed $1000 banknotes as your rocket fuel, it's easy to do better and be kind of impressive finally making practical use of designs that were long done and begging to be put to use but the market wasn't willing to take the leap and hammer in the final bit of R&D to put it in actual use (the booster landing). Another thing that people keep repeating and which seems kind of feasible is; Musk is legit managing to stay relatively uninvolved so actually sensible people get to do their work. And one more thing is that the actually "I am putting up with this awful company because I want to see this poo poo happen" driven people who work there don't really have any other choice but to stick to Space-X because of how stale the competition is, meanwhile with Tesla; if you're some engineering hot stuff, there's half a dozen other car makers happy to have you to help with their EV car, with a better salary and some basic HR sanity, so Tesla has a massive turnover of people leaving for other car companies while in Space-X if you are in specifically for the rocketry, you don't have that much of a choice. Also let me repeat the fact nobody knows for sure how economically successful Space-X actually is, as all their pricing is strictly secret and their long term profitability is even more so, so we don't actually know if they're meaningfully cheaper than the rest yet, and we don't know if whatever cost they're at is sustainable without combusting investor (government) money; Tesla is more transparently a dumpster fire in that sense.
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Siljmonster posted:Elon Musk is getting arrested today. inshallah
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Siljmonster posted:Elon Musk is getting arrested today. Don't cocktease like that.
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i believe it is physically impossible to arrest elon musk
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He'll boer a hole and escape.
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i assume this got posted but i'm 400 posts behind https://twitter.com/DMC_Ryan/status/1043223971477385216
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Siljmonster posted:Elon Musk is getting arrested today. Even if by some miracle he was taken into custody I'm pretty sure he can post any bail and get out the country to go where they won't extradite him
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He'll just go do what he always wanted, to gently caress kids in Thailand. It was all projection
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mandatory lesbian posted:Even if by some miracle he was taken into custody I'm pretty sure he can post any bail and get out the country to go where they won't extradite him banished from the us is just as good
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Sep 24, 2018 12:23
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The amazing engineers at Tesla designed brakes so advanced that they produce breaking force so powerful the suspension can't take it! This truly is the future.
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:well I’m not surprised but more asking about the technology/rockets they produce. He hired experienced rocket people to design it and manage the company, so the product is ok. They are still doing the tesla thing of hiring true believers and working them to death for peanuts though. There is also the ever present concern that he may get more involved in his not failing business and micromanage it to death.
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Sep 24, 2018 12:45
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Elon Musk posted:a friend who buys S/3/X
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Elon Musk posted:a friend who buys S/3/X lmbo if it turns out elon this entire time has been self-sabotaging because he's been compromised by a horrific unimaginable AI, so he's doing more and more outlandish poo poo to try and get a message out. and that message is to gently caress
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hmmm who do I know that frequents prostitutes?
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gschmidl posted:He'll boer a hole and escape. I don't know if this is a typo or a well executed pun, but either way I want to make sure it did not go unnoticed.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:How do you get them off the flatbed? Park a firetruck nearby.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:How do you get them off the flatbed? You wait for them to get hungry, then carefully lure them (careful not to startle them!) off the truck with a diesel generator.
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Problem: If they get too hungry they will be unable to move and become completely inaccessible
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reminder, if your car battery runs down completely, you can hook up an external 12v battery and hope enough of it boots that the door handles work, or smash the front window to get at the manual release inside the front door. (model 3)
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