Elon Musk Buys Twitter

[Ivanstone]

What is up with these billionaires designing their own cars? Tesla has tons of talented artists and designers that would have come up with something better than the cybertruck or this new amazon monstrosity. I am also pretty sure even chatgpt could come up with better designs, there's no accounting for taste I guess.

The Slate wasn't designed by Amazon. They're simply a late investor.

The cybertruck has a weird design with some very suspect engineering under its skin. The Slate is very utilitarian looking in comparison. It looks like a cheep truck and its exactly that.

[DarkTZeratul]

God that's ugly! lol

I know a builder who used to have a Toyota pickup and got rid after about 6 months as its far too easy to steal stuff out the back, plus with the weather here in the UK a van was a better for him.

Why would you leave anything in the back of any pickup truck you don't want stolen?

[Evil Midnight Bomber]

God that's ugly! lol

True... but the visibility in it has got to be pretty impressive. Not sure how other drivers are going to feel about that extra set of headlights though.

[Malkiah]

Why would you leave anything in the back of any pickup truck you don't want stolen?

according to the dickless shitsack who lives next door to me, his three pickup trucks full of shit should be left alone because "this is america and i should be able to park my cars on the street i have rights."

this is the same guy that basically started a block war with the apartment building across the street when some latinx folks moved in, it's been a truly fascinating window into the idiot world of the casual racist regressive asshole white male.

[Iliena]

Why would you leave anything in the back of any pickup truck you don't want stolen?

He didn't think we needed to worry about it, he's a stone mason and used it just for transporting stone and paving slab's from his yard on smaller job's and repairs, so not exactly something somebody can just grab and run off with! but he was robbed twice, the first while he was parked for less than 30 mins in a busy supermarket car park and the other while it was parked up outside a job site, so he decided it had to go.

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True... but the visibility in it has got to be pretty impressive. Not sure how other drivers are going to feel about that extra set of headlights though.

Not Fiat's finest moment to be fair!

[Dontrike]

What is up with these billionaires designing their own cars? Tesla has tons of talented artists and designers that would have come up with something better than the cybertruck or this new amazon monstrosity. I am also pretty sure even chatgpt could come up with better designs, there's no accounting for taste I guess.

In the case of the Polygon 64 it was Elon pushing almost every aspect of it and of course no one would say no to him during its creation. It's why SpaceX keeps him far the fuck away.

[Flarelaine]

They’re probably talking about the bad will smith movie from the early 2000s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziUbHY0wrvo&t=105s

That's the movie. Which is bad.
Not the book. Which is good.

Apparently I had succeded at shutting down and burying the memory of that movie. My bad.

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according to the dickless shitsack who lives next door to me, his three pickup trucks full of shit should be left alone because "this is america and i should be able to park my cars on the street i have rights."

Interesting notion.

On one hand, he has a point that the streets should be safe enough for that.

On the other... people all over the world should be disabused of the notion that storing vehicles on streets is a fundamental human right.

[DarkTZeratul]

That's the movie. Which is bad.
Not the book. Which is good.

It honestly wasn't bad, it just wasn't in any way an adaptation of the book it was named after (the reason being that it was written as an original script, but the studio had the rights to "I, Robot" so they changed the title and a couple character names and called it a day).

[Flarelaine]

It honestly wasn't bad, it just wasn't in any way an adaptation of the book it was named after (the reason being that it was written as an original script, but the studio had the rights to "I, Robot" so they changed the title and a couple character names and called it a day).

Honestly, selling your fanfiction with an established intellectual property should be against the law.

(I'm looking at you, Rings of Power)

[DarkTZeratul]

Honestly, selling your fanfiction with an established intellectual property should be against the law.

(I'm looking at you, Rings of Power)

I mean, Rings of Power is at least definitely a Middle Earth story, whether you agree with its choice or not. I, Robot was quite literally an unrelated story that the studio renamed to an existing IP for brand recognition (the original title was Hardwired). It'd be like if instead of calling their dragonrider movie How to Train Your Dragon, Dreamworks had made the exact same film but called it Dragonriders of Pern because they happened to own the rights.

[ringpriest]

I mean, Rings of Power is at least definitely a Middle Earth story

Response in the appropriate thread (In short, no. )

[Rasulis]

The Slate wasn't designed by Amazon. They're simply a late investor.

The cybertruck has a weird design with some very suspect engineering under its skin. The Slate is very utilitarian looking in comparison. It looks like a cheep truck and its exactly that.

It is nice to have a cheap truck option once again in the US. Trucks are ridiculously expensive these days. In 2018, I paid less than $30k with tax for a 2017 Toyota Tacoma 4 x 4 TRD Sport with less than 50k on the odometer. The same truck would now cost at least twice that much.

[Belize]

The Slate wasn't designed by Amazon. They're simply a late investor.

The cybertruck has a weird design with some very suspect engineering under its skin. The Slate is very utilitarian looking in comparison. It looks like a cheep truck and its exactly that.

Honestly reminds me of a kei-truck, which is an interesting form factor to target considering those don't really exist in the U.S.

[Flarelaine]

Honestly reminds me of a kei-truck, which is an interesting form factor to target considering those don't really exist in the U.S.

Long enough to be 2 kei trucks, though.

Because of the length limits, kei trucks are practically all cab-over.

[Masark]

Because of the length limits, kei trucks are practically all cab-over.

Is the term "cab over" really applicable to electrics though? There's no engine for the cab to be over, as the motor is integrated into the rear axle, and the "hood" they put there for styling and aerodynamics contains a frunk and crumple zone.

[Flarelaine]

Is the term "cab over" really applicable to electrics though? There's no engine for the cab to be over, as the motor is integrated into the rear axle, and the "hood" they put there for styling and aerodynamics contains a frunk and crumple zone.

Correct, but "cab over" is the established name for a layout at this point.

[Belize]

Long enough to be 2 kei trucks, though.

Because of the length limits, kei trucks are practically all cab-over.

I meant more in the sense that they're lower to the ground and not F250 xbox hueg. Like, it's smaller than a Santa Cruz which is already a pretty small "truck".

[Flarelaine]

I meant more in the sense that they're lower to the ground and not F250 xbox hueg. Like, it's smaller than a Santa Cruz which is already a pretty small "truck".

Oh. Yeah, that's correct.

If your starting point is the usual US road monster, anything else lies in the direction of the kei truck. And it's not even you I'm poking fun of at this point, but the infatuation with those beasts.

[Rasulis]

I meant more in the sense that they're lower to the ground and not F250 xbox hueg. Like, it's smaller than a Santa Cruz which is already a pretty small "truck".

Dunno how people drive those trucks. Way back, I was in an accident, and the insurance company provided me with an equivalent rental car, a Ford F-150. I had to go downtown for a meeting. Trying to navigate that monstrosity through the underground parking and fit that thing in the tiny parking stalls was a nightmare.

[Poopymonster]

Dunno how people drive those trucks. Way back, I was in an accident, and the insurance company provided me with an equivalent rental car, a Ford F-150. I had to go downtown for a meeting. Trying to navigate that monstrosity through the underground parking and fit that thing in the tiny parking stalls was a nightmare.

Poorly.

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