i wouldve just bought a nice car instead
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 13:28 (six months ago) link
Or a nice computer.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 13:29 (six months ago) link
i would just run linux on a ten year old laptop jk im a mac user
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 13:45 (six months ago) link
uh oh
Tesla Inc. suffered its first year-over-year sales drop since the early days of the Covid pandemic.
Tesla handed over 386,810 vehicles in the first three months of 2024, the company said in a statement Tuesday. That fell well short of analysts’ average estimate for 449,080 deliveries. The stock fell 7% in early New York trading.
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 13:51 (six months ago) link
is that good
― 龜, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 14:07 (six months ago) link
hell id be happy to sell one car gotta start somewhere you know
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 14:37 (six months ago) link
have to wonder if his personal popularity is finally having an impact. that or the fact they're selling the same shitty cars they designed in 2017. this is not happening to other car companies iiuc.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 14:45 (six months ago) link
some marketing company saying as much fwiw
According to a recent survey by corporate reputation management platform Caliber, as first reported by Reuters, the carmaker's reputation is plunging in part due to Musk's off-putting and problematic behavior, putting off potential buyers.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/buyers-avoiding-teslas-elon-musk-toxic
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 14:52 (six months ago) link
Look, I'm not trying to get @GROK (pronounced GROKE) fired, but it's definitely gone WOKE and is now calling @elonmusk a bigot and a racist for his attacks on DEI. A story in four actsNo wonder Musk hates AI so much, eh @ChatGPTapp, @GoogleAI? pic.twitter.com/E6wPDFutsB— Pastor Ben (@BenjaminPDixon) April 3, 2024
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 10:53 (six months ago) link
not sure if it was this thread it was mentioned on, but the guy calling in to Infowars turned out not to be Musk, and was probably doing an impersonation.
― adam t. (abanana), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 13:56 (six months ago) link
lol they’re fucked
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-scraps-low-cost-car-plans-amid-fierce-chinese-ev-competition-2024-04-05/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 5 April 2024 15:16 (six months ago) link
“Elon’s directive is to go all in on robotaxi,” that person said.
https://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/6/68/TFU08-toy_Overcharge.jpg
― President Keyes, Friday, 5 April 2024 15:28 (six months ago) link
waymos are pretty cool. but when you look at a waymo and you look at a tesla there’s a pretty big tech gap.
― 龜, Friday, 5 April 2024 15:41 (six months ago) link
Maybe this genius disruptor should just try *raising* prices on everything, see how that works.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 5 April 2024 15:42 (six months ago) link
you look at a waymo and the two people monitoring the driving from a remote location look back at you
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Friday, 5 April 2024 16:04 (six months ago) link
Actual footage of Waymo in operation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzUtXMNizVo
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 5 April 2024 16:15 (six months ago) link
given the fash shit he's been posting on his shitty website recently I cannot wait for this dickhole to shart his way out of business. at least delorean made a cool-looking car and wasn't a nazi fuck.
― Is he an evil man who makes chocolate or is the chocolate itself evil? (stevie), Friday, 5 April 2024 16:33 (six months ago) link
If he really wanted to kill "woke" he would introduce a new car called the Tesla Woke.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 5 April 2024 17:10 (six months ago) link
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Friday, April 5, 2024 12:04 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
lmao
― lag∞n, Friday, 5 April 2024 17:37 (six months ago) link
Robotaxi unveil on 8/8
hmm well played sir epic 8/8 haha
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 6 April 2024 02:06 (six months ago) link
plenty of time to invent the robotaxi
― lag∞n, Saturday, 6 April 2024 02:09 (six months ago) link
Will the robotaxi dance like the Charleston like his “android” announcement?
― Slorg is not on the Slerf Team, you idiot, you moron (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 6 April 2024 03:04 (six months ago) link
PULL OVER SAFELY vehicle shutting down https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:225g4y2e35b4fylvbsbe752f/bafkreie4dusixk2piu6usoc7kfcsvj6tds7rwmi77rmyghc4lbrjwsyf64@jpegPULL OVER IMMEDIATELY unable to drive https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:225g4y2e35b4fylvbsbe752f/bafkreidg3rb5avimwo7k3fzgqv7y4jysjuukvz4bcguq46ggsvgkiz6cmi@jpeg
― mark s, Saturday, 6 April 2024 20:28 (six months ago) link
Wait, is "Exiting and re-entering vehicle may restore operation" actually a real thing lol
― groovypanda, Saturday, 6 April 2024 20:52 (six months ago) link
Kind of gives a new take on blue screen of death.
― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Saturday, 6 April 2024 20:58 (six months ago) link
exit and re-enter, when come back bring dust-cloth
― mark s, Saturday, 6 April 2024 21:13 (six months ago) link
Brings new meaning to the word "crash." Or I suppose, in this case, potentially brings back the old meaning.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 6 April 2024 21:25 (six months ago) link
lol @ exiting and re-entering the vehicle, surely the "turn the router off and then on" of vehicle repair.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Sunday, 7 April 2024 03:15 (five months ago) link
Saw a Cybertruck in the wild today. Well, not "the wild": downtown Kalispell, MT, pulling out of a Starbucks drive-thru. It really does look silly and fake in person, like a bad movie prop, and every dimensional plane (height, length) seems off somehow. The driver, a bro in his mid-thirties, I'd guess, saw my wife and me observing him and smiled sarcastically and waved. We nodded back.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Sunday, 7 April 2024 16:52 (five months ago) link
I saw my first one locally the other day too. Yup, looked dumb.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 7 April 2024 17:23 (five months ago) link
https://pbfcomics.com/comics/disassemble/
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 8 April 2024 16:41 (five months ago) link
During his deposition, Musk admitted he has a “limited understanding” of the lawsuit against him, said he thought Brody’s attorney was the one suing him, and revealed he did no research in determining whether Brody was involved in the brawl after seeing the accusations on X.
Musk also made broader admissions about his failures with X — which has plummeted in value since his takeover in 2022 — saying he “may have done more to financially impair” the social media site than help it. Musk also confirmed that he once used a burner account on X seemingly to role-play as his toddler son.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-didnt-want-his-latest-deposition-released-here-it-is_n_66133d2ce4b0d81853f9a766
― lag∞n, Monday, 8 April 2024 18:09 (five months ago) link
he shd stick to role-playing as his toddler self
― mark s, Monday, 8 April 2024 18:13 (five months ago) link
I read through part of that transcript and felt like I aged several years. It’s just so tiring
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 8 April 2024 21:40 (five months ago) link
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qsllkcuektaoegm2g5xkpkvq/bafkreidewshgfdvvjguvu47ahsepdat3nvt5d5tjqfs2mrmban2peub4ui@jpeg
― lag∞n, Monday, 8 April 2024 22:05 (five months ago) link
lol even he says "formerly known as Twitter"
― visiting, Monday, 8 April 2024 22:53 (five months ago) link
I mean, he's wrong!
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 8 April 2024 23:07 (five months ago) link
the ending where his lawyer is like “yeah this isn’t going to be released, right?” and the plaintiff’s attorney is explaining you need to set up the protective order BEFORE the deposition is great
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 8 April 2024 23:44 (five months ago) link
yeah that's as good as it gets for law stuff
― 龜, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 01:28 (five months ago) link
Musk also confirmed that he once used a burner account on X seemingly to role-play as his toddler son.
Drove down the block, stashed the burner in the bushesStepped to nursery with the Huggies for the tushes
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 01:31 (five months ago) link
and revealed he did no research in determining whether Brody was involved in the brawl after seeing the accusations on X
Not surprising, but that is not good when you are trying to defend a defamation claim.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 01:42 (five months ago) link
xp 10/10
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 02:41 (five months ago) link
except "drove part way down the block, system fault required me to exit the vehicle, stashed the burner in the bushes"
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 02:42 (five months ago) link
tweets from elon’s burner account, a thread: pic.twitter.com/82Y0Kx1QJ5— Best of Dying Twiter (@bestofdyingtwit) April 25, 2023
it starts like someone trying to be cute with a test account but gets real weird and cringey fast
― frogbs, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 03:01 (five months ago) link
theres a second burner
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:cfy5rgqvohpdqxgu2geb5u2b/bafkreigrz3utf37vznrhs5ythz3mo2wlh4zll7jvt2yzkq6p3auxeiehf4@jpeg
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 03:13 (five months ago) link
“People are attacked all the time in the media, online media, social media, but it is rare that that actually has a meaningful negative impact on their life,” Musk testified.
This coming from the giant man-baby who shut a guys account down for posting about where his planes would land because he said it was a *threat to his family*!!!!
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 04:38 (five months ago) link
Well yeah - he means "it is rare that that actually has a meaningful negative impact on me, the only verifiable human"
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 06:32 (five months ago) link
wow @ this exchange
Elon is being deposed in a lawsuit saying he made slanderous claims about someone he doesn't know, and immediately does the same thing to the lawyer deposing him pic.twitter.com/zrq7VfERlw— evan loves worf (@esjesjesj) April 9, 2024
― frogbs, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 15:46 (five months ago) link
Can't Elon just use the "I was high when I said that" defense
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 15:49 (five months ago) link
I don't think it can be understated how often you're talking to lawyers for some reason or another when you're involved in that many binding legal entities (corporations, boards, whatever else) and despite it being a commonplace thing, Elon's immediate thought is "lawyers only exist to take my money" regardless whether it's someone else's or his own
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 15:51 (five months ago) link