• jpreston2005@lemmy.world
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    He laments people laughing at him, and likens his purchase of the cybertruck to that of the Toyota Prius. Unfortunately, what he fails to consider, is that the Prius is an economy car. You can make fun of a crappy car, but that mockery ends before it affects the owner, because the majority of us understand that buying a car is more of a financial matter, rather than one of taste. i.e. most of us buy the car we can afford, not necessarily the car we want.

    That goes out the window when you take into consideration the cybertrucks price tag. If it was an economy electric car (like the Prius), we would poke fun at the vehicles design and that would be it. But this is a bloated, over-priced, unreliable, gimmick truck; whose only purpose is to serve as an ego-boost to one of the richest, dumbest men on the planet. The man that got bullied into buying and abruptly tanking one of the largest social media companies in the world. The same man jumping around like a pick-me dipshit at a fascist rally for a convicted felon, bankrupt businessman, convicted rapist, and self-described sex-pest.

    People can laugh at not just the cybertruck, but also the owner; because paying what amounts to a third of a fucking house so you can fanboy a man sure to go down as one of histories most public dumb-asses, makes you ripe for ridicule (and deservedly so).

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      because paying what amounts to a third of a fucking house so you can fanboy a man sure to go down as one of histories most public dumb-asses, makes you ripe for ridicule (and deservedly so).

      Hey, Memericans, do Apple next.

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      Agree 100%. Also, re. “a third of a house”; I bought an old (1941) but comfortably livable 2 bedroom house with garden and driveway in Columbia, South Carolina for only $86k last year. Most of the cyberfuck owners paid MORE than my house for their dumb cars…

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    aluminum frame, steel skin. they put the horse in the cart and had the fare-payers pull the whole thing lolol

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    From “Keith” in the comments, “You bought a Cyber truck because you wanted attention. You’re getting attention. What’s your beef?”

    Couldn’t agree more

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    As a man I’ve been patiently waiting my entire life for the general population of women to realize they can shame men into not being stupid assholes. I don’t think men on the whole are going to like it…but it’s been a long time coming. See: history.

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    I was taking a right turn out of a convenience store driveway the other day, waiting for the traffic to go by, and noticed the driver, a female, was apparently laughing hysterically at my truck. She was alone, pointing at my truck and laughing hard.

    a female

    Yeah, sounds like a Cyber truck owner

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      It seems like there’s a correlation between people that refer to women as “females” and people that don’t treat women well.

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          Nah, don’t lump farmers and such into this, please. Cows and bulls, hens and roosters, nannys and billys, sows and boars. There are also words for modified gender/castration similar to agender: steer, stoat, gelding, bellwether.

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        That’s a big reason I shake my head at them when I see one. Brescia that are an affront to the collective safety of the rest of us.

        I cycle (though at this point I try to stay off busy roads and on divided lanes), and the thought of a collision with one of these is terrifying.

        I shake my head at jacked up bro dozers the same way. They all scream insecurity.

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    He’s bought a status car and spent ~$70k extra on it in order to get a reaction. Not sure what he’s whining about.

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    Jesse, on his part, suggests Elon Musk’s controversial nature is to blame for the people laughing at him.

    While I’m sure that’s part of it, mostly it’s just the fact that you blew 6 figures on a poorly assembled low res rust triangle

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      Exactly, few people are laughing at people in any other tesla. It’s specifically this vehicle because it’s a impractical hunk of junk AND ugly as fuck.

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    Like, even ignoring Musk’s whole everything now, it’s just one of the ugliest vehicles ever designed. Regular Teslas at least look okay if you ignore Musk himself, but the cybertruck looks like they just took a particularly untalented 1st grader’s drawing of a vehicle and just went “Make that”

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      And that alone would be enough, but add to that the fact that they cost about 100 grand a piece, and yet they are essentially held together with bubblegum and shoestring. Bro, you paid a year’s worth of salary for the average middle class person to drive around an ugly, falling-apart piece of shit created by a fascist. Yeah. We’re gonna point and laugh at your dumb ass.

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        $100k is about the average household income in the US, the average single income is about $67k. So about a year and a half of the average wage. And median income is much lower (median household income is about $44k) indicating that high income households have a much larger effect on the average than low income households so the average middle class individual income should also be much lower than the average individual income.

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          $100k is about the average household income in the US, the average single income is about $67k

          Not on Lemmy

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        Exactly, the stainless steel “exoskeleton” is glued to plastic and pieces are coming unglued while driving. The towing thing is attached to a cast aluminum frame and multiple people have had it break while towing. It’s a terrible car, and most owners are insufferable people.

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        You can also download the image and repost it to a lemmy instance like I’m doing here … then no one has to go back to the old site

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      I’m just impressed that Elon finally made something worse than the Harambe rap.

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          For the love of god don’t look it up. If you’ve made it this far without hearing it, just count your blessings. It’s worse than you can possibly imagine.

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            You have no idea how much pain I’m willing to inflict on myself in order to get the reference. Your warning has been heard, but it will not be heeded

            Edit: oof

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              So, now that you have the benefit of hindsight, what do you think? Was the warning justified? Is your relationship with curiosity still the same?

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                It was pretty cringe, the lyrics were god awful and they were way too liberal with the auto tune. Thankfully Elon is so unimaginative that he couldn’t think of more than one verse for his war crime of a song so there weren’t any surprises after ~10 seconds in. I would say the warning was justified, but a little overstated. I thought we were gonna be on Angelic 2 the Core levels of bad and it was just Friday bad. My relationship with my curiosity remains the same. As long as it isn’t (real) gore, I’ll probably click on it

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            What is Harambe rep? I only know it is apparently “starting point of things going wrong”

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        Don’t devalue the Aztec for this. Yeah it was clad in tons of plastic and had a grill that was way too busy but it wasn’t shockingly ugly like the cyber truck.

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      I’m laughing here because I realized that’s almost certainly what happened, Elon mocked up a picture himself or dictating to someone else of a truck that he thought would look cool and then told the poor engineers and designers “make this.”

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        I can easily imagine that, too. I saw an early concept render that went around a decade ago or so when I worked in a design office, and we half- joked they’d accidentally released a low-poly model by mistake. Or it was some sort of weird joke we didn’t get.

        It’s so ridiculous and broken, it has Musk’s fingerprints all over it (and good luck; fingerprints are near-permanent on that ludicrous metal finish they chose.)

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      I actually like the general look of it, though it’s done poorly. I want SO MUCH to drive a low-poly vehicle reminiscent of some 80’s retrofuturism racing video game. But I fear the massive failure of the cyber truck will scare anyone away from taking a stab at the concept.

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      Apart from the S which looks good despite being too big, do people really think Teslas look good? Ok the cybertruck is the ugliest one by far but model 3 and Y are not great.

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    “I drive the equivalent of a 2024 Yugo that is laughably poor quality sold by a huckster and I paid enough to buy 4 reasonable cars. It’s the most gaudy design of any car ever produced since the dawn of time. Why would people laugh at me?”

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    “Stupidity” would be the answer to both why he bought a cybertruck and why he wonders why people are laughing about his choice.

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    He chooses what to drive. If he likes it, that’s his right. It’s also right of the others not to like it and find it ridiculous. There is no objective reason to drive a Cybertruck except to show off. Well, it backfired for him.

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    Granted, she could have been having a weird reaction to a stroke or something,

    Bless your heart

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    My opinion of Musk has nothing to do with it. For the price of it, its ugly as fuck.

    I’m not a fan of priuses either, but priuses don’t a) take wild swings in design in order to be “edgy” and b) price themselves according to supposed “cool points”.

    With or without Musk, your choices reflect who you are. This guy bought an overpriced vehicle in order to be “cool” and now he’s butt hurt that no one agrees with him.

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      This reminds me - I saw spinner wheels in public for the first time in probably 15+ years yesterday. I was genuinely shocked to see them. Man I hope they do not make a comeback.

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          Friend of mine got spinners on his cheap ass Toyota a couple years back because they all got ditched after the craze ended

          If you know where to look you can get good ones for shockingly cheap, and putting them on old beaters or a Prius is fucking hilarious

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          At least spinners are good at what they do! The Cybertruck isn’t even a good truck.

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          I had spinner hubcaps on my clapped out 85 Monte Carlo in 2004, it was awesome.

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        Dude probably grew up around them, and now he’s all grown up and can finally afford them. Live and let live. At least it’s not a Hummer or a cyber truck

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      Spinners are purely an aesthetic choice though. This truck literally doesn’t even perform its function as a truck.

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      Some people work hard to tell everyone else that they are contemptible. It is now the job of society to make an artificial island in the middle of the Pacific so that they can live out the rest of their lives in a safe place, amongst their own kind.

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      I was watching the taxi thing, and they didn’t know on which sentence to cheer. Some would cheer when others cheered for no reason, but always sporadically between small groups.

      It’s a cult and they reinforce their worth in their echo chamber (cyber chamber? No echo chambers work).

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      I like spinners and dont think they make someone an idiot. I probably won’t ever buy them myself but they are at least fun. I haven’t seen a set in ages though.