@Jawaka@ZillaMon@jwz Hmmm. There are a couple of vehicles around Leeds like that. One is a van, the other an Audi TT. Both look like rusted or fire damaged wrecks.
Turns out, it's a vinyl wrap, but incredibly realistic.
@Jawaka@jwz In a lot of areas, especially the northern half of the country, yes.
Bad enough that an experienced mechanic can pretty quickly tell if a car has spent significant time in the northeast or upper midwest where icy roads are at their worst. Just from the rust.
Granted, it's not stainless in most cases, but you don't have bare steel over the entire damn surface of most cars. Even if stainless holds up a bit better, so much is exposed on the Cybertruck quite a few will be visibly rusted by the end of next winter.
@hunkyscotsman it's literally an all around failure of a vehicle. genuine trash off a manufacturing assembly line.
a man-child's fever dream of an "automobile".
@hunkyscotsman Elon Musk is a transphobic fascist. I don't care a bit if you consider my "insults" childish or not, or if I even need to "know" someone as public a figure as Elon, to make these statements.
what makes it a failure?
The fact you have to babysit the car to ensure it avoids rusting after only DAYS of exterior impact from rain or similar materials. That's LITERALLY insanity to me, you bought a car and it's already deteriorating. That's so much worse than the standard joke of "driving 1/4th a new cars value off the lot"
Re-reading this thread today has me laughing so hard my eyes are watering. (I keep remembering the cleaning instructions in the vehicle manual: "do not wait")
The fact this monstrosity isn't even manufactured to the standards of a steel TOILET perfectly encapsulates the depraved hubris of people who want a giant dick-on-wheels so bad they're not even paying attention to whether or not the damn thing works right.
And these are the same people ravaging our environment, stepping on the marginalized, and bringing about the accelerating collapse of civilization. Their whole ideology, mindset, priorities, and culture needs to be critiqued and dismantled. Mockery is just one piece of how that happens, and a fun way to blow off steam while we're at it.
Have you seen the recent statistics on traffic deaths increasing as trucks bloat in size? Or the rates at which pedestrians are getting killed because drivers can't see over those bulbous hoods (whose only function, by the way, is to look impressive; the space under them is hollow).
Nobody who gives a damn about their fellow humans or life on earth in general in the midst of this sixth great extinction goes and buys a massive resource guzzling vehicle (even an electric motor is not enough to make up for the other wastes) whose main appeal is that of a wealth-flaunting, toxic masculinity-projecting status symbol that's not even built to last (especially one that's the pet project of a jet-setting fashy racist sociopath who's getting idolized like a minor god king). Sorry if that seems like such a broad statement it hurts your feelings.
I'm so sick of people getting a pass for blatantly destructive behavior as if it's normal and fine or even admirable, while the rest of us get tone-policed for daring to be fed up with the fact that the world is burning.
Because he's squandering resources that could have instead been used to improve millions of lives, influencing policy, harming communities, setting a toxic example other people look up to and keep trying to follow, fooling people with false hopes and lies, and because he's generally emblematic of everything most wrong with the world today. I despise the fact that billionaires even exist, and hate Bezos and Zuckerberg and all the rest of them similarly. No one should have that kind of power-- we overthrew monarchs, only to replace them with a new aristocracy every bit as rotten as the last.
I would definitely prefer proper mass transit. And if there are large trucks, like all other vehicles and appliances their design needs to prioritize for efficiency, usefulness, safety, repairability, and longevity above silly fashion trends.
@hunkyscotsman@violetmadder@jessienab Why are you simping for a guy who is one of the most obnoxious trolls in the world? Maybe if he goes 12 months in a row without posting some hateful nonsense, people wouldn’t justifiably despise that shithead so much.
If you don’t think antisemetic slurs are worse than me calling him a shithead, if you want to defend him after knowing he did that, then you can fuck right off.
Godwin himself blew the actually yes these are Nazis so go ahead and call them Nazis whistle in 2017, dude. And you probably know it, you just get off on trying to be annoying.
Our psychological motivations come from having a moral compass calibrated to interesting shit like empathy and fairness, to an extent that makes it really hard to minimize the catastrophes that are in fact already ongoing. If that's not intuitive to you, I really do wish I could help but I truly don't know how.
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