mp3, It’s also seizure-inducing
ZzyzxRoad, Jesus fucking christ, how is that still standing
Zana,
Diplomjodler, How often do you get to break the law as a billionaire before you have consequences?
docious, All of the times.
tetha, Wow. I’m not particularly sensitive, but that seems like the right amount of very bright strobe that gives me headaches in concerts, especially at night in the dark. That’s very much the level of trying to find out a way to get to the roof to unplug it.
Clocksstriking13, Is that on purpose or is the thing so badly made that it’s blinking like that?
VanillaGorilla, That has got to be a joke. How come by now nobody shot it down?
UnverifiedAPK, Purely because it’s in CA. Even if you can get your hands on a gun you’ve only got 5 shots before you have to reload.
VanillaGorilla, That explains it. This thing would drive me nuts in like two minutes
Derproid, Didn’t that actually just get overturned?
clegko, I... don't think that's how it works...
ReakDuck, But at least you are shooting it down
mlc894, Is reloading super laborious or something? Is the goal to only need to reload once a day, maybe at night as your phone is recharging?
fades, Absolutely not. Especially with said small mags, op said 5 but for Cali I believe it’s 10?
Either way that’s a small fucking mag even for a round like 5.56 (standard us rifle round). You could easily stuff 4-5 in your two pants pockets.
Sticking with the 5.56 example, push the mag in, hit the bolt release to load the first round, pull the trigger and the next is auto loaded. Pull the trigger for each bullet and when there are no more the bolt will stay locked back. You push the mag release button, mag falls out, then you just slide a new mag in. Hit the bolt catch release and it will load the next round.
It’s easy as fuck, no the goal isn’t to reload once a day. If anything the goal would be to hit the target with as few bullets possible x the person you replied to was just being facetious.
here is an excellent example animation that covers the entire sequence from load to fire. Most of it is irrelevant but if you actually care you can jump around using the chapters
The only laborious thing about reloading is putting each round in one by one. The video shows a 30 round mag so think of a mag 1/3rd of that for this post context. With stripper clips or a speed reloaded it’s easy and quick af. Realistically you’d go out with preloaded mags instead of a box of bullets you load on the fly. Always a good idea to take extra cartridges tho.
mlc894, Thanks for a genuinely interesting reply! While I learned something from you, I still don’t know when I’d “go out with preloaded mags”. I don’t know what I’d expect to find out there which would require that sort of preparation, ha!
docious, Gun Simps: “You can’t have gun control because people don’t follow the law and will get them anyway.”
Also Gun Simps: “Nobody has guns in California because it’s against the law.”
Pick one way to be wrong, at least.
fades, There are PLENTY of gun owners in Cali and your pockets can easily fit 4-5x 5 or 10 rd mags in your pants pockets if not more.
You can fire pretty quick between mag changes as well. Who the fuck is going around with a single 5rd mag?
The actual answer is because responsible gun owners would never just go shoot something down in the city just cuz it’s annoying to the other businesses around the sign
bobs_monkey, I’m hoping you mean the city shooting it down, as in saying nope to it lol. Any responsible gun owner would ideally realize how terrible of an idea it would be to pop rounds at it, in a city center, with buildings behind it, knowing a good percentage of those shots will miss and go flying beyond it.
Odds are, the city will have something to say about it, and knowing Elon, he didn’t pull a permit so it’s a matter of time. That thing is an eye sore and a hazard.
MTLion3, Fuck all their neighbors, I guess
yggdar, Wow, that is incredibly annoying! I can’t imagine they wouldn’t get forced to take it down.
Contend6248, I guess all he does is baiting headlines
KreekyBonez, he’ll only stop when it stops working. not happening anytime soon, sadly
bobs_monkey, Go away, baitin
Rentlar, Elon is the master of baiting.
FormidableStick, Bad Chicken! Mess you up!!
KrayZeeOne, That’s not good for business.
CynAq, What in the actual fuck?
This is like a physical embodiment of Poe's law.
theodewere, he wants to be a Furher so badly
Fixbeat, Just needs to add feet on to the X
LazaroFilm, He’s definitely one step furher.
SocialMediaRefugee, (edited ) This is the guy who started a car company, right? Just checking.
Edit: It looks like I’m cheering for him here, I’m not. I meant how can he run a car company and be so clumsy running Twitter/X?
FurtiveFugitive, This is the guy who startedbought a car company, right? Just checking.
Whirlybird, Not really sure what the point of this is since the sign looks pretty amazing at night. Curious to see what all the expert sign makers in here would have done differently to make it better?
HotDogFingies, ...Are you serious?
Whirlybird,
- What’s wrong with it?
- How would you have done it better?
Vuraniute, Have you seen a video of it at night? That blinking could cause a seizure. I don’t like signs that put photosensitive people at risk. Also, it’s being held up by sandbags which could mean that the sign isn’t exactly stable (probably not up to code, too) and could ruin someone’s car (by falling on it) and/or kill them. Also, Elon Husk has denied inspectors access to the roof, which further adds to the sign “not being up to code”. Also, the lights are blinding even when they’re NOT giving you a seizure
Lucidlethargy, It’s amazing how countless people have labeled Elon a shit-posting edgelord, and yet, he keeps trying so damn hard to tell the world what we all already know.
We get it, dude. Now shut the fuck up and do a days worth of work for once in your life. I think we’re all quite tired of billionaire’s at this point.
BastingChemina, It look like vandalism, someone broke into the building at night to put on their crappy sign.
amenji, This kind of describes what’s actually happened.
NotcatchyuserName, as oppose to out of state crackheads?  because, everyone knows, local is better
Zana, Shop for crack head work locally, it’s better for the economy.
TimeSquirrel, I'd surely be walking into the building every morning with a paper bag over my head if I were somebody who was still stuck working there.
Dangeresque, I have to imagine the only people who are still working there are just trying to stay in America.
pup_atlas, This. Many of the people who still work there have no other choice. Their citizenship is tied to their employer. I feel sympathy for them.
TheAnonymouseJoker, Not gonna lie, Musk’s X on top of building gives me the feeling of this.
https://taskandpurpose.com/uploads/2020/12/03/19040008-1.png
Mandy, Say Sikes right now Please
Ecksell, Psych!
red, I mean someone who could do it professionally would probably professionally say no to such an illegal job
Radium, All the money in the world can’t buy taste
eezeebee, Well that looks like shit.
It’s perfect.
lukini, FYI it’s billion, not billions.
nightauthor, Yeah the $ implies the word dollar, in this case becoming “239 billion dollars”
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