ok so last night i dremt that i was a key designer-cog at SpaceX and we had just put five (5) full-sized rocket-cities up into the sky
we went outside to gaze proudly at them, naturally they were belching all kinds of flaming rocket fuel and smoke everywhere but they were also kind of amazing-looking up there, like massive skyscrapers hovering in the actual distant sky (credit here goes to my own astounding subconscious visual imagination here tho, and not the thin-skinned lizard-fella)
― mark s, Monday, 20 November 2023 11:15 (ten months ago) link
wow scary
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F_eCxroXkAAS62h?format=jpg&name=medium
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 17:06 (ten months ago) link
@cb_doge
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 17:08 (ten months ago) link
Bro clearly studied the blade
― circa1916, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 17:37 (ten months ago) link
this is a confession, we shd SWAT him
― mark s, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 17:53 (ten months ago) link
as threatening as a larper meme
― omar little, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 18:06 (ten months ago) link
I can't imagine why advertisers are staying away from this platform, it's so convivial and run by such a nice man.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 18:08 (ten months ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F_ecW_1WoAA5a4N?format=jpg&name=small
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 18:08 (ten months ago) link
TS: Large Graveyard filled with my enemies vs. Lonely Starbucks Lover
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 18:36 (ten months ago) link
Imagine being the richest human on earth and spending your every waking moment showing all of the other people on earth the many many ways in which you are deeply + laughably pathetic. Like not just letting a deeply pathetic public moment happen and then hopefully fade from memory but every day being like 'oh, in case you'd somehow forgotten'
― It is a disgusting... (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 19:20 (ten months ago) link
time to find out why the rockets have been exploding… all the way back to 2016: https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/rockets/a23183/spacex-sniped-rocket/
― mark s, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 16:40 (nine months ago) link
It was really the second shooter from the grassy knoll.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 17:13 (nine months ago) link
what if no-one shot the falcon 9 and the rocket just did that
― come on barbo let’s go parpo (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 17:28 (nine months ago) link
no way, that can't possibly it because of "an odd shadow, then a white spot", don't you see?
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 17:32 (nine months ago) link
the space program is so doomed.
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 17:35 (nine months ago) link
There's a piece on New York magazine's website today about the Cybertruck, and it's actually pretty good on the vehicle's many flaws and the fucked marketplace into which Tesla is vomiting it, but it starts like this:
In the spirit of disclosure, I’m going to admit that I think driving a Tesla Cybertruck would absolutely rule. It’s a fast, weird fantasy car — the kind of concept that usually doesn’t make its way off the Javits Center showroom floor and onto the road. Yes, it looks like something out of a 1980s Ridley Scott movie and it’s made by Elon Musk, but at least you can tell it apart from every other passenger vehicle. Part of what makes it fun is how ostentatious the thing is. It’s the opposite of the anonymous wealth signifiers preferred by the Succession class and the tech titans who control our lives. (Parking it, though, would be a nightmare.)
Dude (and of course the writer is a dude), you or someone looking out for you really should have cut that part.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 17:40 (nine months ago) link
Car nerds are weird.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 17:59 (nine months ago) link
I mean I don't necessarily disagree with that, I've gotten the opportunity to drive some oddly-shaped and extremely-modded vehicles and it is kind of fun. I can see it being cool to drive for a weekend or whatever. You'd certainly draw some attention I guess.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 18:00 (nine months ago) link
that said, the Cybertruck, much like Elon Musk's face, only looks good from one particular angle, and every time you see a shot of it in the wild it just looks incredibly stupid. also lol @ the video of it struggling to go up a small hill. I can only imagine the sorts of problems these things are going to have.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 18:04 (nine months ago) link
I love purpose-built projects that are specific to solutions, and they look how they look. Sometimes it’s good. Sometimes it’s less good. This, though, is awful looking, and doesn’t look like it can solve any problem. It’s like it’s meant for red carpet events or maybe the mall. What the fuck is it even doing?
― digital chirping and whirring (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 18:23 (nine months ago) link
there's a monkey's paw thing where imo it makes sense to wish car designs were more aesthetically adventurous/ambitious, but then the result is a clown car built by a nazi
― rob, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 18:26 (nine months ago) link
You didn't bury those designs in the ... truck cemetery, did you?
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 19:27 (nine months ago) link
Who made who?
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 19:30 (nine months ago) link
Sometimes cars come back different.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 19:54 (nine months ago) link
The Keep but instead of a Golem it’s a hideous truck driven by a Nazi and the movie ends happily.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 02:04 (nine months ago) link
A weekend spent driving a Froot Loops donks would be way more fun than one in a Cybertruck
https://i0.wp.com/www.jenx67.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Froot-Loop-Donk-Car.jpg
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 02:54 (nine months ago) link
otm
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 02:54 (nine months ago) link
They should make an EV Oscar Mayer Weinermobile, that would be more appealing than this Elon monstrosity.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 03:00 (nine months ago) link
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― lag∞n, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 03:50 (nine months ago) link
I will be hornswaggled if Cybertrucks are actually street legal.
― Tapioca by Jean Sibelius (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 04:30 (nine months ago) link
I wouldn't pull one over, who knows where Elon hid the epic ftw self-destruct button
― frogbs, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 04:38 (nine months ago) link
They really do look like a VHS tape rewinder
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 05:15 (nine months ago) link
except you know those things actually can go backwards
― frogbs, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 05:17 (nine months ago) link
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 05:45 (nine months ago) link
thought it was made out of metal not cardboard haha
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yn75hmwkitdshnylue6d3grk/bafkreihdbfx2wi5hfxhxdb7rmjqzfa2fsm2ssszn6wp2qpubzm23vaseoy@jpeg
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 20:05 (nine months ago) link
just a bit of freestylin' by the fabricator
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 20:22 (nine months ago) link
imagine spending 80k on this thing
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 20:24 (nine months ago) link
I was joking that I was going to buy one as a bit. Everyone at work groans when I pull into the parking lot
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 20:26 (nine months ago) link
whoa — “go fuck yourself,” Elon Musk says to Bob Iger and others who pull advertising from Xat this point it’s almost as if he’s watching the old Iron Man movies and doing a reverse Tony Stark impression pic.twitter.com/csXxeLH2wG— j.d. durkin (@jd_durkin) November 29, 2023
― 龜, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 23:01 (nine months ago) link
Quite a chyron there.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 23:02 (nine months ago) link
"ANTISEMITISM WAS NOT MY INTENTION"
GO FUCK YOURSELF
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 23:02 (nine months ago) link
lol sorkin totally baffled
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 23:04 (nine months ago) link
when elon said "fuck bob iger"
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/436/943/93f.jpg
― 龜, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 23:05 (nine months ago) link
linda yaccarino is basically writing her resignation letter right now isn't she?
― 龜, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 23:06 (nine months ago) link
love Elon's Final Fantasy leather jacket
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 23:06 (nine months ago) link
xpost Nah I think she's on this train for good:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/linda-yaccarino-elon-musk-x-advertisers-1235683997/
In fact, it’s unclear what Yaccarino thinks of Musk’s views; after his Nov. 15 tweet endorsing an antisemitic trope as “the actual truth,” she touted the site’s “efforts to combat antisemitism and discrimination.” (Her views on Donald Trump are much clearer. Associates say she was an enthusiastic supporter. She was appointed to the President’s Council on Sport, Fitness and Nutrition during his administration.)....But an NBCU executive observing the chaos says Yaccarino’s see-no-evil stance is what he would expect. “In her mind, she’s committed to this,” he says. “I’ve seen commentary that she needs to leave. She’s not listening to any of that. She has this way of blocking out the negative and almost speaking her mantra until it becomes the truth. Or she thinks it’s the truth.”
But an NBCU executive observing the chaos says Yaccarino’s see-no-evil stance is what he would expect. “In her mind, she’s committed to this,” he says. “I’ve seen commentary that she needs to leave. She’s not listening to any of that. She has this way of blocking out the negative and almost speaking her mantra until it becomes the truth. Or she thinks it’s the truth.”
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 23:12 (nine months ago) link
https://t.co/juWrT3CNxP pic.twitter.com/7OCz5D1R61— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) November 29, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 23:15 (nine months ago) link
Truly words of a scholar:
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― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 23:24 (nine months ago) link
“tell it to earth” — new borad descrip
― bae (sic), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 23:28 (nine months ago) link
elong looking to audience and desperate for their applause
― Yngwie Azalea (stevie), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 23:51 (nine months ago) link