“I don’t like attention.”
– Guy that gave multiple interviews about all the attention he is getting.
It’s all marketing for his pot shop.
How bad at you at selling weed are you that you need to do this?
This isn’t what gets me into a dispensary a second time.
Feeling like I can ask a dumbass question, get a coherent answer, and they will have product in stock at the promised price; gets me in the second and subsequent times.
Hypothetically, of course, but no different from the local booze warehouse, really. My loyalty is to the place where I asked someone “I see you’re out of x, what’s similar?” And they a) tapped out because it wasn’t their area of expertise and b) connected me with the person who could provide options and talk about that particular niche ad infinitum.
Don’t be flashy if you run a dispensary, just know your stuff and educate your staff.
be on weedmaps (or whatever your state uses online), have your stock up to date, and most importantly, don’t just sell by the 1/8.
He may have paid a coked up publicist to get all this going.
He doesn’t like negative attention and is too dumb to realise that was the only thing that would happen by buying such an obvious “I’m dumb and a dickhead” statement piece.
I’m in the minority of people who really like the design, I just wouldn’t ever consider buying anything from Tesla.
Oh, it looks cool, you’re not wrong. It’s just a shame it’s apparently shit.
In a sucker for the low poly aesthetics.
It’s sad that literally everything else on this thing is a dumpster fire
The aesthetics are nice in my opinion, I wish there were more distinct and unique vehicles out there.
he really should not have bought Twitter that is what I think pissed people off the most
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Think he didn’t really have much of a choice given his public comments, and the fact that to lay folks those comments were credible because he has the resources to follow through.
If I posted “BRB, buying Twitter and taking it private,” it would be a joke. But coming from someone who already has a crazy amount of money, positions in companies, etc., and who knows or should know the ins and outs of securities law…
That was an ill fated statement that he should never have made and probably expected to be taken as a joke. Don’t think he expected the Twitter board to take the chance to cash out and call it good, either.
For someone with that level of impaired judgement to be running companies…. Jeez, how do I pull that off? I can rant publicly, I just don’t know the magic incantations that being in billions.
Hope that MFer gets meme stocked, shorted, and pump and dumped. As we’ve seen again and again, it doesn’t take all that much to do those things.
Am abs against the meme stock crowd, they are straight up bad actors, but might be able to do some good here.
I disagree emphatically re the design, it’s bizarre and foreign to me, but separating “pretty, IMHO” (and design is always in one’s opinion) vs “company is crap” is something not all humans are able to do, and which I respect.
Scratching a stranger’s car is never okay.
It is strange and striking that climate change activists have not committed any acts of terrorism. After all, terrorism is for the individual by far the modern world’s most effective form of political action, and climate change is an issue about which people feel just as strongly as about, say, animal rights. This is especially noticeable when you bear in mind the ease of things like blowing up petrol stations, or vandalising SUVs. In cities, SUVs are loathed by everyone except the people who drive them; and in a city the size of London, a few dozen people could in a short space of time make the ownership of these cars effectively impossible, just by running keys down the side of them, at a cost to the owner of several thousand pounds a time. Say fifty people vandalising four cars each every night for a month: six thousand trashed SUVs in a month and the Chelsea tractors would soon be disappearing from our streets. So why don’t these things happen?
Because the law drops the hammer on them BIG time.
Hell, activists use to spike old wood trees marked for clear cutting back in the day. This would cause the saw blades foresters would use to explode in their face, in fact George Alexander, a millworker, was severely injured when a saw blade shattered after contact with a tree spike and cut his jaw in half.
His name is Jason Alexander, he only played a character named George.
George Alexander would then form a band, drop two hits, then write for other artists away from the limelight.
Oh wait, that’s Gregg.
I think it says more about the personalities on each side. ICE loving climate deniers are aggressive by nature.
It is if they blatantly block sidewalks like the entitled assholes that they are.
No! Bad DarkThoughts!
You call a tow truck and have the vehicle towed at the owner’s expense.
In what world is a tow truck going to tow a car for parking on the side walk? They’re gonna tell you to call the cops or parking enforcement and the cops don’t even show up for gun shots
Oh my sweet summer child. Sidewalk parking is more or less legal in Germany since cars are generally placed above people. It’s literally happening everywhere. My entire street is full of people being 1/3 on the sidewalk.
No it’s not. You can’t park your car on the sidewalk unless explicitly allowed by a sign. If you park on the sidewalk you have to pay a fine, if your car is blocking something you also get a Punkt in Flensburg.
Dude, literally every damn city residential area is like this. No one cares, especially not the Ordnungsamt who should be responsible for it, or politicians. Worst case, they just add some white paint and whoop it is legal, because fuck pedestrians. I don’t even know why you try to argue otherwise when it’s literally my reality that I have to constantly squeeze myself through between cars and walls because the sidewalk is not even wide enough for two people anymore with all the cars parking on it. Like literally every single time, for decades. And the fatter the cars get each year, the worse it gets too. Even firefighters already complained about this because they often can’t even drive through some streets since even the car lane itself is too narrow thanks to the cars, even if they park right against the house walls. But hey, here’s Knuschberkeks telling me that I am apparently hallucinating.
Calm down. I didn’t say it’s not what’s happening. Yes it is happening, especially in bigger citys. Yes it is incredibly annoying. But that doesn’t mean it’s legal. Have you tried to do anything about it?
I said it is “more or less legal”, meaning it is defacto legal because no one actually enforces it and rather makes it legal if they had to enforce it.
You know, I agree. But also, you can’t imagine how much I want to scratch the cars that just park illegally in my neighborhood. They park on the curves and crossings and in such small distances that I literally cannot pass through with my stroller without scratching them. So I end up going around the block(s) further and further away just to pass through some gap of illegally parked cars that’s just big enough if I am very careful. But then I end up thinking, wtf. Why do I have to be careful to not scratch their wrongfully parked cars, a private property that they left outside on a place designed and protected by law to be solely for pedestrians, with my private property that should be able to walk this road? And also, why do I not get the same protection if I want to park my bike or stroller outside? Because no one cares if my private property is damaged when it is left outside. If I scratch my stroller on an illegally parked car when I cross the road at the place I am supposed to be crossing somehow I am the one who has to pay damages.
But giving them the finger is
That doesn’t do expensive damage. I am pro-finger.
Edit: come on, “pro-finger”? Nobody’s gonna take that and run with it? I’m disappointed.
But what if it ain’t a car but a Cybertruck?
Scratching another unmet civilians vehicular mode of transport is never okay.
Carrie Underwood has an entire song about how you are wrong.
Yeah but it’s not a stranger in the song
They probably just wanted to see if it’s really bulletproof…
Can’t say I agree. For example, if someone hits you with their car? It’s ok to scratch it.
Edit: The downvotes on this are fucking unreal, imagine being upset that the person you just mowed over scratched your car. Fuck right off with that bullshit.
For example, if someone hits you with their car? It’s ok to scratch it.
Are you 12?
Or do you just see every unfortunate occurrence as personal victimization?
I’m certainly not nearly as much of an Elon hater as most of this site, but even I think that thing looks like crap.
Good or crap looking - doesn’t matter. It’s unique design nonetheless. This is the reason it’s getting attention. You walk the street and you see movie like vehicle moving
It’s definitely unique but I still don’t want it.
There’s a van in my neighborhood with a manifesto painted on every visible outside surface about how God entered the driver’s body. It’s a unique design and gets attention. And I would never want to drive it.
From your comment, I know that either:
You have no children who have drawn a picture for you.
- or -
You do, but they don’t know your Lemmy account.
Drawn a picture of what?
For real the cybertruck belongs in Maddox’s section where he judges kid’s drawings.
Oh, a liberal cannabis gentrifier doesn’t like that people don’t appreciate his marketing scam masquerading as personal transport?
Hold on while I dig out the world’s smallest violin for him…
Should’ve bought a Rivian.
Should’ve bought a bicycle lol, there’s no better way to get around town if you ask me.
That depends on where you live lots of places are very unfriendly to bike riders
You don’t have to tell me that, I’m an American lol. I still ride anyways but there’s a camera rolling every time I ride these days so if someone hits me or attacks me, that’s going to become a big problem for them.
I started wearing one after an obese dipshit in a lifted truck started to act like he was going to attack me after cutting me off and calling me homophobic slurs (you know because riding a bike means you love dick I guess). They opened the door and climbed out but then got right back in and took off like a bat out of hell as soon as it was apparent that I wasn’t going to run away or cower (probably for the best, I never ride unarmed and can fight reasonably well, plus there’s the regular cardio and strength training cycling provides).
As soon as I hopped off my bike, he looked like he was going to shit his pants lol, pretty certain he was expecting me to try and ride away. It’s amazing how a camera has almost completely eliminated people doing dumb shit - as soon as they see the camera, they behave. Doesn’t help with negligent drivers, but it’s still made a huge difference with belligerent drivers.
Anyone reading this that hates cyclists should think hard about this before they decide to try and attack one of us: You don’t know who is on that bike or what they are capable of, so fuck with them at your own peril and don’t forget that there are cameras everywhere these days, even if you might not notice them.
It’s wild that they attack cyclist. I am mostly a pedestrian first as I live in a walkable city, but I was walking my bike to the shop for repairs and there was a dramatic shift in how drivers reacted to me just walking a bike. It’s insane how much needless contempt they have for someone on a bike.
Hating anything that helps the planet is now the religion of the right. We’re talking about people who deliberately mod their trucks to create more harmful emissions.
It’s not super common (at least in my experience) but it still happens way more often than it should.
E-bike. It’s more energy efficient than straight biking.
I pull my inflatable kayak with a bike trailer and thought about an ebike but then, I also do touring and the places I go to are beyond battery life. For example this weekend I’m cycling 90 km to my camp site and there’s no electricity. And I need to get back.
And the second issue with this is that AFAIK there’s no fast charging on most ebikes. So if I need to stop somewhere to charge it when the battery will be dead after 75 km, it will take an eternity to charge.
So in the end, for my case, as someone cycling a few thousand kilometres a year, for “longer distances”, it’s wouldn’t be very practical.
You can still pedal without the battery, you just don’t get the assist. What do you mean by fast charging? My battery goes from empty to full in 4 hours, and I have a 50 mile range. (80.5 km)
But with a dead battery you have to haul it plis your stuff, which was supposed to be there to make it easier in the first place.
And by fast charge, I mean like an electric car, that can fully cjarge in about 15 to 20 minutes instead of hours.
I like my ebike, but I like my bicycle even more. I can’t quite place my finger on why, but it’s probably because my bicycle is a pretty decent hardtail and my ebike is a cheap drop-shipped folding fatbike that I use more for heavier hauls or recovery days. I’d probably change my opinion if I had something like a Specialized Turbo lol.
[laughs in vegetarian]
Well, it looks like someone that works in low budget movies had to build it for a scifi flick
“The Homer”
It’s probably the worst car design to date. Also, prone to rusting
Well there was this…
https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/The_Homer
Simpsons didn’t quite predict it 100% this time
If you drive a douchemobil, you shouldn’t be surprised when people think you’re a douche.
Carter tells the paper he has never been a fan of the limelight, somehow forgetting what sort of attention a massive, angular truck would garner him.
Lmao dude bought the fugliest car ever made and didn’t think twice about that decision
and later,
He knew the truck would be an eye-catcher in Maine. But he wanted it for its uniqueness.
“It’s so ugly it’s cute. It’s like a French bulldog,” he said. “I don’t think it’s the most attractive car in the world, but it’s different. And I like to be different.”
I think it is more “carter lies in the paper’s face that he has never been a fan of the limelight”
You literally don’t buy a cyberrustbucket unless you are dying for attention.
Thinking someone is a douche and actively damaging their car are two completely different things. Not cool to damage property like that, just point and laugh or loudly exclaim how that is the ugliest looking car you’ve ever seen and you pity whoever thought it was a good idea to buy one.
The thing that really made me dislike it is the trunk has a really sharp close that’s just begging for cut someones fingers off
And no crumple zones, apparently…
Why an engineer would use a “learning algorithm” rather than just use a “never crush something” is beyond me. So poorly designed.
Because Elmo demands that his people redesign the idea of a car from the ground up, just because he wants to prove he’s The Most Special Boy. Remember when they were having all those problems with power steering, and they were like, “hey, our company is basically brand new, we’re still working out some kinks.”
Like, power steering has been solved for a long time now, there’s no need to try to reinvent it.
I’m surprised that they haven’t released any cars with three, five, or six wheels yet.
Lol, they used a “learning algorithm” for something we solved decades ago? The responsible engineer needs to get his degree revoked…
What made me not like it is the damn ugly design. It looks like a joke but they are apparently serious enough to sell them looking like that.
This seems like an overblown concern. To prove it, I’m going to make a video putting my finger in the way as it closes and I’m sure it will be fine… /s
Seems as good a reason as any to post this.
Good luck getting it out of your head, by the way.
“Hold your horses! I’m typing as fast as I can with 6 fingers!”
I take it you haven’t heard about the doors cutting people up? Yeah, that’s a thing.
your truck is bad and you should feel bad.
Isn’t getting attention the whole point of buying a expensive car like that for most people? I mean the same goes for expensive sports cars: most people don’t get these because they are particularly good drivers - hell, some are even so old they can’t even get into those cars properly.
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https://www.fastcompany.com/91109879/a-timeline-of-tesla-cybertruck-problems-from-rust-to-hail-damage-to-pedal-recalls this is a good reason why not to buy that lemon.
People being assholes over it is dumb, but I can’t say I would want one. I saw one recently at my local grocery store and I couldn’t stop thinking how poorly built it looked. It just seemed like the fit and finish of the body panels was kinda bad. I got an overall feeling like it was something put together by a couple of teenagers in metal shop.
There’s one down the street from me. It’s a damn eyesore.
Have you tried quitting to the menu and turning up texture detail? Looks like it might be something to do with anti-aliasing. Hopefully will be patched in the next update.
Yeah but then all the NPCs outside wouldnt have lara croft triangle titties
Complain to the HOA… no junkers on the property or street
Lol we don’t have an HOA around here thankfully, otherwise my 50yo camper would have to find a new home
People can be shitty, but I still find it amusing that it’s so ugly and stupid it provokes people into a rage.
I think it’s because it costs an obscene amount while being something only a moron would buy. So when someone who is struggling to make ends meet sees that an absolute moron has so much cash that they can blow it on something this dumb, they get angry. It’s not fair that they work hard just to make ends meet while some failson has $100k to blow on a dumb car. At least a Maserati, Porsche, or Ferrari of similar price looks cool.
Or on the flipside… No one feel this way about hideous AMC cars that have been lovingly restored and maintained. I love those hideous monsters lol.
That’s different.
I don’t think it’s the car per se that angers people but the idiocy of lemmings who are destroying the world by supporting people like Trump and Musk and Nick Fuentes. And by buying a Tesla car, that’s what you do, you enable Elon Musk to keep on destroying the world.
At least they’re not setting it on fire like they did when the H2 was released.
Given all the problems they’ve had so far, the trucks may well end up lighting themselves on fire.
