• @[email protected]
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    67 months ago

    Please be satire.

    I’m so sad that I’m even having to question that it’s not.

    No one is this much of a chode gargler… Surely…

    • DarkThoughts
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      27 months ago

      With how some of those Muskrats are, I’m honestly not sure about that.

      • @[email protected]
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        17 months ago

        As beautifully as the name fits, I feel bad for the actual muskrats of our creeks and marshes.

  • @[email protected]
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    37 months ago

    Rereads Tesla’s mission statement.

    “Accelerating the world’s transition to sustainable energy.”

    Stares at 3 ton lump of stainless steel parked in driveway.

    • @[email protected]
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      37 months ago

      As a machinist and welder, I would strongly prefer an actual 6000 lb lump of stainless over a cybertruck. I can actually use stainless steel to make things.

  • ohellidk
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    27 months ago

    “the mission” being what, exactly? make a rich jerkoff richer, so he can lie to you about exciting inventions that never come to light?

    • @[email protected]
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      17 months ago

      The copium is strong

      Let’s not forget everyone is already paying for “the mission” through tax payer subsidies.

  • @[email protected]
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    27 months ago

    Everytime I see a cybertruck, It makes me think of the “Fighting Polygon Team” from Super Smash Brothers N64. Each polygon character is a essentially a weaker knockoff of an actual character from the game. I haven’t played that game in years but I seem to remember it was my least favorite level from single player mode.

  • @[email protected]
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    17 months ago

    I had the displeasure of seeing one of these contraptions in person for the first time recently. Pictures do not adequately convey just how ugly these abominations are.

    • JJROKCZ
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      27 months ago

      I live in a major city in America so sadly see them daily… I’d say around 70% have a custom vinyl wrap or are painted instead of being left stainless steel tho.

      One store near my work is a retro games shop, they bought one and wrapped it in their colors/logo and I think it’s funny since my wife often says the truck looks like Laura Croft’s tits

  • Nightwatch Admin
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    16 months ago

    It’s true, the cybertruck is an amazing product. It’s frankly unbelievable that that thing actually exists, can move (generally speaking) and even has people who like its exterior as “beautiful”.

    Amazing, really.

  • @[email protected]
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    7 months ago

    I don’t know if it was always like this, like pre internet, but I remember when I first started hearing people concerning themselves with the profitability of corporations online.

    It was somewhere around the start of the eternal September (I was one of the unwashed tech illiterate masses), and I witnessed people having the most furious debates about video game company / console profitability, and it just never ended.

    I wonder if it was just my first encounter to seeing so many Americans in one (virtual) place, or if it was the latent tribalism of the internet, or just nerds having fun crunching their nerd numbers. But I still see way too much of it.

    It has got better in some of the chiller places on the internet, though. Which are about the only places I frequent.

    Curious to hear other people’s perspectives on this kind of parasocial relationship with corps / brands.

    • @[email protected]
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      17 months ago

      I think it was a different flavor.

      You’d have your fave department store, mall, multiplex, fast food joint, TV channel etc