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Ah yes, the "gesture reminiscent of a Hitler salute"
Edit: To be very clear, it is a Hitler salute. I was mocking some German news sites that said it was only "reminiscent of one".
It’s called the Nazi salute
No, it's not. It's Hitlergruß in German and that's how I choose to say it.
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This thing is The Homer, but if Homer watched back to the future and was a nazi.
From the first demo of the bullet proof glass shattering, it was obvious this was trash.
There’s a guy near me who drives one, he parks it next to the garbage dumpster and it fits in perfectly.
The Homer was fugly, but it was fun.
CyberDumpster is fugly, and lacks fun. Even if you take Muskrat’s politics out of the equation, the dumpster isn’t functional, and is outperformed by a Honda half its price.
There is someone who has one in my area and taking a look at him…he just looks like a guy who has always tried so painfully to be in the cool crowd, so he jumps first into new things, but just keeps failing. And, it’s very clear that he can’t do anything else with it because he dropped so much money on it and likely can’t afford to “trade-in” for half its value.
CyberDumpster is fugly, and lacks fun.
Every aspect of its design is overtly hostile, both to its driver and passengers and everybody outside. It's as if pure robotic hatred of all mankind was distilled into a pickup "truck".
Fucking thing is knives on wheels. I book it wherever I see one, I don't want them anywhere near me.
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Are you kidding, the Homer had a domed windshield, two of them! ... full 360 degree unobstructed view of the world .. what does the cybertruck have? Angles! .... The Homer was way ahead of its time
THE HOMER HAD A LA CUCARACHA HORN. BIG AUTO KILLED IT.
The first thing my grandpa did when we he bought a new car was install one of these lol
Also a siren. I don’t know why he wanted a siren so bad.
The CyberCab will have a horn that plays Kid Rock's Bawtidaba.
Now I want a LA CUCARACHA horn for my vehicle
The Homer itself is full of practical decisions (see things well, keep the noisy kids away), my analogy is Homer knew nothing about car design, designed something nobody wanted, and the company invested so much into the idea it basically ruined them.
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Imagine what getting replacement parts for that "truck" will be now.
Same for the models X and S. The S was actually a decent car. Sucks to own one now.
"Dear Elon,
Your constant inquiries have gone beyond annoying, so I'm going to give it to you straight: You will never be invited to my island.
Look, the truth is, you're just too fucking weird. It's hard enough to keep these girls in the game, pretending to enjoy sexing up these sweaty, fat old pigs, without some grotesque naked goblin prancing around, randomly emitting strange noises like a howler monkey with Tourette's. You'll scare the crap out of my kittens. They're only little girls, after all.
I wish you well in your future endeavors, but lose my number.
Your friend,
Jeff"
Lmao imagine being too disgusting for pedophiles; it doesn’t get any shittier than that!!
Thanks, but I already have a Samsung fridge.
I'm not getting in one of those. I will walk. No thank you.
From Garbage Truck to Slop Taxi
He’s killing the dumpster Delorean right after those midterms. Curious…
This Cybercuck needs to go to jail
No thanks.
If you get in and it perceives you as the wrong shade, does it automatically lock and deliver you to a detention centre?
It explodes like JohnnyCab.
And he still found a way to make luxury cars from the future tacky.
Can't wait to read the same headline for the Robo Taxi and androids.
"It's warm!"
Those things are so comically ugly. Even the most goose steppingest nazi fucks can see that. They must have bought them just to say "fuck you" to the general populace.
If we have fully autonomous cars, why would we need cabs?
1.. Buy fully autonomous car
2.. rent it out as an autonomous cab
3.. use an autonomous cab to get around
4.. ???????
5.. Profit
This works if most people don't have an autonomous car too, so they are forced to rent one. The business case for this is such level of poverty where most people cannot afford owning a car; and then a petty rentier class exploiting them for pennies. Welcome to neo-feudalism.
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It's a matter of who owns the resource, and your current state assumption is what oligarchs want to change.
Just like PCs, they will structure it so you won't be able to afford one. For vehicles they'll use the insurance industry as a wedge as well, and as more and more people lease/rent their vehicle with included insurance(this will be one of the talking points for the owners class selling you one), those trying to not have a rent payment will see their premiums ever increase.
Think about how insane car prices have gotten ecen for used vehicles in the last few years--and It's not improving even though all the "supply chain" issues attributed to COVID have long ended. It's the same system phenomenon that happens in gentrifying areas with the existing minorities; property values go up, as do property taxes and even long-time residents who own their home free and clear can't afford the property tax increases--it snowballs into additional gentrification.
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